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Conceptual Changes: Data in a Cleaninghouse
Lodewijk Bos
Lodewijk Bos
We thought it would be all over. And as was published today, it isn’t, we still dump paper medical records. We thought we would stop loosing records in the mail or grabbing the wrong pile of documents. Not so. There are still many, too many places where records are kept physically, on paper, in cupboards.
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ICMCC Event
Preliminary Keynotes ICMCC Event 2010
Peter Waegemann, Vice President of mHealth Initiative Inc. USA
Prof. PD Dr Bernd Blobel, Associate Professor, Head eHealth Competence Center University of Regensburg Medical Center, Germany
Drs Lodewijk Bos, President ICMCC, The Netherlands
Swamy Laxminarayan Lecture
Prof. Dr. Andy Marsh, Vice-president ICMCC, VMWSolutions, UK
News
Last 2 Days
CSC showcases its successful European eHealth initiatives at World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition 2010
Source: HealthTech Wire
“CSC had a significant presence at this year’s World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition (WoHIT), held in Barcelona 15-18 March 2010. CSC was showcasing many of its innovative solutions and examples of best practice implemented across Europe, demonstrating how eHealthcare delivery is rapidly becoming a reality in many different countries. Other highlights included the launch of CSC’s European-wide ePrescription solution that will provide national ePrescription services following the success of multiple deployments in hospitals in Denmark.
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epSOS project to extend to 2014
Source: Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“Smart Open Services for European Patients, which aims to enable a summary of a patient’s electronic medical record to be shared across European country borders, is likely to be extended.
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Prescription Error reduces considerably by adopting e-prescribing
Source: BiomedME
“A study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that a small group of primary care practices in New York that adopted electronic prescribing systems reduced their average prescribing error rate from 42.5 per 100 prescriptions to 6.6 for every 100 prescriptions over a one-year period, Reuters Health reports.
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One billion images stored in Carestream cloud
Source: BiomedME
“Carestream Health has announced that more than one billion images are now stored in its eHealth Managed Services storage cloud worldwide.
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España es referente en Europa para implantar la ‘e-health’
Source: Karla Islas, Diario Médico
“Responsables de sanidad y de nuevas tecnologías en Europa han destacado en la Conferencia de Alto Nivel sobre e-health la necesidad de desarrollar un marco legal claro y de compartir buenas prácticas para afrontar la falta de profesionales y prevenir errores en la prescripción.
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Communication with the patient may not be helped by time
Source: Steve Wilkins, KevinMD
“If the lack of time is the chief barrier to poor physician-patient communications, it logically follows that longer patient appointments are the solution. Ok, let’s say that I could wave a magic wand and add 5 or even 10 more minutes to the average primary care office visit. Would more time really make a difference?
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Health IT Broadband Connectivity Gap
Source: Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
“Research is scarce on health care providers’ broadband connectivity needs and the ability of the country’s infrastructure to meet those needs. This plan is one of the first attempts to quantify both. A number of challenges that prevented earlier study are relevant to this analysis. Pricing data, for instance, are proprietary and fluctuate widely according to a number of variables, making it difficult to quantify an aggregate price curve.
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Twitter has problems in the operating room
Source: KevinMD.com
“Twitter has been making its way into the operating room.
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Second wave of comments on Health IT safety issues
Source: e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“Last month I posted the testimony I submitted to the Adoption/Certification Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee. (I urge interested parties to review the links to other resources in that post.) Today Paul Egerman, chair of that team, circulated a preliminary draft of recommendations from that meeting. Here is my response tonight, edited a bit for clarity.
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Twitter becoming essential tool for docs
Source: Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Twitter will soon be an essential tool for medical practices according to a poll conducted by Case Western University, an independent research university in Cleveland.
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FCC: Broadband Key To Healthcare IT Initiatives
Source: Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Extending the U.S. broadband infrastructure would significantly improve the development of electronic medical records, while reducing costs and saving hundreds of billions of dollars in the coming decades, a federal report shows.
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On HIEs, more information would be helpful
Source: Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT News - Priming the Pump
“Coming on the same day as the announcement that HHS will put another $162 million toward Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), the news that Pennsylvania has decided not to partner with Delaware as it works to develop its own HIE would be easy to overlook.
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Danish docs, specialists all use EHRs: report
Source: Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare
“The Organisation for European Economic Cooperation and Development, in its most recent 2009 report on healthcare spending, pegs Denmark’s total healthcare expenditures at 9.8% of its gross domestic product with spending on a per capita basis equivalent to $3,512 per year, compared with U.S. expenditures at 16% of GDP and $7,290 per capita per year.
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Can data change habits?
Source: Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“One of the chief claims of health IT is that people will change their habits and take control of their health if they are given data.
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Telemedicine: Avoiding the pitfalls
Source: HealthTech Wire
“There is no doubt that telemedicine can help to solve some of the pressing problems facing modern healthcare systems. But what is the best way to implement telemedicine? At the European eHealth Conference in Barcelona, experts from different medical specialties shared their experiences.
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Klink: ‘Regionale EPD’s zijn eng en slecht beveiligd’
Source: Hein Bosman, ICTzorg
“Demissionair minister Klink van VWS vindt regionale EPD’s maar enge dingen. Daarom heeft hij zelf ook geen bezwaar gemaakt tegen het delen van zijn eigen medisch dossier in het landelijk EPD.
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EHR Safety: Feds Moving Smartly
Source: Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“On February 25, Jeffrey Shuren, the director the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, announced that his agency had received reports of 6 deaths and several dozen injuries associated with electronic health records (EHRs) in the previous 2 years.
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Chronic disease and demographic development to drive eHealth adoption
Source: HealthTech Wire
“At The World of Health IT, iSoft, one of the largest eHealth companies in the world with more than 13,000 customers, launched its Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform, which connects all stakeholders in healthcare – including the patient. Andrea Fiumicelli, Chief Operating Officer at iSoft, spoke to HealthTech Wire about the factors that will drive eHealth adoption in Europe and how his company is advancing ICT in healthcare.
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Swedish NPO ‘complete by 2012′
Source: Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“The National Patient Overview that is being rolled out across Sweden will be completed by spring 2012, according to one of the project leads.
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Waltham Forest links RiO and C&B
Source: Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Waltham Forest has become the first primary care trust in London to link up its RiO electronic patient record system with Choose and Book.
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“We will not share health information that identifies you”
Source: Robbie Hughes, ComputerWorldUK
‘A national level database of drugs, allergies and other health information that can be mined for information at an anonymous level is an immensely valuable tool to a government that spends more than 10% of GDP on providing healthcare and has a history of paying primary care providers to send back data on their patients.
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Senators split over e-health Bill
Source: Ben Grubb, ZDNet.com.au
‘Senators looking into the Federal Government’s Health Identifier Bill as part of a Senate inquiry have not been able to reach a consensus over whether they recommend the new law be passed.
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Sutter hospitals to invest in electronic health records system
Source: Bobby Caina Calvan, The Sacramento Bee
“Sutter Health said Monday it will push forward with converting to electronic health records at its hospitals after delaying the project to save money during the recession.
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AMA announces more partners in Web portal project
Source: Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMedNews
“The American Medical Association announced March 1 that it is collaborating with Dell on its Web portal project, expected to launch nationally later in 2010. It also announced the first electronic medical record system to be made available through the portal.
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US, EU aim for cooperation on standards, metrics
Source: Jack Beaudoin, Healthcare IT News
“Healthcare IT leaders from the United States and Europe say they’re confident they stand on the brink of a new era of eHealth cooperation. But if the areas they identified at a panel on EU-US cooperation represents the “low-hanging fruit,” no one should expect immediate results.
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How Much EHR Oversight is Required to Ensure Patient Safety?
Source: Nuesoft
“The announcement earlier this month by the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare IT (ONC) about its notice of proposed rulemaking for EHR certification may have overshadowed some other significant news recently coming from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Previous News Posts
Will Twitter soon be an essential tool for medical practices? asks CWRU
Source: Ves Dimov, Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog
“59% answered “yes”, according to the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) poll.
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Hospitals, Clinics Turn to Biometric ID Technology To Cut Number of Errors
Source: iHealthBeat
“Hospitals and medical clinics increasingly are looking at biometric identification technology as a way to combat medical errors and identity theft and insurance fraud, CNN reports.
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FCC broadband plan targets e-health expansion
Source: Brian Robinson, Government Health IT
“The Federal Communications Commission formally adopted and forwarded to Congress a plan to significantly upgrade U.S. broadband connections that could greatly boost the adoption rate of health IT.
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e-Health project – Le carnet de santé électronique
Source: Mauritius Newspaper
“Tout informatiser pour mieux soigner… C’est là l’objectif du e- health project , qui devrait se concrétiser d’ici juin. Et à terme, les patients pourront bénéficier aussi bien de carnets de santé – si possible intégrés à la carte d’identité électronique – que des échanges d’informations sur eux grâce à l’interconnexion des hôpitaux.
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EMR conversion doesn’t always help physician communication
Source: Stuart Sutton, KevinMD
“Our very large and very integrated health care system is plowing ahead with EMR implementation. All the offices are gradually converting from paper charts and all the hospitals have completed the process.
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Groups back proposed electronic health record definition
Source: Bob Brewin, NextGov
“Four of the nation’s leading consumer advocate groups endorsed the Obama administration’s definition of what constitutes an electronic health record, a requirement clinicians and facilities must meet to receive federal funds.
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Guerra On Healthcare: Will Future Clinical Systems Be Modules Or Monoliths?
Source: Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The approaches couldn’t contrast more sharply. On the one side are vendors who want to tightly control how their software integrates with outside products. On the other are the platform plug-and-play Applephiles.
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Get consent 2 txt – MDU
Source: Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“GP practices are being advised to get patients’ explicit consent before communicating with them via text message.
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EC officials face skeptics on eHealth details
Source: Jack Beaudoin, Healthcare IT News
“Facing a sometimes impatient and skeptical audience of clinicians and healthcare IT vendors, European Commission officials say the latest eHealth plans will include concrete proposals to deploy information technology throughout European health systems.
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CMO wants tech change on climate change
Source: Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“The NHS in England should increasingly make services available remotely to slow the impact of climate change on health, the Chief Medical Officer has recommended.
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HIMSS Analytics breaks into Europe
Source: Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“The president of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has told E-Health Europe that HIMSS Analytics has finally moved into Europe.
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Docs, it’s time to embrace online chat and texting with patients
Source: Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“At February’s mHealth Initiative networking conference in pre-”snowpocalypse” Washington, Dr. Andrew Barbash, neurosciences director at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md., spoke of how he used Google Talk on his Motorola Droid smartphone to communicate by instant message (IM) and even video with fellow clinicians and to tap into the hospital’s EMR.
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Keeping pace
Source: LaReeca Rucker, Clarion-Ledger
“After realizing her brain sometimes failed to signal her heart to beat, Dr. David Mulholland, a cardiologist with the Jackson Heart Clinic, implanted a pacemaker in Cavin in 1999.
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European Commission: eHealth is a “growth machine” for Europe
Source: HealthTech Wire
“The European Commission continues to rank eHealth highly on its ICT agenda. Zoran Stancic, Deputy Director General of the European Commission’s DG INFSO, outlined the Commission’s current and future eHealth priorities during the opening session of the “Semana E-Health 2010” conference in Barcelona.
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Expert panel advises countries against becoming “e-isolated”; patients takes center stage in future healthcare
Source: HealthTech Wire
“In a panel discussion hosted by former Spanish Minister of Health Prof. Bernat Soria at eHealth Week 2010 in Barcelona, experts called for a patient-oriented approach to healthcare, stressing that we can no longer ignore the fact that the public has more access to technology than healthcare professionals.
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ICMCC 2010 Event Tutorials
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For the first time the ICMCC Event 2010 offers a day of tutorials.
There will be 2 tutorials, each scheduled to last 6 hours, for which can be registered independently from the rest of the event.
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Open Source in der Medizin?
Source: Dietmar Krause, Weblog Medizin IT und Telemedizin
“Einer Heise Meldung zu Folge möchte Medfoss.apfelkraut.org einen umfassenden und strukturierten Überblick über freie Software für das Gesundheitswesen geben.
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EHTEL calls for local action
Source: Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“The European Health Telematics Association has called for more regional and local level approaches to eHealth across Europe.
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Hospitals as Software Service Providers
Source: Carrie Vaughan, HealthLeaders Media
“It’s no secret that small physician groups and community hospitals are going to be hard-pressed to meet the meaningful use requirements in 2011. Not only do they lack resources—financial and workforce—to purchase, implement, maintain, and use these systems effectively, but their options for electronic medical record products are limited, as well.
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SCR opt-out letters would confuse
Source: Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“The risk that patients would misread opt-out forms for the Summary Care Record and send them to the wrong address has led to them being excluded from patient information packs, Connecting for Health has told GPs.
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Science/Reports
Science: Last 7 Days
Improve Office Efficiency by Putting Your Patients to Work: Patients’ Perspectives Regarding Online Self-service Appointment Scheduling in Family Practice (Part 3 of 3)
Source: Ludwick, Dave A., and John Doucette, ElectronicHealthcare, 8(4)
This case study is the third part of a three-part study examining the impact of an online appointment scheduling system on physician office scheduling. The purpose of the study was to understand patients’ experiences when booking appointments through an online appointment scheduling system. A 24-question patient survey gathered perspectives from registered adult patients who had booked by either channel from August 8, 2008, to February 28, 2009. The online scheduling system was used by 128 unique patients, while 1,831 booked by telephone. Of the respondents, 186 were aware of the system but had not booked online, 107 were not aware of the system and 105 had booked online.
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Health information technology: A new world for pharmacy
Source: Webster, Lisa, and Rachelle F. Spiro, Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 50(2)
Objectives:
To provide a health information technology (HIT) primer for pharmacists, including the current state of HIT, future expectations, basic information and vocabulary, HIT vendors, communication standards, barriers to implementation, and strategies for pharmacists to ensure success.
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Self-adaptive robot training of stroke survivors for continuous tracking movements
Source: Vergaro, Elena et al, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 7(1)
Background
Although robot therapy is progressively becoming an accepted method of treatment for stroke survivors, few studies have investigated how to adapt the robot/subject interaction forces in an automatic way. The paper is a feasibility study of a novel self-adaptive robot controller to be applied with continuous tracking movements.
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Widespread Adoption of Information Technology in Primary Care Physician Offices in Denmark: A Case Study
Source: Protti, Denis, and Ib Johansen, The Commonwealth Fund, 2010
Denmark is one of the world’s leading countries in the use of health care technology. Virtually all primary care physicians have electronic medical records with full clinical functionality. Their systems are also connected to a national network, which allows them to electronically send and receive clinical data to and from consultant specialists, hospitals, pharmacies, and other health care providers. Under the auspices of a nonprofit organization called MedCom, over 5 million clinical messages are transferred monthly.
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Reorganizing Adult Critical Care Delivery: The Role of Regionalization, Telemedicine and Community Outreach
Source: Nguyen, Yên Lan et al, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2010
Variation in the quality of critical care services across hospitals coupled with an emerging workforce crisis necessitate system-level change in the organization of intensive care. In this review, we evaluate three alternative organizational models that may expand access to high-quality critical care: tiered regionalization, intensive care unit telemedicine, and quality improvement through regional outreach. These models share a potential to increase survival and reduce costs. Yet there are also major barriers to implementation, including the lack of a strong evidence base and the need for significant upfront financial investment. Reorganization of intensive care will also require the support of all involved stakeholders: patients and their families, critical care practitioners, administrative and public health professionals and policy makers.
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The e-Network Solution for Mental Health and Addictions Information Management
Source: Wighton, Jan, ElectronicHealthcare, 8(3)
ConnexOntario Health Services Information’s genesis was over 18 years ago. Back then, it was known as the Drug and Alcohol Registry of Treatment (DART). At that time, it was – and remains today – an innovative initiative that acted as an e-network solution for mental health and addiction information management. Using state-of-the-art technology and professional information management standards, DART was designed to offer a form of electronic healthcare by way of resource matching and referral for those who were seeking treatment for substance abuse problems. DART was also designed as a means to help improve the alcohol and drug treatment system in Ontario by providing easily accessible, up-to-date and accurate data about the availability of those services.
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Innovation in ALC – Evaluation and Lessons Learned from a Pilot of Electronic Resource Matching and Referral to In-patient Rehab/CCC in an Acute Care Organization
Source: Mastouri, Negin et al, ElectronicHealthcare, 8(3)
Introduction:
One of the root causes for Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding stems from challenges with patient flow from acute to post-acute care institutions. Significant improvements to the referral process can be made by moving to an electronic Resource Matching and Referral (RM&R) system, which could be used to facilitate accessing accurate and consistent data relating to referral patterns, waitlists, response times, referral efficiencies, and gaps in programs/services.
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Improving Communication in Acute Trauma
Source: Juhra, Christian et al, ElectronicHealthcare, 8(3)
In 2008, approximately 4,500 people in Germany died in traffic accidents and around 71,000 people were badly injured. Altogether, yearly productivity loss caused by these injuries is estimated to be around 5 billion Euros. International and national studies revealed the trauma centre level of the primary hospital as the major predictor for trauma-related mortality. In 2006, the German Society for Trauma Surgery (DGU) called its members to form regionally based networks of hospitals engaged in trauma care. In April 2008, 45 hospitals in the north-west region of Germany, two hospitals from the Netherlands, and the local emergency services founded the “TraumaNetwork NorthWest (TNNW).” The major goals of these networks are: 1) To shorten the time between accident and admission to the appropriate hospital, 2) to create effective ways of communication, and 3) to implement common pre- and in-hospital standards for trauma care. In order to improve acute trauma care, we looked for new ways of communicating from hospital to hospital, as well as from emergency services to hospitals.
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CASE: a framework for computer supported outbreak detection
Source: Cakici, Baki et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10(1)
Background
In computer supported outbreak detection, a statistical method is applied to a collection of cases to detect any excess cases for a particular disease. Whether a detected aberration is a true outbreak is decided by a human expert. We present a technical framework designed and implemented at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control for computer supported outbreak detection, where a database of case reports for a large number of infectious diseases can be processed using one or more statistical methods selected by the user.
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Effects of Internet Use on Health and Depression: A Longitudinal Study
Source: Bessière, Katie et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(1)
Background:
The rapid expansion of the Internet has increased the ease with which the public can obtain medical information. Most research on the utility of the Internet for health purposes has evaluated the quality of the information itself or examined its impact on clinical populations. Little is known about the consequences of its use by the general population.
Objective:
Is use of the Internet by the general population for health purposes associated with a subsequent change in psychological well-being and health? Are the effects different for healthy versus ill individuals? Does the impact of using the Internet for health purposes differ from the impact of other types of Internet use?
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Security and Privacy Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare Applications
Source: Al Ameen, Moshaddique et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
The use of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in healthcare applications is growing in a fast pace. Numerous applications such as heart rate monitor, blood pressure monitor and endoscopic capsule are already in use. To address the growing use of sensor technology in this area, a new field known as wireless body area networks (WBAN or simply BAN) has emerged. As most devices and their applications are wireless in nature, security and privacy concerns are among major areas of concern.
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An Approach Towards Semantic Interoperability using Domain Models
Source: Heidenreich, Georg, and Pantelis Angelidis, electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 5(1)
This paper introduces so-called Domain models to support semantic interoperability of connected IT-systems. The focus of the paper is to motivate the combination of technical and informal specifications and to present a procedure of modelling independent IT-systems at the semantic level for the purpose of semantic interoperability.
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The Use of Standard Content Specifications in a National Health Interoperability Framework
Source: Heard, Sam, electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 5(1)
The openEHR community has developed a specification that has been taken up by the standards community and has this year been adopted as ISO 13606. The specification offers an engineering and semantic framework for implementing an electronic health record (EHR) service within a service-oriented architecture.
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Electronic Health Records, Semantic Interoperability and Politics
Source: Hovenga, Evelyn J.S., and Sebastian Garde, electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 5(1)
An opinion paper exploring links between sustainable health systems, electronic health records, semantic interoperability, standards and national e-health strategies. It provides a rationale for why there needs to be a paradigm shift in thinking and explains the need for adopting a set of technical standards and establishing a supporting national infrastructure.
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Putting Health Record Interoperability Standards to Work
Source: Atalag, Koray et al, electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 5(1)
This paper provides a snapshot of the current interoperability standards landscape and investigates how different standards are adopted in different jurisdictions. The aim is to provide useful insights for decision makers by looking from a wider angle to include political, social and business drivers rather than taking a purely technical approach. Semantic interoperability, which is a major bottleneck to achieving eHealth systemic interoperability, is dependent on terminology, content and messaging standards. In particular, the architectural aspects of content and messaging standards seem to be critical and currently the subject of many heated debates. A considerable amount of effort into international harmonisation is underway and evidence shows that it may be possible to use different standards and yet still be able to accomplish semantic interoperability.
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How breast cancer patients want to search for and retrieve information from stories of other patients on the internet: an online randomized controlled experiment
Source: Overberg, Regina et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(1)
Background: Other patients’ stories on the Internet can give patients information, support, reassurance, and practical advice.
Objectives: We examined which search facility for online stories resulted in patients’ satisfaction and search success.
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Recent Reports
Clinical portal and telehealth development in NHS Scotland
Source:
“1. In December 2009, the Health and Sport Committee undertook a short inquiry into the development of clinical portal technology and telehealth across the NHS in Scotland. The aim of this inquiry was to examine the current pace of development in the use of such technology as a means of delivering a more efficient, responsive and patient-centred health service.
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Achieving Efficiency Improvements in the Health Sector through the Implementation of Information and Communication Technologies
Source: OECD
“This report presents an analysis of OECD countries’ efforts to implement information and communication technologies (ICTs) in health care systems. It provides advice on the range of policy options, conditions and practices that policy makers can adapt to their own national circumstances to accelerate adoption and effective use of these technologies.
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Healthcare Leaders Speak Up on Where They are in the EHR Adoption Process. A New Study from Beacon Partners.
Source: Beacon Partners
In February, 2010, executives from 168 healthcare organizations in the U.S. participated in a study conducted by healthcare management consulting firm Beacon Partners for the purpose of taking the pulse on where hospitals are today in adopting EHRs.
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Value of Electronic Health Records
Source: HIMSS Vantage Point
A number of recent articles have addressed the challenges that exist with implementing electronic medical records (EMRs). This research suggests about half of survey respondents identify either the installation process or the complexities of the EMR technology as the top challenge. Presently about one-quarter of respondent noted that their EMR implementation has exceeded or vastly exceeded expectations.
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Reconstructing the Whole: Present and Future of Personal Health Systems
Source: Cristiano Codagnone, PHS2020
“The book envisages the research themes needed to be funded and pursued in the future in order to infuse PHS with bio-medical knowledge, produce more intelligent data processing in support of decision making and actuation
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Getting Patients to Meaningful Use Using the HL7 “Infobutton” Standard for Information Prescriptions
Source: Don Kemper et al, Healthwise
Imagine—anytime you have a health care question, face a treatment decision, or need to learn a new self-management skill, all of the tools you need are presented before you in a tailored, personalized, and easy-to-use way.
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Déploiement des systèmes de téléradiologie – Panorama des initiatives en région et recommandations
Source: l'ASIP
Par un courrier de décembre 2008 adressé aux directeurs d’Agences Régionales d’Hospitalisation (ARH), Madame la ministre de la santé et des sports informait de sa décision de flécher une partie des ressources d’investissements du plan « Hôpital 2012 » sur le déploiement de systèmes de téléradiologie en région, en vue notamment de traiter plus efficacement les cas d’accidents vasculaires cérébraux (AVC).
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Always On, Always Connected – How Technology Will Transform the Future of Chronic Care
Source: Accenture
“Focused on a growing aging population well-versed in technology, ”connected health“—continuous, remote monitoring of chronic conditions, as well as online and mobile care—will improve quality, contain costs and provide a new level of convenience for health consumers.
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Vital Signs via Broadband
Source: Robert E. Litan, Better Health Care Together
“For the millions of people around the world who have embraced the Internet, the transformational effects of modern communications technologies are well known. Using search engines to access information, attending classes and college lectures online, conducting financial transactions and shopping, and enjoying music, video and games over the Internet are increasingly routine. But other Internet-based activities have yet to reach their full potential; among the most significant is telemedicine – the use of modern communications to deliver a wide range of health care to patients at locations that are physically distant from the caregiver.
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Telepsychiatry in the Emergency Department: Overview and Case Studies
Source: Mike Williams, Michael Pfeffer, Juliana Boyle, Donald M. Hilty for CHCF
“Patients who present in the emergency department (ED) with mental health issues often encounter long delays before being evaluated and admitted, transferred, or discharged. Arranging appropriate evaluation for these patients often disproportionately affects the operation of the ED, particularly in terms of space and staffing.
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Latest
- Smartphones and the future of wireless medicine
KevinMD.com
8 March 2010
- How Computers are Ruining the Doctor’s Office and Harming Doctor-Patient Relations – Rick Payne
jpantuso, Ignite
7 March 2010
- Open Source and EHR Certification | a Perficient Interview with Brian Ahier
Liza Sisler, Perficient
5 March 2010
Conceptual Changes: Data in a Cleaninghouse
Lodewijk Bos, 22 February 2010
We thought it would be all over. And as was published today, it isn’t, we still dump paper medical records. We thought we would stop loosing records in the mail or grabbing the wrong pile of documents. Not so. There are still many, too many places where records are kept physically, on paper, in cupboards.
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Observations 3 February 2010: Questions
Lodewijk Bos, 3 February 2010
I come across hundreds of news items a day when selecting the ones that should be posted on the ICMCC Newspage. And sometimes these articles raise questions.
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Guest: If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care
e-patient Dave. ICMCC, 20 January 2010
Back in September, Jonathan Rauch of the National Journal wrote a terrific (fact-based!) send-up of our archaic, arcane, not-customer-centric healthcare system, titled “If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care.” I wish I’d known about it then, but I only learned of it recently, because a couple called “The New Altons” have made a great home-brew video of it, and posted it in YouTube.
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ICMCC News
For the first time the ICMCC Event 2010 offers a day of tutorials.
There will be 2 tutorials, each scheduled to last 6 hours, for which can be registered independently from the rest of the event.
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We are happy to announce the new ICMCC Science Pages.
Details about the ICMCC Event 2010 Programme will be announced early March.
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