Articles
Yamin CK et al, Archives of Internal Medicine, 171(6)
Background
Personal health records (PHRs) offer the potential to improve the patient experience and the quality of patient care. However, the “digital divide,” the population-level gap in Internet and computer access, may prevent certain groups from accessing the PHR.
Methods
We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of a PHR within a northeastern health system. We compared adopters (ie, those activating a PHR account online) with nonadopters (ie, those who see a physician offering the PHR but do not activate an account). We further categorized adopters by intensity of PHR use, measured by number of log-ins and number of messages sent to physicians’ practices.
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Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Digital Divide
Jim Doyle, STLtoday
“On the top floor of St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, doctors and nurses watch banks of video feeds, peering in on intensive care patients at rural hospitals across the Midwest.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Rural, Telemedicine, Urban
Médicos y Pacientes
“El diario digital “Médicos y Pacientes”, un servicio público de información del Consejo General de Colegios de Médicos, ha alcanzado sus primeros 1.000 días de información y con tal motivo ha celebrado un acto en el que se han dado cita más de un centenar de profesionales, entre ellos numerosos presidentes de Colegios de Médicos, Asociaciones de Pacientes (que tienen cabida preferente en las páginas de este diario), así como periodistas del sector sanitario y responsables de comunicación de Colegios de Médicos. El acto, más que para mirar al pasado, sirvió para analizar el presente y futuro de la comunicación y presentar el camino que va a seguir en el futuro esta publicación digital que pasa a partir de ahora de la información a la comunicación interactiva.
El presidente de la Organización Médica Colegial, Juan José Rodríguez Sendín, celebró que hubiese reunido a los allí presentes “algo tan importante como un medio de comunicación” y destacó que esta iniciativa suponía “darle autoría a lo que publicamos” y era ejemplo claro del “compromiso con la organización”.”
Article (spanish)
Médicos y Pacientes, 28 March 2011
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Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Communication, Health Information, Online
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Reduced prices and improved quality are boosting the adoption of telemedicine videoconferencing systems, according to a new Frost & Sullivan report titled Visual Collaboration Applications in Healthcare.
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28 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Telemedicine, Videoconferencing
NBC News
“The internet is a playground where parents can’t always keep a watchful eye on their children.
An estimated 20-percent of kids become victims of cyber-bullying.
It’s a nerve-wracking statistic for many parents.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Children, Social Media
Denise Amrich, ZDNet Health
“I recently read an article that said that a sizable percentage of people are using social networks to get information about health.
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28 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: facebook, Health Information, Social Media
Rob Mitchell, Times Argus
“Through a combination of financing, government support and the coordination of a nonprofit technology consultancy, Vermont is building an electronic medical records system that will have a profound impact on the quality of health care.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Health Information Exchange, Hospitals
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Patients using social media to check in on what their friends and family are doing are starting to use the sites as sources of information for something else — health care.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: facebook, Health Information, Patient, Social Media
Telenor
“Just over six years ago, Pál Miletics and the business products team at Telenor Hungary (called Pannon at the time) developed a connected electrocardiogram (ECG) solution. Patients were remotely monitored by sensors that collected cardio data.
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Categories: News | Country: Hungary | Tags: Cardiology, Industry, mHealth
Bhavnani V et al, Family Practice, 28(2)
BACKGROUND
Record access is likely to become an integral part of routine care in the UK. While existing research suggests that record access improves self-care and improves relationships between patients and clinicians, little is known about how patients make use of their ability to access their records or the impact that this has on health behaviour.
AIM
To explore patients’ use of access to their electronic GP record and the impact of that process on their health behaviour.
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28 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Patients, RA Research, Record Access, Science, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, Behaviour, GP, Patient
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Patients taking advantage of $4 generic prescription drug programs may be helping their pocketbooks, but they’re unwittingly hurting the cause of electronic prescribing and electronic medical records.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Drugs, e-prescribing
Jennifer Corbett Dooren, WSJ Health Blog
“For developers of new drugs and treatments, one of the toughest hurdles has nothing to do with medicine. It’s recruiting patients for clinical trials. And when it comes to recruiting minority patients, the challenge is even greater.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Clinical Trials, Drugs
Stephanie Simon, WSJ Health Blog
“Eric Topol felt a twinge of nostalgia when he stopped carrying around his trusty stethoscope.
It didn’t last long.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: mHealth, Telemedicine
Lauren Landro, WSJ Health Blog
“With the passage of sweeping health-care legislation last year, 32 million more people are expected to flood into a health-care system already strained by rising costs and a short supply of physicians, nurses and other clinicians.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Innovation
David Perera, FierceGovernmentIT
“Big data will revolutionize healthcare, says a new five-year strategic plan from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Health Information Exchange, Patient
Dara Gantly, Irish Medical Times
“The former Minister for Health Mary Harney asked the HSE to set aside money from its €32.75 million innovation fund for the national roll-out of the personal health record for children.
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Categories: News | Country: Ireland | EHR: EHR, EHR Ireland | Tags: Children
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“This looks very much like the end of iSoft as a stand-alone corporate entity.
If I had iSoft software operational in my organisation (eg HealthSMART in Victoria or the Macquarie Private Hospital in NSW) I would be checking contracts etc. pretty carefully!
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Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tags: Industry
Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“I was hanging around the #hcsm (healthcare social media) chat tonight on Twitter, and caught some interesting comments from physicians on how they use tablets. While it’s hard to tell how unusual this approach is — the #hcsm chat attracts cutting edge types — one physician noted that he shows the patients what he’s doing on his iPad.
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28 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Data Sharing, Patient-clinician communication, tablet PC
van Hoof J et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2011
Introduction
Ambient intelligence technologies are a means to support ageing-in-place by monitoring clients in the home. In this study, monitoring is applied for the purpose of raising an alarm in an emergency situation, and thereby, providing an increased sense of safety and security. Apart from these technological solutions, there are numerous environmental interventions in the home environment that can support people to age-in-place. The aim of this study was to investigate the needs and motives, related to ageing-in-place, of the respondents receiving ambient intelligence technologies, and to investigate whether, and how, these technologies contributed to aspects of ageing-in-place.
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27 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Netherlands | Tags: Ambient Intelligence, Dementia, Digital Homecare, Elderly, Safety, Security
Milligan C et al, Social Science & Medicine, 72(3)
‘Telecare solutions’ are seen as a potential means of addressing the future care needs of ageing societies in Western economies. The development of these remote care systems runs in parallel with policies aimed at ‘ageing in place’; and is targeted at supporting the perceived care needs of frail older people within the home. Drawing on ethnographic and deliberative panel data from European Community funded research, we consider how these developments contribute to a reshaping of the place and experience of care for older people.
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27 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: UK | Tags: Digital Homecare, Elderly, Telecare, Telemedicine
