Health Affairs Study Says Doctors' Views Vary on Personal Health Records. Blumenthal To Step Down as National Health IT Coordinator. National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal will resign in the spring to return to his tenured faculty position at Harvard Medical School, Kaiser Health News reports.
Background on Blumenthal Blumenthal was appointed by President Obama in March 2009 to head the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. As national coordinator, Blumenthal led efforts to develop criteria for the federal meaningful use program, in which health care providers who demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health records can qualify for Medicaid and Medicare incentive payments (Galewitz/Weaver, Kaiser Health News, 2/3). Before his appointment, Blumenthal was director of the Institute for Health Policy at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System and professor of medicine and health care policy at Harvard Medical School (Clark, HealthLeaders Media, 2/3). He also was director of the Harvard University Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement.
The Facebook Blues? <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy Does logging onto Facebook make you feel sad, as if everyone's having fun but you?
Maybe you're just overestimating how happy your friends are. New research out of Stanford University suggests when we misgauge our friends' negative feelings, we feel worse about ourselves. In a study published in the January issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, researchers examined how college students evaluate their own mood and that of their peers.
Your Profile Is Better Than My Profile Junior Kayla Dellefratte from Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. logs off Facebook when she begins to feel frustrated with what she is seeing. Market for Health Care Virtual Reality Systems To Grow, Report Says. Virtual reality systems increasingly are being integrated into a wide variety of health-related settings, such as clinical IT systems, operating rooms, medical schools and treatment programs for returning soldiers, according to a new report from Kalorama Information, Healthcare IT News reports.
The report found that between 2006 and 2010, the U.S. market for health-related virtual reality applications experienced a compound annual growth rate of more than 10%, reaching about $670 million in sales in 2010. Researchers predicted that the market growth will continue at a greater rate through 2015 as health care providers begin ratcheting up their equipment and technology spending.
In addition, the report noted that health-related virtual reality products are starting to gain new attention from health care industry suppliers, partly because recent merger and acquisition deals have opened up new opportunities in the health care virtual reality market (Monegain, Healthcare IT News, 2/7). Virtual Reality (VR) in Healthcare in the U.S. : Kalorama Information.
What are virtual reality technologies and how are they being used in healthcare today?
What areas of healthcare are seeing the most use of these products? What is the expected market opportunity for companies entering the market for VR equipment? Who are the main players in the VR market and what moves are they making to grow market share? These are among the questions answered in Kalorama Information's Virtual Reality in Healthcare in the U.S. The use of virtual reality (VR) technologies in the U.S. healthcare industry has expanded tremendously due to extensive product development and the growing implementation of healthcare information technology (HIT) infrastructure. In Kalorama Information’s 2nd edition of Virtual Reality in Healthcare in the U.S., analyst Emil Salazar looks at the current and future market for commercialized VR technologies as divided on the basis of the four application areas: All Kalorama reports advertise the single user price.
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