PR Newswire, January 14, 2013 — Rogers & Cowan for TEDMED
TEDMED to Host “Great Challenges Day” and “The Hive,” Gathering of Entrepreneurs and Innovators in Health, Medicine — 50+ Speakers and 1,500 Delegates to Explore the Future of Medicine, Healthcare and Technology in Washington, DC, April 16-19, 2013; Event to be Simulcast Globally
TEDMED, the annual multi-disciplinary gathering where leaders from all sectors of society come together to explore the promise of technology and potential of human achievement in health and medicine, has announced the first 10 of its speakers and two new collaboration and innovation initiatives for 2013…
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How’s TEDMED 2013 shaping up? Here are the first 10 speakers
MedCity News, January 4, 2013 — Chris Seper
Jay Walker’s TEDMED has started to unveil what 2013′s Davos of Healthcare will look like. The first 10 TEDMED speakers have been revealed. The list shows TEDMED 2013, which is set for April 16 through 19, will stick with its theme of mixing hot-button current events and 50,000-foot thinking with medical rock stars and creatives from the arts and other disciplines. And at least two topics look to get special attention: health and wellness and big data…
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A glimpse of what’s ahead in medicine
The Boston Globe, December 31, 2012 — Chelsea Conaboy
Plenty has been written this year about the history of medicine through the lens of the New England Journal of Medicine, which celebrated its 200th anniversary.
The journal created a website chronicling medical advancements through the past two centuries, many of which were highlighted during a symposium held in June.
In an editorial published Thursday on the journal’s website, two top editors join Dr. Isaac Kohane of…
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Better Systems for Clinical Data Collaboration: Innovation in Systems and Software
Koa Lab, November 19, 2012 — Andy Palmer
In my last two posts, I wrote about the need for more liquidity in clinical research data. As a foundation for sharing this new more-liquid clinical research data, we need more patient-centric systems, where patients can create, consume and maintain relevant medical information…
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Did policymakers choose the wrong path?
EHRWatch, November 13, 2012 — Jeff Rowe
How’s that country song go? “Looking for love in all the wrong places”?
If you don’t mind us channeling our inner Waylon Jennings, that’s what came to mind when we read an article about one health IT observer, who has argued that “Healthcare quality and efficiency could move forward 20 years in a matter of months if only there were true interoperability of…
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Interoperability: Quick Route To Better Care
InformationWeek Healthcare, November 12, 2012 — Neil Versel
Critic chides policymakers for downplaying standards and usability in Meaningful Use Stage 1 at American Medical Informatics Association meeting.
Healthcare quality and efficiency could move forward 20 years in a matter of months if only there were true interoperability of electronic health information, according to a noted critic of the health IT industry.
In the opinion of University of Pennsylvania sociologist Ross Koppel, interoperability would help unlock…
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AMIA: Why interoperability is ‘taking so darn long’
Healthcare IT News, November 8, 2012 — Neil Versel
CHICAGO – Hospitals can have hundreds of IT systems. Vendors have built proprietary databases. Not everyone follows the same standards. Health systems fear sharing data with competitors. Policymakers have not focused on health information exchange or EHR usability.
These are just a few of the reasons why true interoperability of health information remains so elusive, according to a panel of informatics luminaries….
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User feedback is key to improving EHR systems
American Medical News, October 10, 2012 — Pamela Lewis Dolan
A report by an Institute of Medicine panel calls for a central, public database featuring insights from health information technology users.
Practices shopping for an electronic health record system or seeking to improve an existing system should have a central clearinghouse of reviews, feedback and tips from other users, says an Institute of Medicine discussion paper. The paper, published in September, is intended to foster discussion of a recommendation the IOM made in an earlier report that examined ways EHRs can be improved. The institute recommended that the Dept. of Health…
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Medicine 2.0 Impressions from Pew Internet Panelist
Susannah Fox, an Associate Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, was at Medicine 2.0 over the weekend. In addition to speaking on a panel, she shared her impressions of Day One on the e-patients.net blog, including a reference to the SMART Platforms presentation and enthusiasm about our clinician-facing apps.
Growth of SMART health care apps may be slow, but inevitable
O’Reilly Radar, September 13, 2012 — Andy Oram
Harvard Medical School conference lays out uses for a health data platform.
This week has been teeming with health care conferences, particularly in Boston, and was declared by President Obama to be National Health IT Week as well. I chose to spend my time at the second ITdotHealth conference, where I enjoyed many intense conversations with some of the leaders in the health care field…
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