Meaningful HIT News with Neil Versel
“I’m in San Francisco for the fifth annual Health 2.0 Conference. I attended the first two, missed the last two, but this year, I have several reasons for being here, not the least of which is to help out MobiHealthNews with coverage.
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Taneva S et al, Health and Technology, 2011
With the goal to achieve a better understanding of the challenges to communication technology adoption in the clinical setting, we conducted intensive observations of activities of clinical and administrative staff in a large teaching hospital’s surgical unit prior to and 8-months post-implementation of an electronic whiteboard communication tool (eWhiteboard). The hospital IT department developed the e-Whiteboard for the support of inter-team coordination of patient status within the surgical flow. After the system had been integrated into the work process for 8 months, we conducted another round of intensive observations. The RATE data collection platform was utilized in both studies. Data were coded and analyzed quantitatively. Qualitative observational notes complemented the statistical results. We compared the pre- and post-implementation observational data with regard to communication load, types of coordination breakdowns, triggers, and consequences. Additionally, a questionnaire on perceived usefulness of the eWhiteboard was administered.
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Paula Rooney, ZDNet
“Is there a killer in the software code running millions of medical devices? GNOME Executive Director Karen Sandler, formerly of the Software Freedom Law Center, has been fighting to get this software opened up for inspection and review since she received her own implanted defibrillator in 2008.
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Klitzman R. JAMA, 304(10)
Increasingly, physicians and patients face dilemmas of whether to exclude genetic information from medical charts, posing critical challenges for practice, research, policy, and education. Physicians and patients are obtaining more genetic information, yet medical records are rapidly becoming electronic, threatening confidentiality. Tensions thus arise between potential medical benefits vs social risks of including information.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“Healthcare providers using a new computerized family history tool may soon be able to screen expectant mothers for risk of problems during pregnancy.
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Pablo Pazos Gutiérrez, Informática Médica y Estándares
“Estoy muy contento de anunciar una nueva liberacion de Open EHR-Gen Framework, la herramienta libre para crear sistemas de Historia Clínica Electrónica basados en estándares internacionales como openEHR, HL7 CDA y CIE 10.
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Nictiz
“Een goed beveiligd medisch kerndossier dat je snel en overzichtelijk kunt raadplegen. Maar liefst tien grote zorgpartijen in de regio Rijnmond onderschreven gisteren het belang van deze door het Zorgportaal Rijnmond ontwikkelde e-health toepassing.
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Susannah Fox, e-patients.net
“I was honored to give the closing keynote at the Medicine 2.0’11 Congress at Stanford. In preparation for it, I gathered all of the Pew Internet Project’s recent research on social networks, smartphones, and health communications.
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Douglas Elwood, KevinMD
“A white paper from The Beryl Institute reveals a 10% increase in general patient satisfaction and over 40% improvement in satisfaction with educational materials at hospitals when interactive technology is provided.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“We end the week on a note that is semi-whimsical, and thus also at least half-serious.
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aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“Años pre-crisis, el idílico sueño de la eSalud llama a la puerta de los consejeros de Sanidad de nuestros diecisiete sistemas de salud. Las ideas de eficiencia, celeridad y mejora del servicio son simples eslóganes de campaña en un momento en el que lo importante es ser “el más”.
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Nina Lakhani, The Independent
“The NHS could save tens of millions of pounds each year by sending text message to patients to remind them of hospital appointments.
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Kurtz B et al, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 17(6)
We studied 138 patients admitted for heart failure (HF). Patients were allocated one of three treatment strategies. Group 1 (G1, n = 50) were given usual care for HF, Group 2 (G2, n = 56) received a multi-disciplinary team approach, while Group 3 (G3, n = 32) had home telephone self-monitoring. Telemonitoring was based on the answers to three simple queries about bodyweight change, dyspnoea and general health. The system stratified the HF severity of each patient once a week, and recommended a prompt medical appointment or simple follow-up.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
Due to my trip to and presence at the Medical Care Quality Management: New Horizons (Novosibirsk, Russia, 22-23 September), updates to this site will be irregular till September 26.
Daniel Martin, Mail Online
“Ministers are to axe Labour’s disastrous £12billion NHS computer scheme.
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Daniel Martin, Mail Online
“By coincidence I have been doing the rounds recently asking industry experts why they think large IT projects fail. This is for a feature I am putting together, which will appear on Computer Weekly soon.
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Sabrina Rodak, Becker's Hospital Review
“The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and the American Hospital Association have issued separate statements urging the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to gather more evidence before implementing the proposed metadata standards for health information exchanges, according to a CHIME news release and AHA News Now report.
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“A majority of Americans believe that electronic health records don’t keep their medical records confidential, according to a new survey released by security firm SailPoint.
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HealthCanal
“Electronic health records (EHRs) have been touted as a means of improving the quality of care in the United States. Conventional wisdom holds that younger physicians might be more likely to adopt EHR functionality.
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