Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“Business intelligence specialists in Australia are examining how to mine patient data and clinician notes in search of better ways to diagnose and treat depression, a condition not linked to specific biological causes.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Physician practices may face total EHR adoption costs of $120,000 per physician, according to a new survey, which finds that the speed with which a practice fully implements its EHR and shifts to the new, accelerated workflow is critical to reducing the overall cost of adoption.
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Unity Stoakes, Mashable
“Is your doctor easily accessible online, or does he or she believe that the Internet (Internet) isn’t a resource for accessing health information?
If it’s the latter, it may be time to find another doctor. With nearly 90% of online Americans searching the Internet for health resources, it’s likely you and your friends and family already use the Internet to research health issues.
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Peggy Bresnick Kendler, Outsourcing Center
“eHealth is a relatively recent healthcare practice that leverages electronic processes and communication to manage healthcare information. eHealth involves simplifying processes related to information, communication and transactions within and between healthcare institutions and professionals by utilizing information and telecommunications technologies.
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HealthLeaders
“Tele-ICU technology could save 350 additional lives and more than $122 million annually if broadly and effectively implemented across Massachusetts, according to a study from the New England Healthcare Institute and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.
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Ken Covinsky, GeriPal
“Telemonitoring is a novel disease management strategy that sounds wonderful. But just because something sounds wonderful does not mean it works. Sometimes new technologies are implemented into clinical practice just because we think they should work. But wishful thinking should not be good enough for our patients. New technologies should be subjected to rigorous evaluation before they are widely implemented.
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Protti D. ElectronicHealthcare, 6(2)
In 2001, less than 3% of primary care physicians were fully automated in the region of Andalucia, Spain. Now, six years later, more than 70% use a computer system called DIRAYA (Arabic for knowledge), which integrates all the information on each patient so that it is available when and where it is needed for his or her care.
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Lupiáñez-Villanueva F et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 18(1)
Objectives
To identify and characterise different profiles of nurses’ utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the Internet and to identify factors that can enhance or inhibit the use of these technologies within nursing.
Methods
An online survey of the 13,588 members of the Nurses Association of Barcelona who had a registered email account in 2006 was carried out. Factor analysis, cluster analysis and binomial logit model was undertaken.
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Schuler T et al, Ubiquity: Technologies for Better Health in Aging Societies, 2006
One of the main challenges in the field of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is semantic interoperability. To utilise the full potential of interoperable EHR systems they have to be accepted by their users, the health care providers. Good Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) that support customisation and data validation play a decisive role for user acceptance and data quality.
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Nina Lakhani, The Independent on Sunday
“NHS savings of £1bn a year, a 40 per cent reduction in hospital admissions and improved patient care are some of the benefits promised by telemedicine, according to medical experts who describe it as the future of healthcare. Patients will benefit from faster life-saving treatments for a range of illnesses from strokes to diabetes, regardless of where they are.
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Mary Stevens, CMIO
“The race is on to develop mobile applications that empower patients to take more responsibility for their own care. Although there is a big opportunity to build new devices that improve care through self-management, it’s important to consider human behavior in of all this, said Dan Feinberg, director of the health informatics graduate program at Northeastern University in Boston.
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iHealthBeat
“Slightly more than half of office-based physicians in the U.S. report using electronic health records in their practices, a slight increase over last year, according to preliminary results of a survey by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, United Press International reports.
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Sage Healthcare Division
“Physicians care about the health of their patients. That’s why they got into the field in the first place. But sometimes their other duties, such as paperwork, lab reports and prescription refills, take up valuable time that could be spent with patients.
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Daniel Ghinn, Creation Interactive
“Amongst the emerging channels that are changing healthcare engagement today, mobile devices look set to play a defining role in shaping the future of interaction between pharmaceutical companies and their stakeholders.
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Johansson T, Wild C. J Telemed Telecare, 17(1)
We conducted a systematic review of telerehabilitation interventions in stroke care. The following databases were searched: Medline, Embase, DARE-NHSEED-HTA (INAHTA) and the Cochrane Library. Nine studies, all published after 2000, were included in the review. A wide variety of telemedicine interventions in post-stroke rehabilitation care was identified. Four studies had been carried out in the USA, two in the Netherlands, two in Italy and one in China. There were four randomized controlled trials and one qualitative analysis. Four studies used an observational study design/case series.
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DesRoches CM, Health Affairs, 29(12)
Understanding the benefits of electronic prescribing systems has important implications for quality and efficiency in medical care. We surveyed physicians about their use of e-prescribing in outpatient practices. We found that physicians who use e-prescribing systems integrated into an electronic health record have different characteristics, usage patterns, perceived benefits, and levels of satisfaction than physicians who use stand-alone systems.
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Garrett NY et al, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 17(1)
Public health agencies including federal, state, and local governments routinely send out public health advisories and alerts via e-mail and text messages to health care providers to increase awareness of public health events and situations. Agencies must ensure that practitioners have timely and accessible information at the critical point-of-care. Electronic health record (EHR) systems have the potential to alert physicians of emerging health conditions deemed important for public health at the most critical time of need. To understand how public health agencies can leverage existing alerting mechanisms in EHR systems, it is important to understand characteristics of public health alerts to determine their suitability for alerting in EHR systems.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“According to recent reports, the federal Veterans Affairs Department is steadily enhancing the capacity of veterans to access their personal health information both within and outside the VA’s healthcare system.
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Li S et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
For the aging population and for people with dominant chronic diseases, countries all over the world are promoting an “Aging in Place” program with its primary focus on the implementation of telecare. In 2009, Taiwan held a “Health Care Value-Added Platinum Program” with the goal of promoting the development of “Telecare” services by integrating medical treatment, healthcare, information communication, medical equipments and materials and by linking related cross-discipline professions to enable people to familiarize themselves with preventive healthcare services offered in their household and community environments. In addition, this program can be utilized to effectively provide diversified healthcare service benefitting society as a whole.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“I spoke recently with Dr. Thomas Jones, chairman of the Health Record Bank’s Principles Committee, who will be presenting at the Healthcare and Information Management Systems Society annual conference in February in Orlando, Fla.
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