David Lee Scher, mHIMSS
“Medicine as an establishment is known to adopt significant changes slowly, whether it relates to practice itself, new technologies or other practice tools or the emergence and acceptance of new specialties. This may be due to divergence of clinical opinions, economic considerations or an inherent skepticism of physicians.
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Stephen M. Stewart, H&HN Daily
“I had the great pleasure of working with a CNO who, before retiring recently, shared some valuable information and insight with me. She always said, “If you want us nurses to get it, you have to ride the halls like Paul Revere and keep reminding us that the British are coming.
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texttochange
“The C4C program with Health Child targets pregnant women and the community in the Eastern region of Uganda, Jinja. There are still high rates of child mortality at 147 per 1000 live births. The program uses a community based approach to reduce maternal and infant mortality in Uganda, accelerating uptake of post partum care and promotion child health including early infant HIV diagnosis.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“The problem with health IT policymakers and stakeholders is that they are dedicated to the idea that effective, widespread use of IT can lead to a healthier population.
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Roberta, HitechAnswers
“Kicking off National Health IT Week, the ONC and HHS streamed its Consumer Health IT Summit live on line yesterday. Secretary Sebelius, ONC Mostashari, Surgeon General Benjamin, CMS Director Berwick, OCR Director Rodriguez, US CTO, Chopra, and HHS CTO Park circled the wagons and showed us the commitment there is to Health IT, patient information access, and patient awareness.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Asiacell, an Iraqi telecommunications company, announced this week the launch of a mobile health content download and SMS service, according to AMEinfo.com. The new service is part of a larger initiative by Asiacell for spreading health awareness throughout the Iraqi community.
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Lee ML, Dey AK. Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems, 2011
Older adults often struggle with maintaining self-aware of their ability to carry out everyday activities important for independence. Unobtrusive sensors embedded in the home can monitor how older adults interact with objects around the home and can provide objective accounts of behaviors to support self-awareness. In this paper, we describe the design and four month deployment of a prototype sensing system that tracks medication taking and phone use in the homes of two older adults.
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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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El cuaderno de bitácora de Fran Sánchez
“A veces nos cuesta ver la realidad desde el punto de vista de los demás y corremos el peligro de tender a pensar que todo el mundo está en nuestra misma onda y que entiende las cosas como nosotros las entendemos.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Healthcare organizations are constantly making upgrades or replacing redundant technology, but what happens to these orphaned IT systems and the data on them? More importantly do companies even know what data is stored on these assets?
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Bratan T et al, Health Expectations, 13(4)
BACKGROUND
The introduction of electronic patient records that are accessible by multiple providers raises security issues and requires informed consent – or at the very least, an opportunity to opt out. Introduction of the Summary Care Record (SCR) (a centrally stored electronic summary of a patient’s medical record) in pilot sites in the UK was associated with low awareness, despite an intensive public information programme that included letters, posters, leaflets, and road shows. AIM To understand why the public information programme had limited impact and to learn lessons for future programmes.
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Arielle Levin Becker, CT Mirror
“Say you end up in the emergency room. It’s not connected to your doctor’s office and you don’t have a list of the medications you’re on.
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Sahiel Shah, Penn-Olson
“In a bid to create awareness and educate people on health related topics, Agarwal’s Eye Hospital has created presence on Facebook, Twitter & Youtube. Their plans are interesting. The hospital will disseminate information on eye care, common ailments, innovative treatments and research.
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PAHO
“People throughout the Caribbean will soon be receiving text messages with tips on how to be healthier and prevent diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Through social networks, they’ll also be able to share their personal stories and ideas about healthy living, thanks to a campaign launched today by the Healthy Caribbean Coalition.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Remote patient monitoring, or telehealth, has taken huge strides forward, with demand for this technology on the rise – especially among home-care agencies, disease management companies and clinical trial groups, according to a new report from market research firm Frost & Sullivan.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“A number of consumer-focused surveys have been conducted gauging patient or consumer views of EMRs. The latest one, by NORC at the University of Chicago, an independent research organization, says 78 percent of Americans favor the use of EMRs.
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Laurie Orlov, Aging In Place Technology Watch
“National Alliance for Caregiving’s study — very revealing. In January, NAC published a report sponsored by United Healthcare which surveyed how caregivers view technology.
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Whitten P et al, J Telemed Telecare, 17(1)
We examined 62 telehealth websites using four assessment criteria: design, literacy, information and telehealth content. The websites came from the member list of the American Telemedicine Association and the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth and partner sites, and were included if they were currently active and at least three clicks deep. Approximately 130 variables were examined for each website by two independent researchers.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
The only way for improving our citizens health status is to prevent diseases by engaging citizens to improving their lifestyle, to set up dedicated preventive programs to citizens at risk due to individual or family dispositions, to improve quality and safety of citizens if becoming patients, to optimize the care process towards higher efficiency, to optimize aftercare and rehabilitation. Such program requires a comprehensive view on health, optimal collaboration and cross-fertilization between the different health services and the multidisciplinary domains they represent. Such a comprehensive and interdisciplinary health services approach doesn’t work without the application of advanced technology.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
Here you can find my presentation (text and slides) at the Medicine 2.0′10 Conference in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC, 30 November 2010
