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Bleuer JP et al, Medical and Care Compunetics 6, 2010
Suva (Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund) is the most important carrier of obligatory accident insurance in Switzerland. Its medical division supports doctors working in inpatient and outpatient care with comprehensive case management and with conciliar advice. The Suva hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation. In 2002, Suva started the InWiM project. InWiM is an acronym and stands for “Integrierte Wissensbasen der Medizin”, which can be translated as “Integrated Knowledge Bases in Medicine”.
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20 June 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Knowledge Management
Muñoz DC et al, Medical and Care Compunetics 6, 2010
Current e-learning systems are still inadequate to support the level of interaction, personalization and engagement demanded by clinicians, care givers, and the patient themselves. For effective e-learning to be delivered in the health context, collaboration between pedagogy and technology is required. Furthermore, e-learning systems should be flexible enough to be adapted to the students’ needs, evaluated regularly, easy to use and maintain and provide students’ feedback, guidelines and supporting material in different formats.
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20 June 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: e-Learning, Education, Evaluation
Falcão-Reis F, Correia ME. Medical and Care Compunetics 6, 2010
With the advent of more sophisticated and comprehensive healthcare information systems, system builders are becoming more interested in patient interaction and what he can do to help to improve his own health care. Information systems play nowadays a crucial and fundamental role in hospital work-flows, thus providing great opportunities to introduce and improve upon “patient empowerment” processes for the personalization and management of Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
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Categories: Science | Country: Portugal | EHR: EHR, EHR Portugal | Tags: Empowerment, Identity, Patient, Privacy, Smart Card
Paré G et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(2)
Background:
Home telemonitoring figures among the various solutions that could help attenuate some of the problems associated with aging populations, rates of chronic illness, and shortages of health professionals.
Objective:
The primary aim of this study was to further our understanding of the clinical effects associated with home telemonitoring programs in the context of chronic diseases.
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Categories: Science | Tags: Chronic Diseases, Effectiveness, Elderly, Information Technology, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
Juliet K. Mavromatis, KevinMD
“In my 12 years of clinical practice I have lived in the community in which I practice, less than two miles from my office. I encounter patients daily in the supermarket, at soccer games, swim meets and school events. I have had conversations with patients at parties, on the street, and while half-dressed in the locker room.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: facebook, Medical Home, Physician-Patient Relationship, Primary Care, Privacy, social-network, Twitter
Lugovkina T, Richards B. Medical and Care Compunetics 6, 2010
The Healthcare Record has been used in a “Before and After” situation to improve patient care. The main paradigm of the modern Health Care is changing towards pervasive person-centric care including prevention and home care. Medical compunetics is a very important applicative field for improving the interoperability and the quality of the healthcare information system, especially in the current climate with the empowerment patients. The success depends on the choice of the Clinical Events Classification for structuring the span of clinical information.
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Categories: Science | Country: UK | EHR: EHR | Tags: Decision Support, Intensive care
Orthuber W, Papavramidis E. Medical and Care Compunetics 6, 2010
In this paper standardized vectorial (quantitative) representation of medical data is suggested for use in patient records. Vectorial representations are (as sequences of numbers) language independent, precise, directly comparable, and they allow advanced evaluation, e.g. similarity calculation using well defined distance functions. It is possible to search for a patient with a certain combination of diagnostic parameters on the Web records of patients with similar parameters.
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Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tags: Decision Support
Corbal GI et al, Medical and Care Compunetics 6, 2010
The A Coruña University Hospital Complex is developing an expert system to improve the decision support for transplanted patients. The system will access the data collected during the monitoring of patients and generate a database of statistics that will aid health professionals in several stages of the transplant process.
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20 June 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Spain | Tags: Decision Support, Monitoring, Surgery, user interface
Oemig F. Bernd B, Medical and Care Compunetics 6, 2010
Working interoperability not only requires harmonized system’s architectures, but also the same interpretation of technical specifications in order to guide the development process.
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20 June 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Communication, HL7, Interoperability, Ontology, Standards
David Harlow, The Health Care Blog
“This week David Blumenthal, Steve Posnack and Carol Bean of the ONC announced the publication of the final (albeit temporary) EHR certification rule.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Certification
Fran Sánchez, El cuaderno de bitácora de Fran Sánchez
“Continuamos hoy con el comentario que iniciamos ayer sobre el artículo en FlashTICSalut
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Categories: News | Country: Spain | EHR: EHR, EHR Spain | Tags: Coding, Interoperability, Privacy, Quality
Your Nurse Is On
“Health 2.0 goes to Washington was held on June 7, 2010 in Washington, DC at The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health 2.0
Fran Sánchez, El cuaderno de bitácora de Fran Sánchez
“Continuando con el artículo de ayer, me gustaría comentar con vosotros un artículo de la excelente web FlashTICSalut en la que se analiza un interesantísimo artículo de la European Journal of ePractice que propone 6 medidas para lograr la interoperabilidad de nuestras historias clínicas electrónicas (HCE).
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Categories: News | Country: Spain | EHR: EHR, EHR Spain | Tags: Access, Identification, Interoperability, logging
Setia M, Dellifraine JL. J Telemed Telecare, 2010
There appear to have been no studies of telemedicine in rural day care centres. We have assessed the feasibility of using telemedicine in eight rural day care centres in Pennsylvania, from the day care centres’ perspective. The average number of children in these centres was 76 (range 20-150). The centres sent an average of 4.7 children home each month because of illness. Using telephone and face-to-face interviews, we assessed their perceived need for and familiarity with telemedicine, as well as their openness and preparedness for implementing telemedicine.
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Categories: Science | Tags: Rural, Telemedicine
Buysse HE et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2010
Purpose
Till now no validated instrument exists to measure the readiness and attitude of diabetic patients towards the use of telemonitoring. The purpose of the described study was to develop a Telemonitoring Attitude and Readiness Questionnaire and to check its validity and reliability.
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Categories: Science | Country: Belgium | Tags: Diabetes, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
Gentles SJ et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(2)
Background:
Pediatric patients with health conditions requiring follow-up typically depend on a caregiver to mediate at least part of the necessary two-way communication with health care providers on their behalf. Health information technology (HIT) and its subset, information communication technology (ICT), are increasingly being applied to facilitate communication between health care provider and caregiver in these situations. Awareness of the extent and nature of published research involving HIT interventions used in this way is currently lacking.
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Categories: Science | Tags: Applications, Children, Communication, Health Information Technology, Internet, Medical Informatics, Physician-Patient Relationship
Tu K et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10(1)
BACKGROUND:
Electronic medical records (EMRs) represent a potentially rich source of health information for research but the free-text in EMRs often contains identifying information. While de-identification tools have been developed for free-text, none have been developed or tested for the full range of primary care EMR data.
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Categories: Science | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: De-identification, emr, Free text, Primary Care, Research
Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“One important clarification was made by ONC — there is no grandfathering in CCHIT or previously certified products. Everybody is going to be re certified using the new NIST rules. This means that if you have even 2011 CCHIT certification now it won’t mean anything, you have to go through the process again.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: CCHIT, Certification
JLister, Geeks are sexy
“A new British hospital has acquired a fleet of robots to carry out menial tasks including transporting waste, delivering food and dispensing drugs.
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Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: Hospitals, Robot
Cristi, Padgadget
“Apple’s iPad is quickly finding its niche in different industries around the world and healthcare appears to be welcoming the iPad with open arms.
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20 June 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: disabled, tablet PC
