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Get ready for the 2010 ATA Mid-Year Meetings!
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The Fourth Annual Mid-Year Meetings will be held Sept. 26 to 28 at the Hilton Baltimore in Maryland. This exciting event contains two main tracks: The ATA Summit 2010 and the Fifth Annual Pediatric
Telehealth Colloquium. There also will be an exhibit hall with the latest telemedicine products and services. More
FCC, FDA take
teamwork approach to telemedicine
Federal Computer Week
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The Federal Communications Commission and the Food and Drug Administration say they are taking a team approach to regulating wireless telemedicine and telehealth systems and will hold joint public hearings on that plan in July. The goal of the sessions is to "streamline [the] review process for lifesaving wireless medical technology," the agencies said in a news release.
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Health IT Policy Committee debates role of FDA in overseeing safety of e-health record systems
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 As the federal government ramps up its plan to help doctors and hospitals invest in electronic health record systems, the Health IT Policy Committee has been debating what role the Food and Drug Administration should play in overseeing the safety of those systems. In a report to the Office of the National Coordinator for
Health IT, the committee called for the development of a national program that would monitor patient safety problems in health IT systems, but it stopped short of saying what agency should run it.
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WellPoint's new plan: The doctor is online
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Physician house calls, that vestige of a bygone era in medicine, are making a comeback — only this time with a virtual twist. Indianapolis-based health insurance giant WellPoint unveiled a new program to give its members access to doctors and other health care providers via the Internet. The house call would be initiated by a patient logging in for a video chat from work to describe a sore throat, or a parent at home texting
about a child with poison ivy.
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More than 100,000 patients in Ontario receive care via telemedicine
Ontario Telemedicine Network
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In just four years, the Ontario Telemedicine Network has surpassed the 100,000 mark, facilitating the delivery of care for 102,781 patient consults in fiscal 2009/10, a 91 percent increase from last year. OTN uses two-way videoconferencing and telediagnostic equipment to connect patients in one location with a health care specialist in another location for assessment, diagnosis and treatment — even in emergency
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Telemed, remote monitoring, robotics, social media represent true health reform
FierceHealthIT
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Finally someone said it: "Public discourse on health reform is almost entirely focused on the whole at the expense of a focus on the parts. As a result, the debate has centered on the provider side while essentially ignoring the accelerating role of technology and the expanding role of individual patients in the health care delivery system," wrote Dr. Charles J. Shanley, associate CMO for Beaumont Hospitals in Michigan, and David
Ellis, corporate director of planning and future studies at the Detroit Medical Center, in the online version of Hospitals & Health Networks.
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Bringing comparison shopping to the doctor's office
The New York Times
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Americans comparison-shop for items as small as groceries and as big as cars. But they rarely compare prices on their health care. When a doctor recommends a test or a procedure, most patients simply go where the doctor tells them to go. Even if a patient does want to comparison-shop, there is no easy way to obtain complete and useful information. It is a hole in the market that some companies see as an opportunity, especially
because many Americans soon will have to pay more attention to what they are paying for, rather than count on insurance to cover everything.
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Medical home project leads to development of new Web tools
Healthcare IT News
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Web tools that were developed as a result of the National Demonstration Project on the patient-centered medical home, an initiative by the American Academy of Family Physicians and its subsidiary
TransforMED, are featured in a report published recently that include all of the findings of the two-year project. The project, which was undertaken by TransforMED and funded by the AAFP, ran from June 2006 to May 2008.
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UT Southwestern first in region to use newest generation of surgical robot
Newswise
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Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center are the first in North Texas to use the newest generation surgical robot, the dual-console DaVinci Surgical System, enabling them to perform minimally
invasive surgeries with even greater precision. In May, UT Southwestern achieved another milestone by becoming the first hospital in North Texas to complete a robotic single-incision pyeloplasty using the DaVinci System.
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Jennifer Lopez, sister appear on 'Larry King' to launch telemedicine charity
Monsters and Critics
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Jennifer Lopez and her sister Lynda have appeared on "Larry King" to launch their new telemedicine charity. J-Lo, 40, and her younger sister, 39, spoke about their new project — The Maribel Foundation — which they hope will allow doctors in Los Angeles to treat sick children anywhere in the world with the help of technology. "The Maribel Foundation is a
foundation that Lynda and I have talked about forming for years, and when we both got pregnant, we decided it was something we wanted to really just do now," Lopez said.
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'Am I Being HEHRd' video — teaching EHR etiquette at Stanford
Ted Eytan, MD
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 As I previously mentioned on this blog, Dr. Beverley Kane has been preparing a curriculum for Stanford School of Medicine students on the use of the electronic health record with patients. She recently shared this video that she's created with us,
and I am embedding it here. So nice to see creativity applied to this part of the medical school curriculum; more importantly, nice to see the service aspect of medical care being part of the curriculum in the first place.
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5 California hospitals penalized after privacy breaches
The
Sacramento Bee
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Clamping down on privacy breaches at hospitals statewide, the California Department of Public Health on June 11 fined five hospitals a total of $675,000 for violating state laws protecting
confidential medical information. Two Northern California hospitals — Rideout Memorial in Marysville and Enloe Medical Center in Chico — were among those cited.
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New York Blues launch on-demand online care
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BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and BlueShield of Northeastern New York recently announced the initial launch of Online Care NY, a new service which offers on-demand health care services to eligible members and employers.
Officials made the announcement at the American Health Insurance
Plans industry conference in Las Vegas.
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How many US adults go online to find prescription drug information?
iHealthBeat
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In 2009, 102.3 million U.S. adults went online for prescription drug information, according to a Manhattan Research survey. That figure is up slightly from the 93.5 million U.S. adults who went online for prescription drug information in 2008 and more than double the 45.7 million U.S. adults who went online for prescription drug information in 2004.
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