John Moehrke, Healthcare Security/Privacy
“Wikileaks is the big news today. This blog article has NOTHING to do with WikiLeaks, but has everything to do with using the event which are associated with WikiLeaks today as a useful use-case to analyze in the context of Healthcare Security and Privacy.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“She did have, however, a Facebook account, which included a detailed and complete account of her health status in her own words. On Facebook she posted months worth of information about her medications, symptoms, hospitalizations and conditions.
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Jason Millman, The Hill
“The federal government must facilitate the widespread adoption of universal standards that will allow healthcare stakeholders to better share electronic health information and maintain patient privacy, according to a presidential advisory council report released Wednesday morning.
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Dogac A et al, Methods of Information in Medicine, 50(1)
Objectives:
The objective of this paper is to describe the techniques used in developing the National Health Information System of Turkey (NHIS-T), a nation-wide infrastructure for sharing electronic health records (EHRs).
Methods:
The UN/CEFACT Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS) methodology was applied to design the logical EHR structure and to increase the reuse of common information blocks in EHRs.
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Shabo A. Informatics for Health & Social Care, 35(3-4)
Older people have more health issues and use more healthcare services than young people. Consequently, many more records are created by various healthcare providers when they document the care they provided to the older person. The law in most countries requires the healthcare provider to persist the records for a certain amount of time. Thus, as time progresses, it becomes more challenging to integrate at the point of care the dispersed and disparate data sets created by the various providers and relate to the same older person. In addition to the data representation disparities, most often those data sets overlap and contradict and cannot be easily used by the clinician during the relatively short time dedicated to the care encounter/service.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The implementation of a telepharmacy model in a multi-hospital health system increased access to pharmacy services, allowing for round-the-clock medication order review by pharmacists, which is critical to reducing errors, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.
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Wakefield DS et al, American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 67(23)
Purpose
The implementation of a telepharmacy service to provide round-the-clock medication order review by pharmacists is described.
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Felasfa Wodajo, iMedicalApps
“The iPad has received a significant amount of attention in the health care arena since its introduction last year. The attraction is fairly obvious; it is a portable, lightweight, powerful computing device with an intui-tive interface and a large library of built-in applications.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Social media tools may prove an effective way to boost participation in online health programs, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School.
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Ted Eytan, MD
“When you go to see the doctor, how do they know (a) if you are due for any preventive health screenings like mammography or (b) if you have a chronic condition, if it is being monitored and managed?
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Freifeld CC et al, PLoS Med, 7(12)
FoxNews
“The embarrassing leak of a quarter-million State Department documents by WikiLeaks has recharged the debate over electronic medical records, raising concern that the government may not be capable of safeguarding Americans’ most intimate health care secrets when their records go digital.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“In her most recent column, FierceHealthPayer editor Dina Overland wonders if anyone was paying attention to a UnitedHealth Group report that said diabetes would cost what passes for a U.S. healthcare system an unconscionable $3.35 trillion between now and 2020. (Yes, $3.35 trillion.)
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Matthias Meunier, Xonion
“Die Konzepte sind alle nicht neu, Tablet-PC gibt es seit Jahren, Smartphones ebenso; es konnte sich jedoch bisher keine der Plattformen oder Geräte als Quasistandard durchsetzen.
Seit geraumer Zeit sind mit dem iPhone bzw. iPod touch Kandidaten aufgetaucht, die diese Lücke füllen könnten. Bestechende Benutzerfreundlichkeit, Touchscreen, gute Performance, UMTS und WLAN für die Konnektivität, Kamera zur Dokumentation, Mikrofon für Diktate und allerlei mehr muß man schon mitbringen um als all-in-one-device bestehen zu können.
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“There have been a collection of high-profile and well attended mobile health (mHealth) “summits” held around the world in the past few years, including last month’s second annual mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C. (headlined by Bill Gates and Ted Turner), but the really interesting conversations are happening on the African continent.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“Consumers are increasingly using smartphone and tablet PCs, such as the Apple iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab, to monitor their own health. This, according to a Dec. 6 report from research firm Ovum, is leading to the consumerization of health care technology.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Surgeons at Georgetown University are exploring the benefits of using an iPad in the operating room, according to an article published in the Journal Surgical Radiology. One surgeon says the technology’s most obvious advantage in the OR is providing a “convenient way to easily access previous patient imaging.”
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Clinical data analytics holds a lot of promise for health care organizations: It can help a hospital bill and code services more effectively and accurately. It can yield insights into other operational processes, such as staff utilization and skills evaluation. Just as important, the access it gives many practitioners to deep patient-data search tools across many departments can help uncover problems, lead to new treatments and streamline workflows.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The real barrier to adoption of personal health records is not privacy and security, but rather the unwillingness of healthcare data sources to give consumers control over their health information, Dossia CEO Colin Evans told a government panel recently.
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Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek Healthcare
“In the latest, but certainly not last, health IT Meaningful Use dustup, the industry is struggling to find clarity in (of all things) an Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) clarification. When that happens, you know you’re in government-land.
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