Medical News Today
“University students have developed a computer game that is operated by eye movements, which could allow people with severe physical disabilities to become ‘gamers’ for the first time.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“The federal incentives target electronic medical and health records, but other healthcare technologies have the potential to transform the industry, a panel of investors said last week at the Health Technology Investment Forum.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The percentage of small physician practices that are planning to implement an EMR has grown in the last six months, according to a new vendor survey. But while the percentage of respondents who said the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was driving technology adoption more than doubled during this period, most are still unaware of requirements and nearly half say it will not impact their buying decision.
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Kate Whiting, The Press and Journal
“Health is reportedly now the second most searched-for topic on the internet. But as we increasingly turn to computers rather than our GPs for diagnosis, a new trend has been identified by experts – cyberchondria.
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ICTZorg
“Het Erasmus MC heeft besloten om voor een nieuw EPD te kiezen. Dat betekent dat er afscheid genomen zal worden van het zelf gebouwde EPD ELpado.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Wales is to begin rolling out its electronic referral system after positive feedback from pilot GP practices, Informing Healthcare has announced.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“A recent survey conducted by health IT vendor athenahealth and Sermo, an online physician community, painted a pretty grim picture of how physicians are feeling about the future of medicine. The survey involving 1,000 physicians point to discontent from the quality of healthcare delivery to the burden of payer administration and reimbursement.
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Helen Twose, New Zealand Herald
“A move to create a paperless nationwide system for managing health records could lay the foundations for a booming health technology sector, says the head of a local software firm.
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Health Data Management Magazine
“For Wes Wright, three thefts were enough. Serving as chief technology officer at Seattle Children’s, a 250-bed pediatric hospital, Wright is charged with maintaining network and data security. The theft of a handful of laptops, from auto and home break-ins, convinced him to take pre-emptive action to plug a glaring hole.
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The Medical News
“Practice Fusion celebrates the unique contribution of its 31,000 doctors, nurses and front office staff users in helping optimize the company’s free, web-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.
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Joseph Kim, Mobile Health Computing
“Patients want to be empowered. Physicians want their patients to improve the self-management of chronic conditions.
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Timothy Baldwin, Right Side News
“Now that the healthcare bill has passed and been signed into law, one must inquire: How will the federal government keep track of the millions of persons in America now (supposedly) required to operate according to the federal government’s healthcare program?
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Eric Dishman, TEDMED
At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it’s imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for all.
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Steve Lohr, The New York Times Bits
“In 1900, an American man could on average expect to live until he was 45 years old. By 1940, that life-expectancy number had jumped to 62 years, while for women the average number increased from 51 years to 66 years.
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Checkley, Rebecca et al, Journal of Assistive Technologies, 4(1)
This paper focuses on accessing the experiences of three boys who are on the autism spectrum to identify what using a voice output communication aid (VOCA), within a classroom setting, means to them. The methods used to identify the boys’ perspectives are described and evaluated. Establishing these through direct methods of engagement proved problematic but working with parents and school staff as ‘expert guides’ provided a rich insight into what using a VOCA appeared to mean to the boys.
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Sayyad Shirabad, Jelber et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
Clinical decision making is a complex multi-stage process. Decision support can play an important role at each stage of this process. At present, the majority of clinical decision support systems have been focused on supporting only certain stages.
In this paper we present the design and implementation of MET3—a prototype multi-agent system providing an integrative decision support that spans over the entire decision making process.
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“The Policy Committee of the North Carolina Medical Board is continuing to discuss the state’s proposed policy on telemedicine. The Committee approved a draft telemedicine policy statement in January, but the full Board asked the Committee to continue to review the proposed policy to specifically clarify the “informed consent” language.
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Guido van ’t Noordende, University of Amsterdam
In this article, we analyze the security architecture of the Dutch Electronic Patient Dossier (EPD) system. Intended as a national infrastructure for exchanging medical patient records among authorized parties (particularly, physicians), the EPD has to address a number of requirements, ranging from scalability and performance to security and privacy – as well as usability in (clinical) practice. The EPD is partially centralized. Patient records are stored decentrally, while a central component takes care of authentication and authorization of health professionals and of the mechanics required for exchanging patient records.
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Guido van 't Noordende, The Dutch Electronic Patient Record System
‘The EPD is essentially a central registry that stores links (references) to patient records. The system is intended for exchanging patient records at a National scale in the Netherlands. Over time, patients that have not opted out may find numerous records relating to their medical history registered in the EPD system.
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Ferrer-Roca, Olga et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(2)
Background:
Referrals from rural health centers to urban hospitals join waiting lists as outpatients for hospital admission and hospital treatment. This influences quality of life (QoL) of the rural population and retired people who require medical attention without traveling, provided no risks are involved. For this reason, a rural region of Spain has adopted a strategy to deliver telemedicine (TM) specialized care (Extremadura model) as a political decision.
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