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Now available:
Handbook of Digital Homecare – Successes and Failures
Bos L, Dumay A, Goldschmidt L, Verhenneman, G. Yogesan K, Editors
Future Visions on Biomedicine and Bioinformatics
A Liber Amicorum in Memory of Swamy Laxminarayan. Part 1; Part 2
Bos L, Carroll D, Kun L, Marsh A, Roa L.M, Editors
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Health and Techology
The Volume 2 Number 1 has been published
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The LITIS conceptual framework: measuring eHealth readiness and adoption dynamics across the Healthcare Organizations
by: Oscar Tamburis, Massimo Mangia, Mariangela Contenti, Gregorio Mercurio and Angelo Rossi Mori
What patients want: relevant health information technology for diabetes self-management
by: Diane K. King, Deborah J. Toobert, Jennifer Dickman Portz, Lisa A. Strycker and Alyssa Doty, et al.
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Latest Blog
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
I am not a US citizen, so I can’t officially react to the latest news from the US patient access front nor put my opinion on the “protest page“. What is going on. First see this post from the Healthcare IT News and following see the post my friend e-Patient Dave wrote about it.
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Supported Calls
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
Editors: Lodewijk Bos, Rajeev K Bali, M Chris Gibbons and Simon Ibell
(publisher: Springer)
Purpose
Orphan diseases are serious and rare disorders for which, given their rarity, medical research is very limited. They are diseases which have not been adopted by the pharmaceutical industry because they provide little financial incentive to treat or prevent it. An orphan disease (usually a rare disease) has no universal definition with numbers often adjusted for the population sizes of countries (for example, orphan diseases are defined as affecting fewer than 7.5 cases per 10,000 individuals in the USA, fewer than 5 cases per 10,000 individuals in the EU and less than 6.5–10 in 10,000 from the WHO). It is estimated that 6,000-7,000 orphan diseases exist today; as medical knowledge continues to expand, this number is likely to become much greater. As a group, they have one thing in common: their rarity.
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News
Last 2 Days
Mayo Clinic’s first free patient app offers medical record access
Source: Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The Mayo Clinic offered up its first free mobile app for patients this week, according to a report over at MedCity News. While Mayo has more than a dozen apps in Apple’s AppStore for both the iPhone and the iPad, MedCity points out that none of those were free patient-facing apps — until now.
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Berwick: Meaningful Use still in its adolescence
Source: Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“The use of analytics in healthcare has potential, former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick, M.D. told HealthLeaders Media in a recent interview. According to Berwick, CMS trials with analytics adoption at Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratory showed success with regard to the use of predictive analytics for fraud prevention.
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On healthcare metadata and the Dublin Core
Source: John Moehrke, Government Health IT
“Metadata often results in meta discussions. Unfortunately these discussions are simply fun, and not productive.
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Embedded chips, GPS pacemakers, AI, Oh my — what’s in your health future?
Source: Arundhati Parmar, MedCity Devices
“Ten years ago, if anyone said that a multifunctional device would one day allow people to play a word game with anyone in the world as well as enable a doctor to get ECG data — many would simply say baloney.
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Electronic Prescribing: Where We Stand And Lessons For Policymakers
Source: Seth Joseph and Ken Majkowski, Health Affairs Blog
“Since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed in 2009, healthcare professionals, researchers, analysts and policy makers have been paying close attention to the up to $30 billion in incentives (EHR Incentive Program) for the adoption and meaningful use of certified electronic health records (EHR) technology.
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Is Better Technology Still The Future Of Healthcare?
Source: Jim Traficant, Forbes
“While the recent Supreme Court hearings were the biggest thing going on in U.S. healthcare, they weren’t the only thing. For years now, U.S. healthcare has been experiencing something of a revolution: Better technology and computer systems have radically improved the quality of healthcare. We now have electronic medical records, online referral and prescription systems, and seamless transfers of digital images between providers. The days of filling out the same patient form for each and every doctor visited is quickly becoming so 20th century.
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JAMIA: Why do some providers use HIEs and others not?
Source: Jeff Byers, CMIO
“Understanding end users’ perspectives towards health information exchange (HIE) technology is crucial to the long-term success of HIE, according to researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn., who developed an in-depth understanding of HIE usage by applying qualitative methods.
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Health and Digital Moms – getting underneath the hood of the Mobile Mom
Source: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Mom is the Chief Health Officer of her family, she’s mobile, and seeking health information and community on-the-go.
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New research disputes claims EHRs improve diabetes care
Source: Susan D. Hall, FierceEMR
“Contrary to previous research, the use of electronic health records failed to improve care for diabetic patients in a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine.
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Debate: Can mobile apps achieve what pills can’t?
Source: Susan D. Hall, FierceMobileHealthcare
“In a pair of point-counterpoint articles at Forbes, contributors Dave Chase and David Shaywitz face off on the question of whether mobile apps could someday be more effective than prescription drugs–a response to health app company Happtique’s plans to build a platform for physicians to “prescribe” apps to their patients.
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AMA claims it wants to delay ICD-10 implementation 2 years
Source: Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“The American Medical Association (AMA) says it wants the ICD-10 implementation date delayed to Oct. 1, 2015.
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“Rockstar of Science”, Eric Topol M.D. Talks The Creative Destruction of Medicine
Source: Herina Ayot, OneMedPlace
“Author of “The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Healthcare”, Dr. Eric Topol sits down with OneMedRadio to discuss the ideas and inspiration behind the book. Topol was selected as one of the 12 “Rock Stars of Science” by GQ and the Geoffrey Beene Foundation in 2009.He was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.
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‘Meaningful Use’ Compliance Slow
Source: Emily P. Walker, MedPage Today
“The medical system is undeniably morphing into a more electronic one, but many clinicians are still not ready for it, according to current and former government officials.
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Healthline Semantic Search Platform Gives Context to Health Care Data
Source: Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“Healthline Networks, which operates a health reference site called Healthline.com, has launched its Consumer Engagement Platform to enable health insurers and businesses to offer members and employees contextual searching of health data from electronic health records and medical claims.
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Drug Companies Are Testing Health Technology
Source: Zina Moukheiber, Forbes
“Drug companies are dipping into health technology—or at least skimming the surface. Bristol-Myers Squibb is a new player at this week’s Health 2.0 matchmaking conference which seeks to pair health technology start-ups with deep-pocketed partners.
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Previous News Posts
Elektronische overdracht zorgt voor grote tijdwinst
Source: Mark van Dorresteijn, Zorgvisie
“De elektronische overdracht (e-Overdracht) in de care levert ziekenhuizen en langdurige zorg een aanzienlijke tijdswinst op bij overdracht van patiënten en cliënten. Dat blijkt uit een inventarisatie van V&VN en Nictiz.
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AMA: Changes are needed in the stage 2 meaningful use EHR proposal
Source: Peter W. Carmel, KevinMD
“Continuing our efforts to move medicine forward while prioritizing patient care and minimizing administrative and financial burdens for physician practices, the American Medical Association (AMA) along with 100 state and specialty medical societies submitted a detailed comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Gamification of healthcare
Source: Richard J. Law, pharmaphorum
“Healthcare costs are rising to unsustainable levels across the world, particularly in developed countries, and even more markedly in the US. There is a dramatic worldwide shift from communicable to non-communicable disease.
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WHO seeks inputs for key disease database
Source: Pioneer News Service
“The World Health Organisation (WHO) in a maiden initiative has invited experts and users to contribute online to the development of its next version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) capturing mortality and morbidity data.
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Exploring the healthcare data mine
Source: Cornelia Wels-Maug, Technology Spectator
“The provision of healthcare is associated with the generation of ever-increasing amounts of data, the vast majority of it unstructured. Until recently, the focus of analytical software has been to scrutinise structured data, which only represents an estimated 10 to 20 per cent of generated medical data.New natural language processing (NLP) tools could be the key to analysing the masses of healthcare data that falls outside the capabilities of existing tools. IBM has launched a solution supporting the analysis of unstructured and structured medical data.
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Telemedicine, mHealth will connect with EHRs when providers are motivated
Source: Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“In a discussion at the recent American Telemedicine Association (ATA) conference, panelists bewailed the absence of electronic health record vendors from the meeting, according to a post in NHIN Watch.
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VA outlines protection of VLER data
Source: Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“The use of firewalls and increased encryption to protect data transmissions between various operational systems and warehouses are among several steps the Department of Veterans Affairs plans to take to safeguard patient data used in the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) program, according to a recent notice posted in the Federal Register.
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EHR Safety Concerns
Source: EHRScope
“A recent blog-fueled debate has fired up surrounding the overall effectiveness of EHR technology. While critics and supporters debate the benefits and costs of EHRs, some are talking about possible safety risks associated with the technology and infrastructure that has emerged within the past few years.
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Government Healthcare IT Dashboard from ONC
Source: John, EMR and HIPAA
“One movement that I and I’m sure many of you have seen unfolding by HHS and ONC in particular is what Todd Park calls Data Liberacion. As Todd Park has moved to CTO of the US, I expect he’s going to take the data liberation movement beyond healthcare.
The latest addition to the Healthcare Data Liberation movement by ONC is the Health IT Dashboard that was put up by ONC.
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Info exchange moves closer to center stage
Source: Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT The Health Record Review
“Increasingly, it seems, health IT policymakers, observers and vendors alike are turning to the topic of interoperability and information exchange.
For starters, this observer, anticipating the next Health 2.0 conference, says “in order to remain viable, developers must embrace interoperability.”
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7 common myths about data encryption
Source: Michelle McNickle, Healthcare IT News
“Although data encryption is becoming a valuable resource to protect against breached PHI, according to a new report by WinMagic Data Security, certain myths and misconceptions about it still exists.
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2012: About 62 percent of physicians use tablets
Source: Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“About 62 percent of physicians in the United States are now using tablets, according to the most recent data from Manhattan Research. Most of these physicians are using iPads and about half of all tablet-toting physicians use the devices at the point of care, the research firm found.
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SaaS EMRs gaining favor, says KLAS
Source: Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“More and more providers are taking software-as-a-service EMRs seriously, according to a new KLAS report. They’re intrigued by the systems’ lower price and easy maintenance, and reassured by advances in the security of cloud-based data storage.
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EMRs require better user-centered design
Source: Barbara J. Moore, KevinMD
“Healthcare IT News recently asked, “Do doctors have to be typists to get MU incentives?”
That question reminded me that given the many hours of unreimbursed labor performing EMR data entry at end of day, a significant chunk of a clinician’s workday is spent performing medical secretary services. Let me set the record straight, I am a good typist. But EMR data entry interfaces are often unnecessarily cumbersome, so clinicians put off the majority of data entry until end of day to avoid falling utterly behind schedule.
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Study: Calling all diabetic gamers!
Source: Jeff Byers, CMIO
“Get ready to add “gamification” to your latest buzzword toolkit. Researchers from Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Techna Institute, University Health Network in Toronto, found that using an mHealth diabetes application (app) with the use of gamification incentives showed an improvement in the frequency of blood glucose monitoring in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
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Prescribable Mobile Apps Huge Threat for Pharma
Source: Dave Chase, Forbes
“With the proliferation of mHealth apps, it was only a matter of time before healthcare providers would start prescribing apps as soon as apps proved to be as or more effective than prescription drugs. Happtique, a mobile health application store and app management solution startup will launch a trial of mRx™, the first program to enable physicians to prescribe mHealth apps to patients.
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Lessons From the UK NPfIT Debacle Still Being Learned
Source: Robert N. Charette, IEEE Spectrum
“The decision last year to finally cancel the UK’s National Program for IT (NPfIT) effort to implement a nation-wide integrated electronic health record (EHR) system because of its spiraling cost and complexity is looking better all the time. According to a recent story in Computer Weekly, roughly 60 percent of London National Health Service (NHS) hospital trusts are operating without IT disaster recovery systems in place.
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Not retiring at 65: Physician goes from anti-EHR to pro-ACO
Source: Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Jeffrey Selwyn, an internist at New Pueblo Medicine in Tucson, Ariz., is 65, but he says he’s nowhere near retiring. Unlike many docs his age who are throwing in the towel due to the increased pressures on physicians to use EHRs, Selwyn is excited. He wasn’t always a fan, however.
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EHRs can improve data quality
Source: QAS
“Meaningful Use is a set of criteria that healthcare providers must meet to ensure they are using electronic health records appropriately and efficiently. The second stage of Meaningful Use incorporates a physician’s ability to give patients access to their EHRs.
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Health Min to scrap electronic health records
Source: Prague Daily Monitor
“The IZIP patients’ e-health files project, subsidised by the state-controlled VZP insurer for ten years now and widely criticised as disadvantageous for the state, will be wound up, Prime Minister Petr Necas and Health Minister Leos Heger agreed on Thursday, Heger’s spokesman told CTK.
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Science/Reports
Science: Last 7 Days
Health information exchange technology on the front lines of healthcare: workflow factors and patterns of use
Source: Unertl KM et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 19(3)
Objective
The goal of this study was to develop an in-depth understanding of how a health information exchange (HIE) fits into clinical workflow at multiple clinical sites.
Materials and Methods
The ethnographic qualitative study was conducted over a 9-month period in six emergency departments (ED) and eight ambulatory clinics in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Data were collected using direct observation, informal interviews during observation, and formal semi-structured interviews. The authors observed for over 180 h, during which providers used the exchange 130 times.
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Effects of an online personal health record on medication accuracy and safety: a cluster-randomized trial
Source: Schnipper JL et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2012
Objective
To determine the effects of a personal health record (PHR)-linked medications module on medication accuracy and safety.
Design
From September 2005 to March 2007, we conducted an on-treatment sub-study within a cluster-randomized trial involving 11 primary care practices that used the same PHR. Intervention practices received access to a medications module prompting patients to review their documented medications and identify discrepancies, generating ‘eJournals’ that enabled rapid updating of medication lists during subsequent clinical visits.
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Achieving Meaningful Use of Health Information Technology – A Guide for Physicians to the EHR Incentive Programs
Source: Marcotte L et al, Archives of Internal Medicine, 172(9)
Over 30 000 clinicians have already qualified to receive initial incentive payments for the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) EHR Incentive Programs. However, 2012 is the final year to receive maximum incentive payments, and many physicians still have questions regarding meaningful use objectives and how to register for, report, and attest to meaningful use.
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Electronic health record-based surveillance of diagnostic errors in primary care
Source: Singh H et al, BMJ Quality and Safety, 21(2)
BACKGROUND
Diagnostic errors in primary care are harmful but difficult to detect. The authors tested an electronic health record (EHR)-based method to detect diagnostic errors in routine primary care practice.
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Design of an mHealth App for the Self-management of Adolescent Type 1 Diabetes: A Pilot Study
Source: Cafazzo JA et al, J Med Internet Res, 14(3)
BACKGROUND
The use of mHealth apps has shown improved health outcomes in adult populations with type 2 diabetes mellitus. However, this has not been shown in the adolescent type 1 population, despite their predisposition to the use of technology. We hypothesized that a more tailored approach and a strong adherence mechanism is needed for this group.
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Typical Electronic Health Record Use in Primary Care Practices and the Quality of Diabetes Care
Source: Crosson JC et al, The Annals of Family Medicine, 10(3)
PURPOSE
Recent efforts to encourage meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) assume that widespread adoption will improve the quality of ambulatory care, especially for complex clinical conditions such as diabetes. Cross-sectional studies of typical uses of commercially available ambulatory EHRs provide conflicting evidence for an association between EHR use and improved care, and effects of longer-term EHR use in community-based primary care settings on the quality of care are not well understood.
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Telemedicine: Technology mediated service relationship, encounter, or something else?
Source: LeRouge C et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2012
Purpose
Service interactions between service providers and health care consumers happen daily in health care organizations, and can occur face-to-face or through mediating technology. We use the demanding and rich environment of telemedicine to better understand the nature of the real time service-encounter interactions among the human and technology actors engaged in the process and to inform telemedicine providers about key factors to consider in telemedicine design.
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Recent Reports
Social media “likes” healthcare: From marketing to social business
Source: PWC
“Social media is changing the nature and speed of health care interaction between consumers and health organizations. This in-depth HRI report dives into what some of the largest health care companies are doing in and with social media.
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Sweden Health system review
Source: WHO
“Life expectancy in Sweden is high and the country performs well in comparisons related to disease-oriented indicators of health service outcomes and quality of care. The Swedish health system is committed to ensuring the health of all citizens and abides by the principles of human dignity, need and solidarity, and cost–effectiveness. The state is responsible for overall health policy, while the funding and provision of services lies largely with the county councils and regions. The municipalities are responsible for the care of older and disabled people.
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E-health in low- and middle-income countries: findings from the Center for Health Market Innovations
Source: Lewis T et al, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 90(5)
Health systems in low- and middle-income countries continue to face considerable challenges in providing high-quality, affordable and universally accessible care. In response, policy-makers, donors and programme implementers are searching for innovative approaches to eliminate the geographic and financial barriers to health.
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Turkey HiT (2011)
Source: WHO
“The Health system profiles (HiTs) are country-based reports that provide a detailed description of health systems and of policy initiatives in progress or under development. HiTs examine different approaches to the organization, financing and delivery of health services and the role of the main actors in health systems.
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Communications for change
Source: FrontlineSMS and Text to Change
“SMS can be an extremely effective campaigning tool, helping to drive positive social change by increasing awareness of key issues and giving people the information they need to take their wellbeing into their own hands.
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What’s Next? Perspectives of Health Technology Officers
Source: Harry Greenspun, Andy Wiesenthal, Deloitte
“Health care information officers face myriad challenges as they work to address their organizations’ information technology (IT) needs, from ICD-10 conversion to adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), among others.
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Physician Perspectives About Health Information Technology
Source: Harry Greenspun, Deloitte
“With incentives now available to hospitals and physicians for adopting electronic health records (EHRs), and the 2013 deadline for ICD-10 conversion looming, the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions sought to assess physicians’ current use
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What’s Ahead for EHRs: Experts Weigh In
Source: CHCF
“After a slow start, provider acceptance of EHRs has reached a tipping point, partly as a result of incentives surrounding the meaningful use program. That’s the consensus of industry experts invited to weigh in on the considerable challenges of EHR adoption and to envision the future landscape for both the makers and users of the technology.
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Making IT Meaningful: How Consumers Value and Trust Health IT
Source: National Partnership for Women & Families
“Commissioned by the National Partnership, developed by our research partner Professor Alan Westin, Ph.D. and conducted by Harris Interactive, the online survey of nearly 2,000 respondents, with an oversample of Hispanic adults, details consumer experiences with both electronic and paper medical record systems.
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Transforming Health Care: The Role of Health IT
Source: BPC
“Health information technology (IT) plays a critical role in supporting new models of care and payment that are designed to achieve health care’s triple aim: improve health, improve the experience of care for patients and families, and reduce the cost of care. Despite the introduction of IT to nearly every other aspect of modern life, the U.S. health care system remains largely paper-based. Greater use of health IT enjoys bipartisan support.
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Latest
- Hugo Campos at TEDx Cambridge: “Gimme My Damn Data,” Defibrillator Edition
e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
22 January 2012
- Telemedicine solution improves practice productivity, pleases patients
Bill Crounse, Healthblog
5 January 2012
- Apps for Autism
Lesley Stahl, CBS News
24 October 2011
AHA-Erlebnis
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC, 3 May 2012
I am not a US citizen, so I can’t officially react to the latest news from the US patient access front nor put my opinion on the “protest page“. What is going on. First see this post from the Healthcare IT News and following see the post my friend e-Patient Dave wrote about it.
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Guest Post: WHCC – Washington, DC, April 16-18, 2012
Mike Popovich, STC/ICMCC, 20 April 2012
As a public health information technology consulting company, it seemed unusual for STC to attend the recent 9th Annual World Health Care Congress, a three-day conference supported by all major health insurance companies, clinical provider networks, and emerging Accountable Care Organizations. The attendee list reads like a who’s who of the health care industry, all working to improve patient care while tackling today’s challenges.
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Glad to be Dutch
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC, 26 March 2012
This morning I had a mail in my inbox from my good friend e-patient Dave. He brought to my attention a new blog post he produced over the weekend. Dave was the one who initiated the phrase “Give me my damn data“.
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Events
Events till 24 May 2012
iCBBE 2012 (China)
17 May 2012 - 20 May 2012 (Conference)
Mini Conference on Biomedical Informatics and E-Health (Greece)
21 May 2012 - 24 May 2012 (Conference)
NANDA-I Biennial Conference (USA)
23 May 2012 - 26 May 2012 (Conference)
Doctors 2.0 & You (France)
23 May 2012 - 24 May 2012 (Conference)
The 8th Annual World Health Care Congress Europe 2012 (Netherlands)
23 May 2012 - 24 May 2012 (Conference)
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