Newsbytes Philippines
“Senator Edgardo J. Angara, chair of the Congressional Commission on Science Technology and Engineering (Comste), has identified telehealth, which would help deliver basic medical services to remote areas through the use of information and communication technology (ICT), as a national priority.
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Alice Lipowicz, FederalComputerWeek
“The Health and Human Services Department’s new strategic plan for health IT doesn’t go far enough in standardizing the ways in which patient consent for release of personal health information would be managed, a group of health care CIOs said April 18.
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Paul Christopher Webster, CMAJ News
“There’s an ongoing disconnect between Canada Health Infoway’s plan for a national electronic health record (EHR) system and a model that would be useful or functional at the physician–patient level, according to an external performance evaluation commissioned by the agency.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“In any venture, nothing can dim initial enthusiasm like a stiff dose of reality.
That’s the takeaway message from the latest CHIME survey of CIOs when it comes to their efforts to prepare to meet the HITECH Meaningful Use requirements.
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Eric Van De Graaff, Cardiology Blog
“Our multispecialty clinic is in the process of converting our standard paper charts to computerized files by adopting an electronic medical record (EMR) system. To say the least, this conversion has been the source of many gray hairs and stomach ulcers for nearly all personnel involved and raises the hackles of our doctors more than almost any other topic.
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Skipr
“De Nederlandse zorg-IT wil na het afketsen van het landelijke EPD in de Eerste Kamer voorkomen dat de sector terug gaat naar af.
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Brian Eastwood, HealthITExchange
“The ability to use a patient portal or personal health record (PHR) service to view lab results, renew prescriptions and communicate with physicians is a key component of patient-centered care. That, in turn, is arguably the fundamental goal of both health care reform and the HITECH Act.
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Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement
“Regular readers know that I find Professor Clay Christen’s theory of disruptive innovation to be a useful lens to explain industry evolution.
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Supermobile
“Les mobiles se font désormais outil médical, avec de nouvelles fonctionnalités permettant de suivre le rythme cardiaque de l’usager. Une idée ingénieuse pour garder son médecin loin des yeux, mais près du cœur…
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Nathalie Lamoureux, Le Point.fr
“La télésanté inspire les concepteurs de technologies mobiles. Certaines ne dépassent pas la porte du laboratoire ; d’autres ont généré des applications concrètes, comme la gestion quotidienne du diabète ou la touche rappel de non-prise de médicament, disponibles sur les mobiles Doro. Enfin, il y a celles qui se déploient dans des cadres extrêmes, dont le but vise à repousser encore plus loin les limites de la performance.
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Economist Intelligence Unit
“Every nation in the world faces healthcare challenges, and those in Asia are no exception. For poor countries like Cambodia, the issues are about improving access to basic health services, and tackling poverty-related problems such as contagious disease and infant mortality, working against a backdrop of major financing constraints, given low-income levels. For rich countries like Japan, the challenges of development loom large, from battling rising diabetes, cancer and cardio-vascular illness to caring for an ageing population—again with severe financial constraints.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT could include measures for the use and promotion of patient portals and direct access to their data in the next stage of meaningful use. Patient data could also be downloaded to a personal health record.
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“Right now, hospital and physician staff members essentially have their own choice to make — embrace EMRs or dig in their heels and make the transition last as long as possible and cost as much as possible. Sure, individuals will have more nuanced reactions, but globally, I’d argue that an institution either embraces EMRs or fights them.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“A two-day summit in Philadelphia that brought physicians, EHR vendors, pharmaceutical executives and the FDA together provided a lot of information on the impact EHRs may have have on drug regulatory and marketing issues.
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Maureen McKinney, ModernHealthcare
“Electronic clinical-decision support reminders can successfully steer physicians away from ordering unnecessary treatments, according to results of a new study in the journal Pediatrics.
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Adams ES et al, Pediatrics, 2011
Objective
Timely provision of evidence-based recommendations through computerized physician order entry with clinical decision support may improve use of red blood cell transfusions (RBCTs).
Methods
We performed a cohort study with historical controls including inpatients admitted between February 1, 2008, and January 31, 2010. A clinical decision-support alert for RBCTs was constructed by using current evidence. RBCT orders resulted in assessment of the patient’s medical record with prescriber notification if parameters were not within recommended ranges. Primary end points included the average pretransfusion hemoglobin level and the rate of RBCTs per patient-day.
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Melody Smith Jones, Healthcare IT Solutions
“The complexity of medicine and the lack of common standards, practices and clinical vocabularies across the healthcare system makes getting clean clinical data a dirty task. There are many applications across a healthcare system that rely on master data, and a single error can have a far-reaching impact. In many businesses, errors in master data can be problematic and irritating. In healthcare, getting master data wrong can ultimately impact quality of care.
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Laura Ungar, Courier-Journal
“Thousands of patient charts fill the shelves at Kaplan Barron Pediatric Group — “paper everywhere,” Dr. Emily Johnson says.
Electronic medical records could rein in the clutter, make charts more legible and better track care, she said, but the Bardstown Road practice isn’t quite ready to take that step into the digital age.
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Eric Savitz, Forbes
“In the past few months a unique opportunity in health has emerged, uniting new apps and devices, vast amounts of data, a vibrant online social dialogue and new engagement mechanisms.
Hundreds of thousands of smart phones and tablets are being activated everyday, fostering the development of new apps and opportunities for engineers, designers, entrepreneurs and investors. Inexpensive access to the cloud is facilitating fast and easy ways to collect, store and process data for insights and personalization.
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Andrew Tolve, eyeforpharma
“Pharma has proved eager to take its tablets, using the iPad similar devices to sharpen sales and marketing efforts. (For more on pharma’s use of the iPad, see ‘Will the iPad kickstart a pharma sales and marketing revolution?’.)
Now, the industry will have even more tablets, with more functionality, from which to choose.
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