HealthIT

August 2, 2009

HealthIT

Filed under: xBloglines — tgk1946 @ 12:02 pm

RWW spss IBM Snatches Up Companies Left & Right
Itw AIIA proposes ‘opt-out’ plan for eHealth card
Smh Health’s black hole
Ehi Anderson: ‘prepare for more viruses’
HI LinkEHR Videos
House of Lords: science and technology committee: second report of session 2008-09: genomic medicine.

Oz tk Medicare the base for e-health IDs
Ehi Cerner UK announces redundancies
Oz Grab for patient records
LMN Dangerous Games and Health IT Feudalism
http://www.ehealthinfo.com.au

Itw IBA Health goes with Verizon solution
Oz Data vital in flu fight

Trevor Kerr of Melbourne 5:36pm today

The key to effective surveillance is a system of unique identifiers. One set of identifiers for people, as subjects and as actors. How’s that coming along? Ready by Xmas? Another set for micro-organisms. Has anyone enquired whether SNOMED can pinpoint subtle variants of Influenza viruses, you know, a single point mutation that may make the difference between a killer and all the rest? As for touting the virtues of a closed-source commercial system to hold data that is of critical national security interest, well … words fail me.

Npr Swine Flu: Casting Pearls Before H1N1
Oz Patients may have to foot e-health bill
to this press release: “Washington, D.C. —Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller
Nyt cleveland clinic remote BP monitor Patient Money: Some Caveats About Keeping Your Own Electronic Health Records
Oz Standards lag e-health plans
SD Getting The Word Out When The Need For Speed Is Critical To Public Health
Oz Medicos’ instant access
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/jobs/12starts.html?hpwConnecting the Dots of Medicine and Data
Oaklands medical practice of Yateley Hampshire has ripped gloves off in its fight against the database state,
Oz Funds, watchdog for health
open source ollaboration initiated by Mayo and IBM, the Open Health Natural Language Processing (NLP) Consortium can be found here.
Abc mobile technology Academic urges national dengue database
LMN JAMA: The Vendor “Hold Harmless Clause” Racket
Oz Agency boosts disaster tech
.. Phone apps flood
Npr Electronic Medical Records A Charged Debate
Nyt Online Age Quiz Is a Window for Drug Makers
Nyt Doctors Raise Doubts on Digital Health Data
RWW Diabetes Device Connects Wirelessly to iPhone
Nehta Pathology Leaders Work Together
e-Health Insider is reporting that the NHS is going to tender for alternatives to iSoft and Cerner for the National Programme for IT.
Itw Data loss a growing concern says CSC
Ehi Next London Cerner go-live delayed until Autumn
Nyt Wal-Mart Plans to Market Digital Health Records System
brian bray TheraDoc
xLMN Bumpy Road to Electronic Medical Records.
Ehi Cerner director is Obama’s health czar
http://www.pmha.com.au/
OPC Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Review of Privacy – Discussion Paper 72 (December 2007) – HTML
Open Source Software: A Primer for Health Care Leaders
Safety – National Inpatient Medication Chart

Markle
Health Care Renewal scot
Ross Anderson’s Home Page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEXSGDJEHSI
Health Informatics New Zealand
mitchard book glaxo loftus

CCHC
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/
andrew howard Monash neurology ward goes wireless
… Health 2.0 Through the Eyes of a Diabetic – One Year Later – ReadWriteWeb
Nyt Unboxed: How to Make Electronic Medical Records a Reality
Itw All your Gmail is down, down, down
Oz Pickpocket steals secret data off Sol
Oz Cancer specialist named medical chief
Ehi cerner iba NHS boss flew to India to check iSoft progress
Ehi Worthing decides to switch off Cerner
http://www.cyberlawcentre.org/unlocking-ip/2009/program.htm

Must read article by Joseph Conn here: “…The question is whether the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, or VistA

NHS refusing to let patients opt out of Summary Care Record

health literacy seminar

..nil since 07 Federal Health Architecture (FHA)
Npr Stimulus Bill Calls For Computerizing Health Care
HITN names Experts to senate panel: healthcare IT privacy a must for stimulus package
Oz Uniform health system in the mill
HITN Coalition wants privacy included with healthcare IT funding in stimulus package
Nyt Privacy Issue Complicates Push to Link Medical Data
HITN lance armstrong foundation HHS launches Web-based family health history tool
.AHIC reveals new name, meets with Obama team
Ehi New media core to pandemic flu plans
LMN Boston Globe has an article on the difficulties President Obama
.. Obama’s Health IT Dilemma: The ‘Some Dude’ Problem
Nyt The Evidence Gap: Health Care That Puts a Computer on the Team
SD Health Monitoring With Your Cell Phone
Aushit teki News Extras For the Week (18/12/2008).
Zdnet carlyle booz First test arrives of Obama promise to transform health IT
AIHW Review and evaluation of Australian information about primary health care: a focus on general practice
Itw Corporate governance of IT – for all organizations, large or small (iTWire podcast)
Ahit teki Australian National E- Health Strategy Released.
Ahit teki NSW Health Sets New Benchmarks for Chaos and Risk.
.. Australian E-Health – Where to from Now?
Ehi Barts takes a week to recover from Mytob virus
Oz NSW Health IT in disarray
Ahit teki Australian E-Health At A Major Fork in the Road – I Wonder Will COAG Get it Right?
Oz Microsoft to offer free security software
.. Medicare pushes e-health system
Oz IBA plans to make Lorenzo a standard
Oz Cost blowouts plague NEHTA
BCA Health Is Everybody’s Business
Oz Public call for e-health system
Ahit teki A Bad Week for E-Health Leadership in Australia
Ehi Royal Free says £7.2m deficit due to Cerner
the system supplied was different to the system supplied for training, and there were no operating or procedure manuals for the system.”
Ehi nhs Connelly promises clarity by year end
Oz e-Health spin not close to reality
Oz Roxon and e-health: close but no cigar
Ahit teki Commonwealth Health Department Secretary Insults Health IT Professionals!
Ehi Political row over NPfIT: London on hold
SD Creating Unique Health ID Numbers Would Improve Health Care Quality, Efficiency, Study Claims
Oz Info deluge raises need for legal rebuild
.. Security concerns up in the cloud
SD Nation’s Only Citywide Electronic Health Information Exchange: Improving Health And Lowering Costs
VistA Menu Map can be found here
Oz Gibson to lead Brisbane e-health push
WiFi is no longer a viable secure connection

The latest GAO report on VistA modernisation efforts ca be found here.
cerner smartcards internal NHS document. This article at computer weekly

Medicare number Vic V4.0 VEMD PATIENT BIOGRAPHIC DATA
see AIHW DD pdf
Oz Just what the doctors ordered
..
Oz Vic rethinks e-health
of Where the Context Lies from
IG Benefits of data sharing for personalised services: case study
Oz Vic HealthSmart IT chief quits
Congressman Pete Stark (D-Calif) has introduced H.R. 6898 full text of the bill here which takes a strong stance on Open Source and VistA, calling specifically for an Open Source health information network if possible based upon existing systems such as Veterans Affairs VistA

Itw IT management “not up to scratch” on network management

Pbs Fire Your Boss
Oz Ex-public servants’ IT deal probed
Itw IBM’s Rich Lechner explains sweeping storage initiative – iTWire podcast
Ehi CSC selects InterSystems Ensemble for NHS integration
Oz E-health logjam frustrates providers

VPAC SHIINe Infection Surveillance System
For further information regarding VPAC’s Health Information Systems Integration services, please contact Steve Quenette at steve@vpac.org or phone +61 3 9925 4645.

Aushit teki Does e- Health (and NEHTA) Need Commercial Skills?
Oz Fleming heads medical e-data project
Wm E. Coli O111 Found in Oklahoma Outbreak

Ehi opting out Wirral PCT faces local data privacy backlash
Aushit teki Australia’s E-Health Control Freaks – Guess Who?

its Web site that compares hospitals

Ehi Bucks had CRS infection control issues for 18 months
Maggie Mahar weighs in on Department of Defense AHLTA system versus VistA

VistA Open Source Opportunity”, at The Health Care Blog.

Ehi Royal Free says Cerner ‘extremely challenging’

Nehta www.myehealthcareer.com.au

Ehi A&E outbreak Whiston uses whiteboards for training

Aushit teki Open Source Starts to Bite in e-Health
Aushit teki Useful and Interesting Health IT Links from the Last Week – 27/07/2008
Dr. Matthew King has testified before congress regarding the Clinica Adelante deployment of WorldVistA EHR.
SD Potentially Serious Security Flaws Found In Most Bank Websites, Including Large Bank Sites, Study Shows
Age Council worker on pa
yroll of firm that won contracts

Aushit teki Data Security – A Pervasive and Difficult Problem….

Lmn scot “Director of Clinical Informatics”– without clinical or informatics backgrounds
Oz Secret athletes list led to inquiry
Aushit teki The Most Important Report on e-Health and Quality and Safety for 2008.

Aihw National health data dictionary version 14
Auhit teki NEHTA’s Clinical Briefing Papers for Your Reading Pleasure.
.. .. Useful and Interesting Health IT Links from the Last Week – 20/07/2008

Pbs Acting Squirrelly

Apo dl’d More than one health insurer is too many: the case for a single insurer
VicGov Disaster Recovery Coordinator

Ahit teki Post 500 = NEHTA’s Individual Electronic Health Records System – A Really Scary Proposal!
UK NHS Next Stage Review: Our vision for primary and community care
Ehi EMIS and INPS plan integrated IT system
Olo g Nurses willing and able

**Ehi Press report Lorenzo deadlines slipped ‘months ago’
Nyt Doctors Divided on Use of Electronic Records
Ehi Consumer health IT identified as disruptive change
Itw IBM’s green push not limited to data centres
Ahit teki What is Big Blue Up to in E-Health in OZ?
Lmn Potpourri: WalMart, GoogleHealth and Cerner
.EHR: THE FRENCH « DOSSIER MÉDICAL PERSONNEL » (DMP)

Ehi Lorenzo likely to be further delayed
Npr medicare incentive payments Computerized Patient Records Program Starts
Ehi Kaiser signs up for Microsoft’s HealthVault
Ahit teki It’s Official – Australia Has Lost the e-Health Pl…

Nyt bp records Kaiser Backs Microsoft Patient-Data Plan
an article on the current Veterans Affairs VistA situation
Northrop Grumman supports the largest enterprise-wide electronic health record (EHR) in the world.
http://www.it.northropgrumman.com/serve/health.html
We operate a centralized database for the nation’s largest payer organization – the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
chcs http://www.saic.com/news/saicmag/2006-winter/militaryhealthcare.html
Composite Health Care System – Wikipedia

teki “A Blog Submission to the National Health and Hospi…“:

Apo An analysis of the 2008-09 health budget
Oz Safety plan to tag dementia patients
Ehi Industry experts call for acute systems of choice
have to see it for yourself. “SEEDIE,

Ehi NHS says Lorenzo won’t be complete until 2016
Google Health has launched here.

IG Sensible health-records option #3 emerges as CfH stretches to infinity and beyond
AusHIT tk The Trials and Tribulation of Going Paperless with an EHR

..Nillumbik Community Health Service On-line Recruitment System

Oz E-health goes back to basics
AusHIT tk Federal Budget for 2008-9 – E-Health Cut!
openEHR Vision – http://www.openehr.org/about/vision.html
.HealthCare & Informatics Review Online

Ehi Urgent review of SCR consent model recommended
HIT What the Hell is Wrong with DoHA?
Itw iSoft signs £5m deal with GHG
Ehi Newcastle chooses Pittsburgh for EHR see dbMotion
Ehi Victoria suffers Cerner and iSoft delays
Oz HealthSmart two years behind schedule
.. State seeking e-health damages
AusHIT Useful and Interesting Health IT Links from the Last Week – 20/04/2008
Cringely The Truth About IT Consultants
Sd Who Owns Your Medical Tests Results and Personal Health Data?
Npr Internet Health Records: Convenience at a Cost?
.. Personal health records latest concern for CIOs
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/19/soa/medicalrecords.htm
Nyt Warning on Storage of Health Records
Oz Vic: Health IT program late, over budget

VistA software newsletter (PDF) for January-February 2008

HIT The Scandinavians Strike Again – Moving Forward at a Great Rate It Seems!
Npr Health Database Blocked Searches on ‘Abortion’
DB The real me
SAIC’s government projects include a global information system CHCS

Ehi Scotland to pilot new sexual health system
Oz ‘More clerks than nurses’: ex-chief

Oz ID management key to health portal
Oz SA pumps $17m in e-health
.. iSOFT Offers Healthcare Single Sign-On Solutions

EHI ESR set to complete roll-out
Itw Sun, Microsoft open interop centre
..

Ato IT WORLD : Microsoft’s pants down
Nyt Essay: Many Doctors, Many Tests, No Rhyme or Reason
Ehi Bolton meet integration needs with InterSystems
HIT tk NEHTA Admits It Can’t Develop and Deploy a Shared EHR
Oz 15 locals to fly flag at Microsoft HQ
DB An unhealthy interest in databases
Ehi Microsoft launches health IT product suite

csiro e-Health Research Centre :: Home
Wired magazine has an interesting article on 33 things that suck; and why. Medical records is one of those things.

Nyt Google Health Begins Its Preseason at Cleveland Clinic

Review of the National Innovation System
Ehi Doctors go public with Millennium concerns

Oz intersystems Govt woes don’t trouble TrakHealth
Itw Vic picks TrakCare for community health

grand challenges Advance health informatics esp pandemic

Ahit A National E-Health Strategy for Australia is Coming! Can it Succeed?
Ehi dubai Granger era ends as DG leaves CfH
OECD new report on health care (PDF).

IG “Complex health care requires modern IT support”
Age Vic smartcard shown to cost $1 billion

Oz Age does not weary Medicare system
.. Health and Technology Leaders Tackle Challenge of Managing Consumers’ Identities
AusHIT “How the Lack of a Plan Will Hurt E-Health in Australia.”

Oz E-health funding urgent

Oz Australia’s e-health in dire straits
Ehi German doctors say no to centrally stored patient records
http://www.misweb.com/magarticle.asp?doc_id=24882&rgid=2&listed_months=0

Oz Medicare to set up ID service
Abc Contract signed for national health ID system
Oz Long road to Medibank claim automation
.. Roxon’s new chief mick reid
medicare – seven web interfaces ?logins for call centre

Age States told to revise funding requests for surgery
Scmn Health checks… at the checkout

PBS ibm Leaner and Meaner Still