Articles
Feblowitz JC et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 44(4)
Background
To provide high-quality and safe care, clinicians must be able to optimally collect, distill, and interpret patient information. Despite advances in text summarization, only limited research exists on clinical summarization, the complex and heterogeneous process of gathering, organizing and presenting patient data in various forms.
Objective
To develop a conceptual model for describing and understanding clinical summarization in both computer-independent and computer-supported clinical tasks.
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25 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Clinical summaries
Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“EHR adoption rates are picking up significantly, exceeding the most optimistic expectations. Instead of an EHR for every American by 2014, as the President commanded, we will have dozens of EHRs for each American long before that. And in health care, more is always better, not to mention the freedom of choice that comes with having a different EHR in each care setting.
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25 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Benefits
David E Williams, HealthWorks Collective
“One could imagine applying regulations to a simple calculator app with an algorithm that gives an exact result, but it seems like the proposed regulation also would also apply to diagnostic software that deals with thousands of diseases.
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25 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: diagnose, Innovation, Software
Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Home healthcare, an essential ingredient of post-acute care, can help people recover from injury or illness faster, which ultimately can prevent relapses that leads to an emergency room visit or hospital readmissions.
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25 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Applications, Connectivity, Devices, Digital Homecare, mHealth
Michael Koriwchak, Wired EMR Practice
“Several years ago one of the hospitals where I operate spent 6 figures on an anesthesia EMR system. After several months and a huge amount of money the whole thing was scrapped because it was so cumbersome to use. They have not tried again.
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25 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Hospitals, tablet PC, Workflow
Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“Over the last year or two, a growing number of healthcare providers and organizations have gotten involved with social media. There’s a great deal of discussion underway in social media networks on how these new new tools can improve patient care, foster better communication between clinicians and even help patients manage their own care more effectively. (If these topics interest you, do a search on the Twitter hashtag #hcsm, and you’ll find lots of interesting content.)
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25 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Social Media
Suzanne Bohan, Contra Costa Times
“A team of Bay Area researchers faced a Herculean challenge 15 months ago: Sequence the DNA of more than 100,000 Kaiser Permanente members joining an unprecedented study linking health to genetics and environmental conditions.
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25 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: DNA, Environment, Genetics, Research
Chris Paton, Health Informatics Forum
“We recently hit 5,000 members on the health informatics forum. I personally approve each member that registers so I can tell you that we have a really great community of health IT professionals, academics and students on the website now.
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25 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Health Informatics
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
25 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Overview
Dr. Jen Gunter
“The American Medical Association (AMA) appears to have appointed itself as Ministry of Morality in response to the ever growing numbers of physicians embracing social media.
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24 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Physicians, Social Media, Twitter
Viitanen J et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2011
Objective
In the health informatics field, usability studies typically focus on evaluating a single information system and involve a rather small group of end-users. However, little is known about the usability of clinical information and communication technology (ICT) environment in which healthcare professionals work daily. This paper aims at contributing to usability research and user-oriented development of healthcare technologies with three objectives: inform researchers and practitioners about the current state of usability of clinical ICT systems, increase the understanding of usability aspects specific for clinical context, and encourage a more holistic approach on studying usability issues in health informatics field.
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24 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Finland | EHR: EHR, EHR Finland | Tags: Evaluation, Medical Informatics, Usability, user interface
Carey Goldberg, CommonHealth
“Basically, it was a combination of a couple of factors—the stagnant data flow in the health system and some failures in Google’s strategic execution.
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24 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Google-Health, phr, Trust
Caligtan CA, Dykes PC. Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 27(3)
Objectives
To provide an overview of electronic personal health information technology.
Data Sources
Peer reviewed research studies, review articles, and web resources.
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24 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: ICT, Nurses, Oncology, phr
Furber GV et al, The Journal of Adolescent Health, 48(1)
BACKGROUND
Mobile phones play a central role in the lives of young people and are being increasingly recognized as valuable tools in health care. However, there is a paucity of studies exploring the use of mobile phones in youth outreach mental health services. Our outreach team’s experience is that enabling youth to access their therapist directly through mobile phone improves engagement and retention, and short message service (SMS) in particular, is a useful tool for coordinating appointments. The purpose of this study was to audit the content of SMS exchanges between therapists and clients and to investigate the extent of inappropriate SMS use.
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24 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Australia | Tags: Adolescents, Cellphone, Mental Health, mHealth, Physician-Patient Relationship, SMS
Goldberg L et al, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 40(5 Suppl 2)
It is a truism that, for innovative eHealth systems to have true value and impact, they must first and foremost be usable and accessible by clinicians, consumers, and other stakeholders. In this paper, current trends and future challenges in the usability and accessibility of consumer health informatics will be described. Consumer expectations of their healthcare providers and healthcare records in this new era of consumer-directed care will be explored, and innovative visualizations, assistive technologies, and other ways that healthcare information is currently being provided and/or shared will be described.
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24 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Health Information, Medical Informatics, phr, Satisfaction, Usability
Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“An integrated delivery system in Connecticut is taking the extraordinary step of encrypting its clinical databases before launching an ambitious health information exchange effort.
Hartford Healthcare, owner of Hartford Hospital and numerous other facilities, sees its internal HIE effort as the way to become a “truly integrated” delivery system, says John DeStefano, director of software development and integration.
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24 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Encryption, Health Information Exchange, Open Source
Chris Hoffmann, HealthWorks Collective
“While the deadline for ICD-10 implementation is not until October 2013, the new clinical documentation code set expands over 8x from 24,000 to > 200,000 and with enterprise-wide effects will be one of the most impactful mandates in the history of medical coding.
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24 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hospitals, ICD-10, Implementation
Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Mining a federal database has revealed a previously unknown, potentially harmful interaction between two commonly prescribed drugs that could affect as many as 1 million people in the United States. And the increasing usage of electronic medical records (EMRs) could make it far easier to identify such adverse drug effects in the future.
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24 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adverse Drug Reactions, Data Mining
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) office of the inspector general has found that state Medicaid agencies are limited in their ability to verify self-reported eligibility information prior to issuing payments under the Medicaid electronic health record (EHR) incentive program, and that this lack of reporting could harm the integrity of states’ EHR incentive payments.
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24 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Incentives
e-Health-com News
“Neuerdings können Schweizer ihr eletronisches Gesundheitsdossier Evita auch in italienischer und französischer Sprache einsehen. Bisher mussten die Nutzer in der Westschweiz mit einer deutschen Benutzeroberfläche arbeiten. Dieses Manko hat der Betreiber Swisscom jetzt beseitigt.
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23 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Switzerland | EHR: EHR, EHR Switzerland | Tags: Language
