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El cuaderno de bitácora de Fran Sánchez
“¿Qué preferimos? Perfiles de acceso reales o que se terminen compartiendo contraseñas… os sorprendería saber cuántas secretarias tienen las contraseñas de los jefes de servicio. Mi punto de vista es que todo el mundo debe tener el perfil de acceso necesario para poder llevar a cabo su labor profesional, ni más ni menos. Prefiero que un administrativo pueda ver información clínica (si le es necesario para su trabajo) y que lo haga con su usuario o contraseña (así sabré qué ha visto y cuándo) a que use la del jefe de servicio y su rastro se pierda.
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28 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Access, Data Protection, RFID, Security
Kevin Pho, KevinMD
“The failure to involve health care professionals is the biggest reason why Google Health failed. I hope people will begin to realize that nothing will change in health care unless physicians are on board 100%. Like it or not, doctors still wield tremendous influence over their patients, so for consumer health innovations to succeed, it needs to come through the doctor’s office.
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28 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Failure, Google-Health, phr
Salvatore Volpe, EHR PHR Patient Portals
“Scottish cloud software and services provider Flexiant is providing a cloud platform for a research project that promises NHS patients complete control over their medical records and the power to decide who has access to their data.
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28 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, Cloud, Patient, Platform
Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“Ekahau, developer of Wi-Fi-based real-time location systems (RTLS) has partnered with Salo, Finland-based Nordic ID to roll out a solution that combines passive RFID with barcode labels.
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28 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Finland | Tags: Barcode, RFID, Tracking
Ken Terry, Physicians Practice
“During the past year, there has been an upsurge in the number of doctors using patient Web portals, say healthcare consultants and EHR vendors. While the drive to show “meaningful use” of EHRs is fueling much of this new interest, the value of a patient portal can go far beyond that, some physician practices have discovered.
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28 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: CCD, CCR, Meaningful Use, Patient, Portal
Rachelle Dragani, TechNewsWorld
“Google noted that tech-savvy patients and caregivers, as well as fitness and wellness enthusiasts, have been adopting the system. However, the company has had trouble finding ways to translate those successes into a more widespread trend.
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28 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Google-Health, Health Information Exchange, phr, Platform
Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“A new consortium is leading an effort to devise best practices for ensuring the security of networked medical devices.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Connectivity, Devices, Hospitals, Networks, Security
Thomas McMennamin, EHR Bloggers
“The Office of Minority Health (OMH) recently announced an exciting initiative to ensure that all groups in the US have improved access to electronic health records and that disparities that already exist in the US don’t worsen due to a growing digital divide. The OMH is encouraging EHR adoption and meaningful EMR use by working with vendors to secure significant discounts on typically costly EHR systems.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Digital Divide, Underserved
Sullivan-Taylor P et al, International Perspectives in Health Informatics, 2011
Primary Health Care (PHC) is the most common health care experienced by Canadians and is an important source of chronic disease prevention and management; however, PHC providers say they have little information about their patient populations, especially groups of patients with multiple conditions. The Canadian Institute for Health Information in collaboration with 50 PHC providers examined the ability to extract and use a subset of PHC EMR data from four disparate environments in an agreed and privacy sensitive manner.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: emr, Patient Centric, Primary Care
Ann Tracy Mueller, Health Care Communication News
“Imagine what it would be like if you were ill or in pain and, no matter how you tried to explain, you couldn’t get the physician to understand what was wrong? Frustrating, right? It can be just as frustrating for a health care provider, wanting to help, wanting to understand, wanting to give care to a patient.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Applications, Communication, Language, mHealth
Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog
“This is another in the numerous “death of Google Health” stories that have been appearing since Friday when the Google blog announced the pulling of the plug. I must admit to being more than a little pissed off with Larry Page or whomever it was within Google that made the decision. After all, Google Health was only introduced a tad more than 3 years ago (premiered at HIMSS in Feb 2008; launched officially later that year). And just nine months ago they hired a new product manager and debuted some interesting new features connecting to the new wave of personal sensors.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Google-Health, Health Information Exchange, HealthVault, phr
Nancy Shute, NPR
“People with chronic medical problems like Parkinson’s disease can have a hard time finding a specialist who can help them manage the disease. Some patients are turning to doctors hundreds of miles away to get the care they need. But they’re not driving to get to the doctor. They’re doing the medical version of telecommuting, despite the fact that many insurers won’t pay for it.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: parkinson, Teleconsultation, Telemedicine
Tom Caruso, T.P. Caruso & Associates
“According to Sharon Begley in a July 2011 Scientific American article titled “The Best Medicine”, Kaiser Permanente can do research studies of data from 8.6 million patients and the VA can do studies on 6 million patients. Other health care provider organizations are coming together to do research, such as the consortium that includes Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic and four other provider organizations with 10 million records.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Cloud, Decision Support, Patient
Shin D et al, International Perspectives in Health Informatics, 2011
Simulation approaches on data encryption techniques to improve health care decision making processes are presented in this paper. Database-as-a-Service model (DAS) was utilised to employ the databases and related records for the scenarios selected. Data that was used for the simulation process ranged from 10,000 to 2 million records.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Data Sharing, Encryption, Health Information Exchange
Matt Warman, Telegraph.co.uk
“A London hospital is to begin storing patient data using “cloud” technology.
The new NHS pilot project, where records are kept on the internet rather than on computers in individual hospitals or GP surgeries, could pave the way for all patient data to be stored online rather than on paper.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, Cloud, Patient, Security
Alfonso Pedrosa, Synaptica
“Parece que, por una vez, el Gigante Protector se equivoca. O no. Quizá no se trate de un asunto de prospectiva, sino de perspectiva. Es posible que, de tanto analizar datos, se esté olvidando en los lugares más frecuentados de la Red el viejo arte de escuchar a la gente. Porque los datos no son personas. Y ahí, falla la prospectiva. Ahora bien, nunca dijo Google que el simple hecho de su tremenda capacidad de ser plataforma, conector entre nodos, supondría el advenimiento de una era meliflua, la llegada porque sí del gran cambio cultural a golpe de ratón.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Google-Health, phr
Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Just in case you’re having one of those falling-off-the-edge-of-the-earth moments over the news that Google is closing down its personal health record project, we thought we might point out that (a) the planet is still circling the sun and (b) Google doesn’t always get it right.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia, United States | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia, EHR USA | Tags: Google-Health, phr
Jon Mertz, HL7 Standards
“We, as citizen-patients or iPatients, need to take an interest and active ownership role in our personal health care and understand the programs and initiatives unfolding in our health care system.We need to be engaged.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Google-Health, Infrastructure, phr, Standards
Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“So, Google Health’s slow collapse — akin to a tire with a slow but obvious leak — has finally come to an end. This week, Google officially ended the project, one of the pioneering efforts in the Personal Health Records space. While GH will stumble along through January 1, 2012, the jig is finally up.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Failure, Google-Health, HealthVault, phr
Dave Chase, TechCrunch
“The problem for a company like Google or Microsoft is their success is measured in the tens of millions. Those kinds of numbers are only present in the legacy reimbursement model. Frankly, Google could have done all the right things, but if the reimbursement model doesn’t change Personal Health Records will remain irrelevant for most healthcare providers.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: ACO, Google-Health, Medical Home, phr, Portal
