Articles
Miller AR, Tucker CE. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 30(3)
Fast-paced IT advances have made it increasingly possible and useful for firms to collect data on their customers on an unprecedented scale. One downside of this is that firms can experience negative publicity and financial damage if their data are breached. This is particularly the case in the medical sector, where we find empirical evidence that increased digitization of patient data is associated with more data breaches. The encryption of customer data is often presented as a potential solution, because encryption acts as a disincentive for potential malicious hackers, and can minimize the risk of breached data being put to malicious use.
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30 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Confidentiality, HIS, Security
Kimura M et al, Methods of Information in Medicine, 50(4)
Objectives:
To clarify health record background information in the Asia-Pacific region, for planning and evaluation of medical information systems.
Methods:
The survey was carried out in the summer of 2009. Of the 14 APAMI (Asia-Pacific Association for Medical Informatics) delegates 12 responded which were Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan.
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30 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Asia | EHR: EHR | Tags: Language, Privacy
Cranen K et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 2011
Objective:
This study aims to investigate whether patients’ perceptions regarding a Web-based telemedicine service, for instruction and monitoring of an exercise program, change after brief use.
Materials and Methods:
Thirty patients were allocated, matched on gender and age, to a control group (10) or an experimental group (20). After basic training, the experimental group was given a 15 min opportunity to use a Web-based telemedicine service. Patients’ perceptions regarding the telemedicine service were measured using a questionnaire, based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). This questionnaire was administered to both the control and experimental group before and after the experimental group’s intervention. Both groups were compared with respect to any change in perceptions related to the Web-based telemedicine service.
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30 July 2011 | 1 Comment »
Categories: Science | Country: Netherlands | Tags: Online Services, Telemedicine
Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Dan Rode of the American Health Information Management Association describes why the group wants to see major revisions in a proposed federal rule requiring hospitals, clinics and others to give patients access reports listing everyone who’s viewed their records.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, logging
Stephen H. Hanson, Physicians Practice
“Our hospital has an excellent emergency health record system with all the bells and whistles, and an ability to go completely paperless.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Benefits, Paper Conversion, Workflow
Merchant RM et al, N Engl J Med, 365(4)
Despite blocked Internet service, new social media such as “speak-to-tweet” (which allows brief Twitter messages to be sent through a voice connection) were being used to improve communication about health and safety within the first few days of the 2011 Egyptian uprising, which had itself been organized by means of social media. After Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, Ushahidi, an open-source Web platform that uses “crowd-sourced” information to support crisis management, linked health care providers requiring supplies to those who had them, and victims trapped under the rubble used Facebook to reach out for help.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: emergency, Social Media
Satish Misra, iMedicalApps
“Nearly one month ago, iMedicalApps took a closer look at how pharmaceutical companies were driving production of our favorite apps, including Epocrates. Through services like DocAlert, Virtual Representative, sponsored disease-specific resources, and more, pharmaceutical companies are redirecting their large marketing budgets to the medical app world.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Applications, Costs, mHealth, Pharmaceutical
Ankur Gupta, iMedicalApps
“The intensive care unit is a unique environment in healthcare. With CVP’s and PA catheter data, constant urine output monitoring, labs obtained as frequently as every hour, care in the ICU is extraordinarily data driven.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Tele-ICU, Telemedicine
Chris Witt, EHRWatch
“Since you are involved in healthcare IT, you know all about HIPAA and the responsibility it puts on the organization to protect patient information. In the early days of HIPAA regulations, there were only general guidelines and required outcomes to help direct IT departments in reaching compliance.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Cloud, Privacy
Vivek Wadhwa, The Washington Post
“The Internet and social media are capturing the public’s attention, but some of the most significant advances today are happening in medicine. Technology and medicine are converging in new ways to make possible the types of innovations that could be seen on “Star Trek.” Consider this: We spend the majority of our health-care dollars on treating chronic diseases. Technological advances will enable us to shift those investments into improving our health and preventing disease.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: DNA, Innovation, mHealth, Monitoring, Personalised Medicine, stem-cell
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“Once it allows employees and clinicians in its hospitals to start using iPhones and iPads on the job on Oct. 1, the biggest issue for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is information security.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information, mHealth, Security
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“drchrono, which offers a free electronic health record platform on the iPad, has received ONC-ACTB certification, allowing doctors to receive up to $44,000 in incentives for using the app. Officials tout drchrono as the first iPad-native EHR to be certified for meaningful use.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Certification, Meaningful Use, tablet PC
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The Blue Button Initiative has been touted as a powerful way for veterans to download a summary of their health records from their My HealtheVet account. Last August, President Obama announced this capability of the VA system, bringing national attention to it.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Patient, phr
E-Patient Health Care
“Telemedicine has been around in the U.S. for quite some time, but experts at the IEEE (News – Alert) have just announced that its “technologically ready to meet the growing demand” in developing nations and remote areas around the world, according to a press release posted at finance.yahoo.com.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Telemedicine
Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“Physicians like any other professionals, have to deal with record-keeping and other related responsibilities. This is highly important to ensure that patients’ records are kept intact and in a secured manner.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Paper Conversion
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“MHMD, the physician network of Houston-based Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, is implementing a new patient-centered medical program that will rely on IT, including its HIE, to keep providers up-to-date on patients’ conditions.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Data Sharing, Health Information Exchange, Medical Home, Primary Care
Althea Fung, NationalJournal
“An expansion of broadband could improve the health of rural Americans through telemedicine, electronic prescriptions, and electronic medical records, a group of experts convened by the Internet Innovation Alliance said on Thursday.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Broadband, Telemedicine
Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Increased use of telemedicine could help reduce the significant disparities between rural healthcare and the healthcare delivered in urban and suburban areas.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Disparities, Rural, Telemedicine
UnitedHealth Group
“Why produce a paper on rural health care? First, because it’s a topic that affects many millions of people. Indeed, if rural America were its own country, its population would be larger than nearly 90 percent of the world’s nations. And second, because although rural communities face many of the same challenges as the rest of America, they also face some unique ones — particularly when it comes to health and health care.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | Tags: Rural, Telemedicine
Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Dr. Brigitte Piniewski is convinced that mobile and wireless technologies can bring the kinds of improvements in population health that policymakers can only dream of. “I really think that’s where the vision is at,” she says.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Connectivity, Crowd-sourcing, mHealth, mobile, Population health, Wireless
