Alan Brookstone, American EHR
“Chronic Disease Management is sometimes used as a way to neatly package a pool of services for a specific group of patients. This can result in a tunnel vision type approach to treatment which can be effective when automating a set of processes, however patients with chronic disease tend to be older, often suffer from co-morbid disease and require the support of a wider range of healthcare providers.
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Katherine Hobson, WSJ Health Blog
“If you’re looking for studies laying out the benefits of electronic medical records, this isn’t your month. Last week we wrote about a review of existing research that found little evidence for some of the claims made about health IT.
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Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“COCIR, the European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry, applauds the European Parliament’s vote in favor of the EU Directive on Patients’ Rights in Cross-border Healthcare.
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Nargis Namazi, Healthcare Digital
“The majority of today’s mHealth smartphone applications fall into the category of general health tracking and fitness tools. Generally these apps have a low to medium sophistication level.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Men and chronically ill patients are the most likely to support remote monitoring and virtual visits as part of their health care. But a large majority of the public is at least willing to give it a try, according to a new survey.
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Kevin Fogarty, IT World
“This could be an awkward week for some in the healthcare industry.
Especially those working on IT projects being funded by as much as $27 billion set aside by the Obama administration to help get the U.S. healthcare system to upgrade from its record-keeping from the paper, parchment and cuneiform it loves so much to actual computerized versions everyone can use.
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Grieger DL et al, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 205(1)
BACKGROUND:
Adoption rates for electronic health records (EHRs) have been slow, despite growing enthusiasm. Cost is a frequently cited obstacle to implementing an EHR. The body of literature citing a positive return on investment is largely anecdotal and infrequently published in peer-reviewed journals.
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Globe and Mail
“The travails of electronic-health-record projects suffered in the past few years by the federal government and the governments of Ontario and British Columbia are quite consistent with an international pattern of exaggerated expectations and huge budgets. Long-term progress on eHealth is more likely to be achieved by moderate measures that build on proven success.
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jasonclarkson, Cell Phones
“Building upon the tremendous success of their home and community care software solution, Procura today unveils plans for their newest product offering, Procura Mobile. Procura’s entrance into the mobile device space reflects the natural evolution for home health care and electronic health record (EHR) management, with the implementation of a single system that addresses scheduling, administration, documentation, and safety issues, all from the mobile platform.
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Robert Preidt, MSN Health
“Electronic health records have so far done little to improve the quality of health care in the United States, a new study states.
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David C. Kibbe and Brian Klepper, Government Health IT
“Nowhere has the Obama’s administration’s activities to unfreeze private markets been more dramatic than in the health IT products and services sector, especially for electronic health records (EHRs).
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Keith W. Boone, Healthcare Standards
“If all you do is use better tools, and you don’t measure all the benefits those tools provide, of course you won’t seen improvements. I just finished reading through the Archives of Internal Medicine report on the use of EHR’s and Clinical Decision Support to improve quality.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I’ve always found it a bit off to talk about EMR software as a means to improve the quality of care that a doctor provides. For the vast majority of healthcare, more information, clinical decision support, drug to drug interaction checking, drug to allergy checking, etc aren’t going to improve the care a doctor provides.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“In a recent interesting article by Software Advice, Don Fornes wrestled with the question of economic viability within the Electronic Health Record (EHR) sector. After all, there are over 400 different EHR products in the field – in the ambulatory products space alone, there are 209 ONC-ACTB Certified products as of this writing.
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PRWeb
“With its 1001 ways to improve the life of any human being, the use of the iPad has also been a hot topic in the disability community. It is the combination of superb touch screen devices with the scientific knowledge and experience from a speech therapist that is making the difference for thousands of children and adults with special needs around the world.
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John Farrell, The Mobility Blog
“I spend a lot of time talking to, and writing about, mobile technology developers of all stripes. Usually, it isn’t long before the conversation shifts to how the latest gadget or mHealth app will help reduce healthcare costs, particularly among those affected by chronic illness.
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Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch
“Here’s the gist of the app: you launch it, and it prompts you to ask if you’ve been trained in CPR and would be willing to help a stranger in the event of an emergency. If you accept this, then the application will take advantage of the iPhone’s location monitoring to get a general sense of where you are (a new feature enabled with the most recent update allows this with a minimal amount of battery drain).
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Courtney Preston, Emily Shafer, OSN SuperSite
“Social media has become a mainstay of both personal and professional communication because it is a fast, effective way to reach a large number of people.
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Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“One of the “five pillars” of meaningful use is to engage patients and their families in electronic health data. But engaging patients and families with electronic health data isn’t just about HITECH requirements and stimulus money – - it’s also a way to foster collaborative decision-making between provider and patient, which, in turn, improves the patient experience, leads to better outcomes, and can reduce readmissions.
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Gabriel S. Mabutas, Manila Bulletin
“A new technology that could enable doctors to diagnose and recommend real-time treatment and medication to patients in remote areas in the country has just been made available in the country and is now being managed by the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) for local use.
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