Cybercriminals Hold Australian Medical Clinic Electronic Patient Records Hostage

The danger of having an EPR that is not properly project. Read the news story on IEEE about cybercriminals that have hyjacked the electronic patient record of an Australian clinic. They broke into the computer system, encrypted all patient data on the system and are now asking for randsom money to decrypt the data again.

Go here for an ABC news TV item, click below to read the story on the IEEE Spectrum website.

Cybercriminals Hold Australian Medical Clinic Electronic Patient Records Hostage

Computer Magazine November 2012 - The move toward electronic health records

Check out Computer Magazine November 2012 for a whole series on the move toward electronic health records. Selected articles are also available Bericht publicerenfor free at the computer magazine website.

Next-gen PACS according to Eliot Siegel

Look at this Diagnostic Imaging interview with Eliot Siegel recorded at SIIM with his vision of the next generation PACS with, what he calls, clinical analytics. http://bcove.me/nfo2uwot

The Future of Integrated Health Care 2015

Check out this interesting movie on youtube. Is this where we are going??

The Future of Health Care is a subject that has been under intense speculation and debate in recent times across different forums. Several interesting prototypes and scenarios have been made by professionals and designers to give the World a glimpse of a fuzzy future.

Ergonomidesign have made it possible to actually experience the future of Health Care. Following their launch at the Medica/ Compamed trade fair (in Düsseldorf, Germany, Nov. 17-19), Ergonomidesign will present and demonstrate a future life science application that brings together 40 years of design experience for Ergonomidesign in the Life Science industry. This video is one of 2, that give an overview of the entire concept.

JAMIA: Cloud computing, while constrained by regs, could make EHRs more appealing

The cost, complexity and inflexibility associated with traditional EHR systems continues to discourage some healthcare organizations from adopting them and although new approaches like cloud computing could eliminate those barriers to adoption, they are currently constrained by federal regulatory legislation and oversight, according to an article in the March issue of theJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

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Three European Hospitals up to Stage 6 of the EMRAM scale

Besides the hospital in Hamburg, Germany that received Stage 7 on which I reported earlier on this blog, three other European hospitals have obtained Stage 6 on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) scale.

Azienda ULSS 18 Rovigo (Local Healthcare Authority), Italy, Hospital Clinic I Provincial de Barcelona, Spain, and Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Switzerland, have all achieved the accolade – the second highest rating on the scale.

More  info on Hospital IT Europe website.

New website launched: Doctors Helping Doctors Transform Healthcare

A new website has been launched called Doctors helping doctors transform healthcare. The authors of the website believe that health IT can and should be used to make care better, safer, and more value-laden. The website was started by a couple of pioneers on health IT and Meaningful use to help guide other doctors to find their way in the health IT jungle to put the health IT to the use for better healthcare.

Just launched, the site already contains a load of blog entries, movies, etc concerning topics like EHR Benefits, Meaningful Use, and Transforming Care.