Asthma
Deschildre A et al, The European Respiratory Journal, 2011
Some children with severe asthma develop frequent exacerbations despite intensive treatment. we sought to assess the outcome (severe exacerbations and health-care use, lung function, quality of life, maintenance treatment) of a strategy based on daily home spirometry with teletransmission to an expert medical centre and wether it differs from that of a conventional strategy. 50 children with severe uncontrolled asthma were enrolled in a 12-month prospective study and randomized into two groups: treatment managed with daily home spirometry and medical feedback (HM) and conventional treatment (CT).
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29 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: France | Tag(s): Asthma, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
rteston, Buzz e-sante
“L’association Asthme & Allergies a annoncé le lancement d’un site communautaire autour de l’asthme sévère : asthmatiic.org. Présentation.
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2 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: France | Tag(s): Asthma, Online Communities
BACKGROUND:
Telehealthcare has the potential to provide care for long-term conditions that are increasingly prevalent, such as asthma. We conducted a systematic review of studies of telehealthcare interventions used for the treatment of asthma to determine whether such approaches to care are effective.
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9 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Asthma, Telehealth, Telemedicine
Hsiao AL et al, Pediatrics, 127(2)
BACKGROUND
Although e-mail may be an efficient clinician-patient communication tool, standard e-mail is not adequately secure to meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) guidelines. For this reason, firewall-secured electronic messaging systems have been developed for use in health care. Impact and usability of these secure systems have not been broadly assessed.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the impact of a secure electronic messaging system implemented for a pediatric subspecialty clinic.
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28 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Asthma, Children, Communication, e-Mail, Physician-Patient Relationship
Petrie KJ et al, British Journal of Health Psychology, 2011
Objective.
While effective preventative medication is readily available for asthma, adherence is a major problem due to patients’ beliefs about their illness and medication. We investigated whether a text message programme targeted at changing patients’ illness and medication beliefs would improve adherence in young adult asthma patients.
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17 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Adherence, Asthma, Medication, SMS
Juhn Y et al, Primary Care Respiratory Journal, 20(1)
OBJECTIVE
To characterise the relationship between ICD code-based (i.e. physician diagnosis-based) and criteria-based asthma ascertainment.
METHODS
We compared identification of children with asthma between criteria-based medical record review for asthma ascertainment and an ICD-9 code-based approach. We determined the agreement rate and validity index of ICD code-based asthma ascertainment using asthma status by medical record review as a gold standard.
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13 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Asthma, Children, Coding, emr, Risk Assessment
Kalra D, Fernando B. Primary Care Respiratory Journal, 20(1)
In the linked paper entitled “Characterisation of children’s asthma status by ICD-9 code and criteria-based medical record review”, the authors have observed a discrepancy between the presence of clinical features compatible with the diagnosis of asthma in children’s hospital electronic health records and the tagging of the record with a corresponding classification code.
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13 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Asthma, Children, Coding, Primary Care
HealthCanal
“Text messaging and adolescents don’t always mix well, but researchers at National Jewish Health hope text messages can spur teenagers to take their asthma medications more reliably.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adherence, Adolescents, Asthma, Chronic Diseases, Medication, mHealth, SMS
Theera-Ampornpunt N et al, AMIA, Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2009
A patient’s prior clinical information available electronically can be helpful during the care process, particularly in the emergency department (ED). The effect of such information on quality and efficiency of ED patient care has not been adequately studied. This study uses secondary data to investigate its impact on surrogate measures of care quality and efficiency among 6,143 congestive heart failure, diabetic, and asthmatic patients in 3 EDs.
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1 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Asthma, Chronic Diseases, Chronic Heart Failure, Diabetes, emergency
Fiona Graham, BBC News
“Nativo Mira Esplugues is an active 85-year-old from Delta del Ebro, near Barcelona in Spain. He is recovering after having had a total knee replacement.
This is serious surgery, with a long recovery time. Nevertheless the wound is healing nicely, and he was discharged from hospital after just a week.
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27 December 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain, UK | Tag(s): Asthma, Digital Homecare, mHealth, Monitoring
Barbara L. Massoudi, Murrey G. Olmsted, Project HealthDesign
“For patients using our smartphone application for collecting and tracking ODLs, lately the team has been wrestling with the question of how long to run the intervention.
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1 November 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Asthma, mHealth, ODL
rteston, Buzz e-sante
“L’association Asthme et Allergies lance une nouvelle plateforme interactive pour permettre aux patients et à leur entourage de s’exprimer sur les différents aspects de la maladie.
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17 October 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: France | Tag(s): Asthma, ODL, Patient, Platform
Ano Lobb, Justmeans
“We often bemoan the fact that health IT is a cobbled-together system: Different departments may use different systems within a single hospital. Hospitals may have different IT protocols than other entities within a larger health care organization. Your family doctor may still have a paper-based system, and none of these systems are guaranteed to talk to each other.
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12 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Asthma, Chronic Heart Failure, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
Prabhakaran L et al, J Telemed Telecare, 16(5)
We have evaluated the feasibility of using the mobile phone short message service (SMS) for symptom monitoring in patients with asthma. All consecutive patients admitted to hospital for asthma during an 11-month period were considered for enrolment (n = 497). Those meeting the inclusion criteria were randomized into a control (n = 60) and intervention group (n = 60). Patients in the intervention group received SMS messages according to a structured workflow, while patients in the control group had no SMS support. In the intervention group, the mean response rate to the messages was 82%.
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11 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Singapore | Tag(s): Asthma, Cellphone, Evaluation, SMS, Telemedicine
Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“NIH awarded a five year $2.2 million grant to the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) to explore whether school-based telemedicine sessions can help students in rural areas control their asthma. As the most common chronic childhood disease, asthma disproportionally affects minority and low income children and is especially difficult to treat children living a distance from specialists.
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13 June 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Asthma, ECG, Students, Telemedicine
VenaPatient
“Cool medical technology demo, where the bluetooth-based Vena platform seemlessly connects an asthma inhaler to web-based applications. This will make the connected patient a reality!”
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25 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Video | Tag(s): Asthma, Health Information Technology, Networks, Patient Centric
AHRQ Innovations Exchange
“San Mateo Medical Center distributed mobile phones with customized disease management software to young asthma patients, allowing them to communicate with and receive real-time feedback from providers on at least a daily basis. The communication focuses on how to better manage asthma on an ongoing basis, with the goal of reducing exacerbations that might lead to costly acute episodes.
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9 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Asthma, Cellphone, Communication, Compliance, Disease Management, mHealth
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Application developer company Ringful announced that its newest application, Asthma Journal, is now available for the iPhone platform.
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10 August 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Asthma, Google-Health, mHealth, phr
Bradley Kreit, Health Horizons
“Arizona public health researchers are looking into updating asthma patients about environmental pollution through Twitter, Facebook and other social networking platforms.
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6 May 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Alert/Reminder, Asthma, Social Media
“GP system supplier EMIS is to begin the roll-out of an online consultation service it has developed with a GP practice in Cheshire.
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15 January 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tag(s): Asthma, Diabetes, e-consult, Online Services
