Philip van de Poel, Skipr
“De OIZ licht de voornemens bij monde van voorzitter Hans ter Brake toe in het juninummer van Skipr, dat deze week is verschenen. Aanleiding voor de oproep tot herbezinning op de rol van het Nictiz is het debacle rond het landelijk EPD.
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Kohane IS. Nature Reviews. Genetics, 12(6)
If genomic studies are to be a clinically relevant and timely reflection of the relationship between genetics and health status – whether for common or rare variants – cost-effective ways must be found to measure both the genetic variation and the phenotypic characteristics of large populations, including the comprehensive and up-to-date record of their medical treatment.
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Brunsman-Johnson C et al, Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2011
Purpose.
This article describes website information seeking strategies used by users who are blind and compares those with sighted users. It outlines how assistive technologies and website design can aid users who are blind while information seeking.
Method.
People who are blind and sighted are tested using an assessment tool and performing several tasks on websites. The times and keystrokes are recorded for all tasks as well as commands used and spatial questioning.
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Kurillo G et al, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 18 - NextMed, 2011
We present work in progress on a tele-immersion system for telerehabilitation using real-time stereo vision and virtual environments. Stereo reconstruction is used to capture user’s 3D avatar in real time and project it into a shared virtual environment, enabling a patient and therapist to interact remotely.
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Riva G et al, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 18 - NextMed, 2011
Since the European funded project VREPAR–Virtual Reality in Neuro-Psycho-Physiology (1995)–different European research activities have been using virtual reality and advanced information and communication technologies to improve the quality of care in the treatment of many different mental health disorders including anxiety disorders, eating disorders and obesity. Now the European Commission funding is shifting from the traditional hospital-centred and reactive healthcare delivery model toward a person-centred and preventive one.
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Rizzo AA et al, An intelligent virtual human system for providing healthcare information and support, 2011
Over the last 15 years, a virtual revolution has taken place in the use of Virtual Reality simulation technology for clinical purposes. Shifts in the social and scientific landscape have now set the stage for the next major movement in Clinical Virtual Reality with the “birth” of intelligent virtual humans. Seminal research and development has appeared in the creation of highly interactive, artificially intelligent and natural language capable virtual human agents that can engage real human users in a credible fashion. No longer at the level of a prop to add context or minimal faux interaction in a virtual world, virtual humans can be designed to perceive and act in a 3D virtual world, engage in spoken dialogues with real users and can be capable of exhibiting human-like emotional reactions.
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Redwood S et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 11(1)
BACKGROUND:
Even though electronic prescribing systems are widely advocated as one of the most effective means of improving patient safety, they may also introduce new risks that are not immediately obvious. Through the study of specific incidents related to the processes involved in the administration of medication, we sought to find out if the prescribing system had unintended consequences in creating new errors. The focus of this study was a large acute hospital in the Midlands in the United Kingdom, which implemented a Prescribing, Information and Communication System (PICS).
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Steen RG. Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011
Background
Clinical papers so flawed that they are eventually retracted may put patients at risk. Patient risk could arise in a retracted primary study or in any secondary study that draws ideas or inspiration from a primary study.
Methods
To determine how many patients were put at risk, we evaluated 788 retracted English-language papers published from 2000 to 2010, describing new research with humans or freshly derived human material. These primary papers-together with all secondary studies citing them-were evaluated using ISI Web of Knowledge. Excluded from study were 468 basic science papers not studying fresh human material; 88 reviews presenting older data; 22 case reports; 7 papers retracted for journal error and 23 papers unavailable on Web of Knowledge. Overall, 180 retracted primary papers (22.8%) met the inclusion criteria. Subjects enrolled and patients treated in 180 primary studies and 851 secondary studies were combined.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“First this report is the third released on the program – with the first done in 2006 and the second in 2008. Each of the reports has become increasingly pessimistic yet the spending and effort has continued without any apparent checkpoint and re-assessment. Result has been what was an eight year program winding up being a 15 to 16 year program.
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Will Weider, HealthSystemCIO
“Growth charts are great, every pediatric practice should maintain one for each child and, in this day and age, they should be computerized. But why would a growth chart be required for a hospital stay?
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Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“More and more IT leaders at healthcare facilities are getting on board or at least thinking of doing that within the next couple of years. That interest shows up inthe 2011 HealthLeaders Media Survey. Asked to describe their plans for implementing various technologies at their facilities, 46% of the responders said they already had telemedicine solutions in place.
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e-Health-com News
“Patientendaten tauchen momentan vermehrt bei Facebook auf. Darauf hat Johannes Caspar, der Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, hingewiesen.
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Nita DeSonier, HL7 Standards
“Six months ago I wrote a post regarding my experience with one of my specialists converting to an Electronic Health Record. They were only three weeks into the process when I had my visit and it took a little bit longer than normal since I had to meet with a registration person to fill in the details of the record that were already in my chart.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“Yesterday, CMS posted an important FAQ clarifying the Meaningful Use requirement to exchange key clinical information.
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Ed Howe, Action For Better Healthcare
“Many patients rely on hospital websites to provide important healthcare information that often helps patients in their decisions about care. It is so important that this health information is not only accurate, but that it does not mislead a patient into expecting something that the hospital and its’ staff cannot deliver.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Telemedicine has great potential for extending the reach of a strained healthcare workforce and improving care coordination, but it needs to be accepted as just another means of providing care if the technology is to be sustainable, according to a newly published study.
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Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Creating an app or other mobile technology is only the first step for hospitals hoping to engage their patients on their mobile devices. The second–and just-as-tough–task is to figure out which patients have smartphones, and how they’re using them.
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ITWeb
“Foreign investment in African telecommunications infrastructure is steadily increasing, and this is hoped to drive the development of mobile health (m-health) solutions.
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Ezra Klein, The Washington Post
“In certain important ways, this will be less pleasant than the status quo. Dr. Watson won’t ask you if you’re scared or assure you that everything will be all right or talk you through the procedure. There’ll be no human touch, unless you want to pay extra for one.
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Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The start-up investment required to establish and sustain an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is considerably higher–$11.6 million to $26.1 million–than the $1.8 million estimated by CMS in its proposed rule for launch and one year of ongoing operations, according to a study by the American Hospital Association.
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