If you are interested learning more about HL7 but lack a PhD in computer science, then you’ll find Shahid’s post HL7 Primer for non-techies over on the Healthcare IT Guy Blog extremely useful.
Archive for March, 2008
Personal Health Record Definitions
The Personal Health Record is an evolving concept and is certainly not easy to define. Most attempts so far that I have come across either lean toward the jargon laced and/or breezy marketecture or come in at the other end of the spectrum with a highbrow philosophical structure based on Plato’s theory of forms or [...]
Mobilizing devices and not germs
The introduction and use of mobile devices at the point of care presents numerous opportunities to increase clinical productivity, improve quality of care and directly impact patient safety among others; however these tools also present a significant new challenge in the control of germs and hospital-acquired infections. Physicians or nurses may contaminate mobile devices such [...]
Read Write Web and Healthcare
Read Write Web is one of my favourite sites on the net and a must read among my RSS feeds, so the fact they the good folks over there have recently taken such an great interest in Healthcare is fantastic news for me and no doubt the greater good. The site generally covers the Web [...]
Health 2.0 to go mainstream in 2008?
Unity Stoakes of Organized Wisdom has a post on the Health 2.0 Blog regarding his take on where Health 2.0 is headed on 2008. As a founding member of one of best known Health 2.0 sites on the web, Unity is in a good position to be making predictions and they seem very accurate and [...]
Self Service scheduling long overdue!
Today we can book a flight on virtually any airline, a hotel room almost anywhere in the world, a rental car, a dinner reservation, a museum tour, buy tickets to a concert or the theatre all online, however millions still have to pick up the phone and endure hours of busy signals until they finally [...]
WIHIR eHealth Security Workshop
DON’T ATTEND THE EHEALTH INFORMATION SECURITY WORKSHOP!WHY NOT?- It’s all about (yuk!) learning – learning about security isn’t important unless you want to advance in your job. You’ll only learn about what makes privacy possible. – It’s too cheap! It costs less than any other program you can access, so it ain’t no Gucci! You [...]
MiCARD portable PHR
I saw an interesting post over on The Healthcare IT Guy Blog regarding a portable EHR called MiCARD. Basiccly it appears to be a modifed USB drive that looks like a credit card and can display your medical information on a smal LCD screen when activated. Clicking through to the manufacturer’s site I found the [...]
SSHA focuses on security to provide patient access to EHRs
Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) in Ontario is planning to provide a voluntary EHR that will allow both healthcare professionals and patient’s access to their own medical records within the next five years. The EHR is planned as a mashup of independent databases located throughout the province that will provide a lifetime health history [...]
Healthline partners to build a Patient Portal
The Healthcare focused search engine Healthline has entered the personalized patient Portal business by announcing a partnership with Aetna to create “Smart Source” which will be integrated into the insurers existing members-only site. Smart Source will leverage the medical records that Aetna already maintains for its insures and in this respect, Healthline may have stolen [...]
WIHIR Smarter Health Seminar
WIHIR Smarter Health Seminar Title: Smart Systems for Health Agency – Helping Improve Ontario’s Health Care Through e-Health Innovation Guest Speaker: William Albino, Chief Executive Officer, Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Time: 3:00PM – 4:30PM Physical Location: Davis Centre Room 1302, University of Waterloo Register to attend in person, [...]
Practice Medicine in the plam of your hand
The best programs for your handheld or The device is only as good as the software? Medical Economics has updated their list of the top ten best programs for your hand held device and added some great commentary on the rise of mobile web apps and the fall of the PDA and the rise of [...]
