Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“If you had to choose the one idea driving the HIT transition, it would probably be along the lines of, “Information is good, and more information is better.”
But is that always true?
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fllordachs, Una de Médicos
“Pocas cosas son tan polivalentes como la tecnología. Desde siempre, desde la rueda (que ha servido para mejorar la vida de las personas, pero también y en parte empeorarla: se podían hacer carros de guerra y transporte) o incluso antes (las herramientas de silex podían curtir la piel y a abatir animales o personas, para cocinarlas y zampárselas) el fin de la tecnología ha dependido de la mano que la usa. Lo cierto es que cuando las cosas van mal, todo el mundo ataca el arma como filosofía, cuando en realidad es el agresor el culpable de la misma.
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William Hersh, HitechAnswers
“Last winter, the informatics world was abuzz with a study published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine that found a lack of improvement in healthcare quality measures for patients whose physicians had adopted electronic health records (EHRs). However, as noted by a colleague and I in a follow-up letter to the editor, this study had a number of flaws.
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Gill Hitchcock, Guardian Professional
“Travelling by light aircraft, boat or a drive off-road might come as a pleasant change to city commuters, but for the Falkland Islands’ chief medical officer (CMO) it’s essential part of delivering health services.
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Healthlink Infosystems
“Many of the times it is very difficult to understand or get it right with the affordability of EMR’s. Is it only related with the cost??? Many will say- yes, because in many cases only the price is seen as a deciding factor, but at the same time it is also very important to understand the numerous benefits associated with it.
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chiscosayans, doctordoctor
“Detectar el nivel de azúcar en el aliento, un sistema que avisa a tu médico si no te tomas las pastillas, detectores de caídas… Aún son prototipos, pero avanzan el futuro de las alertas de salud en enfermos y personas dependientes.
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Sarah Kessler, Mashable
“When the first cases of swine flu were detected in the spring of 2009, Twitter helped to inflame the panic that spread well ahead of the disease. The idea that anything useful could be mined from the flood of tweets reacting to the nascent threat was widely dismissed.
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Adam Brimelow, BBC News
“Better use of information technology in England’s hospitals could help prevent 16,000 deaths a year, a report says.
University Hospitals Birmingham has recommended its system to the team investigating above-average death rates from 2005 to 2008 at Stafford Hospital.
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Ángel González, TICBeat
“Bajo el título “Construyendo fuertes vínculos en el sector de la salud mediante el diálogo, la conversación y la colaboración en la Web Social” Ideagoras convoca por tercer año consecutivo su conferencia que tendrá lugar en el Centro de Innovación del BBVA en Madrid el próximo día 17 de Noviembre.
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Krakoff LR. The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2011
Effective control of hypertension and the other cardiovascular risk factors has been dependent on primary medical care as provided by family practitioners and internists. The progressive reduction in availability of primary care for adult populations in the United States threatens the likelihood of better control of the risk factors and potential loss of opportunity for prevention of cardiovascular disease. Recent progress has been made in the use of home blood pressure monitoring for improvement in classification of risk for hypertensive patients. Several studies establish the feasibility of home pressure monitoring combined with telemedicine for improving control of hypertension. Some studies have explored the role of self-care for adjustment of medication, as well.
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“In the past, health care providers have often been puzzled by how best to optimize treatment for diabetes and improve diabetes self-management for patients. Now, with the exploding popularity of smartphones and increased Internet access, some might say: “There’s an app for that.”
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Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“Healthcare organizations have checked a lot of technologies off their to-do lists.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has awarded $25 million to help behavioral health organizations implement health IT to enable clinicians to access, manage, and monitor patient data.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Little over a month ago, IBM and WellPoint announced an agreement wherein WellPoint will deploy IBM’s latest and greatest super computer and artificial intelligence mega-mind Watson. Watson’s claim to fame was its ability to beat the human Jeopardy champions much like Big Blue beat reigning chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
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Stewart Segal, KevinMD
“The art of practicing medicine is dying, soon to be replaced by the art of template medicine.
Modern medicine is based on laudable terms: “quality,” “outcomes,” “cost effective,” and “evidence based medicine,” which all sound good when sold in infomercials to the medical world and public. When examined closely, all are vague and open to abuse.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“The eHealth Central prize for the most ironic ehealth news story of 2011 is almost certainly going to be picked up by The Australian for last week’s piece headed “Panic to meet Nicola Roxon’s ehealth deadline”
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Ashley Howland, HL7 Standards
“Social media will impact employee productivity. Next to patient privacy concerns, social media’s effect on workplace productivity is another widely debated topic.
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irishhealth.com
“A new ‘telemedicine’ clinic at Roscommon County Hospital allows patients to see their consultant without the doctor actually having to be there.
The first rheumatology telemedicine outpatient clinic was held in Roscommon last week.
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Bellina L, Missoni E. Health and Technology, 2011
As previously demonstrated, m-phones can be easily used, without any adapter, to photograph and send images from a microscope. The objective of the current study was to test the appropriateness and educational potential of this mobile diagnosis approach with health workers in limited-resource settings, such as health units in Uganda, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. A total of 61 lab technicians were trained in basic lab skills and in using the m-phone to capture microscopic images and send them to distant Reference Centers for a second opinion. Structured pre-test interviews were used to define parameters such as health workers’ sex and age, duty station, schooling, experience in the laboratory, access to internet and availability to and use of m-phones. Images from the microscope were also uploaded on the available computers and shared on the screen to facilitate group discussions and comparisons with reference images.
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Sheikh A et al, BMJ, 343
Objectives
To evaluate the implementation and adoption of the NHS detailed care records service in “early adopter” hospitals in England.
Design
Theoretically informed, longitudinal qualitative evaluation based on case studies.
Setting
12 “early adopter” NHS acute hospitals and specialist care settings studied over two and a half years.
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