Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Long before the rise of the Internet and the term “crowdsourcing” was used, physicians often turned to one another to solve tough clinical cases or find answers to questions they exhausted every other avenue trying to solve.
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Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, The New York Times
“For more and more people, computers and software are becoming a critical part of their health care.
Thanks to an array of small devices and applications for smartphones that gather vital health information and store it electronically, consumers can take a more active role in managing their own care, often treating chronic illnesses — and preventing acute ones — without the direct aid of a physician.
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Engadget
“If athletic events were accessorized with coffee, comfy pajamas, and a particular knack for sedentariness, well, we’d be champs. Alas, sports are more typically characterized by movement which, we’re told, increases the participant’s pulse, breathing, and likelihood of turning an arm into a tattooed sleeve. Nevertheless, we can’t help but be intrigued by the Under Armour E39 (”E” for electric) compression shirt.
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Jerry Levin, KevinMD
“For all of us — young, old, and those in the middle — life is simply an interlude between doctors’ visits. This perspective, while obvious, perennially stays beneath our consciousness since we are consumed by the daily pursuit of personal identity as if our mind-body-and-spirit were to function without incident and without end.
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Healthcare IT News
“Americans who have health issues are now using the Internet to expand their support networks to include online peers, especially if they have a rare disease, according to a new report by the Pew Internet Project and California HealthCare Foundation.
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Anna Webster, HealthLeaders Media
“Kiosks and automated check-in processes are making their way from the airport lobby to the doctor’s office.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“One-third of physician practices and community health clinics are poised to replace their electronic medical record systems, according to research firm KLAS. The replacement surge sets up Allscripts, eClinicalWorks, Epic and NextGen for new business, KLAS reports.
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HEALTH.IN.GR, Pathfinder
“Με επιτυχία υλοποιείται μία ακόμη υπηρεσία του Δήμου Τρικκαίων, με στόχο την αναβάθμιση και επέκταση των υπαρχόντων υπηρεσιών τηλε-φροντίδας, με την χρήση των νέων τεχνολογιών.
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Erik L. Ridley, AuntMinnie
“Radiology groups that use teleradiology tend to be loyal customers, reporting high levels of satisfaction and lasting relationships with their service provider, according to a new report from healthcare technology research and advisory firm CapSite.
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Susannah Fox, PewInternet
“Many Americans turn to friends and family for support and advice when they have a health problem. This report shows how people’s networks are expanding to include online peers, particularly in the crucible of rare disease.
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Scot M Silverstein, Health Care Renewal
“Anyone who thinks these systems in their present form benefit clinical medicine needs to have their head examined.
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Mccormack J. Health Data Management, 19(3)
The challenges associated with getting lab results in front of clinicians and patients is a lot like peeling an onion. Everytime you peel back a layer, another challenge awaits. And, if you don’t keep going-even when the stench starts to burn your eyes-you might never completely solve the problem.
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Health Data Management Magazine
“In the past, the hospital or the clinic was the custodian of the data, but now as patients can collect their information from everywhere, they will become their own custodians. The question is how reliable their information will be.
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Common Ground
“Should we be concerned about DNA testing of our babies in BC or anywhere else for that matter?
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CMIO
“Security breaches, stolen laptops, destroyed servers: the news in health IT security is rarely good. But don’t worry—your turn is coming, said Mark Pasquale, BS, MBA, vice president and CIO of Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, and Steve Bennett, BA, MA, vice president of Kirby Partners, a heath IT recruiting firm in Heathrow, Fla., speaking at a session on crisis communications at HIMSS11 last week.
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Peter Rietveld, Security.nl
“Een wereldwijd Elektronisch Patiënten Dossier (EPD). Dat hebben we nodig, vindt de EU, onder aanvoering van Neelie Kroes. Het staat op de agenda voor uitbreiding van de digitale dienstverlening. Hiervoor tekenden Kroes en de Amerikaanse Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius in december een akkoord. De bedoeling is dat uitwisseling van medische gegevens mogelijk wordt tussen de VS en de landen van de EU.
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Jameson Berkow, Financial Post
“Revolution, not evolution, is needed to control the spiraling cost of Canadian health care without dismantling the public system for which Canada is renowned, says a Parliamentary hopeful who argues technology is the key to driving that revolution.
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Liu LS, Proceedings of the 2011 iConference, 2011
Personal health records (PHR) have enormous potential to improve both documentation of health information and patient care. The adoption of these systems, however, has been relatively slow. In this work, we used a multi-method approach to evaluate PHR systems. We interviewed potential end users—clinicians and patients—and conducted evaluations with patients and caregivers as well as a heuristic evaluation with HCI experts.
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Baird A et al, Proceedings of the 2011 iConference, 2011
We provide early evidence that healthcare consumers plan to play a more active role in their healthcare through the use of a patientcentric information tool—the Personal Health Record (PHR). We assess consumer attitudes, values, and beliefs of PHRs through the use of a focus group and further analyze the intention to adopt a PHR through the use of a survey based on the adoption of innovations model by Rogers [38]. We find that while barriers to PHR adoption exist—such as concerns about privacy, security and the lack of visible use of PHRs by others within immediate social groups—intention to use PHRs are high within our sample. This suggests that active consumer involvement in healthcare may be on the rise and, more importantly, that information may become a key mediator in the physician-patient relationship. While our findings are based on pilot studies consisting of relatively small sample sizes and subject to limited generalizability, these results do suggest that consumer empowerment has the potential to fundamentally alter traditional physician-patient paradigms.
David Mullings, Jamaica Observer
“Last week I indicated what changes Jamaica would have to make in order to attract largescale local and international investments in the technology arena, pointing to the actions of the Costa Rican government in the past to attract Intel, and making the suggestion that we leverage our relationship with the Chinese and consider focusing on attracting companies dealing with green technology.
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