Articles
Mcinnes N, Haglund BJA. Informatics for Health and Social Care, 2011
Accessibility is one of six quality criteria articulated by the European Commission in its code of conduct for health websites. Readability plays an integral part in determining a website’s accessibility. Health information that is hard to read may remain inaccessible to people with low health literacy. This study aimed to calculate the readability of websites on various causes of disease. The names of 22 health conditions were entered into five search engines, and the readability of the first 10 results for each search were evaluated using Gunning FOG, SMOG, Flesch-Kincaid and Flesch Reading Ease tests (n = 352). Readability was stratified and assessed by search term, search term complexity, top-level domain and paragraph position.
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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Health Information, health-literacy, Internet, Online
Flores Zuniga AE et al, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 26(4)
Objectives:
The aim of this study was to examine open-source electronic health record (EHR) software to determine their level of functionalities according to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards.
Methods:
ISO standards were used as a guideline to determine and describe the reference architecture and functionalities of a standard electronic health record system as well the environmental context for which the software has been built. Twelve open-source EHR systems were selected and evaluated according to two-dimensional criteria based on ISO/TS 18308:2004 functional requirements and ISO/TR 20514:2005 context of the EHR system.
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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tags: Evaluation, Open Source, Standards
Rubin AD, McFerran VA. The American Journal of Managed Care, 16(12 Suppl HIT)
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Health System seeks to align its purpose of “healing humankind” with its approaches for people and performance management. These approaches include lean process improvements initiatives, sustained by efforts to impact daily team member work flows. The electronic health record (EHR) serves as a powerful supportive instrument in improving processes and sustaining performance.
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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Barcode, Effectiveness, Stroke, Telemedicine, Workflow
Blavin FE et al, The American Journal of Managed Care, 16(12 Suppl HIT)
Objective:
To develop measures of the use of electronic health records (EHRs) that accurately reflect the full continuum of hospital adoption and progress toward meaningful use and to understand the intercorrelations and patterns associated with hospital adoption of specific EHR functions.
Study Design:
This study analyzed the 2009 American Hospital Association (AHA) information technology (IT) supplement survey. The main section of this survey assessed the adoption and use of 24 EHR functionalities in the following major categories: electronic clinical documentation, results viewing, computerized provider order entry, and clinical decision support.
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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Hospitals, Meaningful Use
Top M, Gider O. Journal of Medical Systems, 2011
Electronic medical records are generally used by nurses in hospitals. However, studies investigating views on and evaluations of electronic medical records by nurses are limited in Turkey and in other countries around the world. Thus, in this study, nurses’ views on electronic medical record systems will be investigated in terms of use, quality and user satisfaction. Our goal was to investigate the views on electronic medical records used by nurses working at hospital clinics (inpatient care units). Moreover, in this study, we will examine whether there are relationships among the use, quality and user satisfaction of electronic medical records. This study is composed of field research conducted using questionnaires. To prepare the data-measuring instrument, the literature on electronic medical records was reviewed. In addition, during the pilot run of the questionnaire, some revisions were made to the measuring instrument to account for the views of nurse managers in the field.
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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Turkey | EHR: EHR | Tags: emr, Health Management, Information Management, Nurses, Satisfaction
Ullman-Cullere MH, Mathew JP. Human Mutation, 2011
The Information Technology (IT) roadmap for personalized medicine requires Electronic Health Records (EHRs), extension of Healthcare IT (HIT) standards, and understanding of how genetics/genomics should be integrated into the clinical applications. For reduced overall costs and development times, these three initiatives should run in parallel. EHRs must contain structured data and infrastructure which enables quality analysis, Clinical Decision Support (CDS) and messaging within the healthcare information network. Fortunately, as a result of sustained financial commitment to non-genetic based healthcare, the industry has HIT data standards and understanding of EHR functionality which improves patient safety and outcomes, while reducing overall healthcare costs.
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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Biomedical Informatics, Decision Support, Genetics, Genomics, Health Informatics, Personalised Medicine
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Searching online for health information is the third most common online activity behind checking e-mail and using a search engine, finds a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information, Online, Search
Keith W. Boone, Healthcare Standards
“I followed up with a description of what a use case is, and talked about many of the Use cases we have already built interoperability solutions we call profiles in IHE. After that, we walked through “Use Case 3″ which describes an emergency room visit for a sore wrist by a 70-year-old woman. Then the fun began. I’m used to walking around the room to engage students, but the mikes were all wired, so I was stuck behind the podium.
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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Interoperability
Mark Hendrickson, KevinMD
“Which brings the question: Is healthcare utilizing all the technology available? Why are there rooms of paper health records when they could be stored on servers the size of a refrigerator or even a deck of cards?
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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Implementation, Usability
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced Sunday at HIMSS11 the launch of an industry project to consolidate and harmonize required health information exchange specifications that support meaningful use of electronic health record systems.
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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange, HL7, Standards
Newsy Stocks
“Released today at the 2011 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition, a new study from HIMSS Analyticstm, sponsored by NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:QSII) stresses the urgency for healthcare organizations to engage with emerging care delivery models, starting with an interoperability strategy. A white paper analyzing the results, “Opportunities for Engagement and Transformation through Emerging Care Delivery Models,” is available at NextGen Healthcare’s HIMSS11 booth #2163.
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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Data Sharing, Health Information Exchange, Hospitals, Interoperability
Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“A patient’s health records are no longer confined to a doctor’s office, shelved inside a dusty file cabinet. With the advent of the Nationwide Health Information Network, a framework of standards, services and policies that allow health practitioners to securely exchange health data, medical records digitized to be easily shared between doctor’s offices, hospitals, benefit providers, government agencies and other health organizations, all across America.
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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange
Nictiz
“Van wie is het dossier? Daarover ging het tijdens het spitsseminar dat 15 februari plaatsvond bij Nictiz in Den Haag. Een van de conclusies: patiëntgegevens zijn in juridische zin geen eigendom en daarom van niemand. Rechten en plichten rond zeggenschap over gegevens zijn wel wettelijk geregeld. Maar: ‘Er is een grote spanning tussen theorie en praktijk.’
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20 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tags: Legal, Ownership, Research
Daithi hAnluain, Mobiledia
“Hospitals and healthcare facilities all over the U.S. are integrating Facebook, Twitter and even mobile apps into their work, in an effort to improve patient-doctor communication.
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20 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: facebook, Physicians, Social Media, Twitter
Joel Selzer, AIIM
“The Harvard Business Review recently featured a post from Bill George, a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, where he states, “Social networking is the most significant business development of 2010, topping the resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry.”
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20 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: facebook, social-network
Wes Rishel, Gartner
“In the public hearings of the PCAST Work Group on 15-16 February we learned that the PCAST perceives the UEL in a manner that is quite different than I had imagined. Its view is more far-reaching. It embraces documents but does not conclude that they are the only way in which clinical information will be communicated or used. With this new view, I like what I see.
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20 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: HL7, Imaging, SNOMED, Standards, Universal Exchange Language
Martin Beckford, Telegraph.co.uk
“Only a handful of health authorities even allow their patients to sign up to the HealthSpace project, while thousands of potential users gave up because of the difficulties involved in registering.
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20 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, Patient, summary-care-records
Jenara Nerenberg, Fast Company
“The rural mothers of Jordan now have a direct, immediate line to qualified health care–their mobile phones.
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20 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Jordan | Tags: Cellphone, mHealth, Rural, SMS
Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Providers report a demonstrable return on their speech recognition investments, such as staff reductions, improved report turnaround times, and increased physician satisfaction, according to Speech Recognition 2010: Vocalizing Benefits, a new report from KLAS.
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20 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Speech Recognition, Workflow
Sue Kozlowski, Healthcare IT Strategy
“Paul and I were talking the other day about Electronic Health Record systems, and he made an interesting comment. It seems that some hospitals and systems implement their EHR expecting great things, and then they’re somewhat startled to see a big drop in productivity – sometimes on the order of 10 – 30%.
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19 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: CPOE, Data Mining, Usability, Workflow
