Teixeira PA et al, Patient Education and Counseling, 2010
Objective
To assess the attitudes of persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) towards having their personal health information (PHI) stored and shared electronically.
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Vernmark K et al, Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48(5)
Internet-delivered psychological treatment of major depression has been investigated in several trials, but the role of personalized treatment is less investigated. Studies suggest that guidance is important and that automated computerized programmes without therapist support are less effective. Individualized e-mail therapy for depression has not been studied in a controlled trial. Eighty-eight individuals with major depression were randomized to two different forms of Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), or to a waiting-list control group. One form of Internet treatment consisted of guided self-help, with weekly modules and homework assignments.
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van der Houwen K et al, Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48(5)
Research so far has shown little evidence that written disclosure facilitates recovery from bereavement. There are good reasons to assume that written disclosure may only benefit those bereaved who are at risk for developing problems or who are experiencing significant psychological problems as a result of their loss, and only when appropriate writing instructions are used. Drawing on previous work in the area of post-traumatic stress, a writing intervention was designed to test these assumptions.
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Social Media Healthcare
“Sources with a strong track record of reliability or distinguished conduct were heavily favored, as with the Mayo Clinic. Some mentioned that they gravitated towards “trusted online sites related to health care issues,” but many people didn’t disclose what constituted a trusted source.
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Thiele RH et al, Postgraduate Medical Journal, 86(1018)
Background
The explosion of biomedical information has led to an ‘information paradox’-the volume of biomedical information available has made it increasingly difficult to find relevant information when needed. It is thus increasingly critical for physicians to acquire a working knowledge of biomedical informatics.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“With enormous fanfare California has launched the California Telehealth Network, connecting 800 health providers in underserved areas with the state’s largest research institutions.
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Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“One of my favorite publications, McKinsey Quarterly, published an article this month entitled “Reforming hospitals with IT investment” which speaks in plain business language about the costs and benefits of hospitals rolling out EHRs.
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Diamond JM, Bloch RM. Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(6)
BACKGROUND:
The limited number of mental health specialists for children has led to an increased need for child and adolescent psychiatrists to provide primary care consultations and treatment recommendations. Psychiatric assessments and treatments provided via two-way videoconferencing (telepsychiatry) have been used to increase the availability of child psychiatrists. This article reviews the literature on telepsychiatry assessment of children and adolescents.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Cloud-based EHRs are being touted as a cost-effective alternative for physicians who are worried about the price tag of client-served, software-based EHRs. A recent article, however, questions whether they are such a good choice for a number of valid reasons.
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Kate Ackerman, iHealthBeat
“As of September 2008, 77 million residents lived in the country’s 3,059 mental health professional shortage areas, or HPSAs, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The foundation reported that it would take an additional 5,145 mental health care providers to meet a population to practitioner ratio of 10,000 to 1.
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Yellowlees PM et al, Psychiatric Services, 61(8)
OBJECTIVE:
This study examined the feasibility of conducting psychiatric consultations using asynchronous, or store-and-forward, video-based telepsychiatry.
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Sheri Ebert, News Talk 650
“Renting a movie and getting a big game hunting licence are not occassions where you should be asked for your health card, says Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner, Gary Dickson, who said they can and have been used innapropriately.
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Josh Taylor, ZDNet.com.au
“Residents of Brisbane, Melbourne and the Hunter Valley will be the very first to get electronic health records, Health Minister Nicola Roxon has announced today.
“This is an important step forward in allowing online access to health records for each Australian that chooses to,” Roxon said in a statement. “Patients will control what goes onto their record and who can access their information.”
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Bob Brewin, NextGov
“Last week the Military Health System detailed plans to replace its AHLTA electronic health record system — loathed by its clinicians — with a new system based on commercial products.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra joined a diverse group of statewide healthcare and technology agencies Tuesday at the UC Davis Cancer Center in Sacramento to launch the California Telehealth Network (CTN), which is set to be the largest in the nation.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Patients worry about not being able to access their paper medical records when they need them the most, placing that above concerns about whether their records contain inaccuracies or are stolen, according to a new survey.
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Müller A et al, International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, 2010
The great epidemiological significance and costs associated with chronic heart failure pose a challenge to health systems in Western industrial countries. In the past few years, controlled randomised studies have shown that patients with chronic heart failure benefit from telemedical monitoring; specifically, telemonitoring of various vital parameters combined with a review of the symptoms, drug compliance and patient education. In Germany, various telemedical monitoring projects for patients with chronic heart failure have been initiated in the past few years; seven of them are presented here.
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MedHealthWorld
Where do consumers go for health services and medical information? For over 280 million wireless subscribers in the United States, the answer is as close as their mobile phone. Today’s consumers use their mobile devices, especially their smartphones, to access all types of resources – including health information — on the go.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The federal privacy and security tiger team said health information exchanges cannot share sensitive patient information beyond a simple point-to-point exchange without first obtaining a patient’s consent.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“This is the kind of story we love–so much so that we mentioned this exact case already a few months ago. We refer to the Transport AV telemedicine system in use at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center emergency department, which got the feature treatment in Healthcare IT News last week.
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