Lisa Gualtieri, KevinMD
“Diana Cole told me, “The internet saved my life,” and recounted a story about using the internet to identify a bat bite and learn about rabies in bats, leading to an emergency room trip.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems remains a challenge, both for hospitals as well as for physicians in ambulatory practice. The process of adoption, implementation, and meaningful use of EHRs (let us keep in mind) is actually quite different between those two setting.
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Bos L, Kun L. Health and Technology, 2010
Why is Health and Technology not just another journal and why does it call itself different?
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Just published, the introduction Editorial of Health and Technology, by Lodewijk Bos and Luis Kun, Editors-in-Chief.
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“Patient Privacy Rights, the health privacy watchdog, has enlisted the help of Zogby International to conduct an online survey of more than 2,000 adults to identify their views on privacy, access to health information, and healthcare IT. The results were overwhelmingly in favor of individual choice and control over personal health information.
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Bercovitz A et al, NCHS Data Brief, 45
Data from the National Home and Hospice Care Survey, 2007 In 2007, about 5,900 of the 14,500 providers of home health or hospice care (41%) had electronic medical records (EMRs), and an additional 2,200 (15%) planned to have EMRs within the next year. Providers who offered both hospice and home health care were more likely to have EMRs than providers offering only home health care, but did not differ from providers of hospice care only.
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Technology for Doctors
“The number of physicians using EMRs in Saskatchewan has jumped by 200 per cent since a funding program encouraging their adoption was introduced in September 2009. Over the past year, the number of doctors using EMRs jumped from 130 to 400, which represents 30 percent of the physicians in Saskatchewan.
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Modern Medicine
“Cell phone text messages sent to patients starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) can improve medication adherence and increase the proportion of patients achieving viral load suppression, according to research published online Nov. 9 in The Lancet.
Richard T. Lester, M.D., of the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and colleagues conducted a study to determine if cell phone communication between health care workers and patients starting ART in Kenya improved adherence to HIV medications and suppression of plasma HIV-1 RNA load.
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Don Fluckinger, Health IT Pulse
“But there are several camps in the U.S. health IT world: Leaders getting it done despite sometimes daunting shortages in enthusiasm and funding; worker bees doing the best they can to keep up with those leaders; and a rear guard being dragged into it kicking and screaming.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Been attending the mHealth Summit for the last 3 days and an over-arching theme has been:
mHealth is unlikely to ever become a market in its own right.
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Smart Healthcare
“The department is considering letting citizens download their health records, turn management over to third parties anywhere in the world and donate their data to researchers.
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Ben Comer, MM&M
“Consumer mobile applications aren’t writing prescriptions just yet, but they also aren’t making patients sit around in a waiting room.
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Euro RSCG
“The competition for healthcare professionals’ adoption has been fierce but, despite the fastmaturing lineup of offerings, the landscape of future mobile healthcare is by no means fixed. It’s still not clear which organizations, or types of organizations, will become the dominant force in mobile healthcare.
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Lester RT et al, The Lancet, 2010
Background
Mobile (cell) phone communication has been suggested as a method to improve delivery of health services. However, data on the effects of mobile health technology on patient outcomes in resource-limited settings are limited. We aimed to assess whether mobile phone communication between health-care workers and patients starting antiretroviral therapy in Kenya improved drug adherence and suppression of plasma HIV-1 RNA load.
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Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters
“A computerized tracking system that scans data might help in the difficult task of finding faulty medical devices, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Resnic FS et al, JAMA, 304(18)
Context
Ensuring the safety of medical devices challenges current surveillance approaches, which rely heavily on voluntary reporting of adverse events. Automated surveillance of clinical registries may provide early warnings in the postmarket evaluation of medical device safety. Objective To determine whether automated safety surveillance of clinical registries using a computerized tool can provide early warnings regarding the safety of new cardiovascular devices.
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Lilian Museka, News from Africa
“Simple mobile technology like basic cell phones can be used to save the lives of mothers in childbirth and improve the care of new born and children, reaching underserved populations in remote areas.
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Apiscam
“La e-receta no sólo sustituye a las tradicionales recetas en papel, sino que supone un paso importante en la mejora de la calidad asistencial por las posibilidades que ofrece.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Marketplace innovation to move healthcare forward using mobile technology is advancing at speeds that only a short time ago could not be imagined, said Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer at the mHealth Summit on Tuesday.
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