medGadget
“Just a decade after HAL 9000 was supposed to make its appearance, researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have unveiled a prototype of a robot capable of developing emotions through interactions with human caregivers and getting emotionally attached to them. The robots are programmed to learn to interact with humans the same way babies do, using the same expressive and behavioral cues.
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Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, ICTconsequences
“Although I have not posted about Pharmacists and the use of the Internet and I have not found many research on this topic, it’s clear that these health professionals are playing an important role in healthcare. Therefore, they also have a role in relationship with the Internet, specially Community Pharmacists, who are probably the most accessible health professional and are daily dealing with all kind of patients.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“We think of open source as being a process for developing software. It’s also a process for developing cures.
As Gina Kolata notes at The New York Times, it’s working in the area of Alzheimer’s Disease.
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amednews
“Electronic medical record systems have the true potential to transform the practice of medicine in ways that will improve patient care. But physicians must be secure in knowing that they will have the necessary support when they make the leap into the paperless world.
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Patricia Anstett, Free Press
“The hospital of the future is coming to Michigan.
All over the state, hospitals and doctor networks are investing millions in technology, a push also being made by the federal government.
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Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“Saturday’s New York Times portends more trouble for big Pharma. The headline is wrapped up in an examination of foreign corrupt practices, but the bigger issue is that clinical trials have hidden serious adverse events.
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Cesar Torres, HIMSS Blog
“Remember when your household got its first touch-tone phone? The green-lit number pad was a delight – so easy to use!—and each key made its own little sound. You looked back at the old rotary phone, now sadly relegated to the den, and thought, “Who’s going to want to use that old thing from now on? My fancy new phone is so much easier to use.” But then your grandmother told you she didn’t like the new phone and preferred the old one.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“All the laws have been passed and all the final rulings have been published. In the spirit of the times, you went out and got yourself an EHR. You did your due diligence and sat through many hours of vendor demonstrations.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“One of the federal goals of having providers implement EHRs is to better track, manage and improve population health, but a recently published report by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) finds that EHRs aren’t equipped to complete those tasks.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Investing in an electronic medical records system was not something many physicians late in their careers were probably thinking about a few years ago. But the introduction of incentive pay for adopting an EMR — and the penalties for not adopting — have older physicians wondering if such an investment is worthwhile.
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Liao L et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
Complicated Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems have created problems in systems regarding an easy implementation and interoperability for a Web-enabled Healthcare Solution, which is normally provided by an independent healthcare giver with limited IT knowledge and interests. An EMR system with well-designed and user-friendly interface, such as Microsoft HealthVault System used as the back-end platform of a Web-enabled healthcare application will be an approach to deal with these problems. This paper analyzes the patient oriented Web-enabled healthcare service application as the new trend to delivery healthcare from hospital/clinic-centric to patient-centric, the current e-healthcare applications, and the main backend EMR systems.
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Patel VN et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
In order to characterize consumer support for electronic health information exchange (HIE) and personal health records (PHRs) in a community where HIE is underway, we conducted a survey of English speaking adults who visited primary care practices participating in a regional community-wide clinical data exchange, during August, 2008. Amongst the 117 respondents, a majority supported physicians’ use of HIE (83%) or expressed interest in potentially using PHRs (76%).
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William F. Bria, CMIO
“It is a bigger jump than a lot of us understand to transition from the way the traditional exposition of medical knowledge exists today, to the implementation of information systems. It’s time we make that journey, even though the adoption levels are just beginning to climb the Gartner hype cycle.
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EurekAlert!
“The authors of this study asked what mechanisms influence the swift and successful diffusion of technological innovations at hospitals. They use a “social contagion” model to study the diffusion of electronic medical records in the population of U.S. hospitals; hospitals have mutual influence on each other for information technology adoption.
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Angst CM et al, Management Science, 56(8)
We use a social contagion lens to study the dynamic, temporal process of the diffusion of electronic medical records in the population of U.S. hospitals. Social contagion acknowledges the mutual influence among organizations within an institutional field and implicates information transmission through direct contact and observation as the mechanisms underlying influence transfer. We propose hypotheses predicting a hospital’s likelihood of adopting electronic medical records as a function of its susceptibility to the influence of prior adopters, the infectiousness or potency of influence exerted by adopting hospitals, and its social and spatial proximity to prior adopters. Results obtained by fitting a heterogeneous diffusion model to data from a sample drawn from an annual survey, spanning 1975 to 2005, of almost 4,000 U.S. hospitals suggest that diffusion can be accelerated if specific attention is given to increasing social contagion effects.
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De Leon S et al. The Journal of Medical Practice Management, 25(6)
Electronic health records (EHRs) are expected to transform and improve the way medicine is practiced. However, providers perceive many barriers toward implementing new health information technology. Specifically, they are most concerned about the potentially negative impact on their practice finances and productivity. This study compares the productivity of 75 providers at a large urban primary care practice from January 2005 to February 2009, before and after implementing an EHR system, using longitudinal mixed model analyses.
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OWNI
“Selon le docteur Jacques Lucas, vice-président du Conseil National de l’Ordre des Médecins (Cnom), en charge des technologies de l’information et de la communication, Internet constitue “un virage majeur dans la relation médecins/patients”.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“Amid the continuing health information technology debate about when and to what extent patients should have control over the release of their medical information, one big issue—whether providers’ IT systems would even allow for granular release of the information contained in health records—has fallen more or less by the wayside.
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Dana Blankenhorn, Smartplanet
“Practically since the day physicians put away their barber’s tools there has been a growing knowledge gap between doctor and patient.
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“There are a lot of failed EHR implementations out there. How do I know that to be true? I studied the shapes of more than 60,000 failed EHR implementations and, guess what?
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