Report
BPC
“Health information technology (IT) plays a critical role in supporting new models of care and payment that are designed to achieve health care’s triple aim: improve health, improve the experience of care for patients and families, and reduce the cost of care. Despite the introduction of IT to nearly every other aspect of modern life, the U.S. health care system remains largely paper-based. Greater use of health IT enjoys bipartisan support.
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7 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Engagement, Health Information Exchange, Incentives, Privacy, Security
KNMG
“Het Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport (hierna: VWS) heeft KPMG gevraagd een zogenaamde quick scan uit te voeren om inzicht te krijgen in de stand van zaken, de belangrijkste aandachtspunten en de ontwikkelingen ten aanzien van de invoering van elektronische informatie- uitwisseling/EPD’s in zes landen in Europa.
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7 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, UK | EHR: EHR
TECchannel
“Virtualisierung und die Service-basierte Bereitstellung von IT-Anwendungen und Storage bilden auch im Gesundheitswesen die IT-Basistechnologien. Mit diesen erreicht man funktionale, operative und geschäftliche Effizienz.
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24 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: Europe | EHR: EHR | Tags: Efficiency, Health Information Technology, Implementation, Virtualization
Patricia Mechael, Nadi Kaonga, Hima Batavia, Lilia Perez-Chavolla, WHO
“For the first time the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) has sought to determine the status of mHealth in Member States; its 2009 global survey contained a section specifically devoted to mHealth. Completed by 114 Member States, the survey documented for analysis four aspects of mHealth: adoption of initiatives, types of initiatives, status of evaluation, and barriers to implementation.
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6 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Tags: mHealth
Christine Zhenwei Qiang, Masatake Yamamichi, Vicky Hausman and Daniel Altman
“M-health—the use of mobile applications for healthcare—is a young and dynamic field that could improve the well-being of people around the world. Mobile applications can lower costs and improve the quality of healthcare as well as shift behavior to strengthen prevention, all of which can improve health outcomes over the long term. As an intersection of health, technology, and finance, m-health is also a complex industry where it can be difficult to develop sustainable business models.
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6 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Tags: mHealth
Department of Health
“The Whole System Demonstrator programme was set up by the Department of Health to show just what telehealth and telecare is capable of.
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12 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: UK | Tags: Benefits, Telecare, Telehealth, Telemedicine
The Bellagio eHealth Evaluation Group
“Addressing global health challenges requires a sound understanding of the different social, political, economic and environmental factors influencing complex health systems, and exploring appropriate and innovative means to treat disease and promote individual and public health. eHealthcan help realize health gains and contribute toward transformational health system changewhenpolicies and implementationsare informed by rigorous and focused evaluation.
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27 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Tags: e-Health, Evaluation
Larry Ozeran, Mark R. Anderson, ACGroup
“Health Information Technology (HIT) has a history dating back almost 50 years to its origins in bioinformatics. The earliest HIT pioneers considered how best to encode and store information about patient treatment, but were limited primarily to basic science research projects or managing patients in their own institutions.
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Legal, Liability
Cristiano Codagnone, Ioannis Maghiros, David Broster, Francisco Lupiañez, Maria Lluch, JRC
“This report contains the main findings of the scoping and exploratory research carried out in the course of 2010 by the SIMPHS research team (part of the TIESC Action within the Information Society Unit at IPTS1) on the broadly defined issue of assessing the micro and macro impact of Integrated Personal Health and Social Care Services (IPHS, see infra § 1.1 for the definition). SIMPHS, which stands for Strategic Intelligence Monitor of Personal Health Systems, is a three-year project collaboration between IPTS and Unit H1 (ICT for Health) of the European Commission’s Directorate General Information Society.
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4 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: Europe | Tags: Chronic Diseases, Chronic Heart Failure, COPD, Diabetes, Personal Health Systems, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
Nielsen
“Social media’s popularity continues to grow, connecting people with just about everything they watch and buy.
The latest Nielsen insights provide some answers on exactly how powerful this influence is on consumer behavior, both online and off.
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18 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | Tags: Social Media
Michael L. Popovich, Deborah Allwes, STC
“Despite the promise of better healthcare through information-centric patient empowerment, little progress has been made. The issue is not that the data do not exist in a useable form, or that technologies that would enable access to this information are lacking. There are two primary challenges standing in the way of patient empowerment: (1) in the private sector there is no proven revenue model for providing this access, and (2) in the public sector the standard barrier is confidentiality of information, the possibility of misinterpretation, and existing policies.
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15 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Empowerment, Immunization
Mary Modahl, Lea Tompsett, Tracey Moorhead, QuantiaMD
“Physicians are highly engaged with online networks and social media. Nearly 90% of physicians use at least one site for personal use, and over 65% for professional purposes. Overall, clinicians express significant interest in the potential applications of social media to their professions – whether via online physician communities, online patient communities or sites that could facilitate physician-patient interactions.
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11 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | Tags: Online Communities, Patient, Physicians, Social Media
Kathy Drayton, Karen Robinson, DH
“The NHS currently spends more than £11bn every year on community services, yet on the whole community services have not received the same support for the modernisation of working practices that has been afforded to the primary and secondary care domains.
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28 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: UK | Tags: mHealth
UnitedHealth Group
“Why produce a paper on rural health care? First, because it’s a topic that affects many millions of people. Indeed, if rural America were its own country, its population would be larger than nearly 90 percent of the world’s nations. And second, because although rural communities face many of the same challenges as the rest of America, they also face some unique ones — particularly when it comes to health and health care.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | Tags: Rural, Telemedicine
eHealth Initiative
“Electronic health records (EHRs) are considered an essential ingredient of care coordination by Medical Homes; however, detailed descriptions of how it actually happens in real life are rarely found. eHealth Initiative, working with sanofi-aventis and Health & Technology Vector (H&TV), recently concluded an exploratory project to understand how eHRs can be used to improve care coordination for complex patients.
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20 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Care Coordination, Patient Centric
Andrew Corbett-Nolan, John Bullivant, Martin Green, Michael Parker, Good Governance Institute
“This report is part of a growing series of reports developed by the Good Governance Institute that consider issues contributing to the better governance of healthcare organisations. We would especially like to thank Tunstall Healthcare (UK) Limited for making available by an educational grant the resources to enable this report to be developed and distributed as well as the many colleagues working in healthcare who have who have contributed ideas and input and helped review the report.
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11 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: UK | Tags: Implementation, Lifestyle, Telehealth, Telemedicine
CSC
“Healthcare reform in dozens of countries, including France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Chile, Canada, Taiwan, China and the United States, is generating dramatically new approaches to care delivery. Although the details and the level of maturity of the efforts differ across countries, the overall trends are universal: they reflect the need to contain costs while improving access and care quality, to overcome a shortage of providers, and to take care of a growing sicker and ageing population.
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5 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Tags: Telemedicine
WHO
“Only five years ago who would have imagined that today a woman in sub-Saharan Africa could use a mobile phone to access health information essential to bringing her pregnancy safely to term? Mobile phones are now the most widely used communication technology in the world. They continue to spread at an exponential rate – particularly in developing countries. This expansion provides unprecedented opportunities to apply mobile technology for health. How are mobile devices being used for health around the world?
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7 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Tags: mHealth
Susannah Fox, Pew Internet
“The internet has changed people’s relationships with information. Our data consistently show that doctors, nurses, and other health professionals continue to be the first choice for most people with health concerns, but online resources, including advice from peers, are a significant source of health information in the U.S.
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17 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | Tags: Awareness, Broadband, Health Information, Internet, Search
Jodi Simon, California HealthCare Foundation
“The use of health information technology (HIT), defined as the software used to store, retrieve, share, and use clinical information effectively, has been growing within the state of California. HIT tools have the potential to reduce errors and adverse clinical events, and to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care. However, significant progress remains before these benefits can be fully realized.
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11 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: CPOE, Decision Support, e-prescribing, Health Information Technology, Hospitals, Implementation, Physicians
