Greenhalgh T et al, BMJ, 341(nov16 1)
Objective
To evaluate the policy making process, implementation by NHS organisations, and patients’ and carers’ experiences of efforts to introduce an internet accessible personal electronic health record (HealthSpace) in a public sector healthcare system.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“Smartphone applications will enable the mHealth industry to reach 500m Smartphone users by 2015, a new report by research2guidance claims.
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HealthDay News
“Diabetics may soon find that assistance in controlling their blood pressure is just a cell phone screen away.
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Christopher Johnson, KevinMD
“The electronic medical record, the EMR, is upon us.
For those of us who learned medicine entirely with paper charts, some have enthusiastically embraced the EMR and some have refused, to the extent they can, to deal with it at all. But most of us have plowed ahead into learning how to use it as best we can. It seems to me that the degree of enthusiasm physicians show for the EMR relates less to the particular version of it we have chosen (or, more commonly, was chosen for us) than it does to the kind of medicine we practice.
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HealthTech Wire
“Nine European regions have teamed up to run one of the largest ever telemedicine trials, the Renewing Health large-scale pilot project. By February 1, 2011, all regions will have gone live. The aim is to generate data for European healthcare systems so that telemedicine can be adopted as part of regular care for chronically ill patients.
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Radhieka Pandeya, liveMINT.com
“Even as India attempts to scale up access to e-health, the industry is already talking about the next step in health technology—mobile health, or m-health.
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Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times
“Heart failure patients who called daily to report their weight and symptoms were just as likely to be readmitted to a hospital or suffer another heart attack or die as those who received conventional care, a six-month trial shows.
It was a good, commonsense idea that simply didn’t work out.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“After a five-month hiatus while the new government reviewed Britain’s Summary Care Record, public information programmes aimed at better informing the public on the records and their right to opt out will resume, in some cases before Christmas, according to eHealth Insider.
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Desai AS, Stevenson LW. N Engl J Med, 2010
Rates of death and readmission after hospitalization for heart failure remain high despite considerable advances in evidence-based medical treatment. In 2009, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began public reporting of rates of readmission for any reason among patients who had been hospitalized for heart failure, and earlier this year, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law, establishing financial incentives for hospitals to reduce readmissions for cardiovascular disease.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Continuing the very international theme of this week’s issue, we bring you news from just across the border in Windsor, Ontario, where researchers are starting to test whether new, wireless heart monitors can do a better job preventing strokes than older models that don’t have continuous wireless connectivity.
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ThirdAge
“Electronic health records are being urged in Canada as the country says it wants every citizen to have a single electronic health record that stays with them for life and is accessible to all health professionals.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“With the proposed new health IT glitch-reporting system, developers will know immediately when a complaint has been lodged against their EHR, and vendors may even know the name of the person who filed the complaint.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“Public Information Programmes for the Summary Care Record are to restart before Christmas following a five month suspension.
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Randy Williams, e-CareManagement
“The results from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored Tele-HF trial are in, and the findings are worth considering . The results are counter to most of the findings of other studies examining telemonitoring for heart failure and at face value are disappointing to us, and the industry.
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Chaudhry SI et al, N Engl J Med, 363(24)
Background
Small studies suggest that telemonitoring may improve heart-failure outcomes, but its effect in a large trial has not been established.
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Jeremy Vanderlan, and Michelle Samplin-Salgado, AIDS.gov
“At last week’s mHealth Summit Exit Disclaimer, we had the opportunity to connect with many of our Federal and community partners about how to leverage the mobile web to improve health outcomes (check out the Summit’s YouTube Channel Exit Disclaimer to watch videos of several of the keynotes).
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IndiaInfoline
“Globally, the mobile health technology market is expected to grow 25% annually from a current US$1.5 billion to US$4.6 billion by the year 2014. India’s rural population, given the dearth of qualified medical personnel, is well-suited for mHealth programmes because of the deep penetration of low-cost mobile telephony, as per the latest research undertaken by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC).
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Doretta Royer, Upstate
“Telemedicine can provide cost-effective ways to treat people with diabetes who are experiencing food insecurity, according to an Upstate Medical University researcher who served as the lead author of an article published in the November/December 2010 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.
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Homenko DR et al, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 42(6)
Objective
To evaluate differences between rural older adults with diabetes reporting the presence or absence of food insecurity with respect to meal planning, preparation, shopping, obesity, and glycemic control after receiving nutrition counseling through telemedicine.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“There’s little question that electronic health records reduce adverse drug events and improve quality of care. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be doing everything to make sure they’re as safe and as easy to use as possible, said National Coordinator for HIT, David Blumenthal, MD
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