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Ahlers-Schmidt CR et al, Patient Education and Counseling, 2010
OBJECTIVE:
The purpose of this project was to gather preliminary data on preferred content for text reminders sent to low-income parents.
METHODS:
A brief, IRB-approved survey was administered to 200 consecutive English-speaking parents of children under 6 years old at a Pediatric Residency clinic. Because text messages can hold only limited content, parents were given three example texts ranging from very basic to very specific information and asked to select the information they would wish to receive.
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25 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tags: Alert/Reminder, Immunization, SMS
Leong KC et al, Family Practice, 23(6)
BACKGROUND
Non-attendance is common in primary care and previous studies have reported that reminders were useful in reducing broken appointments.
OBJECTIVE
To determine the effectiveness of a text messaging reminder in improving attendance in primary care. DESIGN Multicentre three-arm randomized controlled trial.
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25 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Malaysia | Tags: Appointments, Cellphone, Primary Care, SMS
Iljaž RJ et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 11
BACKGROUND
Slovenia’s national eHealth strategy aims to develop an efficient, flexible and modern health care informatics framework that would be comparable to the most successful EU countries. To achieve this goal, the gap between availability and usage of information and communication technology by primary care physicians needs to be reduced.As recent efforts show, consensus on information and communication technology purpose and usage in primary care needs to be established before any national information and communication technology solutions are developed.The aim of this study was to identify the most appropriate measures in implementation of Slovene national eHealth strategy and to suggest an appropriate model for success by using the three round Delphi study.
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25 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Slovenia | Tags: e-Health, Medical Informatics, Primary Care
Jaimie Oh, Hospital Review
“Study results suggest e-prescribing systems may lead to unintended adverse outcomes, including medication errors, according to research published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: e-prescribing, Medication Errors
Leonard Kish, opensource.com
“What a difference three years makes. It seems quaint now that in the 2008 NEJM there were concerns raised about the flow of health information onto the web. Back then there was but a faint trickle of what could be entered, mostly by hand, and accessed on the web.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Data Liquidity, Data Sharing, Health Information Exchange, open standards
Keith W. Boone, Healthcare Standards
“A quick summary of the reporting tells me that few if any actually read the report, since most only reported data available in the abstract. I won’t bother repeating the abstract, simply read it for yourself.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange
Rich Daly, ModernHealthcare
“Without “seamless interoperability,” health information technology’s potential will go unmet, a report on the healthcare digital infrastructure from the Institute of Medicine found.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Technology, Interoperability
CMIO
“Telemonitoring can benefit certain patients with congestive heart failure patients, according to two trials presented at the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology’s Heart Failure Congress 2011, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Chronic Heart Failure, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
Boyne JJJ et al, International Journal of Nursing Studies, 48(1)
BACKGROUND
As the prevalence of heart failure (HF) rises sharply, the costs related to the care of these patients increases in parallel. Considering the already limited resources and manpower, in the future the demand for care may exceed the supply. Therefore, health care systems are encouraged to develop innovative strategies to deal with the burden of HF to improve the quality of care in order to medical outcomes and patients’ quality of life. For that reason new management systems – such as telemonitoring – have to be explored.
OBJECTIVES
This paper outlines the study protocol of a tailor-made telemonitoring program in ambulant patients with HF.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Netherlands | Tags: Chronic Diseases, Chronic Heart Failure, Disease Management, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
Jenn Riggle, Health Care Communication News
“One of the major goals of health reform and accountable care is to reduce hospital readmissions—and mobile apps have the potential to make this happen.
Is this an overstatement? I don’t think so.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Benefits, Hospitals, mHealth
Seto E et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(4)
BACKGROUND
Mobile phone-based remote patient monitoring systems have been proposed for heart failure management because they are relatively inexpensive and enable patients to be monitored anywhere. However, little is known about whether patients and their health care providers are willing and able to use this technology.
OBJECTIVE
The objective of our study was to assess the attitudes of heart failure patients and their health care providers from a heart function clinic in a large urban teaching hospital toward the use of mobile phone-based remote monitoring.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Canada | Tags: Cellphone, Chronic Heart Failure, mHealth, Telemonitoring
Adriana Barton, Globe and Mail
“Ever since he was diagnosed with heart failure three years ago, Gary Bushby has had a new morning ritual. Not a crumb passes his lips before he weighs himself, takes his blood pressure and logs on to a hospital website to tell a computer program how he’s feeling.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tags: Chronic Diseases, Chronic Heart Failure, Co-morbidity, Telehealth, Telemedicine
TMCNet
“The next few years may transform the world of healthcare we are all familiar with. Some companies will win and others will not, but the battle of ideas will be inspiring Whether you are an investor, a worker, an executive, a doctor or a patient, you have a stake in making this industry easy to understand. It will get confusing enough in the next few years as things really start to explode.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Industry, mHealth, Wireless
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“According to an interview with the general manager of the MEMS division of STMicroelectronics, Benedetto Vigna, smartphones will soon offer up a whole slew of new embedded sensors that could help to make mobile health services more accessible.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: mHealth, Sensors, smartphone
Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“A study by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) finds that wireless networks, tablet computers and portable phone handsets improve clinical collaboration and patient care.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: Efficiency, mHealth, Patient Safety
Vijay Govindarajan and Justin Chakma, The Health Care Blog
“When we envision an emerging market, we think of a rapidly growing country with small purchasing power, little infrastructure, and diminishing natural resources.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Chronic Diseases, Cloud, Developing Countries, Disease Management
Hal Amens, EHR Bloggers
“Traditional pharmaceutical research for regulatory approval looks like this:
Test panel -> Test -> Analyze -> Yes or No
This is a limited test to support approval of a new medication based on demonstrated safety and effectiveness. It supports a yes or no by the Food and Drug Administration based on the evidence that can be derived from a relatively small sized sample.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Data Aggregation, Drugs, Effectiveness, Pharmaceutical, Research, Safety
Kayt Sukel, Healthcare Informatics
“For this special section, Healthcare Informatics spoke with two clinicians-a pediatrician and an emergency medicine physician-to learn more about how EHRs are being used and what patients think about their adoption. Dr. Anthony Luberti discusses his experiences with a recently implemented enterprise-wide EHR system at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he is a pediatrician and medical director of the Informatics Education Program in the Center for Biomedical Informatics.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Implementation
MD News
“The electronic application and communication of delivering health care to patients in various locations, known as telemedicine, is a major debate. As telemedicine continues to become more widely understood and recognized for its potential to be an efficient, more cost-effective method of receiving health care, its acceptance is growing.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Rural, Telemedicine
Suzanne Hoholik, The Columbus Dispatch
“James Holbrook didn’t know what was happening to him on the morning of April 20. He took a sip of water and couldn’t stop drooling.
His wife, Rosie, asked him what was wrong, but he couldn’t speak. She called 911.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hospitals, Neurology, Rural, Stroke, Telemedicine
