Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Right now, somewhere in Telstra, I can only imagine that several executives are running around in circles, having discovered that when it comes to electronic health, every cloud definitely does not have a silver lining.
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rteston, Buzz e-sante
“HON vient de publier les résultats de son enquête réalisée au printemps dernier sur les recherches santé des internautes : « How Do General Public Search Online Health Information? ». Analyse.
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Ancker JS et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
With the proliferation of relatively mature health information technology (IT) systems with large numbers of users, it becomes increasingly important to evaluate the effect of these systems on the quality and safety of healthcare. Previous research on the effectiveness of health IT has had mixed results, which may be in part attributable to the evaluation frameworks used. The authors propose a model for evaluation, the Triangle Model, developed for designing studies of quality and safety outcomes of health IT.
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Deldar K eta al, J Telemed Telecare, 2011
We evaluated an ask-the-doctor service which was set up as one of the accessory services of a health education website in Iran. The study lasted for five months. A total of 500 enquiries were submitted to the question and answer system. Eighty enquiries were excluded because they were duplicated submissions, not replied to by doctors or gave insufficient information for a reply. Most enquirers (33%) were female and aged 21-35 years.
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Anker SD et al, The Lancet, 378(9792)
Advances in telecommunication technologies have created new opportunities to provide telemedical care as an adjunct to medical management of patients with heart failure. Meta-analyses suggest that telemedicine can reduce morbidity and mortality in such patients; however, two prospective clinical trials not included in the analyses do not support these findings. Therefore, the effectiveness of telemedicine in heart failure is not established. Telemedicine approaches range from computer-based support systems to programmes led by nurses and physicians. Standardisation and appropriate classification of telemedical systems are needed to enable accurate interpretation of clinical trials.
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Karen Dearne, The Australian
“The man steering the $500 million e-health record rollout, Brad Cable, says that next July “you and I will have the ability to log in and actually see our own personal record and be able to give GPs and others access to it”.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“All this seems just utterly over the top to me. That some of money could, for example, pay for 1 year for about 590 staff each being paid $150,000 p.a. What on earth were even ½ of this number of people actually doing?
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to offer its physicians commercial cloud-based software-as-a-service collaborative tools to improve communications while also reducing data breaches.
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Dimitri Tokmetzis, Sargasso
“Het Elektronisch Patiënten Dossier (EPD) zal een private doorstart maken, tenminste als het aan een aantal zorgverzekeraars en artsen- en apotheekorganisaties ligt. Veel details zijn nog niet naar buiten gebracht, maar wat er bekend is, stelt al behoorlijk teleur.
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Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“Privacy and communications issues surround planned pilot testing of cloud-based tools by the Department of Veterans Affairs that could impact as many as 134,000 VA medical workers. Specifically, the VA wants to move its Microsoft Exchange-based collaboration system to a cloud-based system, according to InformationWeek.
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Scott M. Fulton, III, Read Write Web
“On October 1, 2013, the US Deptment of Health and Human Services will expect all of America’s health care providers to have transitioned their business bookkeeping and transaction records to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) standards.
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Mike Berard, Healthcare IT Solutions
“While 5010 has taken a backseat to ICD-10 in the media, payers must still meet the change to 5010 on January 1, 2012 before implementing ICD-10. Version 5010 accommodates the ICD-10 code, and must be in place first before the changeover to ICD-10.
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Patrick Howard, SearchHealthIT
“This week Australia selected Accenture as a prime contractor, and some subcontractors, including Oracle and Orion Health, to develop Australia’s ”Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record” or PCEHR. This PHR product will allow Australia’s 22 million citizens access their medical records, manual entering of PHI, and the record will contain information on access with audit trails.
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Kit Eaton, Fast Company
“While you were busy catapulting Angry Birds on your iPhone, scientists at Vanderbilt university were using the components inside your smartphone to create bionic limbs. The Vanderbilt leg, seven years in the making, anticipates the movements of the person wearing it, resulting in a more natural gait instead of the slight dragging experienced by most wearers.
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Broken_Heart Blog
“Another idea from UK Health Secretary Andrew Lansley published today in The Times. This from a government with lots of ideas which sound great until the proposal is dissected.
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David Astley, ComputerWeekly
“At a government event recently, Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS, said he would like to see more doctors regularly offering remote consultations to patients via video link within the next year. With the NHS facing severe spending cuts, the move could allow the NHS to make savings while reducing waiting times for millions of patients in the UK.
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Andrew Doughman, Orlando Sentinel
“Jon Yeitrakis used to drive almost an hour each way to see his psychiatrist at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Orlando.
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André Picard, The Globe and Mail
“Ottawa plans to negotiate a single national health accord, not separate agreements with each of the provinces and territories, the federal health minister says.
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Roger A. Maduro, OpenHealthNews
“After more than a year of upgrades and enhancements and months of testing at the ICSA Labs EHR Certification Program, OpenEMR version 4.1 received full ‘meaningful use’ certification for ambulatory care settings on Friday, August 19.
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Marisa Torrieri, Physicians Practice
“When it comes to ICD-10, the new code set that takes effect Oct. 1, 2013, what worries Jerra Allen is not the two additional digits or the reams of new disease and diagnosis codes compared with the current ICD-9.
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