Fighting over Rural Broadband

February 5, 2009

Businessweek just posted an article about the fight shaping up over the rural broadband provisions in the new stimulus package:
Broadband Build-Out: Who Will Run the Show?
Congress is debating which agency should dispense the stimulus package’s $8.2 billion for broadband expansion. At issue: how best to serve rural areas
Well, it’s nice to be fought over, but [...]

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HIT about to Kerschplode?

January 19, 2009

According to John Glaser in this post,
In about a month, it is highly likely that our industry (healthcare information technology) will be very different. In my almost thirty years in this industry, there has never been an industry change of the depth and breadth that we are about to experience.
Last week saw the introduction of [...]

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Getting Rural Needs on the Federal IT Agenda

January 15, 2009

According to a new post in the Financial Times, California’s Silicon Valley is “sensing it’s opportunity” to lobby the Obama Administration for funding -
To hear [Silicon] Valley notables describe it, the answers to some of the biggest issues facing the US can be found there. These range from climate change and America’s lack of energy [...]

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Finding Rural on the Map

January 15, 2009

Now here’s some great collaboration news – ESRI, the makers of ArcMap (the premier GIS mapping system employed today) have formed an alliance with the USGS, Census Bureau, NOAA, DHS, and DOI to create a “National GIS” (Geographic Information System).  To quote their press release:
As America’s leaders work to speed economic recovery, they need a [...]

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New FCC Chair Nominee a Fan of Open Networks

January 13, 2009

While there was a lot of scrutiny and pressure in the selection of our diplomatic and economic pieces of the new administration, many of us were crossing our fingers for the eventual naming of the new FCC Chair.

Last night, the Wall Street Journal announced Barack Obama’s nominee for the post, Julius Genachowski.  Genachowski has served [...]

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Concerns about OpenVista in Small Rural Hospitals

December 28, 2008

Guest post from Louis Wenzlow at the Rural WI Health Cooperative:
In discussing Open Source solutions for small hospitals, my focus is not on health information exchange but on hospital EMR implementation, which is where most small hospitals are concentrating their efforts.  Two years ago, my group went through a multiple hospital EMR vendor selection process, [...]

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Does Open-Source Software Work for Rural?

December 28, 2008

A recent post on the Health Care Blog begged Washington not to bail out the healthcare industry by funding EMRs across the country.  Yep, you read that right – please don’t.  However, the author makes a good case for funding innovation over the chaotic, Band-Aid Frankenstein that is our EMR marketplace.  To paraphrase, instead of [...]

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Study: Palm Pilots Can Bridge Doctor-Patient Communication Gap

December 9, 2008

from the iHealthBeat:
“Hand-held digital devices might be more effective in monitoring patient behavior in some instances than physician-patient interviews, according to a new study published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, the Kansas City Star reports.
The four-year study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, looked specifically at people with borderline personality disorder.
Timothy Trull, [...]

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Patients Turn to Social Networking Sites To Find Disease Treatments

December 8, 2008

Here’s the rub for healthcare . . . if we stand on principle to “Continue Practicing as We Always Have” and cling to the principle that “We are the Ones Who Will Tell You How You’ll Receive Your Treatment, Because We’re the Doctors/Nurses/Hospitals”, then the public (who are becoming very accustomed to getting what-they-want, when-they-want-it, [...]

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Switch to electronic business apps could save healthcare $30 billion annually

December 7, 2008

this from Telemedicine and E-Health News:

“The healthcare industry could save nearly $30 billion annually by switching from paper-based business processes to electronic ones, according to a new Healthcare Efficiency Index. The index, launched by Nashville-based revenue cycle management firm Emdeon, notes that the healthcare industry currently saves nearly $24 billion each year [...]

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