Personal Health Record (PHR) Model Privacy Notice
HHS
“The PHR Model Privacy Notice is designed to be a standardized template that a web-based PHR company can use to succinctly inform consumers about its privacy and security policies.
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Articles
Nursing care in a virtual world
Katherine Gombay, Medical Xpress
“In a pilot project for the Public Health Agency of Canada, diabetic patients in four regions of Quebec – the Lower North Shore, the Îles de la Madeleine, and in two different areas in Montreal – submitted their blood sugar readings to the nurse on a daily basis, using a secure website. Patients also answered a series of questions daily about their exercise, diet, and food care practices.
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HL7 Pledges to Empower Patients
HL7
“Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority on standards for interoperability of health information technology with members in 55 countries, today is pleased to announce that the HL7 Board unanimously agreed to pledge to engage and empower individuals to be partners in their health through information technology.
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Good News for Rural Stroke Patients: Virtual Stroke Care Appears Cost-Effective
ScienceDaily
“In a first of its kind study, researchers have found that using two way audio-video telemedicine to deliver stroke care, also known as telestroke, appears to be cost-effective for rural hospitals that don’t have an around-the-clock neurologist, or stroke expert, on staff.
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The cost-effectiveness of telestroke in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke
Nelson RE et al, Neurology, 2011
Objective:
To conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of telestroke—a 2-way, audiovisual technology that links stroke specialists to remote emergency department physicians and their stroke patients—compared to usual care (i.e., remote emergency departments without telestroke consultation or stroke experts).
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Schippers steunt doorstart EPD
Skipr
“Minister Edith Schippers steunt het plan dat Nictiz heeft ingediend voor een doorstart van het particuliere Landelijk Schakelpunt (LSP), de motor van het Landelijke EPD. Dat blijkt uit een brief die de minister aan de Tweede Kamer heeft gestuurd.
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Docs Don’t Want Lab Results Going To Patients
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued proposed rules that will allow patients to electronically access their test results directly from labs, a move that has drawn criticism among physicians who balk at the idea. They worry that unintended consequences may arise when patients read lab results before their doctors provide a proper interpretation.
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Empowering Individuals through their Immunization Records
Michael L. Popovich, Deborah Allwes, STC
“Despite the promise of better healthcare through information-centric patient empowerment, little progress has been made. The issue is not that the data do not exist in a useable form, or that technologies that would enable access to this information are lacking. There are two primary challenges standing in the way of patient empowerment: (1) in the private sector there is no proven revenue model for providing this access, and (2) in the public sector the standard barrier is confidentiality of information, the possibility of misinterpretation, and existing policies.
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Social gaming to engage patients and improve wellness
Travis Good, KevinMD
“Social connectivity to engage patients has real the potential to impact health through improvements in lifestyle, the main driver of wellness. This is in increasingly shorter supply as we collectively increase pounds, cholesterol, and blood pressure readings.
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ICD 10 Craziness
Gary Levin, Health Train Express
“Next time you go to see your MD don’t worry about the seemingly inane questions he / she will ask you. If he doesn’t he will be in violation of a new ICD coding initiative installed by HHS in the next two years.
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The mHealth opportunity to give patients recommendations & information NOT choices & data
3gdoctor, mHealth Insight
“Today I had been all set to talk at a Total Telecom mHealth Breakfast Briefing in London alongside Thierry Zylberberg, Head of Healthcare at Orange/France Telecom and Keith Nurcombe, Managing Director at O2 Health/Telefonica, about the mHealth opportunity to give patients recommendations and information as opposed to choices and data.
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EHR Spitballing — Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Marion K. Jenkins, Physicians Practice
“As long as technical people blame users for being stupid/incapable/untrainable, and as long as users — and especially clinicians — blame technical people for not understanding their needs and not understanding clinical processes, there will be a huge barrier to health IT adoption.
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Health IT: Is the U.S. in the middle of a bubble?
Brandon Glenn, MedCity News
“With stories earlier this year of outrageous valuations surrounding information technology companies like Groupon and Facebook, there’s been plenty of hand-wringing about whether overzealous investors have created a “tech bubble.”
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Enhancing Patient Safety through Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Documentation of Vital Signs
Gearing P et al, Journal of Healthcare Information Management, 20(4)
As technology becomes more sophisticated in healthcare, there is increasing need to measure its impact on key quality indicators, such as error reduction, patient safety, and cost-benefit ratios. When a product is designed to decrease medical errors, the baseline error rate must be determined before implementation to accurately measure the impact. Given the opportunity to adopt a technology that would eliminate the need to manually document vital signs, a large Florida hospital decided to measure the current process and error rate of vital signs documentation.
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Why pharmaceutical companies need to promote Information Therapy !
Dr. Malpani's Blog
“In the past, pharmaceutical companies were held in high regard because the drugs they helped to discover saved lives and helped fight diseases. Today, on the other hand, they get lots of bad press.
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Medical devices for world’s poorest on show
Anna-Marie Lever, BBC News
“Voltage regulators, infrared sensor technology and ultrasound scanners are just some of the donated equipment lying redundant in the world’s poorest countries.
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ICD-10-CA: 8 lessons from Canada that can help your ICD-10 planning
Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“Canada’s ICD-10-CA implementation did not go smoothly for many reasons. But healthcare professionals were able to learn from the problems and get practices and hospitals on track.
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5 most powerful green IT practices
Michelle McNickle, Healthcare IT News
“It’s noble and potentially cost-efficient, but embracing the “go green” trend isn’t simple.
If properly executed, green IT can mean healthcare organizations see fewer bills, contribute lower levels of carbon emissions, and enjoy an easier transition into mandated practices. But it has to be done right.
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They Are Rushing Ahead Silly Them. The E-Health Component of Health Reform Looks A Trifle Optimistic – To Say The Least!
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“And so it goes on. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to rate the chances of all this actually working and working out!
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There Is Some Really Flawed Logic Here. We Don’t Have To Have A Second Rate PCEHR. Think About It!
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“It is clear the College is just one of many stakeholders who have not seen even the majority of their issues addressed – data quality is a real biggie they can’t be at all happy with!
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