Articles
Bolton CE, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2010
Rationale, aims and objectives The evidence to support the effectiveness of home telemonitoring interventions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is limited, yet there are many efforts made to implement these technologies across health care services. Methods A comprehensive search strategy was designed and implemented across 9 electronic databases and 11 European, Australasian and North American telemedicine websites. Included studies had to examine the effectiveness of telemonitoring interventions, clearly defined for the study purposes, for adult patients with COPD.
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19 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: UK | Tags: COPD, Effectiveness, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
Lee D et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10(1)
Background
Over the past decade there has been a growing body of literature on how the Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) can be implemented and used in different clinical settings. Yet, for those charged with incorporating SNOMED CT into their organisation’s clinical applications and vocabulary systems, there are few detailed encoding instructions and examples available to show how this can be done and the issues involved. This paper describes a heuristic method that can be used to encode clinical terms in SNOMED CT and an illustration of how it was applied to encode an existing palliative care dataset.
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19 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Canada | Tags: SNOMED
Yardley L et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10(1)
Background
It is recognised as good practice to use qualitative methods to elicit users’ views of internet-delivered health-care interventions during their development. This paper seeks to illustrate the advantages of combining usability testing with ‘theoretical modelling’, i.e. analyses that relate the findings of qualitative studies during intervention development to social science theory, in order to gain deeper insights into the reasons and context for how people respond to the intervention. This paper illustrates how usability testing may be enriched by theoretical modelling by means of two qualitative studies of users’ views of the delivery of information in an internet-delivered intervention to help users decide whether they needed to seek medical care for their cold or flu symptoms.
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19 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: UK | Tags: Health Information, Literacy, Search, Usability, Website
Singh H et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2010
OBJECTIVES:
Electronic health records (EHR) enable transmission and tracking of referrals between primary-care practitioners (PCPs) and subspecialists. We used an EHR to examine follow-up actions on electronic referral communication in a large multispecialty VA facility.
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19 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Communication, Health Information Technology, Patient Safety, Primary Care, Referral
Proper understanding of textual data requires the exploitation and integration of unstructured and heterogeneous clinical sources, healthcare records or scientific literature, which are fundamental aspects in clinical and translational research. The determination of semantic similarity between word pairs is an important component of text understanding that enables the processing, classification and structuring of textual resources. In the past, several approaches for assessing word similarity by exploiting different knowledge sources (ontologies, thesauri, domain corpora, etc.) have been proposed. Some of these measures have been adapted to the biomedical field by incorporating domain information extracted from clinical data or from medical ontologies (such as MeSH or SNOMED CT).
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19 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Biomedicine, Data Mining, Ontology, Semantic, SNOMED
In the digital city of the future there is the vision of seamless virtual and physical access for every home and between each home and the workplace, as well as critical city infrastructure such as the post office, the bank, hospitals, transportation systems, and other entities. This paper provides an overview of technical and other issues in extending at home (@home) assistive technologies for the elderly and the disabled. The paper starts by giving a vision of what this city is supposed to look like and how a human is to act, navigate and function in it. A framework for extending assistive technologies is proposed that considers individuals belonging to special groups of interest and locations other than their home. Technology has already reached the state of ubiquitous and pervasive sensor devices measuring everything, from temperature to human behavior.
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19 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Greece | Tags: Ambient-Assisted-Living, Assistive Technology, Digital Homecare, disabled, Elderly
Khiabanian H et al, PloS One, 5(9)
Background
In June of 2009, the World Health Organization declared the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century, and by July, New York City’s New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) experienced a heavy burden of cases, attributable to a novel strain of the virus (H1N1pdm).
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19 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: pandemics
Breen P et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10(1)
Background
Feedback from service users will provide insight into opportunities for improvement so that performance can be optimised. In the context of a formative evaluation referring clinician and patient satisfaction with a teleneurophysiology service was examined during a 20 week pilot period.
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19 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Ireland | Tags: Evaluation, Neurophysiology, Patient, Physicians, Telemedicine
Medical News Today
“Researchers from Michigan State University’s departments of Electrical Engineering and Kinesiology are teaming up to create a new wearable sensor network to assess a person’s physical activity and overall well-being.
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19 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Physical Activity, Sensors, Wearable, Wireless
Ramya Kannan, The Hindu
“While new mobile applications are being written ever so often, the mobile is yet to be fully exploited for a life-saving function — literally. mHealth, which fulfils that, is only a few years old, and the advantage of that is that it is only set to grow dramatically.
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19 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: India, UK | Tags: Chronic Diseases, mHealth
Cora Sharma, Chilmark Research
“John mentioned in an earlier post, “Is the mHealth hype justified?” how the word ‘mHealth’ has acquired a broad, unwieldy set of definitions. The mHealth term is now practically useless (except as a buzzword).
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19 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hospitals, mHealth, Mobility, Physicians
Max Harrold, The Gazette
“Despite a fresh call to use more telecommunications in Quebec’s health care system, Quebec’s College of Physicians this week came out stridently opposed to the idea of potentially cost-saving online doctor’s visits.
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19 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tags: Telemedicine
KevinMD
“The Mayo Clinic has always been at the forefront of the social media and health care intersection, and is the first institution to have an official Center for Social Media.
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18 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hospitals, Physicians, Social Media
Kelly Young, RA Warrior
“I was surprised when I came across this headline: Rheumatoid arthritis patients caught in middle of doctors’ disagreement over hand surgery. So says an interesting group of studies from 2003 which found extreme differences in the ways that doctors viewed treatment for RA hands.
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18 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: e-patient, Health Information
Christian Holland. Mass Device
“National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Dr. David Blumenthal says there is a “raging debate” in Washington over whether the development of electronic medical records should be driven by standards or competition.
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18 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Standards
Anne Zieger, HealthcareiX
“This week, a tragedy unfolded at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University, where a man distraught over his mother’s condition shot her, her doctor, and himself. This awful series of events — which ended in the death of the man and his mother– deserve plenty of attention, as the hospital industry is only just beginning to pay attention to the level of violence within its walls.
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18 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Implementation
John, EMR and EHR
“i Medical Apps recently posted an article about Apple’s iPad falling short of transforming hospital Medical Care, but says it may have potential with EMR.
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18 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, tablet PC
Shea Steinberg, EHR Bloggers
“Most of us have had experiences throughout our life with peer pressure, maybe in school or with siblings. Today, in the healthcare sector, there’s a new form of peer pressure: the pressure to adopt Electronic Health Records (EHR). With more affordable, usable EHR options looming around the web (ahem, Practice Fusion) it’s getting harder for doctors to resist the technological temptation.
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17 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, social-network
David Raths, Healthcare Informatics
“Pilot projects under way in the state of Washington to create personal health record (PHR) banks in three communities have found that many consumers don’t have a computer and Internet access, but almost all of them have mobile phones.
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17 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: mobile, phr
Isaac Azancot, esante.gouv.fr
“L’objectif que s’est fixé le groupe hospitalier Lariboisière Fernand Widal est de garantir un niveau élevé de protection des droits de ses patients
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17 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: France | EHR: EHR, EHR France | Tags: Access, Hospitals, Patient
