Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“A new survey has found that nearly half of healthcare professionals are dissatisfied with their clinical information systems, frustrated by response times that can last a full minute, or even longer.
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“In Part I of this series, we argued that physicians need tools they can use to evaluate EMR usability. One reason for this is that the ONC’s soon-to-be-released EMR certification criteria don’t address usability, even though usability has a dramatic effect on productivity and the quality of care. Part I also presented a partial list of the dimensions of EMR usability.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The U.S. Army is using mobile technology to transmit health tips, appointment reminders, and general announcements to the cell phones of more than 300 wounded soldiers. The mobile phone-based secure messaging system called mCare is one of several innovative wireless technology solutions that the Army is deploying to improve the health of its employees.
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Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“The vast majority of hospital CIOs recently surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) said they’re concerned that they won’t be able to demonstrate “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHR) — and therefore won’t qualify for federal reimbursements for rolling out the technology.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“While the U.S. government is still finalizing its criteria for the meaningful use incentive programs of the HITECH Act, a new study shows that eight-in-10 healthcare CIOs are worried about meeting the requirements in time to qualify for the $20 billion-plus rewards.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“To make sure patients are safe, hospitals have to put their CPOE systems to the test, warns healthcare industry watchdog The Leapfrog Group in a report released Wednesday. Leapfrog called on the federal government to make testing mandatory.
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Luxton DD et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(6)
The safety of telemental healthcare delivered to clinically unsupervised settings, such as a personal residence, must be established to inform policy and further the dissemination of telemental health programs. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of safety issues associated with telemental healthcare and, through a systematic literature review, evaluate the safety of telemental healthcare delivered to unsupervised settings. The review resulted in a total of nine studies that specifically evaluated the delivery of telemental healthcare to unsupervised settings.
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Donna Cusano, Telecare Aware
“One of the US’ largest for-profit senior community companies and one of the earliest to-market telecare systems both received some unwanted negative publicity this week. Senior Lifestyles Corporation, owner/operator of 70 independent and assisted living communities in 15 states, has been adding GE QuietCare to its apartments since early this year. However, when QuietCare was added to their Lake Park Forest community in Fort Pierce, FL, the residents and families rebelled at the $200 per month additional fee, no opt-outs permitted.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has developed a fully auditable set of guidelines and actions for clinicians within its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system.
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Jay C et al, Disability and Rehabilitation. Assistive Technology, 2010
On simple Web pages, the text to speech translation provided by a screen reader works relatively well. This is not the case for more sophisticated ‘Web 2.0′ pages, in which many interactive visual features, such as tickers, tabs, auto-suggest lists, calendars and slideshows currently remain inaccessible. Determining how to present these in audio is challenging in general, but may be particularly so for certain groups, such as people with congenital or early-onset blindness, as they are not necessarily familiar with the visual interaction metaphors that are involved.
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Bansler JP, Havn E. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2010
Objectives
This study aims to explore the issues and challenges involved in designing and organizing pilot implementations of health information systems (HIS). Pilot implementations are a widely used approach for identifying design flaws and implementation issues before full-scale deployment of new HIS. However, it is not uncommon for pilot implementations to fail in the sense that little can be learned from them.
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eHealthServer
“The Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 (CCHE) has successfully gone live with state-of-the-art healthcare information technology (HIT) solutions from Cerner Corporation. More than 700 clinicians and staff are using Cerner Millennium® solutions to provide superior care and improve patient safety for cancer patients at Egypt’s leading pediatric cancer hospital.
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Apiscam
“La Resolución sobre e-Salud (WHA58/28) aprobada con ocasión de la Asamblea Mundial de Salud, define el compromiso de los gobiernos de todo el mundo con relación a la enorme gama de posibilidades que ofrece la e-Salud. El fracaso de los sistemas de salud y la provisión de servicios esenciales en los países menos desarrollados y en los países transicionales impiden cumplir los objetivos del desarrollo del milenio . Las TICs pueden mejorar los servicios de salud para todos, en diferentes y muy significativas formas (usabilidad, resolución problemas, …).
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“Guernsey has gone live with the next stages of its multi-million pound electronic health and social care record by implementing specialist oncology software.
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Renai LeMay, iTWire
“Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon yesterday provided further details on how the Federal Government’s electronic health record project will work in practice, although details of exactly how budget funds will be spent on the project remain scarce.
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KevinMD
“There are some medical centers that are investing in the concept of group visits.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“How useful are “smart” implantable medical devices? “It’s like having an office visit every day and a complete physical every week,” University of Southern California cardiologist Dr. Leslie Saxon tells the New York Times. The Times recently took a comprehensive look at the “new wave” of implantables now undergoing clinical trials.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“A survey of 120 hospital CIOs finds that only half believe their organization will meet the first set of electronic health records meaningful use criteria in time to get incentive payments in 2011, and a full 80 percent worry about being able to meet expanded criteria in 2015.
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EMR Daily News
“Few will argue against the benefits of an integrated Electronic Medical Records (EMR) System, which has gained popularity and momentum in recent years.
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Medical News Today
“The combination vaccine for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox (MMRV) is associated with double the risk of febrile seizures for 1- to 2-year-old children compared with same-day administration of the separate vaccine for MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and the varicella (V) vaccine for chicken pox, according to a Kaiser Permanente Division of Research study appearing online in the journal Pediatrics.
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