Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“Even though e-Health has been around for many years, it can be called a relatively new concept. Earlier, e-health services were unorganized and were in nascent stage due to lack of big players. It is now a rapidly evolving field with global applications.
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Steve Hernandez, Risk & Insurance Online
“Spurred by $34 billion in financial incentives from the U.S. stimulus package, healthcare organizations are racing to adopt information-technology products and services. Healthcare IT, or HIT, has been pitched as a panacea for improving patient care, reducing medical errors and increasing cost-saving efficiencies, and after 2015, instead of offering incentives, the government will penalize healthcare providers that don’t use it in a meaningful way.
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Andrew Bracey, Medical Observer
“A senior e-health expert has questioned Australia’s push to develop an electronic summary care record (SCR), saying it lacks evidence and will create more work for GPs.
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Sahin YG, Celikkan U. Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
In this paper, we present MedWise, a high level design of a medical information infrastructure, and its architecture. The proposed system offers a comprehensive, modular, robust and extensible infrastructure to be used in public health care systems. The system gathers reliable and evidence based health data, which it then classifies, interprets and stores into a particular database. It creates a healthcare ecosystem that aids the medical community by providing for less error prone diagnoses and treatment of diseases. This system will be standards-compliant; therefore it would be complementary to the existing healthcare and clinical information systems.
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Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“Small hospitals are eschewing traditional clinical information systems and favoring the larger players in the electronic health record (EHR) market, a recent research report from KLAS Enterprises LLC found.
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Robert Rowley, KevinMD
“A recent report in the Annals of Internal Medicine on the characteristics of prescriptions that are abandoned at the pharmacy raise the question of (1) how to ensure that people actually pick up their prescriptions, and (2) how to make sure that people actually take the medications that are prescribed.
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Brian Ahier, Rich Elmore, David C. Kibbe, The Health Care Blog
“The Direct Project announced today the completion of its open-source connectivity-enabling software and the start of a series of pilots that will be demonstrating directed secure messaging for healthcare stakeholders over the internet.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Mobile health applications will be distributed predominantly through traditional healthcare channels by 2015 as opposed to app stores, according to a global survey by research2guidance.
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Slack WV et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2010
The authors developed a computer-based medical history for patients to take in their homes via the internet. The history consists of 232 ‘primary’ questions asked of all patients, together with more than 6000 questions, explanations, and suggestions that are available for presentation as determined by a patient’s responses. The purpose of this research was to measure the test–retest reliability of the 215 primary questions that have preformatted, mutually exclusive responses of ‘Yes,’ ‘No,’ ‘Uncertain (Don’t know, Maybe),’ ‘Don’t understand,’ and ‘I’d rather not answer.’
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Gemma Collins, 6 Minutes
“Nicola Roxon’s plans for a $467 million personally-controlled e-health record (PCEHR) system are “simply unjustified” and could cause major problems for Australia’s healthcare, a health IT expert has warned.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“There’s an interesting article in a recent issue of the Connecticut Mirror about the impact of EMRs on the patient-doctor relationship.
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Apiscam
“España adolece de sistemas de información sanitaria “fiables y consultables en tiempo seguro” y que, además, sean capaces de combinar los diferentes modelos, arquetipos y términos de uso común en el vocabulario clínico
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Coiera E. The Medical Journal of Australia, 194(2)
Nithin Jayan, MedIndia
“Complete documentation and timely access to patient information become possible with the introduction of EHR and thus allows sound clinical decision making. Other advantages include reduced number of transcription errors, improved communication among providers, and less duplication of tests.
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Woodside JM. Journal of Healthcare Information Management, 21(4)
A presidential executive order in 2004 called for widespread adoption of electronic health records within 10 years. Proponents have shown this will lead to safe, affordable and consumer-oriented healthcare. Current EHR adoption has not kept pace; some estimates suggest that EHR adoption will occur over a significantly longer period. Implementation costs and return on investment are listed, among other reasons, as the predominant factors limiting rapid adoption. A widespread EHR adoption plateau is expected, with entities being unable or unwilling to adopt EHRs.
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Mathe J et al, Methods of Information in Medicine, 47(5)
Objective:
The goal of this research is to provide a framework to enable the model-based development, simulation, and deployment of clinical information system prototypes with mechanisms that enforce security and privacy policies.
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Menachemi N et al, Health Care Management Review, 32(2)
Background:
Numerous studies have examined the relationship between physician practice characteristics and electronic health record (EHR) adoption. Little is known about how payer mix influences physicians’ decisions to implement EHR systems.
Purpose:
This study examines how different proportions of Medicare, Medicaid, and privately insured patients in physicians’ practices influence EHR adoption.
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Menachemi N et al, American Journal of Medical Quality, 22(5)
Many functions important to realizing the full potential from electronic health records (EHRs) may not be selected by all physicians using EHRs in the ambulatory setting. This article examines the extent to which EHR systems used by Florida physicians include functionalities that the Institute of Medicine has designated as being critical for optimal performance.
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Doctissimo
“Même si un cancer sur deux guérit aujourd’hui, cette pathologie reste une maladie à part, nécessitant de nombreux examens, traitements et contacts entre différents professionnels de santé.
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Karen Berger, Healthymagination
“Frontline SMS: Medic is a not-for-profit organization founded by Stanford University students. Their goal: to use appropriate, innovative technologies to advance health care in the developing world.
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