David Schneider, Health IT Pulse
“Realizing that personal health records are difficult to sell, Microsoft and Google Inc. spent 2010 reevaluating their business models for PHR services. The two tech titans have had mixed success, and the coming years may bring further struggle.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“The recent UC Davis study on the impact of EMRs on PCPs boils down to the need for software designers to create applications that are tailored to the different types of PCPs. Some may say this is not news and a no-brainer, but having such studies validates to the vendor industry what needs to be done – seriously.
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Kew ST. BMC Research Notes, 3(1)
BACKGROUND:
The ubiquitous use of mobile phones in sending and receiving text messages has become a norm for young people. Undeniably, text messaging has become a new and important communication medium not only in the social realm but in education as well. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of using text messaging as a means to collect data for a medical research project.
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Kent Bottles, healthgamers
“I have never met Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar of Partners HealthCare’s Center for Connected Health, Susannah Fox of Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, or Professor Andy Clark of Edinburgh University face to face in the real world. And yet they have all profoundly changed the way I think about health care’s most vexing problem: how are we going to take care of all these Baby Boomers who are starting to retire and get sick?
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“An eHealth agreement, promoting a common approach on the interoperability of EHRs and on training the health IT workforce, was signed between Europe and the United States on Friday.
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amednews
“Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter can be easy, effective and efficient ways for physicians to connect with their patients, colleagues and others in the outside world. Unfortunately, those sites also can be easy, effective and efficient ways for physicians to get themselves in trouble with their patients, colleagues and others in the outside world.
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Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“After slamming a couple of recent studies on attempts to engage patients in their own care through passive monitoring generously called “telemedicine,” we find a study that deserves some credit at least for trying to embrace a more modern form of technology.
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Jianggan Li, FutureGov
“Hong Kong Government has launched the second stage of its Electronic Health Record (eHR) Engagement Initiative (EEI), with two briefing sessions held recently to invite the IT sector in the territory to submit partnership proposals for eHR partnership.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“A third of hospitals have integration between medical devices and electronic medical records, allowing data recorded on the devices to be uploaded automatically into EMRs, according to a survey released Dec. 1 by HIMSS Analytics.
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Proudfoot J et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(5)
Background:
The benefits of self-monitoring on symptom severity, coping, and quality of life have been amply demonstrated. However, paper and pencil self-monitoring can be cumbersome and subject to biases associated with retrospective recall, while computer-based monitoring can be inconvenient in that it relies on users being at their computer at scheduled monitoring times. As a result, nonadherence in self-monitoring is common. Mobile phones offer an alternative. Their take-up has reached saturation point in most developed countries and is increasing in developing countries; they are carried on the person, they are usually turned on, and functionality is continually improving. Currently, however, public conceptions of mobile phones focus on their use as tools for communication and social identity. Community attitudes toward using mobile phones for mental health monitoring and self-management are not known.
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Schrank B et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(5)
Background:
The Internet is an important source of health information for people with psychiatric conditions. Little is known about the way patients with schizophrenia use the Internet when it comes to issues related to their illness. Data on their specific needs, difficulties, and the consequences related to Internet use are lacking.
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Pearson JF et al, Clinical Chemistry, 2010
BACKGROUND:
Recent legislation in the US requires that all medical records become electronic over the next decade. In addition, ongoing developments in patient-oriented care, most notably with the advent of health social networking and personal health records, provide a plethora of new information sources for research.
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Lau F et al, ElectronicHealthcare, 9(3)
This paper describes a one-year pilot implementation of SNOMED CT in a Canadian palliative care setting. There were three phases: The design phase involved the creation of a palliative SNOMED CT subset, a real-time encoding system and relevant evaluation metrics. The trial phase had clinicians use the system to create SNOMED-encoded consult letters. The evaluation phase involved clinician interviews, case analysis and system review to identify usage, issues, lessons and implications.
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Xiong W et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
A regional telemedicine hub, providing linkage of a telemedicine command center with an extended network of clinical experts in the setting of a natural or intentional disaster, may facilitate future disaster response and improve patient outcomes. However, the health benefits derived from the use of telemedicine in disaster response have not been quantitatively analyzed.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“I mentioned this tender last week and said I would have a close look over the weekend. All I can say I am glad I no longer have to respond to ill-considered and incompetent nonsense like this. It is a nightmare that, if the requirements are actually enforced I can’t see many able to honestly respond.
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Naomi Freundlich, KevinMD
“Recently, I had my first visit with my new primary care doctor.
I picked him based on recommendations (plus he’s one of the few that accepts my insurance), and also because he seemed to be an eager adopter of electronic medical records (EMR).
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Social Media Healthcare
“A recent article in the Journal of Medical Ethics (there is a link to the paper at the bottom of the article) reviewed doctors’ current Facebook use and what this might imply in terms of the doctor/patient relationship. The study is small (only 202 people) and only involved residents and fellows, thus limiting the conclusions that can be reached. However, it provides a some insight into how physicians use social medial, and invites some useful questions and suggestions.
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Michal Lev-Ram, CNNMoney
“Concerns over digital privacy, especially of medical records, have never been higher. Yet startup PatientsLikeMe says there’s much to be gained from the crowdsourcing of ailments — and treatments.
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Claire Rogers, Stuff.co.nz
“Doctors in the South Island will pioneer a fresh approach to telemedicine after deciding to abandon a hi-tech telepresence system set up on the West Coast that became a flagbearer for ultrafast broadband.
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Alison Diana, InformationWeek
“Google, which gave people a closer perspective of the world through Google Earth and Street View, on Thursday brought people a new way to view themselves with the beta release of Body Browser, a three-dimensional model that lets users zoom in and out of the human form, remove layers, and explore the body.
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