Kathleen Blanchard, EmaxHealth
“A study from the Rand Corporation shows implementation of electronic medical records in hospitals have, so far, failed to improve patient care, falling short on anticipated improvements in hospital performance.
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David Wahlberg, Wisconsin State Journal
” When Bev Marcue went to the emergency room with a stroke, she didn’t get a drug to dissolve the blockage in her brain because doctors weren’t sure if it was treatable.
Marcue, from Lancaster, southwest of Madison, couldn’t walk and talk for weeks, and she still struggles with daily life.
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Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, ICTconsequences
“Lately, I have been reading and checking the research literature about Health economics and ICT . This is the first post of a collection about this topic.
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Elizabeth Gardner, Health Data Management Magazine
“A Colorado physician loses his iPhone in the mountains, and the health system he’s affiliated with erases all of its contents remotely so that no one can illicitly access patient data.
A California hospital uses dedicated iPhones to let nurses receive voice messages, text messages and alarms, and they no longer have to cram their pockets with multiple pagers.
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The Medical News
“A new study that reviews more than four decades of medical journal articles about the impact of health information technology (HIT) and electronic communications on medication adherence concludes that while there is evidence to suggest that simple electronic reminders are an effective and low-cost means to improve adherence, there are few studies that show how HIT can be leveraged to more thoughtfully engage or motivate patients to take medications as prescribed.
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Misono AS et al, Am J Manag Care, 16SP
Objective:
To determine the efficacy of healthcare information technology (HIT) interventions in improving adherence.
Study Design:
Systematic search of randomized controlled trials of HIT interventions to improve medication adherence in cardiovascular disease or diabetes.
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Kathy Jones, MedIndia
“With the number of stroke related deaths rising in India, an American neurologist has designed a novel technique to treat the condition through television.
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Jones SS et al, Am J Manag Care, 16SP
Objective:
To estimate the relationship between quality improvement and electronic health record (EHR) adoption in US hospitals.
Study Design:
National cohort study based on primary survey data about hospital EHR capability collected in 2003 and 2006 and on publicly reported hospital quality data for 2004 and 2007.
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Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, CNET
“The adoption of electronic medical records, or EMRs, in U.S. hospitals has improved the quality of care in only one of three areas studied, and even in that area, the gains are limited, according to new research by the nonprofit Rand published this week in the American Journal of Managed Care.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“An electronic health system that alerts physicians with a yellow light when problems exist with a patient’s care is being used by doctors at Northwestern Medicine. The system goes one step further by tying docs’ responses to the alerts to quarterly performance reports.
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Persell SD et al, Medical Care, 2010
Background:
Electronic health record (EHR) systems have the potential to revolutionize quality improvement (QI) methods by enhancing quality measurement and integrating multiple proven QI strategies.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“A new survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) indicates that the healthcare sector is going to spend significant amounts on HIT during 2011, but it also suggests consumers still haven’t decided whether or not to jump onto the IT train.
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David Ellis and Stephen W. Loree, H&HN Weekly
“The Detroit Medical Center’s electronic medical record is the culmination of a 12-year development that began with the implementation of a clinical information system in 1998. The EMR involved a final expenditure of $50 million and a concentrated one-year implementation beginning in 2004. The implementation and ongoing development have placed the Detroit Medical Center in the upper one-half to 1 percent of all U.S. hospitals in terms of EMR development.
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Ron Rajecki, Modern Medicine
“Patients are significantly more likely to abandon at the pharmacy prescriptions submitted electronically than those dropped off in person, according to the results of a study appearing in the November 16 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“2010 has been a remarkable year for Electronic Health Records (EHRs). According to a recently-reported survey by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the adoption of EHRs continued its significant trend upward in 2010 – a full 50% of physicians are now using some kind of electronic system (however limited in scope), with 25% using a “basic system” and 10% now using a “fully functional” system.
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The Royal Academy of Engineering
“Breathing Country was a nationwide public engagement programme about Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) and their use in medical research. A suite of activities were delivered as part of the programme, including the development and UK tour of a play and post-performance debate about EPRs, the provision of online supporting materials and a public attitudes research project.
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Vandy Khamsay
“Partant du constat qu’il y a peu d’article sur la mSanté, j’avais envie d’explorer les pistes et idées qui sont en train d’être développées (ou le seront) dans ce secteur au potentiel énorme. On parle déjà de Santé 2.0 et on assiste à une convergence des métiers de la santé avec les nouvelles technologies.
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Thill Geoffroy, bulletins-electroniques
“La Norvège s’est très tôt intéressée à la télémédecine et y a vu un moyen de fournir des soins de qualité dans un pays avec une faible densité de population.
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Thomas Beale, Woland's Cat
“I have often bemoaned the state of standards for the e-health sector. Earlier posts provide details. The main argument is that the key specifications the sector needs are for interoperable data, information and knowledge, but that the main approach to getting these is via standards agencies, whose processes almost guarantee failure. Hence the ‘standards crisis’ in health informatics. The failure is not innate in standards agencies as such; it is just that standards agency committees in the e-health sector are doing the wrong thing.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The worldwide market for home health monitoring of “welfare diseases” was worth about € 7.6 billion ($10 billion) in 2010, according to Berg Insight. The conditions most commonly treated via these remote monitoring services include diabetes, cardiac arrhythmia, sleep apnea, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the report found.
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