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Haiti - Mobile EHR pilot in Haiti aims to develop standard
(2 June 2010 - MobiHealthNews)

Japan: An empirical approach to estimating the effect of e-health on medical expenditure
(J Telemed Telecare. 2010;16(4):169-71)

US: DrFirst Demonstrates The Nation's First Electronic Prescribing Of Controlled Substances (EPCS) System
(3 June 2010 - Medical News Today)

Armenian Association of Telemedicine (AATM) Implements Pilot Telemedicine Project
(17 May 2010 - eHealthServer)

Europe: Business Models for eHealth - Study Report
(15 May 2010 - European Information Society)

Europe: Digital Agenda: Commission outlines action plan to boost Europe's prosperity and well-being
(19 May 2010 - European Information Society)

India: Delhi to get HIV/AIDS tele-medicine facility
(12 May 2010 - eHealth Online)

Kazakhstan: Ocean Informatics in Health Technology Transfer to Kazakhstan
(19 May 2010 - eHealthNews.eu)

Kenya: In NYC, Blair Touts Cell Phones for Kenyan Women
(13 May 2010 - Associated Press)

Portugal: Harvard & Portugal's Effort
(12 May 2010 - Federal Telemedicine News)

Tanzania: SMS for Life Project Saves Tanzania Malaria Patients
(4 May 2010 - eHealth Online)

UK: Nurses say technology can cut lost time
(4 May 2010 - eHealth Insider)

Africa: New broadband network for Africa approved
(13 April 2010 - SciDev)

Botswana: Paperless hospital in Africa offers prototype for new model of care
(14 April 2010 - Healthcare IT News)

Nepal: Yorkshire company offers Telehealth solution to Nepal
(19 March, 2010 - Medilink)

Peru: Peru to Create e-Government
(5 April 2010 - SciDev)

UK: Think-tank calls for self-service NHS
(9 April 2010 - eHealth Europe)

US: AHA targets health IT as priority for 2010
(16 April 2010 - Healthcare IT News)

US: DOL Announces Grant Funding
(18 April 2010 - Federal Telemedicine News)

Kenya - Kenya's e-health potential remains untapped
(24 March 2010 - All Voices)

Nigeria - Expert Urges Govt On E-Health Integration
(8 March 2010 - All Africa)

Rwanda - Rwanda's Laptop Revolution
(28 March 2010 - The Guardian)

South Africa - ICT applications as e-health solutions in rural healthcare in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
(26 March 2010 - The HIM Journal)

UK - 'Rescue plan' to fix NPfIT published
(23 March 2010 - eHealth Insider)

US - Can Electronic Clinical Documentation Help Prevent Diagnostic Errors?
(24 November 2010 - New England Journal of Medicine)

US - Feds to rely on technology to make health reform law a reality
(23 March 2010 - NextGov)

US - Government releases millions to train 'cadre' of health IT professionals
(5 April 2010 - Healthcare IT News)

US - IT Measures Scattered Through Reform Law
(24 March 2010 - Modern Healthcare)

US - Your Medical Records Aren't Secure
(23 March 2010 - Wall Street Journal)

Australia: Report of the Review of Health Technology Assessment in Australia

Canada: Maximizing health care with technology
(9 March 2010 - New Brunswick Business Journal)

Denmark: All primary doctors in Denmark use electronic medical records
(13 March 2010 - eHealth Online)

Europe: 20 Years of European Commission support to the development of eHealth
(15 March 2010 - European Information Society)

Europe: EU ministers sign eHealth declaration
(15 March 2010 - e-Health Europe)

Ghana: Mobile startup takes on drug counterfeiters
(17 March 2010 - Reuters)

Nigeria: E-Medicine: A pilot success in Nigeria
(9 March 2010 - Nigeria Guardian)

Saudi Arabia: Supporting the Saudi e-health initiative: the Master of Health Informatics programme at KSAU-HS
(East Mediterr Health J. 2010 Jan;16(1):119-24)

Sweden: Swedish NPO 'complete by 2012'
(17 March 2010 - e-Health Europe)

UK: NHS database raises privacy fears, say doctors
(7 March 2010 - The Guardian)

US: FCC's Mobile Broadband and the Future of Health
(16 March 2010 - Mobile Health News)

US: Obama Hails Vote on Health Care as Answering 'the Call of History'
(22 March 2010 - New York Times)

Canada - No More Dithering On e-Health
(2 March 2010 - Medical News Today)

Europe - COCIR Publishes Telehealth Toolkit
(19 February 2010 - eHealth Europe)

Germany - First European deal for HealthVault
(28 January 2010 - eHealth Insider)

Haiti - Communicating During Emergencies
(15 February 2010 - Federal Telemedicine News)

Canada - Reaching agreement for an Aboriginal e-health research agenda: the Aboriginal telehealth knowledge circle consensus method
(27 January 2010 - Rural and Remote Health)

Dubai - Medical Records to Go Online
(27 January 2010 - Khaleej Times)

EU - European Journal of ePractice: eHealth and Beyond
(27 January 2010 - eHealthnews.eu)

India: Technolgy to help medicine reach remote areas
(21 January 2010 - SiliconIndia)

Ireland: Allergy text service goes live
(26 January 2010 - Irish Times)

Switzerland - Online medical consulting service at the University Hospital Zürich before and after introduction of a service fee
(February 2010 - Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift)

UK - Cloudy outlook on government ICT
(27 January 2010 - eHealth Insider)

US - Government to test ease of use for health IT systems
(27 January 2010 - Healthcare and IT News)

US - Social Media Use in the United States: Implications for Health Communication
(27 November 2010 - JMIR)

US - White House CTO officially launches Text4Baby
(4 February 2010 - Mobile Health News)

Zambia - Zambia has record growth in ICT investments
(28 January 2010 - LusakaTimes)

Australia: Telehealth on Advanced Networks
(11 January 2010 - Telemedicine and e-Health)

Paraguay: Mobile phones to aid dengue detection

Saudi Arabia: Telemedicine expanded to offshore drillers in Arabian Gulf

UK: £1.7m for My Health Online

US: 2010 Report on Federal Activities Available

US: "Meaningful Use" Criteria Published

Scientific Articles

Are you ready to exchange e-health information.
(Tenn Med. 2010 May;103(5):29-32.)

Communicating health promotion and disease prevention information to patients via email: a review.
(J Telemed Telecare. 2010;16(4):172-5)

Does E-health Adoption Enable Improved Health Outcomes? Encouraging Evidence from Ontario Hospitals.
(Healthc Q. 2010;13(3):50-7.)

Sharing Medical Data for Health Research: The Early Personal Health Record Experience
(J Med Internet Res 2010;12(2):e14)

Semantic management of nonfunctional requirements in an e-health system
(Telemed J E Health. 2010 May;16(4):461-71)

eHealth portals: who uses them and why?
(Am J Health Promot. 2010 May-Jun;24(5):TAHP1-7, iii.)

Dirt cheap and without prescription: how susceptible are young US consumers to purchasing drugs from rogue internet pharmacies?
(J Med Internet Res. 2010 Apr 26;12(2):e11.)

An International Comparison of Web-based Reporting About Health Care Quality: Content Analysis
(J Med Internet Res 2010;12(2):e8)

Text Messaging as a Tool for Behavior Change in Disease Prevention and Management
(30 March 2010 - Epidemiologic Reviews)

Can Electronic Clinical Documentation Help Prevent Diagnostic Errors?
(25 March 2010 - New England Journal of Medicine)

Untangling the Web - Patients, Doctors, and the Internet
(25 March 2010 - New England Journal of Medicine)

The Impact of Telemedicine on Quality of Life in Rural Areas: The Extremadura Model of Specialized Care Delivery
(19 March 2010 - Telemedicine and eHealth)

Innovation in Healthcare Delivery Systems: A Conceptual Framework
(March 2010 - The Innovation Journal)

E-health is booming in developing world
(22 February 2010 - BMJ)

An Effective Way For Residents/fellows In Rural Areas To Attend Essential Courses - Videoconferencing
(2 February 2010 - Medical News Today)

E-Health in the Developing World
(Health Affairs - Vol. 29 - No. 2 -February 2010)

Participatory medicine: A high-tech alliance with patients
(18 January 2010 - AMA)

The value of theory for enhancing and understanding e-health interventions
(January 2010 - American Journal of Preventative Medicine)

Web Usage Data as a Means of Evaluating Public Health Messaging and Outreach
(21 December 2009 - JMIR)

An overview of recent health care support systems for eEmergency and mHealth applications.
(December 2009 - IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society)

Use of Live Interactive Webcasting for an International Postgraduate Module in eHealth: Case Study Evaluation
(13 November 2009 - JMIR)

Developing Next-Generation Telehealth Tools and Technologies: Patients, Systems, and Data Perspectives
(21 October 2009, Telemedicine and eHealth)

Telehealth Tools for Public Health, Emergency, or Disaster Preparedness and Response: A Summary Report
(21 October 2009, Telemedicine and eHealth)

Handheld computers for survey and trial data collection in resource-poor settings: development and evaluation of PDACT, a Palm Pilot interviewing system.
(Int J Med Inform. 2009 Nov;78(11):721-31)

The OpenMRS Implementers Network.
(Int J Med Inform. 2009 Nov;78(11):711-20)

The use of mobile phones as a data collection tool: A report from a household survey in South Africa
(23 December 2009 - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making)

Articles

EHRs Lack Standards, Best Practices
(28 May 2010 - InformationWeek)

The Doctor Will See You Now. Please Log On.
(28 May 2010 - The New York Times)

When Patients Meet Online, Are There Side Effects?
(28 May 2010 - The New York Times)

Using Web to Curb Waiting-Room Times
(25 May 2010 - Wall Street Journal)

Mission Critical: Telemedicine in the ICU
(24 May 2010 - For the Record)

High-Tech Alternatives to High-Cost Care
(21 May 2010 - The New York Times)

Health IT hottest career trend for college graduates
(19 May 2010 - Healthcare IT News)

Health IT consultants in demand
(18 May 2010 - Healthcare IT News)

Breaking Down the Barriers
(13 April 2010 - The Wall Street Journal)

EMR Data Theft Booming
(26 March 2010 - InformationWeek)

My Data, Your Data, Our Data: A bold project hopes that getting scientists to share information can deepen their understanding of diseases
(13 April 2010 - The Wall Street Journal)

PwC predicts IT will be 'key factor' for healthcare transformation
(9 April 2010 - HealthcareITnews)

Savings From Computerizing Medical Records Are Hard To Measure
(7 April 2010 - KaiserHealthNews)

Twitter study highlights need for monitoring health info dissemination
(31 March 2010 - HealthcareIT)

When your carpet calls your doctor: The coming convergence of wireless communications, social networking and medicine will transform health care
(8 Apr 2010 - The Economist)

WHO pandemic probe focuses on media, Internet role
(13 April 2010 - AFP)

With the iPad, Apple may just revolutionize medicine
(11 April 2010 - The Washington Post)

Ministers promise decade for African science
(19 March 2010 - SciDev)

NIST, partners developing tools to support health IT testing
(19 March 2010 - Healthcare IT News)

EC urges bigger thinking in eHealth
(17 March 2010 - eHealth Europe)

Cloud Connect: U.S. IT In Forefront
(16 March 2010 - Information Week)

FCC's National Broadband Plan: 'The Second Wave of Electricity'
(15 March 2010 - Government Technology)

Transatlantic Observatory for Meeting Global Health Policy Challenges through ICT-Enabled Solutions
(11 March 2010 - Healthcare IT News)

How to stop women dying - hand out some mobile phones?
(3 March 2010 - The Guardian)

Internet-based medical education: a realist review of what works, for whom and in what circumstances
(2 February 2010 - BMC Medical Education)

Medical Paper Trail Takes Electronic Turn
(22 February 2010 - New York Times)

Mobile MedlinePlus Launched
(4 February 2010 - Federal Telemedicine News)

Are Doctors Ready for Virtual Visits?
(7 January 2010 - New York Times)

Studies

Canada: Evaluating the Value and Impact of an Electronic Health Record in a Complex Health System
(April 2010 - ElectronicHealthcare)

Latin America: Tarifas y brecha de asequibilidad de los servicios de telefonía móvil en América Latina y el Caribe

Opinion

Health IT Lacks Innovation, Integration
(1 June 2010 - InformationWeek)

YouTube - Don Detmer
Don Detmer discusses the aims of the AMIA Global Partnership Program (AMIA GPP).

Health IT: The next big (and I mean really big) thing
(5 May 2010 - examiner.com)

Interview: Secretary of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, Dr. T Ramasami
The Department of Science and Technology has constituted a committee to develop a biomedical devices and technology vision for this country through a national consultation mechanism. Our first meet has already taken place and we are likely to have a few more meetings in the near future. We hope to mount a technology led vision for biomedical devices for the promotion of this industry.

Reports

Mobile Health Solutions for Developing Countries
(June 2010 - ITU)

HITECH Revisited
(June 2010 - Manatt Health Solutions)

mHealth had $1.5B in 2009 revenues
(19 March 2010 - MobiHealthNews)

New report offers insight into fragmented mHealth market
(19 March 2010 - Healthcare IT News)

Interoperable eHealth is Worth it - Securing Benefits from Electronic Health Records and ePrescribing
(10 March 2010 - European Information Society)

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