Articles
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Interoperability – connecting the dots in a fragmented landscape of health data in this country – is emerging as the central theme for 2012. Clinicians who have been working towards Stage 1 Meaningful Use this year have noted that 3 of the criteria – electronic data exchange (core item), immunization registry data exchange (menu item), and syndromic surveillance data exchange (menu item) – assume that a secure way of connecting to places outside your EHR exists (or will soon exist). This is not currently the case.
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28 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Interoperability
Mary Griskewicz, HIMSS Blog
“I just had my annual physical. The medical practice I go to is a typical small Connecticut practice with three physicians and two physician assistants. The practice also employs several medical assistants, an office manager and four receptionists. They provide excellent service and care to my family, and I can always get an appointment when I call, which I really appreciate.
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28 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Costs, Implementation
John Cushman, Solany
“Since we work in the EMR sector each day, we’re well aware that the conversion of health records to digital marks a significant change in how medical technology is coming into the 21st century.
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28 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Innovation
Emily Singer, Technology Review
“Statistics in sports is about to hit a whole new level. A new generation of wearable monitors that measure heart rate, electrical activity in the heart, lung capacity, metabolism, and other metrics is allowing scientists to study athletes’ physiology as they play.
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28 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Monitoring, Sensors, Wearable
Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“The e-health market is bloated with simple tools for patients—online weight trackers and apps that offer exercise and diet tips, for example. And there’s no dearth of physician tools that aid decision support, diagnosis, or provide access to medical references.
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28 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Certification, Health 2.0, mHealth
Felasfa Wodajo, iMedicalApps
“As we discussed in the first of this two part series, mobile devices are already entering the world of the surgeon. Currently, it is mostly downloadable apps that promise to help surgeons with the informational portions of their tasks, such as tracking the cases they have done, e.g. Surgichart or helping in the consent process, e.g. Surgery Risk
While apps that are dedicated to the technical aspects of surgery, such as the excellent AO Surgery Reference, are becoming available, in the future we will see the iPad (or its brethren) actually in the operating room.
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28 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Communication, mHealth, operation room, tablet PC, visualisation
Gill Hitchcock, Guardian Professional
“The number of patients failing to turn up for hospital appointments can be reduced by 34% using SMS text message or phone reminders, according to review carried out by telemedicine specialists at the university hospital of North Norway.
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28 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: Alert/Reminder, Appointments, SMS
Hasvold PE, Wootton R. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2011
Patients failing to attend hospital appointments contribute to inefficient use of resources. We conducted a systematic review of studies providing a reminder to patients by phone, short message service (SMS) or automated phone calls. A PubMed search was conducted to identify articles published after 1999, describing studies of non-attendance at hospital appointments. In addition, we searched the references in the included papers. In total, 29 studies were included in the review. Four had two intervention arms which were treated as independent studies, giving a total of 33 estimates. The papers were analysed by two observers independently. A study quality score was developed and used to weight the data. Weighted means of the absolute and the relative changes in non-attendance were calculated. All studies except one reported a benefit from sending reminders to patients prior to their appointment.
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28 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Alert/Reminder, Appointments, SMS
David Raths, Healthcare Informatics
“The fact that many clinical performance measures are now being designed with EHRs as their data source may lead to systemic improvements in patient safety.
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27 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Data, Patient Safety
Richard Reece, Technology Review
“Why are doctors so slow in implementing electronic health records (EHRs)?
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27 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Physicians
Paul Winandy, Government Health IT
“Government incentives have made EMR implementation a hot topic for many medical practitioners. Everyone loves getting money back from the government, but don’t let the incentive money push you into a decision you will regret.
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27 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Efficiency, emr, Implementation, Incentives
Robert Charette, Risk Factor
“As I mentioned in a recent post, nearly half of Australians may end up boycotting the new voluntary electronic health record (EHR) system when it launches next year because they believe the government can’t provide guarantees that their private medical details will remain private.
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27 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: Australia, UK, United States | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia, EHR UK, EHR USA | Tags: Security
M. Eric Johnson, Wall Street Journal
“Why are medical records so vulnerable? In part, it’s because the health-care industry has lagged behind the corporate world in adopting integrated systems that are designed with security in mind and prevent data from being downloaded into portable files.
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27 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Education, Security, Usability
Emily Singer, Technology Review
“A smart-phone app under development for heart-failure patients allows them to keep track of the pressure inside their heart as measured by an implanted sensor. That data could help patients adjust their medication to maintain a healthy pressure, much as diabetics do with insulin and blood sugar readings.
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27 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Chronic Heart Failure, mHealth
Brian Klein, MedGadget
“The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hasn’t traditionally been thought of as a bold, risk-taking agency. HHS Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Todd Park has been working hard to change that. Park, who co-founded healthcare technology firm Athenahealth and later Castlight Health, was offered his current position two years ago. HHS asked Park to come work for them as an entrepreneur in residence.
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27 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Data, Innovation
Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“It should be clear to anyone who has followed the mobile health space these last few years, that Apple has created many of the go-to devices for health and medical applications.
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27 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: mHealth
Meaningful HIT News with Neil Versel
“Today marks the official launch of a historic healthcare and human rights advocacy consortium, Health eVillages, which aims to bring mobile medical reference and decision support technology to clinicians fighting to save lives in underserved regions worldwide.
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27 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Decision Support, Health Information, mHealth, Underserved
Jay Emmet, The Mobility Blog
“A $1.4 billion industry, mHealth has made a significant impact and will continue to improve patient care. The market is expected to grow nearly 22 percent by 2014, with healthcare IT spending reaching $40 billion, according to Juniper Research.
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27 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Adoption, Industry, mHealth, SMS, Standards
Priya Ramachandran, EMR Thoughts
“Recently, on The Healthcare Blog, there was a really interesting post by Dr. Marya Silberberg about why patient lab data should be liberated. She recommends lab results be sent to patients at the same time that they’re sent to doctors. Dr. Silberberg does an admirable job of looking at the patient data issue from both sides.
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27 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, lab results, Ownership, Patient
Priya Ramachandran, EMR and EHR
“While I am fascinated by InformaticsMD’s write-up, I don’t fully agree with the apparent conclusion reached – namely that “EMR’s can detract from a clear narrative, and facilitate spoliation and obfuscation of evidence presented.”
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27 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Audit
