Janine Budding, Medicalfacts
“Sinds november 2009 doet het UMCG, in samenwerking met het Instituut voor Wiskunde en Informatica (IWI) van de RuG, onderzoek naar de mogelijke inzet van webtechnologie bij mensen met psychotische kwetsbaarheid.
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aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“Uno de los principios de la Web2.0 y por tanto de la eSalud es el uso de aplicaciones en la nube, herramientas que almacenan nuestra información en data centers de forma que podamos acceder a ella siempre que tengamos conexión a Internet.
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“De-identified patient data is health information from a medical record that has been stripped of all “direct identifiers”—that is, all information that can be used to identify the patient from whose medical record the health information was derived.
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Daniel Ghinn, Creation Interactive
“As increasing numbers of healthcare companies and government organizations turn to dedicated social networks to engage healthcare professionals, business models for interacting with doctors are changing. But can these networks really improve outcomes for healthcare companies, and what is the future for the pharma rep?
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Paul Roemer, ICMCC
“In the next few years, brick and mortar, immobile physician-centric EMRs and EHRs—those large EHR systems implemented by healthcare providers residing on large systems will be supplanted by portable patient-centric EMRs residing on a next generation of super smart devices—we call them smart phones today. The limited functionality of today’s Personal Health Records (PHRs) will be replaced by these portable patient-centric EMRs; EMRs that are cloud-based and accessed through super functional next generation smart devices—the grandchildren of the iPhone and the Droid. Why do I think that is the case? Please keep reading.
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Jeff Byers, CMIO
“nBetter monitoring and understanding is needed for how EMRs and health information exchange (HIE) impact the patient’s experience of care and best practices need to be shared to improve these technologies, Barbra G. Rabson, executive director at Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) reported Thursday at the Health IT: Creating Jobs, Reducing Costs and Improving Quality national conference, hosted by Massachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick.
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The Medical News
“All hospitals, even small ones, contain huge amounts of data in paper and electronic records, often contained in separate departments or software applications.
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Michael Young, FourPx Articles
“Do you know where to find your medical records? What if you’re traveling and need to see a doctor but cannot access your hard-copy medical records thousands of miles away? Could you remember your entire medical history? Keeping your medical records up-to-date, orderly and on-hand is essential, but can be costly and stressful.
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Daniel Ghinn, Creation Interactive
“Earlier this month, hundreds of business leaders and communicators in healthcare met in Paris for the first Health 2.0 Europe conference. Some may have been asking themselves whether Europe really needed yet another conference about digital engagement in healthcare, but it soon became clear that Health 2.0 was unlike any other healthcare engagement conference in Europe to date.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“Since passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act early last year, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has had its hands full doing what its name implies—stage managing a massive national health IT promotional production.
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Richard Noffsinger, Xconomy
“With the passage of health care reform legislation last month, attention has now turned from arguing its merits to understanding its practical implications. In the world of health information technology, or health IT, the electronic health record (EHR) is one focus of this attention, but applications that build on their widespread adoption are where the real transformation in health care will take place.
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Rita Rubin, USA TODAY
“When internist Richard Baron was invited to give a talk about what’s happening in primary care, he had an idea: Why not count up exactly how many patient visits, phone calls and e-mails he and his four associates handle in a year?
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Baron RJ, N Engl J Med, 362(17)
Primary care practices typically measure productivity according to the number of visits, which also drives payment. Work that does not involve a visit from a patient is invisible to those who support and purchase primary care. Several studies have estimated the amount of time that primary care physicians devote to nonvisit work.
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David Brown, Washington Post
“A five-physician practice in Philadelphia caring for 8,440 people used its electronic medical records system to analyze the daily work of each practitioner. Each physician had an average of 18 patient visits per day, with the average patient coming to the office twice a year. The workweek was 50 to 60 hours.
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Camille Tuutti, ExecutiveGov
“A new report finds that two-thirds of physicians were using a smartphone in 2009, compared to 42 percent of the general population, data that has led the California HealthCare Foundation to say the rapid growth of smartphone use could positively impact health IT.
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Peter Buxbaum, Government Health IT
“The Department of Veterans Affairs has spent proportionally more than the private sector on health IT and has achieved higher levels of IT adoption and quality of care as a result.
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Alice Lipowicz, FederalComputerWeek
“The next phase of federal incentives for electronic health record (EHR) adoption could require providers to be able to transmit records into patients’ accounts in real-time and to accept transmissions of data from home monitoring equipment, according to proposals considered by a federal advisory group.
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“In the next few years, brick and mortar, immobile physician-centric EMRs and EHRs—those large EHR systems implemented by healthcare providers residing on large systems will be supplanted by portable patient-centric EMRs residing on a next generation of super smart devices—we call them smart phones today. The limited functionality of today’s Personal Health Records (PHRs) will be replaced by these portable patient-centric EMRs; EMRs that are cloud-based and accessed through super functional next generation smart devices—the grandchildren of the iPhone and the Droid. Why do I think that is the case? Please keep reading.
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McConnochie K et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(3)
Background:
Health-e-Access, an urban telemedicine service, enabled 6,511 acute-illness telemedicine visits over a 7-year period for children at 22 childcare and school sites in Rochester, NY.
Objectives:
The aims of this article were to (1) describe provider attitudes and perceptions about efficiency and effectiveness of Health-e-Access and (2) assess hypotheses that (a) providers will complete a large proportion of the telemedicine visits attempted and (b) high levels of continuity with the primary care practice will be achieved.
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