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Zorgvisie
“Er zijn 3561 zorgaanbieders aangesloten op het landelijk EPD, dat is 57 procent van het totaal. Van de 1644 apothekers is 83 procent aangesloten. Van de 1789 huisartsenpraktijken is 44 procent aangesloten, van de 112 huisartsenposten 88 procent. Veel minder ziekenhuizen hebben aansluiting gezocht: 18 procent. Eerstelijnsaanbieders kregen subsidie als ze zich aanmeldden. Op dit moment zijn de medicatie- en waarneemgegevens van bijna 8,5 miljoen Nederlanders via het landelijk EPD opvraagbaar. Dit komt overeen met 11,7 miljoen dossiers.
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24 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tags: Adoption, GP, Hospitals, Incentives, pharmacist
EMR Daily News
“Ok, you’ve selected an EMR vendor and you’re in the process of planning the implementation for your product. There is much to decide upon while you’re in this planning phase and one of those things is what to do with your existing, paper based medical records.
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24 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Paper Conversion
Jan Willem Boissevain
“In haar brief aan de Eerste Kamer spreekt minister Schippers haar zorg uit over de huidige onveilige situatie van regionale uitwisseling. Zij pleit voor een gestandaardiseerde en veilige inrichting en beheer van het EPD: “Door ondersteuning van gestandaardiseerde en gestructureerde gegevensuitwisseling in de zorg en het stellen van hoge beveiligings- en toegangseisen zorgt de landelijke EPD-infrastructuur voor de vereiste verbetering van de uitwisseling en wordt de huidige regio-begrenzing overstegen.
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24 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tags: Security
Kevin Pho, KevinMD
“How important is it for hospitals to engage in social media platforms, such as Facebook or Twitter?
It’s essential.
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24 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: facebook, Hospitals, Social Media, Twitter
University of Sydney
“A survey of IT experts by the University of Sydney lends further weight to calls to halt the rollout of the NSW Clinical Information System FirstNet, with a review finding the system should be spearheaded by an IT-savvy clinician.
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24 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | Tags: e-Health, Health Information Technology, Industry, Physicians, Workflow
Rosemarie Nelson, KevinMD
“I had a déjà vu experience recently when I visited a medical practice that was like so many others I’ve been to before.
This practice just wasn’t getting their investment back from their EHR.
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24 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits, Implementation, Paper Conversion
Adler-Milstein J, Bates DW. Business Horizons, 53(2)
For most Americans, a trip to the doctor’s office or a hospital stay necessitates that medical personnel search through paper charts and records as care is administered. This remains the status quo, despite the increasingly large role that electronic communication plays in other aspects of our business and personal lives. The elevated use of information technology (IT) in healthcare settings–primarily via utilization of electronic health records (EHRs), which allow information to be readily communicated and shared among healthcare providers–has been advocated as a means of improving quality of care and helping to control healthcare costs over the long term.
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24 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Costs, Health Information Exchange, Health Information Technology, Quality
Andrew Clark, Leavitt Partners
“Technology alone is rarely the solution for fixing an industry’s woes – it must be coupled with significant operational changes to realize its benefits. In my previous blog post, I wrote about the acceleration of EMR adoption as a consequence of the HITECH act (from the 2009 ARRA stimulus bill), including the forthcoming subsidies (carrot) and eventual penalties (stick) for EMR adoption and non-adoption, respectively. I concluded that the bill’s incentive program was indeed increasing adoption and that within the next 5 years we could very well see a different landscape of health record usage in the U.S. health system.
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24 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits, emr, Health Information Technology, Implementation
Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“At least one American aid team has dispatched to Japan, iPhones and iPads with mobile EMR software and medical reference tools in hand. But they haven’t been able to unleash the power of their handheld computers to help the estimated 261,000 people still living in shelters as of Wednesday—12 days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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24 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Japan | Tags: Disaster, mHealth
Bertha Coombs, CNBC
“There are two things Dr. Larry Nathanson can’t work without when he’s on duty in the emergency ward: his stethoscope and his iPad.
After nearly a year using the tablet, it has become an integral tool for treating patients.
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24 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Physicians, tablet PC
Alan Brookstone, American EHR
“As practices migrate from paper records to EHRs, there are millions of paper charts that need to be partially or completely digitized and archived or incorporated into EHRs. What are the principles and guidelines that practices should follow in terms of scanning and archiving paper records?
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: document-management, Paper Conversion
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“InformationWeek surveyed 357 business technology professionals at healthcare provider organizations for its Analytics’ Healthcare IT Priorities Survey. While nearly 60 percent of these healthcare provider organizations still need to either buy or upgrade an EHR system, 52 percent of respondents said they are “very confident” and 31 percent are “somewhat confident” that they will meet the meaningful use requirements to receive incentive funding.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Health Information Exchange, Implementation, Meaningful Use, Provider
Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“An upcoming Institute of Medicine (IOM) report could set policy wheels in motion that lead to the regulation of electronic health record (EHR) safety, observers believe.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adverse Events, Safety, Usability
Melody Smith Jones, Healthcare IT Solutions
“Communication among doctors, patients, providers, and health plans are what healthcare networks are built upon. If you take away this communication, then the network simply does not exist. Today there are more ways to communicate than ever before. Collaboration and social media, by way of portals, email, and webcasts, are drastically altering the old way of doing business in healthcare.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada, United States | Tags: Communication, Hospitals, Social Media
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“During the past couple of years, many hospitals took the advice of marketing experts and created Facebook pages. But a recent study concluded that many are failing at the social part of social networking.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: facebook, Hospitals, Social Media
Text to Change
“As part of the Mobile Phone Panel (SMS) Reporting for Behaviour Change Communication in HIV Prevention in Tanzania, SecondMuse and Text to Change were contracted to setup and test a SMS-based questionnaire in English and Swahili for religious and community leaders.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Tanzania | Tags: Behaviour, Communication, HIV, mHealth, SMS
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“A week ago, MobiHealthNews shot down the myth that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to start regulating mobile medical apps. In reality, the FDA has been regulating mobile software for years.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: mHealth, smartphone, tablet PC
HealthCanal.com
“Patients in Guatemala will have a better chance of getting the right diagnosis and treatment now that the University of Pennsylvania Libraries has received funding for a project using smart phones and other mobile technologies to improve physicians’ access to clinical information in Guatemala.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Guatemala | Tags: mHealth
Quantin C et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 11(1)
As patients often see the data of their medical histories scattered among various medical records hosted in several health-care establishments, the purpose of our multidisciplinary study was to define a pragmatic and secure on-demand based system able to gather this information, with no risk of breaching confidentiality, and to relay it to a medical professional who asked for the information via a specific search engine.
Scattered data are often heterogeneous, which makes the task of gathering information very hard. Two methods can be compared: trying to solve the problem by standardizing and centralizing all the information about every patient in a single Medical Record system or trying to use the data as is and find a way to obtain the most complete and the most accurate information. Given the failure of the first approach, due to the lack of standardization or privacy and security problems, for example, we propose an alternative that relies on the current state of affairs: an on-demand system, using a specific search engine that is able to retrieve information from the different medical records of a single patient.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tags: Central storage, Data Storage, emr, Identifiers
Vitacca M et al, Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, 4(6)
The demographic profile and, as a consequence, the health profile of the population are changing [1]. The greatest challenge that we will face over the next 20 years is the management of chronic diseases in aged populations [1], especially in rural areas [2]. The fast epidemiological transition from acute to chronic health problems – from inpatient to outpatient care – presents an urgent need to apply new skills in the healthcare system, together with an increased interest in improving delivery of effective care at home. The patient affected by a chronic disease is a complex subject, characterized by progressive functional decline, difficult individualized prognoses, serious episodes of relapse with, consequently, a high risk of hospitalizations and multiple comorbidities. He or she is also likely to be a heavy burden on the family and/or carer.
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Telemedicine, Virtual Hospital
