Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Today is my last blog for EHRWatch.com. On Monday, I hand off to veteran health IT editor Frank Irving, who will be blogging daily about the dynamic world of EHRs. Frank has more than 20 years of experience and I look forward to his views on the transformation of the healthcare industry as we move from paper to electronic. Please give a warm welcome to Frank.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“An e-patient consent system will soon become reality if the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has its way.
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Jasmin Bütow, Weblog Medizin IT und Telemedizin
“HD Videotechnologie ist ein sich stetig weiterentwickelnder Bereich und bietet vielfältige Anwendungsmöglichkeiten auf hohem Niveau. Die wichtigsten Merkmale sind die direkte und persönliche Kommunikation zwischen zwei oder mehreren räumlich getrennten Menschen.
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Healthcare IT News
“In this new social media environment researchers and clinicians need to engage more actively with the public to articulate the importance of science in determining the benefits and harm of novel treatments and to ensure that patients’ concerns and priorities are heard, according to new study published in Nature.
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Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“A new report by SmartPersonalHealth reveals that interoperability is a significant challenge for the personal health solutions market. The report, titled “Enabling smart integrated care: Recommendations for fostering greater interoperability of personal health systems,” offers ideas for creating interoperable personal health systems.
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T.P. Caruso & Associates
“In our recently published white paper about Secure Aggregation we nickname the method for aggregating data “Bad Googling” because the method pulls down out of the data cloud a set of data about the patient in which we are interested, thus it is a sensitive method, but it also pulls down patient data from a number of other patients, thus it is non-specific. No obvious relationship exists between the disaggregated “chunks” of data of any of the patients.
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Judy Hanover, Computerworld
“I had the opportunity last week to attend the first-ever Health Experience Design conference in Boston. This innovative conference focused on the issues surrounding designing healthcare applications to meet the needs of patients and providers for collaboration, communication, efficiency, user satisfaction and most of all, improving patient safety.
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“After listening to countless companies’ exciting ideas, I have come to the conclusion that the new wireless health sector has the potential to grow into a booming business within the next five years. The question is, how much am I willing to bet? The potential is there, but can we clear the path?
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Deborah Hirsch, TMCnet
“A new all-in-one medical computer will make it easier for busy hospitals and medical centers to care for patients. Called the CyberMed, this Web-server -based system provides medical equipment connectivity for telemedicine and collaboration between clinicians at different health centers.
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
“Usability is the key differentiator between the long-term success and failure of an EHR implementation. The findings of the recent MGMA study lead to the inescapable and troubling conclusion that too many physicians do not consider their EHRs “usable.” A bad EHR choice is costly for the particular physician(s) and, while it might suffice in the short term for the purpose of earning meaningful use incentives, it will do nothing in the long run to foster sustained EHR adoption.
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“The ability to transmit detailed images over long distances is fueling new telemedicine projects in Canada and China and making it possible for physicians to view images anywhere and consult regarding patients and treatments.
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John W. Loonsk, Healthcare IT News
“As part of its response to the PCAST report, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) charged a review committee to analyze the PCAST recommendations.
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Steve Gold, Guardian Professional
“Portuguese-based Alert’s Paper-Free Hospital IT system has been well received by the NHS and the firm, which was formed in 1999, now has more than 70 staff working in the UK. “Alert’s touch-screen system enables all clinical information to be available electronically, enabling hospital staff to analyse clinical performance and clinical outcomes to improve the quality of patient care,” says Laurence Campbell, Alert UK’s managing director.
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Milgram LK et al, ElectronicHealthcare, 10(1)
Provincial health data repositories enable clinical data utilization for secondary data uses. This study profiles the first use of Ontario Laboratories Information System (OLIS) data and demonstrates the value of automating tumour marker data collection to enhance cancer stage information in the Ontario Cancer Registry.
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Haydn Bush, H&HN Daily
“Recently, MSNBC reported that a Rhode Island doctor is facing a $500 fine and must take a continuing education course after inadvertently revealing a patient’s identity during a Facebook post meant to outline some of her clinical experiences. According to the article, the doctor did not directly identify the patient, but described his or her injuries in a fashion that allowed a third party to figure out the patient’s identity.
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Vince Kuraitis, The Health Care Blog
“Unlike some of my colleagues, I’m not losing ANY sleep over whether personal health record (PHR) systems ultimately will be adopted and used by patients.
In my mind, the issue isn’t WHETHER, but WHEN.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Cory Franklin wrote an op-ed piece for the Guardian, which included his thoughts that government should not “pay to abandon the horse and buggy” (referring paper records as the horse and buggy). He argues that the markets, thanks to the new generation of technology users – both patients and providers – will drive adoption of health IT. The federal programs are a “classic government overreach,” according to Franklin.
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eHealthNews.eu
“Failure to address interoperability has been identified as a major challenge for the growing personal health solutions market, states the conclusions of the SmartPersonalHealth project report published today. The report, “Enabling smart integrated care: Recommendations for fostering greater interoperability of personal health systems” contains recommendations for the advancement towards an interoperable personal health ecosystem.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“A new survey by the Consumer Health Information Corporation (CHIC) found that for all types of smartphone apps (not just health) 74 percent of apps were no longer used after the tenth try. What’s more, 26 percent of apps were dropped after the first try. Reasons for dropping an app included finding a better one (34.4 percent), its lack of “user friendliness” (32.6 percent), or it not being engaging enough (15.8 percent). The survey included responses from 395 consumers.
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Harvard Gazette
“A team of undergraduates from Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Central Connecticut State University is developing a technology-based solution to one of the most pressing problems plaguing maternal and child health in the developing world: inadequate prenatal and infant care.
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