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Incorporating intelligent risk detection to enable superior decision support: the example of orthopaedic surgeries
by: Hoda Moghimi, Hossein Zadeh, Jonathan Schaffer and Nilmini Wickramasinghe.
Towards an avatar mentor framework to support physical and psychosocial treatments
by: P. Fergus, A. El Rhalibi, C. Carter and S. Cooper.
Electrooculogram based study to assess the effects of prolonged eye fixation on autonomic responses and its possible implication in man-machine interface
by: Aggarwal Y, Singh N and Sinha RK.

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CALL FOR CHAPTER – Lean Thinking in Healthcare
Nilmini Wickramasinghe, RMIT University

CALL FOR CHAPTER
Lean Thinking in Healthcare
Edited by Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Latif Al-Hakim, Chris Gonzalez and Joseph Tan

INTRODUCTION

Lean thinking aims to substantially smooth flows and drastically reduce waste and process variations. The application of lean requires looking to the system as “sociotechnical” system in which human factor engineering and technology plays the central role. The ‘sociotechnical’ aspect of lean production has been enhanced through introducing five principles (i.e., value, value stream, flow, pull and perfection) within which the customer value and waste reduction are the cores of the lean system. Literature emphasises that lean thinking provides four main benefits; improved quality and safety, improved delivery, improved throughput – the same resources with higher efficiency, and accelerating momentum – A stable working environment with clear, standardised procedures creates the foundations for constant improvement.
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Last 2 Days

10 Best Practices for Implementing Telemedicine in Hospitals

Source: Sabrina Rodak, Becker's Orthopedic, Spine & Pain Management

“Telemedicine and telehealth have the potential to increase access to care, improve quality of care and decrease costs. For instance, the American Telemedicine Association proposed legislation that would expand telemedicine and save an estimated $186 million over the next 10 years.
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28 January 2012 | No Comments »
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5 dos and don’ts of EHR interface design

Source: Michelle McNickle, Healthcare IT News

“Sometimes, small tweaks can make a big difference, and according to Bob Hunchberger, a clinical informaticist for a 500-bed hospital, that couldn’t be truer when it comes to your EHR.
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AMA lobbies for ICD-10 delay

Source: Ron Shinkman, FierceHealthIT

“The American Medical Association has sent a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner asking his help in halting the implementation of the ICD-10 coding system, reported The Hill’s Healthwatch and iHealthBeat.
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28 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Researchers analyze doctor-patient email interactions

Source: MedicalXpress

“Many working professionals wouldn’t want to imagine what their job would be like without email. However, many physicians go about their profession with little or no email communication with patients.
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28 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Social Media: Healthcare Privacy Tips

Source: Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security

“The privacy risks involved in using social media in healthcare can be minimized through innovative staff education, says risk management expert Paul Anderson.
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
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HIMSS: Vendor-neutral archive can solve PACS problems

Source: Evan Godt, CMIO

“Implementation of a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) solves most of the problems associated with PACS, can save money over the long term and can prepare an enterprise to participate in a health information exchange (HIE)
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
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‘Opt-in’ will undermine e-health records: AMA

Source: Chloe Herrick, Computerworld

“The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has continued to lobby the government to change its $466.7 million e-health record system to an “opt-out” model, arguing that the current “opt-in” model will undermine the system’s health improvement objectives.
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Report: Electronic health records still need work

Source: CBS News

“America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system’s conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue.
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U.S. Military developing high-tech “smart” underwear for soldiers

Source: The Himalayan Times

“When you think of the latest and most powerful military technology you might imagine smart bullets that can bend around corners or advanced stealth technology that can render a soldier virtually invisible, but underwear? Probably not, but that is exactly what the U.S. military is adding to its seemingly endless arsenal.
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Study indicates type 2 diabetes patients could receive improved care with EMR

Source: LawrenceG, Microwize Technology

“Under the HITECH Act, individual physicians and small medical facility managers who can illustrate “meaningful use” through their deployment of electronic medical records software are eligible for thousands of dollars in federal funding.
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
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ONC puts spotlight on mobile security

Source: Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News

“ONC’s Office of the Chief Privacy Officer (OCPO) recently launched a Privacy & Security Mobile Device project, and is at work achieving its stated goals.
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AMA Asks Speaker Boehner to Kill ICD-10

Source: Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News

“The American Medical Association is asking House Speaker John Boehner to help stop implementation of the ICD-10 code sets and call on the industry to assess an appropriate replacement for ICD-9, The Hill newspaper reports.
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Health IT challenge to improve care transitions for hospital-discharge patients

Source: Brian Ahier, Ahier.net

“The i2 Initiative is a bold new effort to spur innovations in health IT. The program utilizes prizes and challenges to facilitate innovation and obtain solutions to intractable health IT problems.
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Five key considerations for healthcare facilities before moving to the cloud

Source: James Whitemore, mHIMSS

“But what does that really mean for healthcare facilities? Do you now need to abandon your current technology investment and move it to the cloud? If you don’t perform a complete rip-and-replace right now, do you risk being left behind and losing market share to more cloud-savvy competitors?
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The Internet is where patients go for pre-visit consultations

Source: Mark Britton, Kevin MD

“As a physician, technology cannot replace you, but it can make you more efficient and effective.
This was the message from Richard Satava, MD, who spoke on the future of surgical technology at the recent Seattle Surgical Society Annual Meeting.
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Use EHRs to avoid unnecessary care

Source: Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR

“Electronic health records can do more than identify which patients should be receiving preventive and other additional services. They can also help providers pinpoint who shouldn’t receive care.
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How HIEs are Evolving in 2012

Source: Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers

“The idea has been that these HIEs would knit different ambulatory practices together, giving physicians using disparate Electronic Health Records systems a common place to exchange clinical data with each other – at first, it would simply be the summary data (problem lists, medication lists, allergies, immunizations, and lab results) that could be encoded in standard-format transport files (CCDs or CCRs). More robust full-document exchange of complete chart notes, imaging files, etc., would come later.
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Previous News Posts

Leveraging the frugal innovations of mobile health

Source: Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews

“In addition to fulfilling unmet needs and improving health outcomes, lowering the costs associated with healthcare has long been a goal for many working in mobile health.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Nuance talks bringing Watson, Siri-like tech to medicine

Source: Brendon Nafziger, DOTmed News

“A doctor is about to prescribe an antibiotic, but is a bit worried it might interact with an antidepressant her patient is currently taking, Wellbutrin. So, what does she do? It’s possible, in the near future, she might simply pull out her phone and ask it.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Encouraging HIV testing through SMS

Source: Joseph Kim, MedicalSmartphones

“South Africa has one of the highest human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence rates in the world, but despite the well-established benefits of HIV counseling and testing (HCT), there is low uptake of HCT.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Guide to Scale and Sustainability in mHealth: Moving Past Pilot Projects

Source: Rick Doerr, GBI Portal

“A white paper release by the Advanced Development for Africa (ADA) last month laid out the necessary steps to scale mHealth projects in the developing world. Its goal was to provide governments, donors, and the private sector with the essential knowledge to push mHealth from pilot projects to scalable and sustainable solutions.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Smartphones becoming essential tool at nursing schools

Source: Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews

“Last week we noted that Massachusetts General Hospital had tapped Voalte to distribute iPhones to its nurses. This week the New York Times also published a feature on how smartphones have become increasingly essential tools for students at nursing schools. The Times discussed the trend with a handful of professors and students at nursing schools across the country.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Could texting patients reduce hospital readmissions? Thinking through an innovation

Source: Nancy Fliesler, Vector

“Your child has been in the hospital and it’s discharge day. It’s a chaotic scene: You’re trying to take care of him and maybe his little sister who keeps running down the hall, while completing hospital paperwork and packing your bags.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Quantified Self + Motivational Hacks = The Programmable Self

Source: Fred Trotter, Forbes

“There are several potential “motivation hacks” that people regularly employ. The simplest of these is peer pressure. You could tell all of your co-workers every morning whether you kept your diet last night, for instance. Lots of research has shown that sort of thing is an effective motivator for change.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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PCEHR: What really went wrong

Source: Charles Wright, eHealthCentral

“Anyone with the slightest idea of large-scale software development would have been staggered by the surpassing silliness contained in yesterday’s piece in the Medical Observer, in which “ehealth consultant” David More trots out his analysis of the problem which has brought the desktop software side of the PCEHR project to a temporary halt.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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OpenNotes project allows patients easy access to their medical records

Source: Cory Schultz, iMedicalApps

“Recording notes about a patient is standard practice among physicians and has often left patients curious about what is written down about them.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Would National Patient Identifiers Work?

Source: Anne Zieger, EMR and EHR

“Right now, healthcare organizations have to go through some pretty tricky maneuvers to link patient data across varied systems and settings. It’s possible to connect patient info electronically through database hacks, but more often than not, matching patients to clinical data gets done by hand.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Call for new records standards body

Source: Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Acute

“Health and social care organisations have called for a new body to be set up to develop clinical record standards to support the development of electronic health records.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Patient Portals an EHR Necessity

Source: Ron Sterling, HITECHAnswers

“Patient portals facilitate the exchange of information between patients and physician practices. What was once considered a nice option for your EHR is becoming a necessity.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
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NEHTA Is Offensively Silent On Just What The Problems Are With The PCEHR. I Wonder Just Why That Is?

Source: David More, Australian Health Information Technology

“So just where are the technical details of what is wrong, how long it has been present, what is needed to fix it, and so on.
This is a public organisation that is basically saying ‘up-yours’ to the Clinical Health IT Community and the public in general.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Cloud Security in the Medical Imaging Environment

Source: Erica Carnevale, HealthWorks Collective

“Using the cloud requires turning over responsibility for data security and privacy to a third party—and that can be a concern for healthcare providers.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Six Questions to Consider About Merging a CCD

Source: Rob Brull, HL7 Standards

“Several questions can arise when considering whether to parse the data of a CCD document from a remote facility and merge it into the local EHR. HIEs are spurring increased emphasis on the use of CCD documents to exchange information among facilities, so it would be ideal to have consistent practices regarding the merging of the received data into the existing EHR.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Un robot asistencial permite la telerrehabilitación de pacientes que han sufrido un ictus

Source: Sanitario 2000

“El centro de investigación Tecnalia ha presentado en el Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe (Valencia) su nuevo dispositivo robótico para la rehabilitación de pacientes que han sufrido un ictus que está siendo evaluado por el Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Korean research, a first step toward Dr. Smartphone?

Source: Reuters

“Tired of long waits at the hospital for medical tests? If Korean researchers have their way, your smartphone could one day eliminate that — and perhaps even tell you that you have cancer.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
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New think tank wants government to see gold in health technology

Source: Olga Khazan, The Washington Post

“A new think tank launched in the District Monday with the goal of reducing the cost of health care through research and entrepreneurship. The West Health Policy Center is the latest project of Gary and Mary West, the two billionaire philanthropists behind the West Wireless Health Institute and the West Health Investment Fund, a pair of California-based organizations that develop and fund health technology products.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Patients Medical Record Posted to Facebook – HIPAA Violation

Source: John, EMR and HIPAA

“I’ve generally been writing more about the EMR side of EMR and HIPAA lately. For the most part, it seems readers are more interested in EMR and EHR than they are in the details of HIPAA.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Démarrage du Programme “DMP en Région” le 13 Janvier 2012

Source: Esante.gouv.fr

“Trois régions « Amorçage » ont apporté leur témoignage : retour d’expérience et approches marketing déployés en Alsace, Aquitaine et Picardie, pour accompagner les établissements et professionnels de santé au DMP.
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Science/Reports

Science: Last 7 Days

Cell Phone-Based and Internet-Based Monitoring and Evaluation of the National Antiretroviral Treatment Program During Rapid Scale-Up in Rwanda: TRACnet, 2004-2010

Source: Nsanzimana S et al, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 59(2)

BACKGROUND
Monitoring and evaluation of antiretroviral treatment (ART) scale-up has been challenging in resource-limited settings. We describe an innovative cell-phone-based and internet-based reporting system (TRACnet) utilized in Rwanda.

METHODS
From January 2004 to June 30, 2010, all health facilities with ART services submitted standardized monthly aggregate reports of key indicators. National cohort data were analyzed to examine trends in characteristics of patients initiating ART and cumulative cohort outcomes. Estimates of HIV-infected patients eligible for ART were obtained from Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (Estimation and Projection Package-Spectrum, 2010).
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Use of electronic health record data to evaluate overuse of cervical cancer screening

Source: Mathias JS et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2012

Background
National organizations historically focused on increasing use of effective services are now attempting to identify and discourage use of low-value services. Electronic health records (EHRs) could be used to measure use of low-value services, but few studies have examined this. The aim of the study was to: (1) determine if EHR data can be used to identify women eligible for an extended Pap testing interval; (2) determine the proportion of these women who received a Pap test sooner than recommended; and (3) assess the consequences of these low-value Pap tests.MethodsElectronic query of EHR data identified women aged 30-65 years old who were at low-risk of cervical cancer and therefore eligible for an extended Pap testing interval of 3 years (as per professional society guidelines). Manual chart review assessed query accuracy.
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Assessment of Software Maintainability of openEHR Based Health Information Systems – A Case Study In Endoscopy

Source: Atalag K et al, electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 7(1)

Maintaining health information systems over time requires significant effort and time. This is especially marked in clinical information systems where most, if not all, functional software requirements are dependent on healthcare concepts and processes which are prone to high rate of change. Software engineering literature indicates that maintenance tasks alone may constitute 70-80% of the total development cost. It has been suggested that openEHR based systems will effectively tackle this by separating domain knowledge from software code. The objective of this paper is to assess the maintainability of an openEHR based clinical application with comparison to another application based on the same functional requirements but implemented using traditional development methods.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Efficacy of a text messaging (SMS) based smoking cessation intervention for adolescents and young adults: Study protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial

Source: Haug S et al, BMC Public Health, 12(1)

BACKGROUND:
Particularly in groups of adolescents with lower educational level the smoking prevalence is still high and constitutes a serious public health problem. There is limited evidence of effective smoking cessation interventions in this group. Individualised text messaging (SMS) based interventions are promising to support smoking cessation and could be provided to adolescents irrespective of their motivation to quit. The aim of the current paper is to outline the study protocol of a trial testing the efficacy of an SMS based intervention for smoking cessation in apprentices.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Automating classification of free-text electronic health records for epidemiological studies

Source: Schuemie MJ et al, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 2012

PURPOSE:
Increasingly, patient information is stored in electronic medical records, which could be reused for research. Often these records comprise unstructured narrative data, which are cumbersome to analyze. The authors investigated whether text mining can make these data suitable for epidemiological studies and compared a concept recognition approach and a range of machine learning techniques that require a manually annotated training set. The authors show how this training set can be created with minimal effort by using a broad database query.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Legal Regulations on Electronic Health Records: A Prerequisite or an Unavoidable By-Product? – The Legal Aspects of Electronic Health Records in Europe and the US Analysed

Source: Dumortier J, Verhenneman G. SSRN, 2011

This chapter critically analyzes the legal and regulatory framework for Electronic Health Records in Europe and the US. At both parts of the world, the development of EHRs is evolving quickly, but many different approaches have proven possible. Different approaches resulted in different EHR solutions and different regulatory instruments. In Europe governmental bodies have been the driving force behind the development and implementation of EHRs. Consequently many European countries established a new legal framework simultaneously with the roll-out of government-initiated eHealth structures.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
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A Touchscreen as a Biomolecule Detection Platform

Source: Won BY, Park HG. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 51(3)

Touchscreen testing: A biomolecular detection platform is presented that utilizes a capacitive touchscreen to measure DNA concentration.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
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How much of a social media profile can doctors have?

Source: McCartney M. BMJ, 344

Professionalism and social media can be an uneasy mix. In the police force, Freedom of Information data have shown that, in the past four years, two officers have been sacked, seven resigned, and over 150 been disciplined for placing “inappropriate” photographs or comments online. Nurses have been sacked after making comments about patients and colleagues online, posting photographs of themselves exposing their breasts while in uniform, and putting pictures of patients online.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
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The Effectiveness of Implementing an Electronic Health Record on Diabetes Care and Outcomes

Source: Herrin J et al, Health Services Research, 2012

Objective
To assess the impact of electronic health record (EHR) implementation on primary care diabetes care.

Data Sources
Charts were abstracted semi-annually for 14,051 diabetes patients seen in 34 primary care practices in a large, fee-for-service network from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2010. The study sample was limited to patients aged 40 years or older.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
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White Paper on e-Health Adoption

Source: Newsham D et al, ElectronicHealthcare, 10(3)

Significant progress is being made in the clinical adoption of electronic records in hospitals, regions, clinics, communities and jurisdictions across Canada. The goal of such adoption is to enable continuing improvements in patient care quality, safety and effectiveness at a time when the healthcare system faces increasing performance, capacity and sustainability pressures. We know that transformative changes involving the implementation of new information systems and technologies do not occur overnight – adoption is a journey and the realization of the full benefits of our investments will require sustained effort, innovation and continuous learning for health informatics professionals along with our clinical colleagues.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Enabling international adoption of LOINC through translation

Source: Vreeman DJ et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2012

Interoperable health information exchange depends on adoption of terminology standards, but international use of such standards can be challenging because of language differences between local concept names and the standard terminology. To address this important barrier, we describe the evolution of an efficient process for constructing translations of LOINC terms names, the foreign language functions in RELMA, and the current state of translations in LOINC. We also present the development of the Italian translation to illustrate how translation is enabling adoption in international contexts. We built a tool that finds the unique list of LOINC Parts that make up a given set of LOINC terms.
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23 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Ruby Implementation of the OpenEHR Specifications

Source: Kobayashi S, Tatsukawa A. Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, 16(1)

The openEHR project has developed specifications for future-proof interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. This project provides the specifications and implementation on which the ISO/CEN 13606 standards are based. The implementation has been formally described in Eiffel, C# and Java, but not in scripting languages (which are popular because of their higher efficiency and faster development).
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23 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Build It, and Will They Come? Unexpected Findings From a Study on a Web-Based Intervention to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening

Source: Fleisher L et al, Journal of Health Communication, 17(1)

Given the extensive use of the Internet for health information, Web-based health promotion interventions are widely perceived as an effective communication channel. The authors conducted this study to determine use of a Web-based intervention intended to improve colorectal cancer screening in a population of women who are at average risk and noncompliant to current screening recommendations. The study was a randomized controlled trial designed to compare the effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening educational materials delivered using the Internet versus a printed format. In 3 years, 391 women seen for routine obstetrics/gynecology follow-up at 2 academic centers provided relevant survey information. Of these, 130 were randomized to the Web intervention.
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22 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Science Articles Archive

Recent Reports

Key Enabling Technologies for the Transformation of Healthcare in Western Europe: Virtualization and IT as a Service

Source: TECchannel

“Virtualisierung und die Service-basierte Bereitstellung von IT-Anwendungen und Storage bilden auch im Gesundheitswesen die IT-Basistechnologien. Mit diesen erreicht man funktionale, operative und geschäftliche Effizienz.
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24 January 2012 | No Comments »
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mHealth: New Horizons for Health Through Mobile Technologies

Source: Patricia Mechael, Nadi Kaonga, Hima Batavia, Lilia Perez-Chavolla, WHO

“For the first time the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) has sought to determine the status of mHealth in Member States; its 2009 global survey contained a section specifically devoted to mHealth. Completed by 114 Member States, the survey documented for analysis four aspects of mHealth: adoption of initiatives, types of initiatives, status of evaluation, and barriers to implementation.
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6 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Mobile Applications for the Health Sector

Source: Christine Zhenwei Qiang, Masatake Yamamichi, Vicky Hausman and Daniel Altman

“M-health—the use of mobile applications for healthcare—is a young and dynamic field that could improve the well-being of people around the world. Mobile applications can lower costs and improve the quality of healthcare as well as shift behavior to strengthen prevention, all of which can improve health outcomes over the long term. As an intersection of health, technology, and finance, m-health is also a complex industry where it can be difficult to develop sustainable business models.
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6 January 2012 | No Comments »
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Whole system demonstrator programme

Source: Department of Health

“The Whole System Demonstrator programme was set up by the Department of Health to show just what telehealth and telecare is capable of.
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12 December 2011 | No Comments »
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Call to Action on Global eHealth Evaluation

Source: The Bellagio eHealth Evaluation Group

“Addressing global health challenges requires a sound understanding of the different social, political, economic and environmental factors influencing complex health systems, and exploring appropriate and innovative means to treat disease and promote individual and public health. eHealthcan help realize health gains and contribute toward transformational health system changewhenpolicies and implementationsare informed by rigorous and focused evaluation.
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27 October 2011 | No Comments »
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Do EHRs Increase Liability?

Source: Larry Ozeran, Mark R. Anderson, ACGroup

“Health Information Technology (HIT) has a history dating back almost 50 years to its origins in bioinformatics. The earliest HIT pioneers considered how best to encode and store information about patient treatment, but were limited primarily to basic science research projects or managing patients in their own institutions.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
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Assessing the Impact of Integrated Personal Health and Care Services: The Need for Modelling

Source: Cristiano Codagnone, Ioannis Maghiros, David Broster, Francisco Lupiañez, Maria Lluch, JRC

“This report contains the main findings of the scoping and exploratory research carried out in the course of 2010 by the SIMPHS research team (part of the TIESC Action within the Information Society Unit at IPTS1) on the broadly defined issue of assessing the micro and macro impact of Integrated Personal Health and Social Care Services (IPHS, see infra § 1.1 for the definition). SIMPHS, which stands for Strategic Intelligence Monitor of Personal Health Systems, is a three-year project collaboration between IPTS and Unit H1 (ICT for Health) of the European Commission’s Directorate General Information Society.
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4 October 2011 | No Comments »
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Social Media Report: Q3 2011

Source: Nielsen

“Social media’s popularity continues to grow, connecting people with just about everything they watch and buy.
The latest Nielsen insights provide some answers on exactly how powerful this influence is on consumer behavior, both online and off.
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Empowering Individuals through their Immunization Records

Source: Michael L. Popovich, Deborah Allwes, STC

“Despite the promise of better healthcare through information-centric patient empowerment, little progress has been made. The issue is not that the data do not exist in a useable form, or that technologies that would enable access to this information are lacking. There are two primary challenges standing in the way of patient empowerment: (1) in the private sector there is no proven revenue model for providing this access, and (2) in the public sector the standard barrier is confidentiality of information, the possibility of misinterpretation, and existing policies.
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Doctors, Patients & Social Media

Source: Mary Modahl, Lea Tompsett, Tracey Moorhead, QuantiaMD

“Physicians are highly engaged with online networks and social media. Nearly 90% of physicians use at least one site for personal use, and over 65% for professional purposes. Overall, clinicians express significant interest in the potential applications of social media to their professions – whether via online physician communities, online patient communities or sites that could facilitate physician-patient interactions.
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Bill Crounse, Healthblog
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Apps for Autism
Lesley Stahl, CBS News
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CALL FOR CHAPTER – Lean Thinking in Healthcare
Nilmini Wickramasinghe, RMIT University, 5 January 2012

CALL FOR CHAPTER
Lean Thinking in Healthcare
Edited by Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Latif Al-Hakim, Chris Gonzalez and Joseph Tan

INTRODUCTION

Lean thinking aims to substantially smooth flows and drastically reduce waste and process variations. The application of lean requires looking to the system as “sociotechnical” system in which human factor engineering and technology plays the central role. The ‘sociotechnical’ aspect of lean production has been enhanced through introducing five principles (i.e., value, value stream, flow, pull and perfection) within which the customer value and waste reduction are the cores of the lean system. Literature emphasises that lean thinking provides four main benefits; improved quality and safety, improved delivery, improved throughput – the same resources with higher efficiency, and accelerating momentum – A stable working environment with clear, standardised procedures creates the foundations for constant improvement.
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ICMCC Guest Post: 3 Implementations of RFID in Healthcare
Darren Terpstra, 28 October 2011

RFID is quickly becoming a household subject in today’s technological world. You can’t seem to go anywhere without running into some form of it. Whether it is re-branded as NFC (Near Field Communication) as with the Google Wallet, passive RFID tags such as those used in many libraries, or active RFID tags being used for intruder resistant doggy doors, we are seeing more and more RFID technology in our everyday lives.
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Juggling Numbers
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC, 20 October 2011

As our regular visitors know, the ICMCC News Page provides you with recent news on Health Information Technology. And with an average of more than 2,500 unique visitors per day from over 150 countries the News Page is one of the best viewed news sources. So we provide a preview from and links to work from others. And we rarely comment. And if we do so, our blog is used.

Today I came across an article that made me somewhat uneasy. It happens sometimes when numbers are involved (see this reaction from 2 years ago).
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2010 in Numbers

ICMCC Website in 2010

Unique visitors: 134,278.
Visits: 3,881,356.
Pageviews: 8,328,098.
Hits: 10,410,476.

Since 1 January 2007:
Visits: 5,008,283.
Pageviews: 14,173,004.
Hits: 19,628,750.

 

Healthy and Prosperous 2011

ICMCC wishes all our website visitors (almost 134,000 in 2010) a healthy and prosperous 2011.

 

Stats

December 2011
29,826 unique visitors.
406,456 visits.
924,204 pageviews.
1,098,968 hits.

In 2011:
Total  unique visitors: 205,961.
Visits: 5,070,545.
Pageviews: 11,397,492.
Hits: 15,030,201.

Since 1 January 2007:
Visits: 10,099,772.
Pageviews: 25,818,165.
Hits: 33,491,819.
Average unique visitors per month in 2007: 3,880
Average unique visitors per month in 2008: 6,750+
Average unique visitors per month in 2009: 11,876 (average Jan-Nov)
Average unique visitors per month in 2010: 16,530
Average unique visitors per month in 2011: 24,680
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