Richard, World of DTC Marketing
“The hidden costs of U.S. health care for consumers: A comprehensive analysis produced by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, in Washington, D.C. had some startling findings on healthcare. First is that consumers are concerned about health-related costs and are acting to avoid higher exposure.
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Sara Disanto, research2guidance
“Interviews with mHealth app publishers indicate that making money with e.g. health tracking, fitness, compliancy and monitoring apps takes much more effort than most developers expected. Mobile health applications normally don’t show up in the top ranking lists in app stores.
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Stewart M et al, Healthcare Policy, 5(2)
Electronic medical records (EMRs) are posited as a tool for improving practice, policy and research in primary healthcare. This paper describes the Deliver Primary Healthcare Information (DELPHI) Project at the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario, focusing on its development, current status and research potential in order to share experiences with researchers in similar contexts.
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“While HIT insiders and pundits take it as a given that installing an EMR benefits everyone, it’s not so obvious to some gun-shy practices. Even researchers like myself switch gears every time I try to explain what EMR technology can do.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Whatever happens in Washington with healthcare reform, the industry is moving toward a patient-centered care model. Whether it’s called a patient-centered medical home or an accountable care organization, the goals are the same – to improve quality of care, reduce inefficiencies and therefore costs and medical errors, and empower patients to be part of their health and wellness.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The issue of engagement with healthcare and the tools that help deliver that care has been a recent hot topic. How can we improve engagement? The question should really be considered in two parts: (1) how are clinicians engaging the health IT tools at their disposal, and (2) how are patients engaging their own health?
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Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet
“Microsoft is moving full-steam ahead with its healthcare push, while Google may be pulling back — and possibly pulling out all together — from the electronic medical records space.
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Keith W. Boone, Healthcare Standards
“Several recent posts (this one among them) have talked about how the switch to ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS will affect medical coding. Chief among the concerns is that coding productivity will go down because the new US ICD-10 coding schemes simply have more codes. This was even a brief topic of discussion on the #HITsm chat last night.
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Sage Healthcare Division
“For practices that have bought and installed an electronic health record system, the next biggest obstacle may be tackling the piles of paper and extracting patient data.
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Nelson Hsu, HISTalk
“Playing with the percentages is risky for the many healthcare organizations on the electronic healthcare record (EHR) adoption curve. The percentages in question are EHR systems’ uptime – how often the applications are available and working at sufficient performance to meet healthcare providers’ needs. Industry standards, vendor claims, and assorted misconceptions about uptime conspire to make this critical area of EHR implementation a footnote where it needs to be near the top of the priority list.
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Alan Gilbert, HISTalk
“In response to Dr. Jayne’s inaugural Curbside Consult regarding the lack of longitudinal care systems and the focus on episodic care, our experience has shown that a longitudinal patient record system is critical to realizing a goal of a more effective and efficient healthcare system that results in improved outcomes for patients. We believe that healthcare needs to be delivered at the point of need and not at the point of care.
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Senior Journal
“Senior citizens, for once, are not the age group lagging behind in an online endeavor. A study to measure participation on adopting the use of online personal health records finds those patients aged 65 and older are more likely to get involved than young adults between the ages of 18 and 35.
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Janet Dillione, HealthNewsDigest.com
“With nearly one-third of healthcare sector decision-makers already using cloud-based applications and 73 percent saying they are planning to move more applications to the cloud, it’s time to take a serious look at the business opportunity offered and determine what healthcare in the cloud really means.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“There’s been a lot of buzz about this Capstrat survey since it was published on newsfeeds in late March. The headline for the survey in most technology and health trade publications has been that only 1 in 10 health consumers would use Twitter or Facebook, broadly social media, for health care interactions with doctors.
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Faisal Qureshi, Meaningfuluses
“I’ve discussed how healthcare is running away from a desktop centric model toward mobility. The days of complete reliance on desktop data entry is coming to an end as healthcare IT relies more and more on mobile health. Privacy on the desktop for the most part was protected by Clinton era HIPAA privacy policies well before health apps became a downloadable consumer preoccupation.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, The Health Care Blog
“Remember the fear mongering rhetoric about weapons of mass destruction and all sorts of other bogey men that sometimes led to war death and true destruction and other times to just animosity, hatred and counterproductive waste of time and resources?
This is exactly what we are witnessing today in Health Information Technology (HIT).
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“I wrote a story for this week’s Modern Healthcare magazine about the Alembic Foundation, which is assuming a caretaker role in the future development of the government-founded Connect Gateway project. The Federal Health Architecture program—overseen by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology—started the project in 2008.
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James R. Knickman, Huffington Post
“I jumped on the iPhone bandwagon a few weeks ago, and I’ve mostly enjoyed figuring out how to take advantage of all of its features. One of the apps I discovered early on tracks the time and distance of my walk to the office in the morning and then posts that information to my Outlook calendar.
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Maureen McKinney, ModernHealthcare
“Racial and ethnic minority patients are far less likely than whites to adopt an online personal health record to access and coordinate their health information, according to a study published in the March 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Medical News Today
“Despite increasing Internet availability, the ‘digital divide’ (disparities in access to technology) appears to exist among primary care patients adopting an online personal health record, according to a report in the March 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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