Articles
Palacio C et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 34(3)
This article provides a conceptual model for benchmarking the use of clinical information systems within healthcare organizations. Additionally, it addresses the benefits of clinical information systems which include the reduction of errors, improvement in clinical decision-making and real time access to patient information. The literature suggests that clinical information systems provide financial benefits due to cost-savings from improved efficiency and reduction of errors. As a result, healthcare organizations should adopt such clinical information systems to improve quality of care and stay competitive in the marketplace. Our research clearly documents the increased adoption of electronic medical records in U.S. hospitals from 2005 to 2007.
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31 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: CPOE, emr, health-information-system, Quality
Tani S et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 34(3)
Recently, a patient with diabetes mellitus (DM) type 2 has been increasing in Japan. The patient should be managed not only by a specialist but also by himself focusing his attention on the improvement of his lifestyle at home. In the present study, we tried to develop a health management support system by which a diabetic patient in early stage can easily enter his daily life information, i.e. the biological information such as the data of blood sugar levels and blood pressure levels etc., the information of exercise and diet and send the information to the medical institution with a personal digital assistant (PDA). Afterwards, the patient can receive health instruction information by the physician in charge for self-care at his home with a PDA.
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31 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Japan | Tags: Diabetes, Health Management, PDA, selfcare
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Practices have tasks that need to be done regularly to ensure smooth operations. Health information technology adds a new set of recurring chores. These tasks generally are broken down as those needed for maintenance, those that help protect and secure patient data, and those that help the practice get the best return on investment, both from financial and quality standpoints.
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31 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Technology, Security
redOrbit
“VI Fit, a project at the University of Nevada, Reno, helps children who are blind become more physically active and healthy through video games. The human-computer interaction research team in the computer science and engineering department has developed a motion-sensing-based tennis and bowling exergame that can be downloaded for free at www.vifit.org.
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31 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Blind, Children, games, Obesity, Video
Atherton H et al, J Telemed Telecare, 16(4)
Email could be used in primary health-care settings for delivering health promotion and disease prevention information, providing an alternative method of delivery for brief interventions. We examined the literature on the use of email for this purpose. Systematic review methodology was used. The main medical databases were searched and there were no restrictions by study design, health-care setting or population.
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31 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Communication, e-Mail, Prevention, Primary Care
Wu Z et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
With the rapid development of the Internet, digitization and electronic orientation are required in various applications of our daily life. For e-medicine, establishing Electronic patient records (EPRs) for all the patients has become the top issue during the last decade. Simultaneously, constructing an integrated EPR information system of all the patients is beneficial because it can provide medical institutions and the academia with most of the patients’ information in details for them to make correct decisions and clinical decisions, to maintain and analyze patients’ health.
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31 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tags: e-Health, Security
Denise Silber's Blog
“Si tous les “systèmes” de santé du monde partagent un même objectif, celui de bien soigner la population, leur réglementation, leur organisation sont à ce jour nationales.
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31 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: France | Tags: Appointments, Disparities, Health Information, Portal
Hörbst A, Ammenwerth E. Applied Clinical Informatics, 1(2)
Background:
Numerous projects, initiatives, and programs are dedicated to the development of Electronic Health Records (EHR) worldwide. Increasingly more of these plans have recently been brought from a scientific environment to real life applications. In this context, quality is a crucial factor with regard to the acceptance and utility of Electronic Health Records. However, the dissemination of the existing quality approaches is often rather limited.
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30 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Europe, United States | EHR: EHR | Tags: Certification, emr, Quality
Whitten P et al, Applied Clinical Informatics, 1(2)
As the health care industry is facing many challenges and is undergoing extensive change, telemedicine is in the position to address these challenges and be an important part of health care’s development. Telemedicine has been used for approximately a half century, in which researchers have explored the different technologies utilized, clinical outcomes, cost benefits, perceptions, and adoption challenges of its use.
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30 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tags: e-Health, Telehealth, Telemedicine
Pickering BW et al, Applied Clinical Informatics, 1(2)
The introduction of electronic medical records (EMR) and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) into the intensive care unit (ICU) is transforming the way health care providers currently work. The challenge facing developers of EMR’s is to create products which add value to systems of health care delivery. As EMR’s become more prevalent, the potential impact they have on the quality and safety, both negative and positive, will be amplified.
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30 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: CPOE, emr, Medical Errors, Safety
Natasha Singer, The New York Times
“Could we cure diseases faster, or at least better control them, through crowd-sourcing?
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30 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Crowd-sourcing, Data Mining, Online Communities, Patient, social-network
WHCC
At the WHCC Lodewijk Bos, president ICMCC, gave an interview on compunetics, the ICMCC Foundation and next year’s GHITA conference.
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30 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Video | Tags: Awareness, Empowerment, Health Information, Health Information Technology, mHealth
Health Train Express
“According to the HIMSS Analytics report, 30% to 40% of U.S. hospitals could be at risk financially and operationally for not meeting the meaningful use criteria.
Meanwhile, more than 50% of independent clinics in the U.S. are at risk for not meeting meaningful use criteria.
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30 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR | Tags: HIMSS, Hospitals, Incentives, Meaningful Use
Apiscam
“A veces la innovación no procede de pequeños y remotos laboratorios tecnológicos sino de la forma en la que se hacen las cosas”. Es más, hay muchas herramientas tecnológicas aplicables al ámbito sanitario y asistencial, pero “en un contexto global estamos muy atrasados en la aplicación de soluciones que aporten valor al paciente”.
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Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Health Information Technology, Implementation, Innovation
Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“While Yahoo!’s most recent notable public moment has been its CEO telling some (other) ex-pat British blogger to “Fuck Off”, this British ex-pat blogger has been waiting for a long time for Yahoo! to re-emerge in health care. And finally after a big false start in 2008, they’re baaack.
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30 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Consumer, Health Information, Website, Yahoo
Milt Freudenheim, The New York Times
“One day last summer, Charlie Martin felt a sharp pain in his lower back. But he couldn’t jump into his car and rush to the doctor’s office or the emergency room: Mr. Martin, a crane operator, was working on an oil rig in the South China Sea off Malaysia.
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30 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Telemedicine
Nordfeldt S et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(2)
Background:
The Internet has undergone rapid development, with significant impact on social life and on modes of communication. Modern management of type 1 diabetes requires that patients have access to continuous support and learning opportunities. Although Web 2.0 resources can provide this support, few pediatric clinics offer it as part of routine diabetes care.
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30 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Sweden | Tags: Children, Chronic Diseases, Diabetes, Disease Management, e-Health, Patient Information, selfcare, Social Media, Web 2.0
Amir Hannan
“On 26th May 2010, Dr Hannan presented to the Primary Health Care Specialist Group summer conference how access to the GP electronic health records may help residents in Nursing Homes. He talked about how successful access to the GP records has been in general at Haughton Thorney Medical Centres for those patients that are able to provide an EXPLICIT CONSENT process.
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29 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, Consent, Nursing Home
McDonnell C, Werner K, Wendel L., AHRQ
“One of the key factors driving the adoption and appropriate utilization of electronic health record (EHR) systems is their usability. However, a recent study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) identified information about current EHR vendor usability processes and practices during the different phases of product development and deployment as a key research gap.
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29 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Certification, Monitoring, Patient Safety, Standards, Usability
Paul Christopher Webster, CMAJ News
“Alberta, already a leader in Canada in connecting health professionals to electronic information systems, is gearing-up to bring patients into the loop.
And that, says the province’s health minister, will radically change the way Albertans get healthcare.
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29 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Access, Patient, phr
