Christopher Joyce, NPR
“The year 2010 was a very bad one for Haiti. It started with an earthquake that killed over 300,000 people, mostly in the crowded capital of Port-au-Prince. After that, cholera originating in a U.N. camp broke out in a northern province and eventually spread to the city.
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BBC News
“Researchers in Germany have developed a microchip sensor that can be implanted close to a tumour to monitor its growth.
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Katharine Gammon, Technology Review
“A social network that doctors can prescribe to their patients: that’s the idea behind a new San Diego startup called Wellaho. The company creates software to manage and support patients after they leave the hospital by bringing together different parts of a patient’s support system.
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ePractice EU
“Better patient safety through electronic communication between clinicians has been secured by the adoption of a common clinical language across all healthcare settings and organisations in England.
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Selina Otero, laopinioncoruna.es
“Sanidade propone el control de los pacientes mayores en casa, “con servicios de seguimiento de los pacientes crónicos; el refuerzo de las unidades de hospitalización a domicilio y la promoción del rol de los profesionales de enfermería”, según especifica en el documento elaborado por el Sergas en base a la Estrategia 2014 para la Mesa del Diálogo Social.
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Pamela Wible, KevinMD
“On February 24, 2011, Massachusetts General Hospital was fined $1 million dollars by the federal government when an employee inadvertently left a stack of papers on the subway. These documents contained the protected health information of 192 patients, many with HIV/AIDS.
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Chuck Podesta, EMR and HIPAA
“ICD-10 would not be so daunting if the deadline was not occurring during the rush to get EHRs for meaningful use. Add in value-based purchasing, bundled payments and transitioning to ACOs, and you can see why many CIOs are retiring early or migrating to the vendor or consulting world.
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Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“Doctors at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., are using social media and online networking to help them study spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), a poorly understood heart condition that affects a few thousand Americans every year.
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Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“Last week’s East Coast earthquake proved the power of social media to report disasters, as millions took to Twitter and Facebook to report that they felt the earth move under their feet. Hurricane Irene also highlighted the importance of social media and disaster preparedness.
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Ron Winslow, Wall Street Journal
“When Katherine Leon began feeling crushing chest pain six weeks after the birth of her second child, doctors were perplexed about what was causing her symptoms.
Ms. Leon was then 38 years old and healthy, and doctors didn’t believe she was having a heart attack.
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Brandom BW. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 86(9)
In the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Tweet et al describe a novel solution to a perpetual problem that clinical researchers must address: How can researchers effectively and ethically identify and recruit adequate numbers of research participants, particularly if the research protocol involves participants having a rare condition? Absent such recruitment, a study will fail.
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Tweet MS et al, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 86(9)
OBJECTIVE:
To develop and assess the feasibility of a novel method for identification, recruitment, and retrospective and prospective evaluation of patients with rare conditions.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“I have just one question. Just what is the evidence that introduction of the PCEHR will make the least difference to these macro trends.
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Michelle Paster, Iron Mountain
“Nearly 54% of hospital executives cite physician adoption of EMRs to be their greatest challenge in meeting meaningful use.
Are we surprised? The hybrid environment is complex – and did I mention costly? Physicians are struggling to treat patients with records in both paper and electronic formats, in an environment where they availability and completeness of the record is constantly in question. Is the electronic record complete? If not, will I be able to locate the corresponding paper record quickly?
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Thomas Piotrowski, H&HN Daily
“For more than 60 years, personal health records have been used to capture, store and aggregate information on individuals’ health, helping them make health care decisions and allowing them to actively manage their own health and health records. PHRs vary significantly, but some of the more typical products include information related to diagnosis, medication, immunizations, allergies, test results and other aspects of personal health.
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Marcia Gulesian, The Information Technology Forum
“A while ago, back on May 10, 2009, I posted an article that discussed speech recognition software in general and Dragon Medical 10 in particular. Click here to navigate to that post. In the two years plus since then, the field of speech-to-text translation (and the hardware available for speech-to-text translation software to execute on) has advance.
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Satish Misra, iMedicalApps
“The moment where a patient’s pulse slips from faint to absent or the rise and fall of their chest becomes imperceptible is perhaps the most stressful, emotionally charged situation in medicine. It naturally, therefore, lends itself to chaos – and chaos plus emotion does not lead to good outcomes. A recent study suggests that medical apps could help help providers overcome these two obstacles during medical emergencies, potentially improving outcomes for patients.
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Flannigan C, McAloon J. Resuscitation, 2011
OBJECTIVE:
To compare the use of a drugs calculator on a smartphone with use of the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC) for accuracy, speed and confidence of prescribing in a simulated paediatric emergency.
DESIGN:
28 doctors and 7 medical students in a paediatric department of a District General Hospital, were asked to prescribe both a dopamine infusion and an adrenaline infusion for a hypotensive child. For one calculation they used the BNFC as their reference source and for the other they used the ‘PICU Calculator’ on the iPhone.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“A new Facebook application, developed in a Tel Aviv University (TAU) lab, is poised to serve as a better indicator of how infections spread among populations.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Social media and online networking could provide a novel way to recruit patients with rare diseases for clinical studies, according to a new study by the Mayo Clinic.
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