Articles
Bob Morse, Times-Standard
“At long last, the health industry in slowly adopting technology on a large scale, moving to electronic documents, computer generated prescriptions, and information sharing. It’s been a rough road as standards and privacy issues have to be grappled with beyond the sheer technical problems. But the trade-offs in efficiency, accuracy and data gathering will be well worth the struggle. Mobile technology will play an increasing role in both institutional and personal health care advances.
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27 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Applications, Devices, mHealth
Krist AH et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 11(1)
Background
Evidence-based preventive services offer profound health benefits, yet Americans receive only half of indicated care. A variety of government and specialty society policy initiatives are promoting the adoption of information technologies to engage patients in their care, such as personal health records, but current systems may not utilize the technology’s full potential.
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27 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: phr, Preventive Care, Usability
Ken Spriggs, e-patients.net
“Dave deBronkart’s TED talk inspired me. I went on a “damn data” collection mission by ordering data from all the places where my Crohn’s disease had caught up to me. I ordered medical records, medical bills, insurance information, and pharmacy data.
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26 November 2011 | 1 Comment »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Data, visualisation
Robert L. Mitchell, Computerworld
“At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s day, Google Health, the personal health record data aggregation service for consumers, will shut down for good.
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26 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Failure, Google-Health, phr, Privacy
e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“What are we waiting for, people?? Imagine if doctors were able to access all of our records, or at least those of us who opt in, so your doctors (your kids’ doctors, your mom’s) can go beyond the limitations of peer reviewed literature – and provide better care. Make better use of their training and experience.
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26 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: evidence-based
Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times
“The emergency room at White Memorial Medical Center on Los Angeles’ Eastside was buzzing when paramedics arrived on a Friday night with an elderly man slurring his words and complaining of aching bones.
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26 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Hospitals
Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Hospitals that subscribe to widely used clinical knowledge support system UpToDate show modestly improved length of stay, mortality rates, and quality of care. A recent study suggests that hospitals that use the service do better on all these measures than those that don’t provide UpToDate to their physicians.
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26 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Hospitals, Knowledge Management
Isaac T et al, Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2011
BACKGROUND:
Computerized clinical knowledge mana-gement systems hold enormous potential for improving quality and efficiency. However, their impact on clinical practice is not well known.
OBJECTIVE:
To examine the impact of UpToDate on outcomes of care.
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26 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tags: Benefits, Hospitals, Knowledge Management
Ludwig W et al, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2011
Background
Services for the elderly based on health-enabling technologies promise to contribute significantly to the efficiency and effectiveness of future health care. Due to this promise, over the last years the scientific community has designed a complex variety of these valuable innovations. A systematic overview of the developed services would help to better understand their opportunities and limitations.
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25 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Ambient-Assisted-Living, e-Health, Elderly, Medical Informatics, Telecare, Telemedicine
Ekeland AG et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2011
Background and objectives
Previous reviews have expressed concerns about the quality of telemedicine studies. There is debate about shortcomings and appropriate methodologies. The aim of this review of systematic reviews of telemedicine is to summarize methodologies used in telemedicine research, discuss knowledge gaps and recommendations and suggest methodological approaches for further research.
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25 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tags: Telecare, Telemedicine
Cocosila M, Archer N. Electronic Markets, 2010
This research is an unbiased empirical evaluation of user reasons to accept or resist a mobile information and communication technology (ICT) application for health promotion. This innovative use of mobile ICT consists of developing services that educate people to stay healthy, with clear benefits for both individuals and society. Receiving customized health advice through mobile devices may be an attractive service. However, despite their ability to support users, mobile services may sometimes irritate by being too intrusive.
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25 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Canada | Tags: Education, Evaluation, mHealth
Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“The vigorous opposition to ICD-10 is really annoying. Not because I advocate incredibly specific medical codes, costly system upgrades and loss of medical coder productivity.
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24 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Data Mining, ICD-10, Implementation
Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“The big question mark about health information exchanges is whether they’ll be able to develop sustainable business models that allow them to survive after federal and state grants run out. Their long-term viability depends on financial support from healthcare providers, who must be convinced that HIEs are worth the money.
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24 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Costs, Health Information Exchange, Physicians
David Perera, FierceGovernmentIT
“One of the first actions the Veterans Affairs Department has undertaken since launching in August a central body dubbed the “custodial agent” to oversee open source electronic health record projects is to commission a study on how the code for its EHR system could be refactored, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker told reporters Nov. 23.
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24 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Coding
Gray BH et al, The Commonwealth Fund, Volume 28
Research has shown that the United States lags many other countries in the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs). The U.S. has now embarked on a major effort to achieve “meaningful use” of health information technology by clinicians and hospitals. This issue brief describes the extent of meaningful use in three countries with very high levels of health information technology adoption—Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden.
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24 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Denmark, New Zealand, Sweden, United States | EHR: EHR, EHR Denmark, EHR New Zealand, EHR Sweden, EHR USA | Tags: Meaningful Use
Ravi Mandalia, ITProPortal
“A new study about the use of IT in the healthcare industry has found that healthcare providers are adopting tablets and smartphones but, are not too keen towards cloud computing and video conferencing.
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24 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Cloud, tablet PC
John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“I’ve written about the increasing trend to Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) to work and the accountability it brings to the CIO.
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24 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Costs, Devices, Hospitals
PRNewswire
“DICOM Grid, today announced the release of AccessMyImages.com, a Personal Health Record (PHR) for medical imaging. This allows the patient to have control of their diagnostic images and reports through a secure web application and eliminates the time and costs associated with generating imaging CDs or film.
Patients who have to access resources at multiple healthcare facilities can easily participate in their care, without concerns over transporting CDs or film. This enables better continuity of care at a lower cost for hospitals and healthcare chains.
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24 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: dicom, Imaging
Maria Chappelle-Nadal, St. Louis American
“Throughout all of the debates and disagreements associated with healthcare reform, one idea is universal throughout the political field – each side wants to improve the quality of medicine and decrease the associated costs. Missouri is no different.
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24 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Interoperability, Semantic, Sustainability, Transparency
Brita Van Fossen, Health IT Pulse
“In recent weeks, the idea of collaboration has been fresh on the minds of health care leaders. The accountable care organizations (ACO) model, recently discussed at length at the Partners Healthcare Connected Health Symposium 2011, endorses the idea of collaborative care and communication among primary care providers, emergency service providers and patients themselves.
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24 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: ACO, Engagement, Health Information Exchange, Health Information Technology, Patient, phr, Platform, Telemedicine
