Articles
Swanepoel DW and Hall JW, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(2)
Hearing loss is a pervasive global healthcare concern with an estimated 10% of the global population affected to a mild or greater degree. In the absence of appropriate diagnosis and intervention it can become a lifelong disability with serious consequences on the quality of life and societal integration and participation of the affected persons. Unfortunately, there is a major dearth of hearing healthcare services globally, which highlights the possible role of telehealth in penetrating the underserved communities. This study systematically reviews peer-reviewed publications on audiology-related telehealth services and patient/clinician perceptions regarding their use. Several databases were sourced (Medline, SCOPUS, and CHINAL) using different search strategies for optimal coverage.
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28 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Hearing Loss, Telehealth, Telemedicine
Jean-Jacques Fraslin, i-med
“C’est réparti pour un tour. La commission des affaires sociales a adopté une proposition de loi sur « l’expérimentation du dossier médical sur clé USB pour les patients atteints d’ALD ».
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28 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: France | EHR: EHR, EHR France | Tags: USB
Ehealthgr, blog.e-healthgr
“Ενώ το μυαλό μου είναι στην μελέτη “για πραγματική λύση Ηλεκτρονικής Συνταγογράφησης”, που έγραψε ο @Mike_Korinthos, η “καρδιά” μου είναι στα Social Media και στις χρήσεις τους. Στην πραγματικότητα επειδή δεν έχω χρόνο να ψάξω και να γράψω κάτι πολύ εκτενές για αυτήν, όπως της αξίζει, συνεχώς αναβάλω κάποια ανάρτηση σχετικά με αυτήν.
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28 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Greece | Tags: Communication, Hospitals, Social Media
Francisco J Grajales III
“With the H1N1 Pandemic still fresh in our minds, the Winter Olympics have zeroed the spotlight on Vancouver. With 70,000 visitors per day, 5,000 athletes and staff, 1,350 Paralympic athletes, 10,000 media, 25,000 volunteers, and 8,000 security personnel, a single disease outbreak can become catastrophic. Historically, mass gatherings have been particularly sensitive to vector outbreaks.
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28 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tags: Disease Surveillance, ICT, pandemics, Public Health
Shawn Zehnder Lea, Social Media For Health Care
“Hospitals engaging in social media have consistently grown in numbers of late. (Ed Bennett, who tracks hospitals using social media, saw his numbers jump by 79 in just six weeks time in January of this years.) Fear of HIPAA, lawsuits, and a lack of message control kept some hospitals out of social media for too long. But a recent Greystone.net report shows that even though social media is growing in hospitals, social media strategy is not growing as quickly – only one in three had a social media plan in place.
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28 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hospitals, Social Media
John, EMR and EHR
“In fact, if anything an EMR will expose those doctors who have poor documentation methods. I think that’s a very good thing to have happen. I want them to be exposed and held accountable for their poor documentation. That’s better for the healthcare system as a whole.
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28 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr
Richard C. Alvarez, Kelowna
“How can we efficiently reduce costs if millions of the tests we take annually are wasteful duplicates? How can we improve access to care when two-thirds of specialists seeing a new patient receive no up-front information? Canada urgently needs proven information technologies to manage and exchange health care information. Simply put, the right information must be available to the right health care provider at the right time.
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28 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tags: Health Information Technology
The Medical News
“As one of the world’s largest and most active telemedicine networks, the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) will faciliate more than 100,000 clinical encounters and distance education opportunities for more than 300,000 people across nearly one thousand sites this year.
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28 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tags: Industry, Telemedicine
Advance
“Despite the wide availability of personal health records (PHRs) from federal health plans, few federal employees actually use them, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said in an annual report published Feb. 5.
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27 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Education, phr
redOrbit
“Low-income residents in the San Fernando Valley will receive improved access to dental care, thanks to a new telemedicine project created by the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry.
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27 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Dentistry, Telemedicine
efpia, Blogactiv.eu
“Like more than 100 other people, I attended the European Voice Health Check debate on “The right to know? Should information to patients be restricted?” this week.
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27 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Empowerment, Health Information, Internet, Patient, Physician-Patient Relationship
Ramon Nuez, The Huffington Post
“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009 has targeted broadband as an instrument to help in revitalizing our economy. The investment in this information infrastructure will not only help to create jobs but assist in developing new technologies, applications and services. These initiatives are part of the “Transforming Our Economy With Science And Technology” heading.
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27 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Broadband, Digital Divide, Education, Literacy
EurActiv
“Healthcare innovations such as eHealth and telemedicine offer new prospects for cost savings and improved quality of care, but expensive new technologies are also driving medical inflation and the benefits may not always be distributed equally.
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27 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tags: Access, Costs, Devices, Drugs, e-Health, Innovation, Pharmaceutical, Telemedicine
BiomedME
“The Stimulus Bill of President Obama includes $ 19.2 billion for meaningful use of Health IT by hospital systems in United States. In order to take advantage of this financial incentive, hospitals have started investing their own money for creation and use of electronic health records that will eventually improve the quality, efficiency and safety of patient care.
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27 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Hospitals, Meaningful Use
Public Service
“A security expert has supported moves by London GPs to warn the public of the dangers of having an electronic health record.
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27 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Privacy, summary-care-records
Erin Turner, The Full Spectrum Blog
“First, my mother told me she saw something about wrist ligament damage in USA Today. My father’s foreshadowing, it turns out, was spot on. The article turned out to be about baseball player Jayson Werth and the treatment of a not particularly well-known wrist ligament injury: a UT split tear.
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27 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: e-patient, Social Media, Twitter
Craig Gagnon, Upstream
“If you’ve recently established a social media presence at a hospital, you’re probably wondering where your audience is – or if they’re out there at all. In small towns and rural communities, it’s tempting to believe that social media is something that exists only in big cities. Not so. However, a quick look at the limited number of Facebook fans and Twitter followers on many hospital social media channels will underscore your fears.
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27 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Hospitals, Social Media
Ben Cole, HealthLeaders Media
“Proponents of The Hospital of Central Connecticut’s newly available iPhone application that posts wait times at its facilities’ emergency rooms say the information will improve both patient satisfaction and ED efficiency.
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26 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Efficiency, Hospitals, Patient, Satisfaction, smartphone
PRWeb
“The Meaningful Use Dashboard, based on the Interim Final Rule issued on December 31,2009, is able to present all of the indicators identified as part of the Interim Final Rule. The Dashboard will be updated as the Final Rule is put in place. Regardless of source system and the number of facilities or departments, the Meaningful Use Dashboard will provide a single location where an organization can see, at a glance, how they are performing in regards to Meaningful Use Indicators.
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26 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Dashboard, Health Information Technology, Meaningful Use
Webwire
“CARME (Catalan Remote Management Evaluation) study’s preliminar results, conducted by Philips Healthcare and the Catalonian Health Service (ICS) show significant benefits in the management of certain chronic diseases, thanks to telemedicine, an innovative technique that allows the continuous monitoring and a higher patient’s implication in the disease treatment.
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26 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Benefits, Chronic Diseases, Telemedicine
