Marshall Kirkpatrick, Read Write Web
“Google’s quest to organize the world’s information will no longer include one of society’s most important and sensitive sources of data: our health records. The company announced this afternoon that Google Health will be closed forever and deleted in 18 months, along with a thematically similar and also formerly ambitious project, Google Power Meter.
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Katherine Hobson, WSJ Health Blog
“Google said it would wind down its Google Health personal health record after about three years of operation.
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Carayon P et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
Objective
To assess intensive care unit (ICU) nurses’ acceptance of electronic health records (EHR) technology and examine the relationship between EHR design, implementation factors, and nurse acceptance.
Design
The authors analyzed data from two cross-sectional survey questionnaires distributed to nurses working in four ICUs at a northeastern US regional medical center, 3 months and 12 months after EHR implementation.
Measurements
Survey items were drawn from established instruments used to measure EHR acceptance and usability, and the usefulness of three EHR functionalities, specifically computerized provider order entry (CPOE), the electronic medication administration record (eMAR), and a nursing documentation flowsheet.
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Katharine Gammon, Technology Review
“The Open mHealth project, developed at UCLA and UCSF, provides technology for health apps that transmit a variety of data to the project’s central data warehouse. This data can include information entered by users and also such things as smart-phone GPS- and accelerometer-tracking information.
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Daniel Kivatinos, Dr Chrono
“The US healthcare system needs change. There are two waves of change that are making this a reality. First, the government is pushing doctors to go digital, injecting over 19 billion dollars in incentives to doctors push doctors to go digital.
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Audrey Dutton, Idaho Statesman
“A few years ago, if a father in Cottonwood noticed symptoms of depression in his son, he would have had to drive hours to the nearest child psychiatrist in Spokane or Boise. And that’s if the waiting list was short enough to get an appointment.
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Schilling B. The Commonwealth Fund, June/July 2011
Public and private financial incentives are aligned as never before to encourage physicians to adopt electronic health records. To aid in the transition, the government has also put billions into training health information technology workers and establishing regional extension centers to provide technical and other advice.
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Melody Smith Jones, Healthcare IT Solutions
“Sometimes when I write about social media in healthcare I imagine a make-believe healthcare technology purist that I’ve conjured up rolling her eyes at me. She scoffs at my adding to the zettabytes of digital data on one of the more “softball” technology topics. What does social media have to do with “real” healthcare technology anyway? I should be using alpha-numeric acronyms and drawing IT diagrams with lots of arrows of varying size. This is healthcare technology, after all. There are more important things to write about than social media, right?
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CMIO
“Recent research published in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association suggested that factors related to technology design have strong effects on acceptance, even one year after an EHR implementation.
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Brownsell S et al, J Telemed Telecare, 17(4)
The evidence base for lifestyle monitoring is relatively weak, even though there are significant numbers of commercial installations around the world. We conducted a literature review to summarize the current position with regard to lifestyle monitoring based on sensors in the home. In total, 74 papers met the inclusion criteria. Only four papers reported trials involving 20 or more subjects, with a further 21 papers reporting trials involving one or more subjects. Most papers (n = 49) were concerned with technology development. Motion detection was the most common of the technologies employed, followed by door and electrical appliance usage.
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Newswise
“Scientists with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) have developed tools that expand the use of ultrasound during spaceflight and on Earth, especially in rural and underserved locations. These tools include techniques that streamline training and help remote experts guide non-physician astronauts to perform ultrasound exams.
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Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
“The Metadata Power Team has developed exchange use cases that link meaningful use and the report from PCAST (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology), where they intersect at the importance of engaging the patient. The PCAST report called for a universal exchange language, which is an extensible markup-like (XML) language, and other standards to enable healthcare providers to share health information more reliably and effectively in order to modernize and coordinate patient care.
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Laurie Orlov, Aging In Place Technology Watch
“Forbes says health IT is hot — although not yet profitable. A title of a Forbes article caught my eye recently: “Health IT entrepreneurs, now is your time.” It went on to note that “the sector is being energized thanks in large part to government subsidies which reward doctors and hospitals for buying electronic health records (EHRs).” The article then talks about VC investment plans, who’s investing, and offers a few examples of startup ideas. Think about this request from the “government’s Health Data Initiative, which invites entrepreneurs to develop applications based on their mounds of health data collected by the government.”
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Hal Amens, EHR Bloggers
“In just a few years medicine has taken major steps to move from paper records in individual doctor’s offices to electronic medical records that can be shared with patients and their other physicians.
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Chloe Herrick, Computerworld Australia
“Under its $7.8 billion national heathcare reform project, to be completed over a five year period, the Gillard Government has committed to improving hospitals and primary healthcare, providing more training for health professional including doctors and nurses, investment in prevention, increasing support for mental illness and aged care, and bringing the health system up to date.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“An electronic health record (EHR) system can help improve the care of patients with multiple chronic diseases by enabling better coordination of care between healthcare providers, insurers, and patients themselves, a new study shows.
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Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“Relying on copying-and-pasting materials within a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) could lead to the insertion of false information in the record, concludes a group of researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in a recent issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Turchin A et al, Archives of Internal Medicine, 171(15)
Electronic medical records (EMRs) can improve many aspects of patient care. Utilization of EMRs is increasing and is particularly encouraged by recent federal legislation. However, EMRs are not always used optimally. Concerns have been raised about inappropriate copying and pasting of information between health care provider notes.
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Kim Lamb, Government Technology
“America’s health-care landscape is more complex and multidimensional than ever. Over the past five years, acronyms, federal mandates and funding streams have bombarded decision-makers in a number of health care-related industries.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“What made me so jubilant in my previous post about the fact that the NLM launched MedlinePlus Connect? A remark from my friend @epatientdave, the observation of various other news items covering the launch as well as Prof Sarkar’s blog post made me realize that I should spend some more words on it.
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