Easter Break
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
From Friday 22 April through Sunday 1 May, there will be limited updates to the ICMCC News Page, due to Easter break.
Articles
Electronic medical records systems create need for scribes to input data
Stacey Burling, The Inquirer
“The rise in electronic medical records has given Brittany Fera, a premed student at Temple University, an “awesome” job that she had no idea existed before she saw an ad last year.
It’s not the geeky programming kind of job you might guess.
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Can genomics encourage use of personal health records?
Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Halamka, through his participation in the Personal Genome Sequencing Project, discovered his glaucoma far earlier than typical patients do. Knowing his genetic data prompted Halamka to seek care before symptoms developed, which allowed him to take steps to preserve normal vision for the rest of his life.
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Widespread use of online personal health records inhibited by ‘digital divide’
Ashley DeNyse, EndocrineToday
“Disparities in access to technology have inhibited adoption of Internet-based medical information, particularly among minority populations, according to recent findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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DocTel, télémédecine ou demi-médecine?
Caroline Vrignaud, Internet & Santé
“Aujourd’hui, les patients peuvent faire appel à DocTel, un service de consultation médicale par téléphone qui a vu le jour il y a un an. Pour pouvoir utiliser les services de DocTel, le patient devra souscrire à un abonnement de 3,50 $/mois auquel s’ajouteront 38 $ de frais pour chaque consultation médicale téléphonique. Ce service qui s’adresse aux patients qui ont des problèmes de santé mineurs, leur permet d’obtenir un diagnostic médical, voire même une ordonnance.
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Electronic Health Records Speed Genetic Studies
Brian Ahier, Ahier.net
“Recruiting thousands of patients to collect health data for genetic clues to disease is expensive and time consuming. But that arduous process of collecting data for genetic studies could be faster and cheaper by instead mining patient data that already exists in electronic medical records, according to new Northwestern Medicine research.
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Electronic Medical Records for Genetic Research: Results of the eMERGE Consortium
Kho AN et al, Science Translational Medicine, 3(79)
Clinical data in electronic medical records (EMRs) are a potential source of longitudinal clinical data for research. The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network (eMERGE) investigates whether data captured through routine clinical care using EMRs can identify disease phenotypes with sufficient positive and negative predictive values for use in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Using data from five different sets of EMRs, we have identified five disease phenotypes with positive predictive values of 73 to 98% and negative predictive values of 98 to 100%.
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Sage study finds patients have a positive perception of electronic documentation
EMR Daily News
“Sage Healthcare Division, a unit of Sage North America today released the results of Sage Healthcare Insights a survey conducted among patients and physicians to determine attitudes regarding the adoption of electronic health records (EHR).
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How mobile health can abide by HIPAA
Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Lest anyone forget, the HITECH Act not only provides some $27 billion in financial incentives for healthcare providers to switch to electronic health records, it strengthens HIPAA privacy and security provisions and increases the penalties for violating HIPAA. This, according to one vendor, partially explains why some organizations have been slow to provide patients with mobile access to health data.
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mHealth conference examines the power of mobile apps
Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“In the past, doctors relied on what they’d memorized in medical school to treat patients. But in today’s fast-paced, tech-heavy society, they’d do much better in knowing how – and where – to access information.
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KLAS: Integration most important in ambulatory RIS/PACS
Healthcare IT News
“A new KLAS report finds that providers are looking for vendors that offer smooth integration between a radiology information system (RIS) and a picture archiving and communication system (PACS). To achieve that integration, some providers are willing to sacrifice functionality.
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Readers rage against idea of delaying ICD-10
Tom Sullivan, Government Health IT
“Nobody likes an unfunded mandate. Or, wait just a moment, do they? Some healthcare professionals involved in ICD-10 might actually welcome that particular conversion, after all.
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What is the Evidence Base for Informatics, Health IT, and Related Areas? Some Recent Analyses
William Hersh, Informatics Professor
“The first part of 2011 has brought a number of publications, and subsequent discussion, about the “evidence base” for the efficacy of biomedical and health informatics interventions, including electronic health records.
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While BlackBerry will hold largest share of health market, iPhone and Android adoption will grow in next 2 years
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Nearly 1 in two mobile phone platforms in hospitals had a BlackBerry brand in the fourth quarter of 2010. However, within 2 years, more mobile phones will be labeled iPhone or Android, eroding the Blackberry share of the market as health workers abandon their cell phones for smartphones and switch away from their BlackBerry devices.
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Gesunde Nachrichten
Andreas Menn, Mobile Economy
“Medizin via Handy wird zum Boomthema des Jahrzehnts – dank neuer High-Tech-Accessoires für Smartphones, die uns den Puls fühlen oder den Blutzucker messen. Aber auch mit Low-Tech-Mobilfunk sind schon heute Vorsorgeprogramme erfolgreich – per SMS.
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The most engaged patients want “Social Media Liberación!”
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Now there’s a force advocating for “Social Media Liberación” in Health: health activists, the most engaged patients on the planet. WEGO Health polled 223 of the portal’s most active patients in March to update what WEGO Health learned from health activists and presented to the FDA’s hearing on social media in November 2009.
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Silos of discussion on ACOs, meaningful use, EHRs
Jean DerGurahian, Health IT Pulse
“We talk about “silos” of information in the health IT industry and we must really wonder whether such one-way communication models also exist at the federal level.
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CHIME: Beware too-great EHR expectations
CMIO
“Although the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) supports the ongoing development of EHR capabilities and acknowledges their importance in broader changes to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) strategy, caution should be exercised so as not to expect EHRs to do too much, too fast
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Physician Practices Embrace Tablets
Marisa Torrieri, Physicians Practice
“Several times a day, Frank Adams, a solo pulmonologist in New York City, uses his Apple iPad to access his practice’s EHR, to review charts and prescribe medication, and to pick up e-mail messages from his staff.
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Het EPD is dood, lang leve i-gezond
“Op 5 april heeft de Eerste Kamer, in een zinloze daad van bestuurlijk vandalisme, het wetsvoorstel op het Elektronisch Patiëntendossier (EPD) verworpen. Ik wil hier niet stilstaan bij het hoe en waarom van die ellendige geschiedenis.
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