Réussir le dossier médical personnel (DMP) – Nouvelle publication
Institut Montaigne
“L’Institut Montaigne propose un plan d’action pour relancer le Dossier Médical Personnel (DMP).
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Articles
First large-scale health record bank goes live in Arizona
Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“eHealthTrust opened its first large-scale health record bank (HRB), a secure repository where consumers can store and control their health information, in Phoenix last month.
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Another bullish forecast for mobile health
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“In the wake of last week’s mHealth Summit in Washington, DC, there’s yet another bullish forecast on mobile health to consider. The Promise of Mobile Health asks the tagline question: “Bigger than DTC?” Euro RSCG’s Life 4D group, published the paper in November 2010.
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Remote health monitoring using mobile phones and Web services
Agarwal S, Lau CT. Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(5)
Diabetes and hypertension have become very common perhaps because of increasingly busy lifestyles, unhealthy eating habits, and a highly competitive workplace. The rapid advancement of mobile communication technologies offers innumerable opportunities for the development of software and hardware applications for remote monitoring of such chronic diseases.
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New National Electronic Health Record Safety System Launched
Medical News Today
“A new electronic health record (EHR) safety reporting system was announced today by the iHealth Alliance, a not-for-profit organization composed of medical society and professional liability carrier executives in collaboration with federal agencies and PDR Network.
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Participatory Medicine @ UCSF: Off the Whiteboard and onto the Smartphone
Nikolai Kirienko, Project HealthDesign
“As a patient at UCSF, I’ve witnessed bedside technology evolve at a rapid pace over the years. From nurses capturing vitals on tablet computers, to patients escaping through 50-inch HDTVs, high tech surfaces are helping us connect and accomplish our age-old goals in very modern ways.
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The Values, And Pitfalls, of Health Information Exchanges
Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“A Health information exchange (HIE) is defined as the transmission of healthcare information electronically across organizations within a community. HIE is an integral part of the health information technology (HIT) and enables reliable and secure transfer of healthcare-related data among disparate healthcare information systems.
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The sustainability of Health Information Exchanges
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Health information exchange is a key piece in the national effort to build an interconnected health care delivery system. Their potential to improve health care quality, reduce medical errors, and lower costs by means of increased interoperability and information-sharing among patients, providers, payors and other stakeholders is tremendous.
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St Helens and Knowsley shuts library door
Smart Healthcare
“Neil Darvill, director of informatics for the St Helens and Knowsley health informatics service, says that it closed the trust’s library for external use in October, and reckons it is therefore the first to stop using paper records in operational practice.
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Canada stumps up for EHR
Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Canada’s medical authorities are convinced of the need for EHRs for every citizen, and they’re putting up substantial funding to make it happen … more than $3 billion over the past seven years, with twice that expected to be needed to bring the project to fruition.
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EHRs in Surgical Practices
John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“An unstated source of difficulty with surgeons is that the EHR illustrates a relative light document style with less of a focus on continuity of care that is typical of most high volume ambulatory surgical practices. EHRs require them to increase their level of documentation and attention to process generally, in addition to converting to an electronic workflow.
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Why Do Evaluations of eHealth Programs Fail? An Alternative Set of Guiding Principles
Greenhalgh T, Russell J. PLoS Medicine, 7(11)
Trisha Greenhalgh and Jill Russell discuss the relative merits of “scientific” and “social practice” approaches to evaluation and argue that eHealth evaluation is in need of a paradigm shift.
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AMIA board: “Hold harmless” clause in EMR contracts is unethical
e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“Thanks to the AMIA board for standing up for quality, and thanks to Dr. Sands, Ross Koppel, and the others who wrote the paper. It doesn’t have the force of law, but let’s hope it moves things in the right direction – for the benefit of the patients – and yes, I mean your mother, your child, your best friend.
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Internet fuels bad self-diagnoses and ‘cyberchondria’
Samantha Murphy, MSNBC
“Earlier this baseball season, San Diego Padres pitcher Tim Stauffer diagnosed himself with appendicitis after consulting a medical site on his iPhone. He informed his trainer and soon after, his appendix was successfully removed.
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Text messaging helps mental health patients in Stoke
NHS local
“It is just a simple text message, but it plays a vital role in the life of a mental health patient in Stoke.
Cheryl receives messages twice a day to remind her to take her medication.
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HHS: Laptop theft is No. 1 source of health data breaches
Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“Here’s another reminder: Secure your laptop computers.
HHS officials last week confirmed what many people have long suspected: Laptop theft is the most common source of health data breaches affecting at least 500 people.
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Mobile phones become tools of health promotion
Steven Overly, The Washington Post
“When District-based Voxiva released a free text message service in February sending prenatal health advice to expectant mothers, the technology firm hoped it would be a successful example of mobile health in the United States.
Nine months later, they say it has delivered.
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Now Reading: Impact of Health Literacy on access and use of a Personal Health Record
Ted Eytan, MD
“In a nutshell, Kaiser Permanente patients with diabetes were surveyed regarding the potential for disparities in their condition management and outcomes, and crossmatched with their use of Kaiser Permanente’s My Health Manager as of January-December, 2006.
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The Literacy Divide: Health Literacy and the Use of an Internet-Based Patient Portal in an Integrated Health System—Results from the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE)
Sarkar U et al, Journal of Health Communication, 15 (Supp 2)
Internet-based patient portals are intended to improve access and quality, and will play an increasingly important role in health care, especially for diabetes and other chronic diseases. Diabetes patients with limited health literacy have worse health outcomes, and limited health literacy may be a barrier to effectively utilizing internet-based health access services. We investigated use of an internet-based patient portal among a well characterized population of adults with diabetes. We estimated health literacy using three validated self-report items. We explored the independent association between health literacy and use of the internet-based patient portal, adjusted for age, gender, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, and income.
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How Telemedicine has Revolutionized Healthcare
Jamie Simpson, Article Intelligence
“Telemedicine uses internet and telecommunication technology to bring health care to remote areas. To many researchers, the first documented case of telecare took place in 1999 when Dr. Jerri Nielsen diagnosed herself with breast cancer while serving at a research facility in the Antarctic.
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