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Deléger L et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(5)
Objective
While essential for patient care, information related to medication is often written as free text in clinical records and, therefore, difficult to use in computerized systems. This paper describes an approach to automatically extract medication information from clinical records, which was developed to participate in the i2b2 2009 challenge, as well as different strategies to improve the extraction.
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24 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: France | EHR: EHR | Tags: Medical Information, Medication, Narrative
Wald JS et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(5)
Electronic health records (EHRs) and EHR-connected patient portals offer patient-provider collaboration tools for visit-based care. During a randomized controlled trial, primary care patients completed pre-visit electronic journals (eJournals) containing EHR-based medication, allergies, and diabetes (study arm 1) or health maintenance, personal history, and family history (study arm 2) topics to share with their provider.
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24 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Patient, Physicians, Portal, Primary Care, Satisfaction
Chen T et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
Patient records, including doctors’ diagnoses of diseases, trace of treatments and patients’ conditions, nursing actions, and examination results from allied health profession departments, are the most important medical records of patients in medical systems. With patient records, medical staff can instantly understand the entire medical information of a patient so that, according to the patient’s conditions, more accurate diagnoses and more appropriate in-depth treatments can be provided. Nevertheless, in such a modern society with booming information technologies, traditional paper-based patient records have faced a lot of problems, such as lack of uniform formats, low data mobility, slow data transfer, illegible handwritings, enormous and insufficient storage space, difficulty of conservation, being easily damaged, and low transferability.
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24 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Taiwan | EHR: EHR | Tags: Access, emr, Security
Carole Bartoo, The Reporter
“On a Friday morning in September, Edwin Davis and his 14-year-old son, Ethan, drove to their family health clinic in Linden, Tenn.
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24 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Telemedicine
Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“Does health information exchange actually have an effect on utilization of healthcare services? That’s a question the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center will attempt to answer by analyzing data from a nearby HIE to determine if better physician access to patient data at the point of care is the reason for a reduction in diagnostic tests.
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24 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Benefits, Health Information Exchange
medGadget
“A project led by National Space Biomedical Research Institute has developed a system that can quickly provide relevant health history of a patient and assist in delivering medical care when the nearest doctor is, well, back on Earth.
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24 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | EHR: EHR | Tags: Space
Shawn Rhea, ModernHealthcare
“Global health officials attending a healthcare information technology round table in New York on Tuesday called on information technology providers to create “scalable, cost-effective” mobile-health solutions for low-resource countries.
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24 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Health Information Technology, mHealth
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, iHealthBeat
“By asserting that 40% of U.S. adults would be “willing to pay” for mobile health applications, valuing the market at $7.7 billion, PricewaterhouseCoopers has opened up a dialogue on Twitter, in blogs and even in the mainstream press on whether consumers would really open up their wallets and spend money on personal health information technology.
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23 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: mHealth
Ken Congdon, Healthcare Technology Online
“Some good news regarding EMRs was published last month in an article in The McKinsey Quarterly newsletter titled Reforming Hospitals With IT Investmen.
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23 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits
Chris Hall, Healthcentral
“After reading and reading, it seems that the mHealth phenomenon can really be broken down into two parts: data collection and data distribution. Put plainly, any value derived from mHealth lies in the data being collected from patients and distributed throughout the health care system.
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23 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Data, mHealth
Harriet Messing, Zorgelijkjes
“Mijn ziekenhuis Twittert, gaaf hè!”, vertelde een goede vriend me een paar maanden geleden. “Hé dat is leuk”, antwoordde ik, “daar zullen ze dan wel één van de eersten mee zijn.” Afgelopen week kwamen de nieuwste cijfers langs over het gebruik van sociale media door Nederlandse ziekenhuizen. Lucien Engelen, expert Zorg 2.0 van het UMC St Radboud, publiceerde ze in zijn beide blogs.
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23 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | Tags: Hospitals, Social Media
Sabinet Cape Town Office
“Minister of health, Aaron Motsoaledi, has called for a national telemedicine strategy. He has invited all role players to work together with the department of health in revising and implementing this.
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23 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: South-Africa | Tags: Telemedicine
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“When we built our web-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, the vision we had in mind was its use in ambulatory medical practices, particularly primary care practices, who had been priced out of the market by legacy products.
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23 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Web
Gisela Nehring, HIMSS News
“After six years of experience with patient portals, Cleveland Clinic has found patient and provider satisfaction can be increased with no increase or even a decrease in provider workload. One cardiologist related a story of telephone tag with a patient that took six calls back and forth and two days before connecting with the patient.
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23 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Benefits, Meaningful Use, Patient, Portal
Healthcare Info Security
“The United States should look to the European Union for examples of how to successfully protect the privacy of patient information, the co-author of a new report on electronic health records says.
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23 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | EHR: EHR | Tags: Privacy, Security
Fiona Barr, e-Health Europe
“Online consultations could reduce the need for face-to-face appointments with GPs by 40%, the largest ever study of online visits in primary care has found.
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23 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: e-consult
Heather Leslie, Archetypical
“In a world where connectivity is the universal aspiration, our health information is largely still caught up in silos and, in the main, is not accessible to those who need it – patients, clinicians, researchers, epidemiologists and planners. Shared electronic health records (EHRs) are increasingly needed to support the improvement of health outcomes by providing a timely, comprehensive and coordinated foundation for provision of healthcare.
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23 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | EHR: EHR | Tags: Archetypes, Benefits, Connectivity, Health Information, Interoperability, openEHR
eHealthNews.eu
“Europe is leading the rest of the world in advancing towards modern eHealth infrastructures and implementations” was the conclusion of Dr. Karl Stroetmann of empirica Consultants at an eHealth Strategies Symposium in Brussels.
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23 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tags: Health Information Technology, Implementation
Frank Avignone, mobihealthnews
“In the last 18 months there has been a deafening noise around the use of mobile technology in addressing some of the challenges facing health care today in this country. Although there are many definitions of what the “killer app” for mHealth is dependent on the vendor you ask.
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23 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Applications, mHealth
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat
“Their work paid off. Last week GE Healthcare announced that its Smart Patient Room pilot at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, New York has been approved and is ready to being “collecting data.”
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23 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hospitals, Hygiene, Patient Safety, Sensors, Tracking
