Robot to aid patients with dementia
Skynews.com.au
“Scientists in Japan have developed a robot that can aid people with mild dementia by giving verbal reminders about things such as appointments and taking medicine.
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New medical office embraces technology
Vinti Singh, News-Times
“In the future, patients will carry all of their medical records on a USB drive or a smart phone.
In Danbury, the future is just days away.
The Imed Center of Danbury, which will have its grand opening Oct. 2 at 46 Mill Plain Road, will be a paperless office with no records room.
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Measuring use of electronic health record functionality using system audit information
Bowes III WA, MEDINFO 2010
Meaningful and efficient methods for measuring Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption and functional usage patterns have recently become important for hospitals, clinics, and health care networks in the United State due to recent government initiatives to increase EHR use. To date, surveys have been the method of choice to measure EHR adoption.
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Global Electronic Health Record (EHR) Market 2009-2013
Wikio
“The adoption of EHR is increasingly gaining momentum in the healthcare organizations. An EHR system establishes a more efficient and effective information infrastructure that improves clinical documentation and enhances patient care & safety. This is because digital records can integrate various tasks and are more efficiently manageable than paper records.
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My Prescription For Australian E-Health – In The Australian Sept, 25 2010
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“The quality of Australia’s electronic information infrastructure for its health sector is a barrier to the quality of our health system.
This infrastructure, called e-health, has been promised by both sides of politics during the past decade but hasn’t been delivered.
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Diffusion and use of Electronic Health Record Systems in Norway
Heimly V et al, MEDINFO 2010
This paper sums up some of the findings from a national survey on the diffusion and use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in the Norwegian health sector. The survey shows that almost all hospitals and GPs use their EHR systems on a daily basis, while the municipalities are lagging behind, All three view costs and missing functionality as the most important challenges.
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Senate wants details on DOD-VA record sharing
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Senate Appropriations Committee wants more details about how the Defense Department plans to modernize its electronic health record system, which DOD is upgrading in coordination with the Veterans Affairs Department.
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Medical records initiative gets a big boost from Dell
“Dell Inc. announced Thursday that it will provide computer equipment and services to support a major University at Buffalo initiative to start an institute here devoted to advancing electronic medical records.
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Health IT: Home Court Advantage
John Pulley, NextGov
“Health IT systems are critical to the success of patient-centered medical home models for health care, a new study finds.
Health IT “is the essential front-end investment,” concludes the study, Medical Home 2.0: The Present, the Future, from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
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Health information technology and the electronic medical record
Henkin RE, Harolds JA. Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 35(10)
Health Information Technology and the Electronic Medical Record are becoming increasingly important in virtually all aspects of medicine. This includes computer-assisted decision support, the integration of all aspects of the health record, ability to access patient information no matter where a patient seeks care, cost control, and health care research and quality improvement.
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Evolving Privacy, Security Regulations Complicate Health IT
Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The evolving patchwork of privacy and security regulations is making the difficult job of creating health information exchanges (HIEs) even tougher, according to a panel of experts at the New Jersey and Delaware Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) fall event held this week in Atlantic City.
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Robotic arm found to work too easily
Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, CNET News
“No, you are not reading The Onion. A computer program created at the University of Central Florida that directs a robotic arm to grab objects with just one touch was deemed by many participants in a pilot study to be “too easy” to use–a finding the designers had not anticipated.
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Why health IT usability matters to patients
Dave deBronkart, KevinMD
“It’s widely rumored that a health IT industry executive was unhappy about suggestions that systems have to be usable in the eyes of employees who use them while caring for us. (Us. The patients. Your mother.)
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Telemedicine Gets a Boost From Novartis and the Earth Institute
Jenara Nerenberg, Fast Company
“There has been a lot of discussion lately about the Millenium Development Goals and, of course, how we need to push harder to reach them. Technology is an area that is cause-agnostic–from health to education to human rights, technology can be an end in itself, but more often it’s a tool to reach a desired end.
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Converting paper charts to electronic medical records tips
Peter J Polack, KevinMD
“We are a little over two years into our electronic medical records implementation at the time of this writing. Since we have been performing a gradual rollout, the entire process has been relatively uneventful. Most of the credit for this goes to our chief information officer (technospeak for the head of our IT department) and our practice administrator.
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Covisint Dips into Clinical Apps with DocSite Acquisition
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Covisint’s HIE platform can be broken down into two core pieces: ExchangeLink and AppCloud. ExchangeLink is the the technology backbone for Covisint’s providing the fundamental building blocks for an HIE including messaging, Master Patient Index (MPI) Record Locator Service (RLS), portal, etc.
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For more information, just push the Blue Button
Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“Since the HITECH program was launched, most of the attention being given to HIT issues has been focused on efforts to move healthcare providers firmly into the digital future.
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Empowering patients with COPD using Tele-homecare technology
Huniche L et al, Seamless Care – Safe Care, 2010
This paper discusses how a tele-rehabilitation program using home tele-monitoring may empower patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The paper is based on preliminary findings from an ongoing research and innovation project, called “Tele-homecare, chronic patients and the integrated healthcare system” (the TELEKAT project) that employs triple interventions related to patients, professionals, and the organization of care.
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Report reveals ongoing info security risks
Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“Given the potential of HIT to improve the delivery of health care on so many levels, it’s understandable that advocates and observers alike tend to focus on the progress being made in getting providers to put their paper days behind them.
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Health in the future: iPhone keeps diabetes in check
The Independent
“On September 21, the drug company and diabetes advocate Sanofi Aventis announced the world’s first iPhone/iPod-linked blood glucose meter iBGStar and free management app.
According to the World Health Organization “diabetes causes about 5% of all deaths globally each year” and “diabetes deaths are likely to increase by more than 50% in the next 10 years without urgent action.”
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