Kenya’s telemedicine
CNN
“Global News Canada’s Michelle Miller shows you just how many text messages one teenager can send in a single day.”
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Articles
Social utility of personalised e-health services: the study of home-based healthcare
Kadda A. International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 5(4)
The aim of this study is to look into the social utility of personalised electronic health using the home-based healthcare as a case study. For this purpose research was carried out based on a review of the literature, resulting in a drawing of the following conclusions:
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Mobile phone technologies and advanced data analysis towards the enhancement of diabetes self-management
Kouris I et al, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 5(4)
Advances in the area of mobile and wireless communication for healthcare (m-Health) along with the improvements in information science allow the design and development of new patient-centric models for the provision of personalised healthcare services, increase of patient independence and improvement of patient’s self-control and self-management capabilities. This paper comprises a brief overview of the m-Health applications towards the self-management of individuals with diabetes mellitus and the enhancement of their quality of life. Furthermore, the design and development of a mobile phone application for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) self-management is presented.
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Retrieval and management of medical information from heterogeneous sources, for its integration in a medical record visualisation tool
Cabarcos A et al, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 5(4)
Nowadays, medical practice needs, at the patient Point-of-Care (POC), personalised knowledge adjustable in each moment to the clinical needs of each patient, in order to provide support to decision-making processes, taking into account personalised information. To achieve this, adapting the hospital information systems is necessary. Thus, there is a need of computational developments capable of retrieving and integrating the large amount of biomedical information available today, managing the complexity and diversity of these systems.
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Information and communication technologies for better patient self-management and self-efficacy
Ilioudi S et al, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 5(4)
Achieving benefits from the introduction of ICTs as part of processes aimed at building sustainable self-efficacy and self-management is very difficult, not least because of a desire to avoid simply replacing patient dependency on health professionals with dependency on technology. Chronic illnesses require ongoing attention that differs from traditional, encounter-based care for acute illnesses. Patients with chronic illnesses such as asthma, cardiovascular disease, depression, diabetes, heart failure and migraine headaches play a central role in managing the broad array of factors that contribute to their health. Individuals with diabetes, for example, provide close to 95% of their own care.
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ICT and universal healthcare in the Philippines
Emmanuel C. Lallana, The Philippine Star
“In the Second Philippine Health Outlook Forum 2010, Health Secretary Dr. Enrique Ona underscored the important role that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) would play in achieving universal health care in the country. This is a welcomed development as, globally, ICT is increasingly seen as critical in addressing global health needs.
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You can’t plan enough for EHR implementation
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Healthcare providers can never get enough advice about how to implement EHRs. Maine’s regional extension center held a forum for healthcare providers last week and one physician, who has been practicing in a paperless environment for the last five years, gave excellent guidance. Take heed.
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Health Information Technology: Redefined by the Clinicians Who Use It
MDNews
“At first glance, finding a single definition of the term “information technology” may appear to be almost impossible.
Try it sometime. Do a search. What you will almost certainly discover is that, depending on the source, the computer itself is often the focus of attention, with telecommunications thrown in for infrastructure flavor, or not.
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The Ethics of EHR Vendors
Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“Last week the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) released a position paper titled “Challenges in ethics, safety, best practices, and oversight regarding HIT vendors, their customers, and patients: a report of an AMIA special task force”. The paper shines a bright light on the alleged contracting practices of EHR vendors and their notorious “hold harmless” clauses, which indemnify the EHR vendor from all liability due to software defects, including liability for personal injury and death of patients.
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Another Interesting Social Media Initiative
Mike, eHealth Musings
“When asked about social media many people will mention Twitter or Facebook or even LinkedIn. Mentioned less often is Wikis, a technology that allows multiple people to contribute to developing on-line information resources. According an article in Healthcare IT News, HIMSS has launched a CPOE wiki “with the goal of bringing data, documents and guidelines on meeting and exceeding meaningful use in one location”.
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Cell Phones and Health Information Seeking – What Do These 2 Things Have In Common?
Stephen Wilkins, Mind the Gap
“Very little…at least among the chronically ill, e.g., the folks who are driving health care use and cost.
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AMA Policy: Professionalism in the Use of Social Media
AMA
“The Internet has created the ability for medical students and physicians to communicate and share information quickly and to reach millions of people easily. Participating in social networking and other similar Internet opportunities can support physicians’ personal expression, enable individual physicians to have a professional presence online, foster collegiality and camaraderie within the profession, provide opportunity to widely disseminate public health messages and other health communication.
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Smashing Myths & Assumptions: PHR for Urban Diabetes Care
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“There remains an unhealthy level of skepticism in the market as to whether or not consumers will use a personal health record (PHR). While a certain level of skepticism is healthy in any market, the level to which it is laid towards PHRs is unwarranted and likely more a function of ignorance then malicious intent.
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Can We Transform Nursing Practice through Informatics and Technology?
Joyce Sensmeier, HIMSS Blog
“A landmark report was recently published titled: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, as the result of a partnership launched in 2008 between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine.
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How to bring electronic health records into the exam room
Anne Steciw, Health IT Pulse
“A 2010 study by the Center for Studying Health System Change, a nonpartisan policy research organization in Washington, D.C., found that EHR systems both “help and hinder” physician interpersonal communication. EHR systems provide a wide range of benefits, including instant access to patient information, but they also have a huge potential for distracting clinicians and pulling them away from face-to-face interaction with the patient.
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Networks predicted to dominate health IT
Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“An investment and advice house called Marlin & Associates is out with a provocative report predicting rapid consolidation in the health IT space around health information networks.
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The Benefits of E-prescribing for Today’s Physician
Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“E-prescribing refers to an emerging solution that improves patient safety and helps reduce rising healthcare costs as well. According to a study, more than 7,000 people die in US due to wrong prescription or other medication errors. More glaring is the fact that most of these deaths are consequential of poor hand-writing, wrong dosage and drug-allergy reactions.
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Why hospitals need to embrace mobile health
Jenn Riggle, Hospital Impact
“Last week, Twitter was buzzing about a new report from the Healthcare Performance Institute that said social media can help reduce medical expenses while improving the quality of care.
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VISYTER: Versatile and Integrated System for Telerehabilitation
Parmanto B et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(9)
The versatile and integrated system for telerehabilitation (VISYTER) is a software platform for developing various telerehabilitation applications. VISYTER has been designed to take into account the environments and requirements of rehabilitation services. The requirements considered in the platform design include minimal equipment beyond what is available in many rehabilitation settings, minimal maintenance, and ease of setup and operation. In addition, the platform has been designed to be able to adjust to different bandwidths, ranging from the very fast new generation of Internet to residential broadband connections. VISYTER is a secure integrated system that combines high-quality videoconferencing with access to electronic health records and other key tools in telerehabilitation such as stimuli presentation, remote multiple camera control, remote control of the display screen, and an eye contact teleprompter.
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Challenges in ethics, safety, best practices, and oversight regarding HIT vendors, their customers, and patients: a report of an AMIA special task force
Goodman W et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2010
The current commercial health information technology (HIT) arena encompasses a number of competing firms that provide electronic health applications to hospitals, clinical practices, and other healthcare-related entities. Such applications collect, store, and analyze patient information. Some vendors incorporate contract language whereby purchasers of HIT systems, such as hospitals and clinics, must indemnify vendors for malpractice or personal injury claims, even if those events are not caused or fostered by the purchasers.
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