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Fiordelli M et al, J Med Internet Res, 15(5)
BACKGROUND:
For the last decade, mHealth has constantly expanded as a part of eHealth. Mobile applications for health have the potential to target heterogeneous audiences and address specific needs in different situations, with diverse outcomes, and to complement highly developed health care technologies. The market is rapidly evolving, making countless new mobile technologies potentially available to the health care system; however, systematic research on the impact of these technologies on health outcomes remains scarce.
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24 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: literature, mHealth
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, Healthcare Info Security
“Consumer advocate Deven McGraw says many provisions in the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, including better breach notification guidance and expansion of HIPAA liability to business associates, will provide substantial benefits to patients.
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24 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits, Patient, Privacy, Security
Glen Tullman, Health Data Management
“I’m impatient about realizing the benefits of electronic health records—we all are. But, as the futurist Roy Amara once cautioned, “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”
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24 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits, Infrastructure
Jonah Comstock, mobihealthnews
“A team of doctors at the University of Virginia medical center has developed an app to more easily, quickly, and efficiently transmit electrocardiogram tracings from heart attack patients to doctors, enabling doctors to diagnose a particular kind of heart attack that can benefit from immediate treatment.
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23 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Applications, Cardiology, Image, mHealth, smartphone
Mobile World Live
“More than 40 million additional patients could be treated in Brazil and Mexico in 2017 through the adoption of mobile health services, according to a new report from the GSMA.
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23 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Brazil, Mexico | Tags: mHealth
Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“The U.S. Department of Defense will look to the commercial market for an electronic health record system instead of developing one based on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ VistA system, Nextgov has reported.
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23 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Interoperability
Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY
“More than half of doctors’ offices and 80% of hospitals that provide Medicare or Medicaid will have electronic health records by the end of the year, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.
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23 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Incentives
Guillaume Parodi, L'Atelier
“En 2012, des chercheurs allemands de l’Institut Fraunhofer de Munich et du Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mechanics de Kaiserslautern avaient mis au point un système de prises intelligentes pour gérer l’extinction et l’allumage d’appareils électriques à distance. Cette découverte permettait entre autres d’optimiser la consommation d’électricité via l’utilisation d’un ordinateur ou d’un smartphone.
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23 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Germany | Tags: Devices, Digital Homecare, mHealth, Monitoring, Surveillance, Telemedicine
Medical Xpress
“Failure to use linked electronic health records may lead to biased estimates of heart attack incidence and outcome, warn researchers in a paper published in BMJ today.
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22 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Cardiology, Failure, Record Linkage
Herrett E et al, BMJ, 346
Objective
To determine the completeness and diagnostic validity of myocardial infarction recording across four national health record sources in primary care, hospital care, a disease registry, and mortality register.
Design
Cohort study.
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22 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: Science, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Cardiology
David Ellis, H&HN Daily
“Accelerating advances in computing will affect health care. More computing power equals more automation; greater efficiency; lower costs; better clinical, administrative and logistical decisions; better clinical research and understanding; and, ultimately, better care for the patient and better support for those delivering that care — those left standing, that is, after the tsunami hits.
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21 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Big Data, Cloud
Daniel Essin, Physicians Practice
“If your house is burning, you want the fire department ASAP. If you called the number for the fire department and got street sweeping or business licenses instead, you would be in big trouble. Words matter.
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21 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Data Systems
Thomson Reuters
“In this video, Andreas Matern, Vice President Disruptive Innovation, talks about how Thomson Reuters can apply a “little data” approach to your internal information. Helping you to find exactly what you’re looking for and generate new insights to drive innovation at your organization.”
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21 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Video | Tags: Big Data, Pharmaceutical
Jonah Comstock, mobihealthnews
“A small validation study in Sweden suggests that teledermatology, conducted using an iPhone, a dedicated app, and a connected dermascope, can be roughly as effective as a face-to-face dermatology consultation.
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21 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Applications, Dermatology, mHealth, Teledermatology, Telemedicine
Kyle Murphy, EHR Intelligence
“Patients with diseases such as diabetes produce valuable data regularly, some of which can prevent serious medical events from escalating if providers are able to intervene more quickly and directly. For these patients, medical device integration and patient engagement are seemingly one and the same.
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21 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Chronic Diseases, Devices, Engagement, integration, Patient
Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Nearly all U.S. doctors responding to a recent Accenture survey said they use electronic health records (EHRs). But a new report from Deloitte shows a somewhat different picture: Just two-thirds of physicians said they have an EHR capable of showing Meaningful Use (MU), and 45% of the remaining third, or about 15% of all respondents, said they have no plans to purchase an EHR that meets MU criteria.
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21 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Implementation, Physicians
Rebecca Grant, Venture Beat
“Mobile devices could save the medical industry and consumers billions of dollars a year.
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21 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Benefits, Chronic Diseases, Costs, mHealth
John D. Halamka, MedCity News
“In response to many questions about PHR use by adolescents, I asked Fabienne Bourgeois, the expert at Children’s Hospital Boston, to write this guest blog post –
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16 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Adolescents, phr, Portal
John Halamka and John P. Hoyt, iHealthBeat
“Since its passage three years ago, some in Congress have sought every opportunity to reduce funding related to the Affordable Care Act. It’s no surprise that the recent round of sequester cuts have targeted elements of health care technology infrastructure, including the health insurance marketplaces that are meant to be online later this year.
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16 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits, Patient
Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“Along with federal mandates and pressure from insurers, consumers’ views that doctors are not modern could be the push they need to implement health IT.
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16 May 2013 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Broadband, Consumer
