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Gregory Kiray, Cerner
“A Patient-Centered Medical Home is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care. It facilitates partnerships between individuals as patients and their personal providers while providing better access to health care and increasing satisfaction. A medical home is a sophisticated primary care practice where technology is utilized with services to enhance the doctor-patient relationship and bring additional teammates into the care of patients.
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27 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Medical Home, Physician-Patient Relationship, Primary Care
Dan Bowman, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Despite the continued mobilization of radiology efforts through smartphone and tablet use, diagnostic workstations aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, physicians at a recent New York imaging conference told AuntMinnie.com.
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27 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: mHealth, Radiology
Curtis J et al, Healthcare Management Forum, 24(3)
Sunnybrook’s MyChart Personal Health Record (PHR) represents a direct extension of the hospital’s electronic health record and an innovative form of healthcare record that promises to change the way patients and providers access and manage the information required to participate in their care.
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27 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tags: Adoption, phr, Research, Usability
Barton C et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 2011
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Telemedicine is increasingly being used to provide consultation for healthcare in rural areas. Little work has been done with dementia although preliminary research suggests that clinical diagnosis performed via telemedicine consultation is valid. We implemented a program to provide multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art diagnosis of cognitive impairment by video-telemedicine (VTM) integrated into a clinical setting.
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27 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tags: Dementia, Rural, Telemedicine, Videoconsultations
BNA
“A coalition of health care and information technology organizations is asking the Food and Drug Administration to rethink portions of the draft guidance the agency issued earlier this year on regulating mobile medical applications.
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27 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: mHealth
Patrick Golden, DOTmed News
“I have been practicing medicine in the Fresno, Calif. area for 24 years. In that time, I have experienced a few different ways of running my solo practice and gone from typewriters to computers, and from phone and fax to e-mail. Recently, my staff and I steered the practice through Stage 1 Meaningful Use attestation and it was a success.
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27 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Meaningful Use, Portal
Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“Usually, when you hear the phrase “underserved area” in terms of healthcare, you think of small towns in the Corn Belt or villages in the mountains. But the growing shortage of physicians is creating underserved areas that may surprise you.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Telemedicine, Underserved
Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“No matter how hard the Food and Drug Administration tries to find a middle ground between too much and too little regulation, it’s usually seen as the villain. When it implements strict rules on drug approval, for example, it’s condemned for slowing down the pipeline of lifesaving remedies. And when the agency loosens its grip, it’s blamed for deaths from unsafe drugs.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Applications, Devices, medical technology, Wellness
Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Acute
“The greatest challenge to making the health service information-driven is cultural, not technical, a new report has suggested.
The report commissioned by BCS Health canvassed the views of NHS and non-NHS organisations on the current state of health information practices.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: Data Exchange, GP, Health Information Technology, Hospitals, Implementation
Jasper Bakker, Webwereld
“Risico’s in de zorg zijn niet op te lossen door meer ict te gebruiken. Het is onduidelijk welke informatie relevant is, concludeert de Inspectie voor de Gezondheidszorg na onderzoek.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Health Information Technology, Standards
J.L de la Serna, El Mundo
“No es la primera vez que en este videoblog se habla del concepto de telemedicina. Y no será la última. Estudio tras estudio nos llega la evidencia de lo que dan de sí las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tags: Hypertension, mHealth
John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“Yesterday I was in Washington DC at the American Medical Informatics Association annual meeting in Washington to join a panel with Dr. Henry Feldman, Dr. Larry Nathanson, and Janet Meyers RN discussing the use of tablet computers in medicine – Session S36 “Tablets in Healthcare: No Just for Pills Anymore”.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: mHealth, tablet PC
Yedidia Blonder, Bob on Medical Device Software
“RFID (radio frequency identification) is a technology in which radio waves emitted from electronic tags identify them uniquely. The tags are often used to pinpoint the location of the object, or person, to which the tag is attached.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hospitals, RFID
Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider
“A number of GP practices waiting for EMIS’ next generation system, EMIS Web, will have to wait until after the New Year.
EMIS says it has delayed some GP installations to allow it to focus on issues such as training needs for new users.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: GP
Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“British doctors are already accused of making “inappropriate referrals,” she says, whenever they put what’s best for their patients above what’s best for saving money. The NHS has given it a benign-sounding name, “Referral Management System.” This “hidden stranger,” as Dr. Gerada describes the system, interferes with doctor’s decisions requiring them to comply with referral protocols whether it helps the patient or not (and most often, not).
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK, United States | Tags: Telemedicine
Marisa Torrieri, Physicians Practice
“Changes in electronic prescribing and the development of patient portals are affecting and improving the way providers connect with patients.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: e-prescribing, Patient, Portal
Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Patients are rapidly getting onboard with mobile health technology, according to a study released yesterday by the Consumer Electronics Association.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Connectivity, Patient, Wireless
Michael Spitz, PhramaPhorum
“Few areas of mobile health captivate and frustrate like the integration of electronic health records (EHRs). As mHealth rapidly evolves so, too, has EHR, making for a multidimensional moving playing field of competing and often incompatible technologies.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: mHealth
Shanna Crispin, e-Health Insider
“New research has found that more than 4% of electronic prescriptions written by general practitioners contain errors.
Researchers from Reading University have been studying prescription data from 15 general practices over the past 18 months and are on the verge of publishing the results.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tags: e-prescribing, GP, Medication Errors, summary-care-records
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“As previous studies have shown, a new survey conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association, which puts on the big Consumer Electronics Show (CES) each year, has found that 36 percent of consumers are interested in using wireless health technologies to better communicate with their physicians.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Applications, mHealth, phr
