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Ströher A, Honekamp W. Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift, 161(13-14)
The introduction of an electronic health record (ELGA) is a subject discussed for a long time in Austria. Another big step toward ELGA is made at the end of 2010 on the pilot project e-medication in three model regions; other projects should follow. In addition, projects of the ELGA structure are sped up on the part of the ELGA GmbH to install the base of a functioning electronic health record.
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26 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Austria | EHR: EHR, EHR Austria | Tags: Data Protection, Privacy, Security
Brian Ahier, iHealthbeat
“The need for robust health information exchange (HIE) continues to grow, and not just because it is a part of the meaningful use incentive program.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Exchange
Max Lugavere, Huffington Post
“I don’t claim to have a 30,000-foot view of the current state of the healthcare system — I am neither a medical doctor nor a politician. I do have a greater-than-average interest in both fields, read often, and pursue — however informally — an education in science and technology every day. I studied psychology in school.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Cloud, phr
Tzeel A et al, American Health and Drug Benefits, 4(4)
Background:
As emergency department utilization continues to increase, health plans must limit their cost exposure, which may be driven by duplicate testing and a lack of medical history at the point of care. Based on previous studies, health information exchanges (HIEs) can potentially provide health plans with the ability to address this need.
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Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tags: Effectiveness, emergency, Health Information Exchange
Jeffrey Roman, Healthcare Info Security
“A federal proposal that would require healthcare organizations to provide patients with a report listing everyone who has electronically accessed their records needs revamping, two regulatory experts agree.
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26 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Costs, logging, Privacy
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“A new study from Humana and the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange (WHIE) shows that using health information exchanges in emergency departments results in improved provider efficiencies and health plan cost savings.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Benefits, Health Information Exchange
Nursing Times
“Healthcare professionals could soon receive texts warning them that a diabetes patient is suffering dangerously low blood sugar levels.
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Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: Diabetes, mHealth, SMS
Katherine Harmon, Scientific American
“It doesn’t take much imagination to think of ways in which all of the data being recorded into electronic health records (EHRs) could be used study diseases and map trends. One of the problems in putting this data to work, however, is that these forms are not uniformly maintained—and the more structured sections with standardized codes lack nuance and might even be misleading, according to some researchers.
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26 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Free text, Narrative, NLP, Search
Pia Rufino, Asia Pacific Futuregov
“A private and public collaboration in Korea has spurred a mobile initiative that will use 3G-enabled applications and services enabling patients and health workers to better manage diabetes.
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Categories: News | Country: Korea | Tags: 3G, mHealth
Roque FS et al, PLoS Comput Biol, 7(8)
Text mining and information extraction can be seen as the challenge of converting information hidden in text into manageable data. We have used text mining to automatically extract clinically relevant terms from 5543 psychiatric patient records and map these to disease codes in the International Classification of Disease ontology (ICD10). Mined codes were supplemented by existing coded data. For each patient we constructed a phenotypic profile of associated ICD10 codes. This allowed us to cluster patients together based on the similarity of their profiles. The result is a patient stratification based on more complete profiles than the primary diagnosis, which is typically used.
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26 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Denmark | EHR: EHR, EHR Denmark | Tags: ICD-10, Text Mining
Amit Trivedi, EMR and EHR
“We all know there is no such thing as perfect security. All we can do is try to mitigate as many risks as possible. In this regard, there are areas related to information security that the current ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 (commonly referred to as meaningful use) certification testing does not yet address and that the health IT community should be aware of when implementing systems.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Certification, Encryption, Meaningful Use, Privacy, Security
Neil Versel, EMR and HIPAA
“A paper just published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that searching EMRs with natural-language processing identified up to 12 times the number of pneumonia cases and twice the rate of kidney failure and sepsis as did searches based on billing codes—ironically called “patient safety indicators” in the study—for patients admitted for surgery at six VA hospitals.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Claims Data, emr, NLP, Quality
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“As part of the process of setting our broader research agenda at Chilmark Research, we do a significant amount of secondary research combined with more limited, but highly focused primary research.
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26 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Engagement, mHealth, Patient, Personal Health Information, phr, Portal
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll
“We have been working extremely hard to redesign the whole site on Webicina.com and introduce a brand new search engine that is powered by Weblib PolySearch Search Engine. They did an excellent job with this clustering search tool and now it’s much easier to find the selected medical social media resources you are looking for.
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26 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Search, Social Media, Website
Brian Edwards, iMedicalApps
“Perhaps the single greatest barrier to overcome in the movement toward pervasive consumer and physician adoption and use of wearable sensors and wireless body area networks is the invasive, uncomfortable, obtrusive and unsightly nature of most current sensor technology.
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25 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: mHealth, Sensors, Wearable
Neil Baum, KevinMD
“Today, healthcare is criticized by the public as too high on technology and too low in touch. Computers take patients histories, provide differential diagnoses, and even supply educational materials to patients. A new specialty, tele-medicine, offers healthcare services to rural areas that were previously underserved or couldn’t afford the latest diagnostic technology.
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25 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Physician-Patient Relationship, Telemedicine
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Electronic health records can provide new opportunities for obtaining more comprehensive data regarding quality of health services patients receive than relying solely on Medicaid claims data, according to a new study.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Claims Data, Quality, Reliability
Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The Texas prison system combined a statewide electronic medical record system with the world’s largest telemedicine system outside of the Pentagon to create a program that has saved Texas taxpayers nearly $1 billion over the past 10 years, according to the Gartner Group.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Telemedicine
Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“If you read MobiHealthNews, you undoubtedly know about GE Healthcare’s Vscan pocket ultrasound, available for about $8,000, or less than one-tenth the cost of a traditional ultrasound machine. But did you realize that the impetus for shrinking ultrasound technology to handheld size came from GE’s efforts at cracking the Chinese market?
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Developing Countries, mHealth, SMS
Carl Natale, Healthcare IT News
“ICD-10 implementation is a problem that affects how physicians will practice medicine. But just how to you persuade them that they need to get involved in the training and planning now?
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: ICD-10, Physicians
