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HealthVault appears to be Microsoft’s offering in the field of patient-created personal health records.
When it’s your job to protect your family’s health, you need every advantage. Imagine if you had a way to collect, store, and share the health information critical to your family’s well-being.
HealthVault is the new and FREE way to do just that.
Imagine […]

The article from the New York Times and leaked screen captures of Google Health were just the start of what is certain to be a huge ongoing discussion of internet personal health records maintained by patients. Adding to the conversation is this recent article:
Benjamin Fry, Jim Warren. Navigation in internet-based personal healthcare records: for […]

Google Blogoscoped has ‘em.
Hard to tell a whole lot from these little snippets…but it looks and sounds kinda’ cool, doesn’ t it?

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I saw some interesting comments on MEDLIB-L not too long ago:
“I do not think MLA, HLS, its officers, certainly not academic medical center librarians, understand that hospital libraries have ten years of life left,” writes the anonymous commenter. The commenter appears to hear the Joint Commission and others saying, “Let technology provide us with […]

The Wall Street Journal Health blog mentions that Google VP Adam Bosworth (whose interest in health information I’ve previously posted about here, here and here) spoke today at the World Health Care Congress in Washington D.C.
Bosworth…said patients should have online access to all of the electronic health information that exists about them, whether it’s contained […]

Ran into a press release the other day from EBSCO, touting the ease of integrating it’s point-of-care tools into EMR/EHRs, “[w]ith the EBSCOhost® Integration Toolkit (EIT)” which “…provides a comprehensive set of flexible web services based on XML/SOAP standards for establishing direct links from their EHR/EMRs to applicable clinical reference resources from EBSCO.”
This makes me […]

Once again, time to clear out those items “kept new” in my agregator but not yet blogged about.

Via BHIC
Electronic Health Records Still Not Routine Part of Medical Practice, Says New Study
Full Report
Executive Summary

Via Clinical Evidence, Searching Tidbits, and Other Minutiae
Health information technology in the United States: the information base for progress

DigiCMB: But it is not […]

In the previous post on this topic, I mentioned that all clinicians at our hospital can access all of our library’s digital resources from any internet-connected computer with IE6 or better.
This is because our CIO and VP of I.S. wanted our EMR’s “fat” client to be available from any location. To accomplish this, […]

I somehow missed this when it first appeared, and only recently caught it in one of my routine searches that generate feeds for my aggregator.

Mitch Rozonkiewiecz, our hospital’s VP of Information Services and CIO was interviewed in Healthcare Informatics about CGH’s “Digital Passport” initiatives.
It is interesting to get a good, clear look at the views […]

Got a great question via email from a medical librarian reader:
Many of my doctors who are more tech savy want the information delivered to themselves “off campus” via email, RSS, etc. However, we since they are off campus most of the journal full text links (IP access only) are unaccessible to them. Have […]

Interesting article from Information World Review on the “Information Specialist in Context” in healthcare. Nothing revelatory, but good stuff on evidence based medicine (or evidence based healthcare) and changes anticipated with the adoption of EMRs (or EHRs). Good to have another reminder that the profession is changing in exciting ways- and that medical […]