Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“Healthcare providers should supply patients with layered and easy to understand notices of how their information will be used and protected when it is exchanged, says an advisory panel of the Health & Human Services Department.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Reduced prices and improved quality are boosting the adoption of telemedicine videoconferencing systems, according to new analysis from research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal warns that health IT is creating a new digital divide.
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Howard Anderson, HealthcareInfoSecurity
“Physician group practices installing their first electronic health records systems need to “create a culture that values privacy and security,” EHR expert Margret Amatayakul says.
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Mike, eHealth Musings
“As we collect more information in digital form, there are an ever increasing number of opportunities to analyze this data. One interesting example is the recently announced Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN).
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Jeffrey Knuppel, KevinMD
“One of the most difficult family decisions can be whether to move an aging parent(s) out of their own home and into assisted living or even a nursing home. I’ve seen families face this dilemma numerous times.
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Vishwanath A et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 79(11)
Context
The promise of the electronic medical record (EMR)1 lies in its ability to reduce the costs of health care delivery and improve the overall quality of care – a promise that is realized through major changes in workflows within the health care organization. Yet little systematic information exists about the workflow effects of EMRs. Moreover, some of the research to-date points to reduced satisfaction among physicians after implementation of the EMR and increased time, i.e., negative workflow effects. A better understanding of the impact of the EMR on workflows is, hence, vital to understanding what the technology really does offer that is new and unique.
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Pearce C, Haikerwal MC. The Medical Journal of Australia, 193(7)
E-health is the health care buzzword of the moment, with a person-controlled electronic health record funded in the 2010 federal Budget and legislation to introduce health identifiers recently passed by Parliament. E-health can ease the patient journey, improve quality of care and reduce costs. Australia’s health care system lags behind all other sectors of our economy in the use of computerised systems. While general practice and community pharmacy are highly computerised, the hospital sector is not. Adopting e-health is likely to result in higher quality practice, but general practice and hospitals need a mechanism for securely sharing patient data. Uncoordinated implementation of differing, incompatible systems within and between hospitals compounds a dire lack of national coordination of effort.
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Ambinder EP. Journal of Oncology Practice, 1(2)
Forces are aligning to shift American health care into the Information Age: an age which financial institutions, airlines, supermarkets and most manufacturing industries have already entered.
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Grandchamp C et al, Health Economics, 2010
This paper aims to estimate empirically the efficiency of a Swiss telemedicine service introduced in 2003. We used claims’ data gathered by a major Swiss health insurer, over a period of 6 years and involving 160 000 insured adults.
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Lemire M. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 24(2)
Purpose
Implementing information and communication technologies (ICT) is often mentioned as a strategy that can foster public involvement and responsibility in health. The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the possibilities and issues afforded by the social uses of ICT for personal empowerment in health.
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Dominic Tyer, InPharm
“Patients could soon be able to contact their doctor online as part of government plans for an ‘information revolution’ in healthcare.
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ogilvy
“If you haven’t noticed, mobility in the healthcare space has gone through an evolution. From those “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” LifeCall alerts, to the common beepers for quick and short updates and now to mobile devices! Things are changing, slowly but steadily.
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GLG Expert Contributor
“For a moment, let’s throw out the talk of any government incentives for implementing electronic health records (EHR). Everyone tends to focus on the incentives much more than the other very real benefits of having an EHR system.
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Bill Crounse, Healthblog
“Usually when someone calls me to say they’ve developed a new electronic medical record (EMR) solution for physician offices and clinics my eyes glaze over. With hundreds of EMRs on the market, the last thing we need is yet another one.
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van der Heijden JP et al, J Telemed Telecare, 2010
Tertiary teledermatology (TTD), where a general dermatologist consults a specialized dermatologist on difficult cases, is a relatively new telemedicine service. We evaluated TTD in a Dutch university hospital, where 13 general dermatologists used TTD to consult 11 specialized dermatologists and two residents at the university medical centre. We measured the avoided referrals to the university centre, the usability of the system and the user acceptance of it.
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Demaerschalk BM. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 11(1)
The advantages of telephone consultations for patients with acute stroke syndromes are history of use, simplicity, availability, portability, short consultation time, and facile implementation. The favorable aspects of telemedicine consultations are high accuracy, reliability, efficacy, and effectiveness, the growing technological sophistication of the offerings and features, and the high grade of recommendation. Between the two modalities, telemedicine is optimal for assessing patients with acute stroke and superior to telephone-only evaluations.
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Smart Healthcare
“It also proposes giving patients control of their electronic health records, online access to GP records, the wider publication of NHS datasets and making improvements in the quality of data.
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Robert Winnett and Rebecca Smith, Telegraph.co.uk
“Those requiring treatment for cancer will be able to study survival rates – and waiting times – for different medical teams and then opt to have treatment where they wish, under the plans to be announced today. Proposals are being drawn up to give patients online access to their medical records.
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Coletti C et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(8)
Objective:
Remote intensive care unit (ICU) monitoring (tele-ICU) may provide a means to address the shortage of intensive care physicians. However, the consequences of implementing a tele-ICU system for house staff education and clinical experience are unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine resident perceptions of the impact of a tele-ICU implementation on patient care, education, and the overall work environment.
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