Nelson, Eve-Lynn, and Thao Bui, Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2010
Because of the overwhelming maldistribution of mental health specialists in metropolitan areas and the many underserved families living in rural settings, rural areas are natural homes for the use of telemedicine or videoconferencing technology for clinical services.
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Ruxwana, Nkqubela L. et al, The HIM Journal, 39(1)
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions (e.g. e-health, telemedicine, e-education) are often viewed as vehicles to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban healthcare centres and to resolve shortcomings in the rural health sector. This study focused on factors perceived to influence the uptake and use of ICTs as e-health solutions in selected rural Eastern Cape healthcare centres, and on structural variables relating to these facilities and processes.
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Jean-Jacques Fraslin, i-med
“Dans le communiqué on apprend que « Par cet accord, Orange Healthcare va proposer au médecin une solution packagée comprenant un ordinateur, un lecteur de carte CPS, un logiciel en ligne de gestion des dossiers patients, la télétransmission des feuilles de soins électroniques et un accès Internet accompagné par un service de maintenance sur les logiciels et le matériel. »
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Apiscam
“El Gobierno de España y las CCAA han impulsado desde 2006 la extensión de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en el área de la salud con programas como Sanidad en Línea.
La Historia clínica digital (HCD) y la receta electrónica son dos de las iniciativas más avanzadas de la e-health en España.
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Jim Doyle, PhysOrg
“Here’s a Wi-Fi pill bottle cap that glows and pulses with an amber light when it’s time to open your pill vial, plays an insistent ring-tone melody when you miss the appointed hour, and triggers an automated reminder by phone call or text message if you’re two hours late.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“One of the thornier issues regarding the establishment of public Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) is how to manage consumer consent of personal health information (PHI) sharing. Today, there is no single standard approach across the US. Some states have an opt-in process, others an opt-out.
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“In the next five to seven years the business of healthcare at the provider level will have the opportunity to change markedly—the unanswered question is, will it have the ability? To answer that at the provider level—primarily hospitals and clinics—I believe one must distinguish between the business of healthcare (how the business is run) and the healthcare business (how the care is delivered).
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Paul McCloskey, Government Health IT
“The next version of ‘Connect,’ a software gateway that helps agencies and other organizations share health-related information, will offer cloud-computing-based options for standing up health information services, according to leaders of the project.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Acceleration in the use of electronic medical records may lead to an increase in personal health information theft, according to a new study that shows there were more than 275,000 cases of medical information theft in the U.S. last year.
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Steve Nowottny, Pulse
“Exclusive: Patients who opted out of the Summary Care Record before their PCT officially launched the scheme have been told to opt out a second time to avoid being put on the database, amid mounting confusion around the rollout in some areas.
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Heleen Croonen, Medisch Contact
“Experts hebben een flink aantal misverstanden en onduidelijkheden weggenomen bij de senatoren over het landelijk elektronisch patiëntendossier (EPD), zegt Sjaak Nouwt, beleidsadviseur ICT en privacy van de KNMG.
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Jean-Jacques Fraslin, i-med
“Au MEDEC, le 17 mars 2010, une table ronde, animée par Dominique Lehalle, était organisée par le Conseil National de l’Ordre des Médecins (CNOM) sur l’éthique des échanges et la dématérialisation des données médicales.
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mcg, Hospital Digital
“Buen artículo de Joan Marques en su blog donde comenta las acciones que se están llevando a cabo por parte de HIMSS para traer el potente servicio HIMSS Analytics a Europa.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Electronic prescribing is an important feature of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, and use of e-prescribing is a Meaningful Use criterion. Independently of HITECH incentives, previous incentives (MIPAA) have also encouraged the use of e-prescribing – and the result of all this has been a significant upturn in e-prescribing, as we have reviewed previously.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“But for all the frustration and pessimism expressed in the survey, doctors’ views on electronic health records and other new technologies were somewhat brighter — even as many indicated initial discontent that EHRs’ convenience and usefulness were not yet at the level that they’d like to see.
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Antoinette Reerink, NRC Handelsblad
“Het Elektronisch Patiëntendossier (EPD) is onvoldoende beveiligd en biedt te weinig bescherming van privacy van patiënten. Er ontbreken „basale veiligheidkleppen”. Dat concludeert informaticus Guido van ‘t Noordende van de Universiteit van Amsterdam in de eerste brede wetenschappelijke studie naar de beveiliging van het EPD.
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The Medical News
“The proven ability of the medical transcription sector to deliver innovative, physician-friendly, and cost-effective solutions to the challenges of electronic health record (EHR) adoption will be the message taken to Capitol Hill by members of the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) and the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) for the organizations’ fifth-annual Advocacy Summit on March 24 in Washington, DC.
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Florian Becker, The Citrix Blog
“The HiMSS group on LinkedIn features some interesting discussion. One of the longer threats evaluates why EHR/EMR implementations fail.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“After I wrote my post about 50 EMR markets instead of 1 EMR market, I started to wonder what an EMR might look like that was just an EMR platform.
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Telecare Aware
“It would be a step backwards to work without telehealth now” says one of the nurses in this excellent overview of telehealth as it implemented now, in the Hebrides islands off the north west coast of Scotland. (Also has a passing reference to telehealth in Sheffield – not in the Hebrides).
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