Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“The 1st Annual HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey, released on Monday, finds that almost all respondents have accessed clinical information through a mobile device. But just 38 percent of them report having a policy in place that regulates the devices’ use.
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Acute
“The government wants to change the NHS Constitution so that patient information is automatically included in clinical research.
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e-Health-com News
“Der Basis-Rollout ist aus technischer Sicht abgeschlossen. Das erklärten die Vertreter der Spitzenverbände im Gesundheitswesen jetzt auf der 37. Gesellschafterversammlung der gematik in Berlin. Der größte Teil der Arzt- und Zahnarztpraxen und Krankenhäuser verfüge über Kartenterminals zum Einlesen der neuen Karte.
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Kesselheim AS et al, Health Affairs, 30(12)
Clinical decision support systems—interactive computer systems that help doctors make clinical choices—can reduce errors in drug prescribing by offering real-time alerts about possible adverse reactions. But physicians and other users often suffer “alert fatigue” caused by excessive numbers of warnings about items such as potentially dangerous drug interactions. As a result, they may pay less attention to or even ignore some vital alerts, thus limiting these systems’ effectiveness.
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Jean DerGurahian, SearchHealthIT
“Radiologists might sometimes wonder if they’re operating in a health care vacuum. As federal initiatives and health IT lead to greater integration of the care delivery system, and health information exchange (HIE) initiatives means more providers are communicating, though, that sense will change.
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Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“Healthcare organizations are working to encourage patients to get engaged in their healthcare data, in part by making Personal Health Records more user-friendly.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Though recently published, the data in this study were from a decade of observation up through 2008. What we have seen since 2008 has been very significant uptake of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems
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News-Medical
“A new pilot study is getting underway in Rhode Island aimed at improving depression in nursing home rehabilitation patients, all through telemedicine. Geriatric mental health specialists from Rhode Island and The Miriam hospitals will work with patients in the Evergreen House Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in East Providence to test the program.
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Coiera E et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 19(1)
There is a paradox in the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and patient safety. ICT can improve the quality, safety and effectiveness of clinical services and patient outcomes, although the evidence base for this is sometimes weak. As a consequence, the rapid deployment of ICT on a national scale is a priority for many nations faced with a diminishing clinical workforce, increasing workloads, and resource constraints.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, The Health Care Blog
“Obviously, EHRs will prove to be the heart, brain and circulatory system, of the health care industry. As we speak, EHRs are increasingly being tasked with care coordination activities (not to be confused with continuity of care, or longitudinal care), which are the precursor to the industrial line controller.
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Daniel Essin, Physicians Practice
“With ICD-10 there are over 148,000 codes so you would think that there must be a “code for that” — one that fits the patient’s problem. Again, no such luck. Sometimes there is a code that fits precisely, sometimes it’s close and often there simply isn’t any code that accurately describes your patient.
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Darrell Etherington, GigaOm
“The iPad has been a success for Apple in business, apparently in spite of Apple’s lackadaisical approach to promoting its products directly to enterprise customers. But there’s a specific vertical market where the company is clearly making a concerted effort to promote professional adoption of the iPad: medicine.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Pulmonologist Scott Manaker, MD, PhD, said that when elderly patients come for their first visits and are accompanied by family members, he begins the conversations with the relatives by determining when and how he can share information about the patients’ health.
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Michael, Mobile Marketing Watch
“A new iPad app is being hailed as major advancement for mHealth, particularly with regard to how certain patient procedures can be tracked and monitored by doctors, medical staff, and the patient’s own family and loved ones.
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Adrienne Burke, Forbes
“Self-obsessed citizen scientists who use gadgets like the FitBit and Up by Jawbone to track their own health data and engage in group experiments online have piqued media interest of late. Now a doctor has endorsed the power of this emerging trend.
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Acute
“Privacy groups say a government plan to share anonymised NHS data with commercial companies will herald the “death of patient confidentiality”.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“Last week, Don Berwick completed his 17 month tenure as administrator of Medicare and Medicaid. The nation should be grateful that such a visionary was at the helm. The nation should frustrated that he was never confirmed.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“The shift to cloud computing has exposed a series of worrisome dichotomies in healthcare, an industry that handles sensitive data and thus has unique privacy requirements.
Consider the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), which supports a largely mobile workforce of more than 14,000 healthcare providers.
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“The future of mHealth is bright, according to West Wireless Health Institute vice chairman Eric Topol, who spoke this week at the opening keynote of the 2011 mHealth Summit. “This is a most momentous moment in medicine,” he told the gathered audience.
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“As obesity increasingly becomes a worldwide epidemic, especially within children and adolescent populations, solutions to the problem are poised to become a major focus within mHealth.
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