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theMobileHealthCrowd
“In a new white paper entitled “From MUMPS to Java,” Medsphere Systems Corporation provides both explanation and application for a significant technological development. Subtitled “OVID Unleashes Power of Open-source Health IT,” the paper details how the new OpenVista Interface Domain (OVID) leverages the proven power and stability of VistA to facilitate an ecosystem oriented around advancing health IT quickly and affordably.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Applications, mobile, Open Source, Platform
Saint-André S et al, L'Encéphale, 2010
Introduction
The authors report on the set-up of a telehealth system developed to facilitate exchanges between the Autism Resource Centre of Brittany (centre de ressources pour l’autisme [CRA]) located in Brest and an adult psychiatry structure of Vannes’ Hospital in the Morbihan region, these sites are about 200 kilometres distant.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: France | Tags: Autism, Networks, Telemedicine, Telepsychiatry, Videoconferencing
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The Medical Group Management Association has raised concerns that new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act disclosure requirements for electronic health records are burdensome, costly, unnecessary, and will impede the adoption of EHRs.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Privacy
Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT News Priming the Pump
“As new HIT makes ever greater inroads into the nation’s healthcare system, there is bound to be an expanding array of stories that highlight the advantages HIT brings to patients and doctors alike.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Technology
Sittig DF, Classen DC. JAMA, 303(19)
In Reply: We share Dr Koppel’s concern regarding challenges of detecting noncatastrophic errors that might result from inadequate EHR design, development, implementation, and use.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Medical Errors, Quality
Koppel R. JAMA, 302(19)
To the Editor: In their Commentary on the need for a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework for electronic health record (EHR) use, Drs Sittig and Classen called for a national EHR adverse event investigation board, similar to the National Transportation Safety Board.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Medical Errors, Quality
Richter JG et al, Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 28(2)
OBJECTIVES:
The Internet supports interactive patient assessments, online documentation and access to online electronic health records (EHRs), but little is known about the acceptance of these features and trends in rheumatology patients. Therefore, we studied patients’ attitudes and willingness to participate in online patient (self-)documentation.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Germany | EHR: EHR | Tags: Documentation, Internet, Online, Reliability, Rheumatoid Arthritis
Alisdair Stirling, Pulse
“Exclusive: Telemedicine is not cost-effective, potentially unsafe and needs closer clinical scrutiny before being used to shift more hospital activity into primary care, suggests a review by the RCGP and Royal College of Physicians.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: Safety, Telemedicine
Paul Christopher Webster, CMAJ News
“A look into the future of Canadian health care by Canada’s top electronic health information strategist suggests physicians and patients alike should prepare for futuristic-sounding scenarios in which clinical care is increasing influenced by computerized decision-making of the sort first seen in the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Access, Decision Support, e-patient, Health Information, participatory, Patient, Physicians
Barbara Duck, The Medical Quack
“Dr. Halamka makes a great point here on structured data and the challenges of the analytics portion of the puzzle.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: ICD-10, Narrative, SNOMED, Standards
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“The use of at-home blood pressure monitors and Web-based reporting tools that connect patients and clinicians appears to significantly improve patients’ ability to manage their hypertension down to healthy levels, according to new research.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hypertension, Monitoring
John, EMR and HIPAA
“Tom’s previous guest post about meaningful use and healthcare IT seems to have struck a chord with some of my readers. Here’s an example of one email (posted with permission) from the always passionate Al Borge, MD, I received in response to Tom’s post. The most interesting part of Al’s email is his last comment about the Medicare penalties that ARRA will impose.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Technology, Meaningful Use, Physicians
Cheriff AD et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 49(7)
Purpose
The impact of the ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) on physician productivity is poorly understood. Fear of productivity loss remains a major concern for practitioners and health care delivery organizations and inhibits system adoption. This study describes the changes in physician productivity after the implementation of a commercially available ambulatory EHR system in a large academic multi-specialty physician group.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Ambulatory Care, health-information-system, Physicians, Productivity
Lupiáñez-Villanueva F et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 79(7)
Objectives
To identify doctors’ utilization of ICT; to develop and characterise a typology of doctors’ utilization of ICT and to identify factors that can enhance or inhibit the use of these technologies within medical practice.
Methods
An online survey of the 16,531 members of the Physicians Association of Barcelona who had a registered email account in 2006 was carried out. Factor analysis, cluster analysis and binomial logit model were undertaken.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Adoption, ICT, Internet, Patient, Physicians, Web
Wakefield DS et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2010
Purpose
Patients are increasingly interested in using Internet-based technologies to communicate with their providers, schedule clinic visits, request medication refills, and view their medical records electronically. However, healthcare organizations face significant challenges in providing such highly personal and sensitive communication in an effective and user-friendly manner.
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22 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tags: Communication, Patient, Portal, Provider, Security, Web
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Electronic medical records adoption in hospitals, during the first three years of implementation, is often associated with higher nurse staffing needs and higher costs, as well as increased complications for some patients, according to a study by Arizona State University researchers. However, the study also said EMR adoption did decrease mortality for some conditions.
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21 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, emr, Hospitals, Implementation
Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Insider
“The head of Kaiser Permanente’s Innovation Centre has urged NHS professionals engaged in health IT implementations to ‘keep the faith’, as the benefits to patient care are worth the effort.
In an exclusive video interview broadcast today on EHI TV, Dr Yan Chow of leading US healthcare network Kaiser Permanente tells EHI editor Jon Hoeksma, how KP has just completed a seven year $4 billion implementation of electronic medical records that is already proving transformational.”
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21 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR, Video | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Benefits, Health Information Technology
Richard L. Reece, medinnovationblog
“In my last blog,”EHRs – Size of Physician Market, Number Sold, By Whom, and Comprehensiveness of Systems Sold,” I reprinted a report by Software Advice, Inc, on the state of the EHR market “without editorial comment.”
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21 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA
Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Electronic health record (EHR) vendors and health IT industry pundits will tell you that there are nuanced technical distinctions among application service provider (ASP) EHR, Software as a Service (SaaS) EHR and cloud EHR systems.
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21 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits, Cloud, SaaS
John Mack, Pharma Marketing Blog
“Yesterday, I posted the following tweet:
PatientsLikeMe blocks “scraper.” Is this a trend in SM? Pharma can’t mine patient msgs & learn? See http://bit.ly/9lWSIT #fdasm #hcsm
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21 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Data Mining, Patient, Personal Health Information, Pharmaceutical, social-network
