Mars M. Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2010
Objective:
The aim of this paper is to identify and report the issues facing human capacity development through the use of telemedicine in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Josh Gliddon, eHealthSpace.org
“It’s estimated that every year $2.5 trillion is lost around the world due to inefficient healthcare practices. That’s right, trillions of dollars. The figure comes from global research conducted by IBM as part of its Smarter Planet initiative.
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Medica Cataluña
“La digitalización total de la imagen de cada una de las 7,5 millones de pruebas radiológicas que se realizan anualmente en Cataluña, un proyecto iniciado en 2008 y que está previsto que finalice totalmente a finales de este año, permitirá a la Consejería de Salud de la Generalitat ahorrar hasta 10 millones de euros.
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Lonny Reisman, Health Affairs Blog
“Too often, the health care policy discussion in America is academic, political, theoretical — and unplugged from everyday realities. The discussion lacks the real-world experiences that each of us, our family and friends face in dealing with a complex and disconnected health care system.
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Kristina Fiore, KevinMD
“They’re still there. Rows upon rows of number- and color-tagged manila charts, packed in so closely together that Fiore sometimes sticks to Fiori, or hides behind it.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“In a recent discussion I had, someone brought up a really interesting question about module certification to me. Obviously, proving that you use a certified EHR is quite easy if you just use one EHR software that’s a complete certified EHR based on the ARRA guidelines. Then, you can fitfully say that you use a certified EHR.
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John, EMR and EHR
“It’s a pretty damaging list of flaws. I’m not so sure about the second item actually working. Although, I don’t think the RECs are going to be able to do better than the market, so it still stands as a decent point.
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Véronique Martinache, AFP
“Help, je comprends rien à mes analyses de sang”, “j’aimerais savoir les signes probables d’un cancer des poumons”, “je sors de chez le gynéco et j’ai quelques questions” : internet s’invite aujourd’hui dans la relation médecin-patient pour un mariage à trois plus ou moins heureux.
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Bunny Ellerin, Pharma 2.0
“I remember attending a small event about 18 months ago that focused on the convergence of mobile and health. It was sponsored by a digital agency and the audience was made up of pharma people. The panelists were from mobile or digital research companies.
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Kate Otto, Huffington Post
“Despite our complex web of health access issues in America, we boast over 27 physicians per 10,000 individuals. On average, that means one doctor is responsible for 370 people.
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Desmond O’Neill, BMJ Group Blogs
“Some medical technologies creep up on you, some arrive with a bang. In internal medicine much of the change – electronic laboratory reporting, digital imaging – is gradualist and steered by other disciplines, and physicians are grateful if relatively passive users.
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There will be no news updates on 14 October 2010. The important information will be recuperated on the 15th.
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Remote monitoring services are enabling Sisters of Mercy Health System clinicians to offer care to chronically ill home-based patients sooner, as well as track the conditions of seriously ill or injured hospital patients located miles away.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Veterans Affairs Department plans to expand its use of information technology and telecommunications – including mobile and landline phones and video conferencing – to deliver health care to aging veterans and others who suffer from chronic conditions, according to senior telehealth official.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“If there’s one dominant assumption underlying the push toward new HIT, it may be the idea that more communication is always good.
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Hartmut Wiehr, CIO
“Seit Jahren schleppt sich die Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte dahin. Jetzt zeigt ein Report der Bundesärztekammer auf, wie gespalten die Ärzte in dieser Frage sind.
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Padfield PL. BMC Medicine, 8(1)
Although the assessment of cardiovascular risk in individual patients takes into account a range of risk factors, the diagnosis and management of hypertension (high blood pressure) is largely determined by a single numerical value, albeit that often several readings are taken over time. Given the critical impact of a decision to embark on lifelong drug therapy the importance of ensuring that a blood pressure (BP) record is both accurate and representative is clear. However, there is good evidence that the variability of BP is such that even if measurement is of the highest quality it can be difficult to say with confidence whether a patient is above or below a treatment threshold.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“I’ve blogged a couple of times about medical scribes in the last couple of months in a tone more disapproving than not. I recently read a testimonial of a senior in college, who is planning to take his medical school admissions test next year.
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Nuria FeSalud, PESCA
“Explicábamos a de la pasada semana que uno de los grandes éxitos logrados por los Living Labs era que trasladar las ideas que llenan los discursos de los gurús tecnológicos a la práctica.
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Dick Vinegar, Smart Healthcare
“In his promotional videos for Connecting for Health back in 2003, Richard Granger showed what he was wanting to get rid of: endless racks of scruffy folders of patient notes, stacked in vast warehouses in hospitals across the land.
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