Brian Dunham, Cardiovascular Business
“A highly functional EHR can facilitate better care by providing complete, accurate and up-to-date information for patients and physicians. But realizing such improvements requires the involvement of physicians who actively engage patients in the information gathering process.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Electronic health records will become the norm, sooner than later, experts said at a summit hosted Friday by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Physicians might not realize it, but how they and their staffs use an electronic medical record system could open themselves up to accusations of fraud or misrepresentation.
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VSR
“Mobile health (mHealth) is becoming more of a reality as medical practices increasingly embrace mobile technologies, according to a new study by CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry.
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Amanda Buie, Healthcare IT Solutions
“The push for electronic health records (EHRs) kicked into high gear in 2010 when providers spent a record breaking $88.6 billion on health IT initiatives based in adopting EHRs. While many are cheering on the movement, others are more hesitant as security concerns emerge.
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Sachin Joshi, Business Standards
“If the country has the dubious distinction of having one doctor for every 15,000 people, low-cost telemedicine model Remote Healthcare Delivery Solutions is set to bridge the great Indian healthcare divide.
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Al-Dorzi HM et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 11
Background
Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems are recommended to improve patient safety and outcomes. However, their effectiveness has been questioned. Our objective was to evaluate the impact of CPOE implementation on the outcome of critically ill patients.
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Mistry H. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2011
A systematic review of studies of the cost-effectiveness of telemedicine and telecare was undertaken from 1990 until September 2010. Twelve databases were searched, using economic evaluation terms combined with telemedicine terms. The search identified 80 studies which were classed as full economic evaluations; the majority (38) were cost-consequence analyses. There were 15 cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA) and seven cost-utility analyses (CUA).
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le monde de la e-santé
“Les blogs apparus dans les années 90, sont aussi très présents dans le domaine de la santé. Michel Legros, dans son étude sur les blogs personnels sur la santé[1], estime que la proportion est de 2 à 3% des blogs personnels traitant de la santé et de la maladie.
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Legros M. Santé Publique, 21(hs2)
Having first emerged in the 1990s, online blogs had developed significantly by 2004, reaching an estimated 30 to 40 million in France. While they are particularly active in literary, technical and political fields, the authors of blogs are also active in the realm of healthcare. The object of this paper is to provide an assessment of roughly 2 to 3 per thousand of those personal blogs which focus on health and illness.
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Wes Rishel, Gartner
“Nothing warms a blogger’s heart more than to get meaningful comments to a post. In Semantic Interop, the C32 and the Consolidated CDA I described the results of the biggest U.S. experience to date to achieve semantic interoperability among EHRs with different data architectures.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
3gdoctor, mHealth Insight
“The core of his proposition is that smartphone communications are rapidly emerging as the next mass medium as the main source of information for people in the way that the internet supplanted television, which supplanted cinema, which supplanted radio, which supplanted newspapers.
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Peter Igneri, Physicians Practice
“As the U.S. moves towards the implementation of EHRs at its hospitals, private practices, and clinics, finding enough talent on the bench at EHR consultants and companies will become increasingly difficult. There are simply not a large number of people that have the experience to get all hospitals up on an EHR before the impending federal dis-incentives kick in. Hospital and healthcare organizations look to in-house talent for energetic and accomplished people to “staff the project.”
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le monde de la e-santé
“Internet a dans le domaine de la santé, trouvé toute son efficacité, auprès de ceux qui au départ n’avaient pas ou peu de moyens de s’informer sur un traitement, des symptômes, ou plus généralement concernant l’actualité médicale.
Par le biais des espaces de discussions que peuvent être les forums ou les blogs, le web et vite devenu le « compagnon » du grand public pour les questions de santé.
En effet, 7 jours sur 7, 24 heures sur 24, il permet à chacun de répondre à un manque d’information, à une inquiétude liée à l’accompagnement d’un proche, ou même pour trouver quelque réconfort face à une maladie.
Puis de la recherche d’information, on est vite passé au besoin de s’exprimer, d’échanger ses craintes et ses espoirs, voir ses opinions sur les traitements prescrits et les diagnostics.”
Article (French)
le monde de la e-santé, 18 November 2011
Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“In its 65th Interim Meeting in New Orleans, the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates voted to vigorously oppose implementing ICD-10 across health care, as mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). AMA leadership will now assess just how it will try to stop the new disease coding set, scheduled to replace ICD-9 on Oct. 1, 2013.
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Navarro-Pérez J et al, Avances en Diabetología, 2011
Introduction
Optimising care for people with diabetes goes through the incorporation of information and communication technology to a chronic care model.
Objectives
To determine the development of electronic medical records related to diabetes in different regions of Spain.
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Waterson P et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2011
Purpose
The purpose of the study was to understand the preparations for the introduction of electronic patient record systems (EPRs) within the outpatient services department of a large acute hospital based in the UK. In particular, one of the main aims of the study was to examine in detail the likely impact of EPRs on the working practices of healthcare workers, their expectations regarding the impact of EPRs within the department and other sociotechnical aspects of the management of patient information.
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David Goldman, CNNMoney
“The ambitious goal of setting up a nationwide, interconnected, private and secure electronic health records system isn’t yet a reality — but we’re getting closer.
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Paul Roemer, HealthSystemCIO
“With EHRs in and going in, here is my take on what we may be facing. To keep the conversation as simple as possible, let us focus just on the EHR and — for the purpose of this discussion — set aside the discussion of Meaningful Use, Certification, and interoperability.
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