Articles
Årsand, Eirik et al, Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, 4(2)
BACKGROUND:
Mobile phones and other mobile information and communication technology applications and technologies hold great potential as a basis for powerful patient-operated self-management tools within diabetes. The work presented shows how such tools can be designed for supporting lifestyle changes among people with type 2 diabetes and how these were perceived by a group of 12 patients during a 6-month period.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Norway | Tags: Cellphone, Diabetes, mHealth, Self Management
BiomedME
“Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, recent announced that the HL7 India Affiliate successfully launched the HL7 e-Learning Course (ELC) program. The first session concluded in December 2009 and included students from India, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: India | Tags: Education, HL7, Web
ICTzorg
“Fabrikanten van medische apparatuur voor thuisgebruik maken niet altijd een gedegen risicoanalyse, terwijl dat wel verplicht is.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | Tags: Devices, Digital Homecare, Security
ICTzorg
“Het Nederlandse Rode Kruis en IedereenEHBO willen er samen met het UMC St Radboud voor zorgen dat alle automatische externe defibrillators (AED’s) in Nederland verder in kaart gebracht worden en uitgebreid worden met een e-learning module over reanimatie en EHBO.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | Tags: Education, emergency, mHealth, Web
Susannah Fox, e-patients.net
“For the past 5 months I have been immersed in data and narrative about chronic disease. The result, “Chronic Disease and the Internet,” is a report sponsored by the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare Foundation.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Access, Chronic Diseases, Internet, Narrative
Ted Eytan, MD
“Child Psychiatrists Embrace Videoconferencing Telepsychiatry – TIME – Telepsychiatry is a growing trend in mental health, says Dr. Kathleen Myers, who treats Rachel up close and personal despite the 75 miles between them.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Children, Telemedicine, Telepsychiatry, Videoconferencing
Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
“Health 2020 released a report “Fixing NHS IT: How to save £1bn and get IT working for patients”
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: UK | Tags: Health Information Technology
Alan Brookstone, Canadian EMR
“As the healthcare reform movement gathers steam in the US, significant investment is being made in electronic health records to support the national agenda. Despite all of the challenges in the US with a dominantly for-profit competitive healthcare system, the national strategy is truly national.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada, United States | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada, EHR USA | Tags: Certification, Standards
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Jerry Buchanan, Program Manager and Scrum Master at eMids Technologies, Inc., an IT and BPO consulting company, listed five features that are missing from EHRs in a recent article in Healthcare IT News: Information, not data; comprehensive health history; information tailored for various users; tracking the transition of care; and patient-side management of information.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: vendors
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Undoubtedly, value added resellers (VARs) offering storage solutions have an opportunity to increase their business in the lucrative healthcare market segment, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t difficulties along the way.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Certification, Data Storage
Medical News Today
“Obtaining therapy via teleconference is just as effective as face-to-face sessions, according to a new research by Stephane Guay, a psychiatry professor at the Universite de Montreal.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tags: Psychiatry, Telemedicine, Telepsychiatry, Videoconferencing
Susannah Fox, Kristen Purcell, Pew Internet
U.S. adults living with chronic disease are significantly less likely than healthy adults to have access to the internet (62% vs. 81%). The internet access gap creates an online health information gap. However, lack of internet access, not lack of interest in the topic, is the primary reason for the difference.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | Tags: Access, Chronic Diseases, Internet
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“Healthcare IT is booming. But one of the biggest challenges facing hospitals in the adoption of new technology is finding storage capabilities for the growing profusion of data from EMRs and ever more sophisticated medical imaging. Not to mention meeting regulatory requirements that dictate how that data is managed and archived.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Data Storage, Health Information Technology, Hospitals, Industry
Micheal Power
“If a government builds an EHR, can it require your data be put into it?
Governments in many jurisdictions have embarked on a concerted effort to build and use electronic health records (EHRs) and to encourage health professionals to use electronic medical records (EMRs). Everyone seems to have assumed that creating an EHR would be so advantageous to patients that requiring placement of patient data in multi-million dollar EHR systems wouldn’t be an issue.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: emr, Legal, Privacy, Security
Jean-Jacques Fraslin, i-med
“L’outil expérimental que nous vous proposons de créer aujourd’hui est plus souple à mettre en œuvre que le DMP lui-même, car il ne pose aucun problème d’hébergement des données. Les données de santé seront enregistrées sur une clé USB qui restera la propriété du patient. Il n’y aura donc plus de problème de choix d’hébergeur, d’accès à Internet, de sécurisation des fichiers en ligne, etc. Plus non plus de réticences des patients et des professionnels, parmi lesquels l’idée d’un hébergement en ligne des données de santé a pu parfois susciter certaines méfiances.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: France | EHR: EHR, EHR France | Tags: USB
eHealthNews.EU
“A new web-based electronic patient records system is being swiftly introduced at a leading cancer centre thanks to an extension of its contract with IMS MAXIMS. The agreement follows a full options appraisal in which Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust (CCO) measured IMS against other commercially available alternatives and against the nationally-funded programme.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Industry, Oncology, Web
Loek Essers, WebWereld
“De ict-diensten rondom het Elektronisch Patiënten Dossier worden geplaagd door regelmatige storingen. Een van de diensten kampte vijf dagen achter elkaar met een landelijke storing.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tags: Failure, ICT
EMR Daily News
“Silver Hill Hospital and Medsphere Systems Corporation today announced the successful implementation of Medsphere’s OpenVista® electronic health record solution at the nationally recognized psychiatric hospital.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: CPOE, Effectiveness, Open Source, Patient Safety
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Personal Health Records (PRHs) have been promoted as significant ways for patients to keep track of their health information, and do so in a way that is portable and owned by patients directly.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Failure, phr
Jessica Palmer, ScienceBlogs
“In response to a 2009 mandate from Congress, the FCC has released a new National Broadband Plan – including an entire chapter on e-health in its various manifestations.
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24 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Broadband, Health Information Technology
