Jeffrey Roman, Healthcare Info Security
“A pilot project at a Southern California health information exchange is testing whether patient identifiers can make it easier to match patients to their records from multiple organizations.
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David Harlow, KevinMD
“Walgreens is being sued by customers who are not happy that their prescription information – even though it has been de-identified – is being sold by Walgreens to data-mining companies.
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Healthcare IT News
“Outpatient electronic prescribing systems don’t cut out the common mistakes made in manual systems, suggests research published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
And not all systems are the same: some perform worse than others, the study shows.
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Nanji KC et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
Objective
To report the frequency, types, and causes of errors associated with outpatient computer-generated prescriptions, and to develop a framework to classify these errors to determine which strategies have greatest potential for preventing them.
Materials and methods
This is a retrospective cohort study of 3850 computer-generated prescriptions received by a commercial outpatient pharmacy chain across three states over 4 weeks in 2008. A clinician panel reviewed the prescriptions using a previously described method to identify and classify medication errors. Primary outcomes were the incidence of medication errors; potential adverse drug events, defined as errors with potential for harm; and rate of prescribing errors by error type and by prescribing system.
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Mary Jo Gorman, MedGadget
“America’s ICUs are in crisis. Consider these staggering statistics: Today’s ICUs Serve 4 million patients annually, with roughly 20 percent mortality rates among those treated.
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Aaron J. Stupple, KevinMD
“In the midst of this rapidly progressing technologic era, our delivery of medical services is being transformed by health information technology (HIT), electronic medical records (EMR), and advanced telecommunications. In meeting criteria for “meaningful use,” physicians are driven to use these technologies to empower patients with communication through electronic medical records.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“If you ask Microsoft Health Group’s Chief Architect and General Manager Sean Nolan what the shuttering of Google Health means for HealthVault, he’ll tell you the “real and simple” answer to that question is “nothing.” Apart from an expected influx of new HealthVault users — those forced to abandon Google Health — Nolan said one change will be getting “used to being out there more or less on our own.” If you are having trouble detecting Microsoft’s tone, I’ll help you out: Triumphant.
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Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“The iKnowMed EHR system from McKesson Specialty Care Solutions/US Oncology has received Surescripts certification for e-prescribing, formulary, benefits and medication history, the companies announced on June 28.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“Not that anybody needs another post on the seemingly shattering news of Google Health’s recent entrance into palliative care hospice, but I think we may be missing something.
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Yahoo! Health
“Smokers are twice as likely to quit when they get text messages urging them to stick to their goal of being smoke free compared with those who receive texts with no motivational messages, a British study has found.
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Free C et al, The Lancet, 2011
Background
Smoking cessation programmes delivered via mobile phone text messaging show increases in self-reported quitting in the short term. We assessed the effect of an automated smoking cessation programme delivered via mobile phone text messaging on continuous abstinence, which was biochemically verified at 6 months.
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Kent Bottles, KevinMD
“At one time I thought Google Health would become the Personal Health Record (PHR) that would allow individual patients to keep track of their medical and daily activity data and apply the WHO definition of health to their own life; I blogged about PHRs because I hoped they would solve the enormous problem of hospital based IT systems not communicating with each other.
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Healthcare IT News
“A study released this week shows that 68 percent of Facebook users have never shared – and never plan to share – personal health information on the social networking site.
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“The problem with Internet searches is that they inherently turn up too much information – much of it unnecessary or, worse, inaccurate. When the subject is healthcare, that so-called “information overflow” can turn out to be dangerous.
OrganizedWisdom would like to solve that problem.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Under a normal statistical curve, between the chronically ill and the “motivated healthy,” is the largest segment of health citizens who are seeking missing information and solutions that could help them lead healthier lives. IBM has called out this information seeking segment, asserting that these people represent a huge unserved cohort of health care consumers.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Shame on Google for launching this service in the first place if they weren’t planning on supporting it for the long haul — meaning, until public and private entities settle upon health data standards and the execution of national health information exchange.
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“As per our new research report “Global Telemedicine Market Analysis”, rural areas in most of the countries face various problems in the provision of medical services and health care, including funds, expertise, and resources. To meet this challenge, the governments and private health care providers are making use of existing resources and the benefits of modern technology.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Mobile healthcare technologies are particularly well suited for disease management, medication adherence, safety monitoring, health education and behavior modification for wellness, especially among older populations, according to an organization that supports technology to encourage independent and community-based living for seniors.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Last week, we reported that the organizers of the Mobile Health Expo, one of many fledgling conferences focused on m-Health, was going to start up a not-for-profit trade organization called the Mobile Health Association.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Microsoft is set to take the spoils of Google Health’s demise. The former online personal health record rivals are working together behind the scenes to help Google Health users easily migrate their personal e-health record data to Microsoft HealthVault’s personal health record platform.
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