Category: news
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Canadian Medical Association Leadership Series: Future Practice 2005
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) released a new publication in their Leadership Series titled Future Practice 2005. The report is a series of articles directed toward physicians about the use of technology in their office and also provides some updates as to the current state of telemedicine and electronic health records in Canada. I haven’t…
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Now for some *real* eHealth
Now, here’s an interesting article from MSNBC.com that is really about e-health. The article describes healthy ways to respond to a computer crash. I never realized that so many people talk to their computer or get violent toward it. I know that in my most frustrated moments, I wish I could smash my computer. Looks…
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eHealth research funding from Health Canada
Here’s an interesting call for research proposals from Health Canada titled “Innovations in the Health System: eHealth“. Deadline for submissions is May 4, 2005. One million has been set aside to fund up to six projects. The objective of the research grants is as follows: The Health Policy Research Program (HPRP) is seeking to enhance…
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The Digital Hospital
Here’s an interesting report from PricewaterhouseCoopers titled “Reactive to Adaptive: Transforming Hospitals with Digital Technology” (soft copy is available for free – you just need to provide some information about yourself). I haven’t had a chance to read the document in detail, but I did manage to give it a quick scan. From what I’ve…
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It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to…
There’s an interesting “debate” going on the current issue (vol 365 no 9463) of The Lancet regarding the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Foundation). The editors ask if Bill Gates is “a 21st century Robin Hood”, pointing to how he has given away over $28 billion USD to date. With an endowment…
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Resistance is futile
It would seem that JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association) is starting to take an interest in ehealth/health informatics topics. The current issue has several articles on use of computers in practice by physicians. I haven’t had a chance to read the articles yet, but are the titles about computers: Role of Computerized…
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Can you see me now?
Looks like real-time telemedicine is starting to become a reality. Use of camera-phones for health-related purposes may change how we interact with the health care system. You can read the article from CNN.com titled “Camera phones may make a doctor’s house calls“.
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This just in: E-health Records Slow to Catch on
Computerworld.com reported that “interoperability problems and lagging adoption of electronic health record technology are challenging the federal government’s efforts to foster the creation of a national information health network”. The past twenty years of the health care industry seems to suggest that health care is a different from other industries, especially when it comes to…