Articles
Yeager VA, Menachemi N. Biennial Review of Health Care Management, 2011
Background
Studies suggest text messaging is beneficial to health care; however, no one has synthesized the overall evidence on texting interventions. In response to this need, we conducted a systematic review of the impacts of text messaging in health care.
Methods
PubMed database searches and subsequent reference list reviews sought English-language, peer-reviewed studies involving text messaging in health care. Commentaries, conference proceedings, and feasibilities studies were excluded. Data was extracted using an article coding sheet and input into a database for analysis.
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17 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Benefits, literature, mHealth, Public Health, SMS
Cripps H, Standing C. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2011
Objective
The adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the health sector has often lagged behind adoption in other sectors as there are a number of systemic inhibitors that make the adoption of ICT far more complex. This paper aims to explore and investigate the drivers, facilitators and barriers to electronic health records adoption in the health sector and provide some guidance on how to improve the prospect of successful adoption.
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Categories: Science | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tags: ICT, Implementation, Rural
Greiver M et al, Canadian Family Physician, 57(10)
Objective
To apply the diffusion-of-innovations theory to the examination of factors that are perceived by family physicians as influencing the implementation of electronic medical records (EMRs).
Design
Qualitative study with 2 focus groups 18 months after EMR implementation; participants also took part in a concurrent quantitative study examining EMR implementation and preventive services.
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17 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: GP, Implementation, Innovation, Physicians
Hoekstra R. Tijdschrift Voor Psychiatrie, 53(10)
Background
The internet used to be mainly ‘one-way traffic’ (1.0). Nowadays it is becoming easy for internet users to communicate with each other via the web (2.0).
Aim
To describe the concept of Health 2.0 and to explore the possibilities of 2.0-technology for psychiatry.
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17 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Netherlands | Tags: Health 2.0, Information Technology, Internet, Psychiatry, Self Management
Plus91
“A large part of managing a patient over a long period of time is communicating with the patient. All old (follow up) cases in medical practices have niche requirements and expectations from their doctors. A satisfied patient is a doctor’s most powerful marketing asset. Healthcare professionals should strive to provide all old (follow up) cases with special features to improve quality of service, which in turn will increase the Patient Satisfaction Index.
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17 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Communication, facebook, Patient, Satisfaction, Website
Brian Ahier, Ahier.net
“While parents commonly use the Internet to learn about pediatric health problems, little is known about how often they seek out this information, and how they use it prior to seeking medical care.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Children, Health Information, Search, Website
“Electronic medical records (EMRs) are on the way, and not any too soon. The government is offering large incentives to healthcare providers to start using EMRs and for those who skip the incentive, there will be penalties to follow. Whatever you may think of the EMR, it is at our doorstep. I am not making a political statement about this – to me it is common sense and a technological imperative that will reduce costs, enhance healthcare quality, and improve patient safety.
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17 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: emr, Privacy
Anne Eisenberg, The New York Times
“Even in the vast world of apps, Dr. Patrick J. Gagnon has one with an unusual distinction: it had to be cleared for use by the Food and Drug Administration.
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17 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Applications, diagnose, mHealth, Radiology
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
17 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Overview
Sola Ogundipe, Vanguard
“For Nigerians who can afford it, seeking medical attention abroad is routine. No thanks to them, health professionals within the medical industry in the United Kingdom, United States of America, Germany, and increasingly, South Africa and India, are smiling to the banks.
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16 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Uganda | Tags: mHealth
Jordan Calmes, NPR
“Twitter may turn out to be a great tool for tracking epidemics and how people deal with them.
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16 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Epidemics, Tracking, Twitter
Jeff Byers, CMIO
“Findings of a survey from healthcare privacy auditing supplier FairWarning found a demand for patients’ medical records to be guaranteed against data theft and snooping.
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16 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Confidentiality, Privacy, Security
David Lee Scher, MD
“There are many benefits of mHealth technology to physicians It will increase patient engagement, it will provide data and input from patients on a continuum of time (versus the snapshot of office encounters), it is mobile, it will make office or telehealth conferencing more meaningful, and it will improve the physician-patient relationship (see http://davidleescher.com/2011/10/10/five-reasons-why-physicians-will-love-mhealth/ ).
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16 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Engagement, mHealth, Patient, Physician-Patient Relationship, Physicians, Surveillance
Jeff Byers, CMIO
“The National Health Service (NHS) for Scotland should do more to consider telehealth when introducing or redesigning services, according to a report published by Audit Scotland, an organization that assists the Auditor General and the Accounts Commission in making sure organizations that spend public money in Scotland use it properly.
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16 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: Benefits, Telehealth, Telemedicine
Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“An abstract presented Friday to the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition in Boston, titled “Disproportionately Increasing Psychiatric Visits to the Pediatric Emergency Deparment Among the Uninsured”, notes that pediatric patients are increasingly receiving psychiatric care in hospital EDs. Telemedicine might be important in this setting, but first let me tell you more about the abstract.
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Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Children, emergency, Teleconsultation, Telemedicine
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“56 million U.S. Consumers Access Medical Information from Electronic Health Records,” asserted Manhattan Research’s press release of October 12, 2011. This statistic, fresh out of the firm’s 2011 Cybercitizen Health survey, is among several stunning numbers that demonstrate a growing trend: U.S. health citizens’ embrace of their personal health information in digital formats, via electronic channels.
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16 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Patient
Chad Johnson, Healthcare IT News
“It’s simply amazing that Apple iPhones and iPads continue to dominate technology conversations, despite the impressive advances of competing Android smart phones and tablets.
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15 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tags: mHealth
Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“The Health Resources and Services Administration at HHS plans to incorporate electronic health-record data into an evaluation of the Text4baby outreach program, through which expectant women and mothers of infants can sign up to get pregnancy and infant-care information from HHS via text message.
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15 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: mHealth, SMS
Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“Cook Children’s Health System, in Fort Worth, Texas, has initiated use of 2D barcodes on vaccine bottles, which facilitates the streaming of data into health record databases such as the Microsoft HealthVault patient portal and Athenahealth’s AthenaClinicals electronic health record (EHR) application.
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15 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Barcode, Vaccine
Jim Anderson, JAAPA
“Even for those of us not paying much attention to the world of Health Information Technology (and if you are in clinical practice and not doing do, you will soon enough), it’s clear that most of the discussions taking place in the medical arena about HIT focus on providers, not patients. This issue has come up before in this blog, and will no doubt come up again, because it’s pretty darned salient.
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15 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Implementation, Patient Centric
