Alex reports
“There is no gain saying that the nation’s healthcare sector since independence has been plagued with the challenge of achieving the delivery of quality healthcare to the majority of its populace. These are evident in the state of inadequate infrastructure and lack of basic amenities some healthcare institutions in the country are confronted with.
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Phil Baumann
“Over a year ago, I started RNchat, a Twitter chat for registered nurses. At that time, I considered launching a similar venture for physicians, but decided that eventually some physician would take a stab at creating one.
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Zack Whittaker, ZDNet iGeneration
“All five hundred medical students in their final two years at the University of Leeds, UK are being given iPhone’s to assist them in field work away from the university campus.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“A new mobile iPhone application is available to help breast cancer patients learn about their diagnoses, understand medical jargon contained in lab reports, and track information about their disease.
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Katherine Hobson, WSJ Health Blog
“When researchers at the University of Pennsylvania proposed a randomized study to see if a computerized physician order entry system could prevent doctors from prescribing a potentially harmful drug combination, the institutional review board almost didn’t want to allow it.
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Strom BL et al, Arch Intern Med, 170(17)
Background
The effectiveness of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems has been modest, largely because clinicians frequently override electronic alerts.
Methods
To evaluate the effectiveness of a nearly “hard stop” CPOE prescribing alert intended to reduce concomitant orders for warfarin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, a randomized clinical trial was conducted at 2 academic medical centers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A total of 1981 clinicians were assigned to either an intervention group receiving a nearly hard stop alert or a control group receiving the standard practice. The study duration was August 9, 2006, through February 13, 2007.
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Morgan Bettex, MIT News Office
“According to the United Nations Foundation, there are about 5 billion mobile-device subscribers worldwide. Two-thirds of those are in low- and middle-income countries, many of whose citizens lack easy access to health care and must travel great distances — often hundreds of miles — to the nearest medical clinic.”
Article
Morgan Bettex, MIT News Office, 27 September 2010
CNW
“Canadian physicians and nurse practitioners will benefit from a $500 million investment made by the Government of Canada in Budget 2010, announced Richard Alvarez, President and CEO of Canada Health Infoway (Infoway).
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Jaimie Oh, Hospital Review
“A study published by CapSite, a healthcare technology research and advisory firm, suggests physicians’ purchases of electronic health records are largely driven by the goal of making their practices more efficient and not receiving stimulus funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, according to a CapSite news release.
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Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“I think patients are savvy enough to realize everything they read on the Internet is not the gospel and they should take it with a grain of salt,”
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John Jesitus, Modern Medicine
“Learning curves aside, current users of electronic health record (EHR) systems appear satisfied with them.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“According to the Institute of Medicine, annually around 1.5 million medication errors result in 7,000 deaths wherein it has been estimated that about 70% of these errors are preventable.
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Liesbeth Meijnckens, Frankwatching
“Online behandelen, digitale poli’s, zelftesten via internet. e-health biedt uiteenlopende toepassingsmogelijkheden. En daarover wordt uitgebreid gecommuniceerd. Je kunt een werkweek vullen met het bezoeken van symposia, volgen van experts op social media en doornemen van rapporten.
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Nictiz
“Op de polikliniek neurologie van het St. Antonius Ziekenhuis in Nieuwegein is een webspreekuur ingesteld, dat zowel voor artsen als patiënten goed bevalt. ‘Het is voor een zorgverlener lastig om het idee los te laten dat je een patiënt met eigen ogen moet zien.
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Angel Díaz, El Mundo
“Pasar consulta y atender a los pacientes es, sin duda, una profesión vocacional. Pero, a medida que avanza la ciencia y se multiplica la burocracia, comunicarse con la gente de a pie es cada vez más complicado para los galenos.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“KLAS’ latest report revealed many interesting things about the EMR market, specifically in the area of acute-care EMRs for large hospitals with 200-plus beds. It’s a snapshot of a market in transition, thanks to the ARRA funding.
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Jennifer C. Yates, The Associated Press
“Dr. Ricardo Munoz goes from room to room, examining three infants, one just three days old. He watches their chests to see how they are breathing, checks their vital signs flashing on monitors above their hospital beds and views x-rays and electrocardiograms.
And he does it all from more than 2,500 miles away.
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Yahoo! Noticias
“Internet se posiciona como el primer canal de información y consulta sobre cuestiones de salud, ya que ocho de cada diez españoles dicen acudir a la red para informarse sobre temas relacionados con la sanidad, aunque la mayoría lo hacen de manera complementaria, antes o después de acudir al médico.
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Owens C et al, Health Expectations, 2010
Objective
To engage a group of people with relevant lived experience in the development of a text-messaging intervention to reduce repetition of self-harm.
Background
Contact-based interventions, such as follow-up letters, postcards and telephone calls, have shown potential to reduce repetition of self-harm in those who present at Accident and Emergency departments. Text messaging offers a low-cost alternative that has not been tested. We set out to develop a text-based intervention. The process of intervention development is rarely reported and little is known about the impact of service user involvement on intervention design.
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Belden CM, Proeschold-Bell RJ. Southern Medical Journal, 2010
Background:
The electronic exchange of health records has been a notable topic in recent years in the effort to improve the quality of healthcare delivery and reduce administrative burden. Interviews and documents from stakeholders in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care, and HIV information technology were collected between November 2004 through March 2005 to conduct a qualitative policy analysis on the adoption of an electronic health record (EHR) system among HIV care providers in North Carolina and South Carolina.
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