Acta Sanitaria
“Este estudio, de dos años de duración, fue realizado en tres lugares diferentes del Reino Unido y financiado por el Departamento de Salud. Conocido como WSD, busca proporcionar una base científica para la adopción de las tecnologías de telemonitorización, lo que podría aliviar la creciente carga financiera de la atención hospitalaria a enfermos crónicos.
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Baldwin G. Health Data Management Magazine, 19(8)
Deb Friesen, M.D., knows chronic disease up close and personal. The internist is also a devotee of electronic health records, and says that without one her job would be much more difficult than it already is. A member of the Kaiser Permanente’s Colorado Medical Group, she says that three-fourths of the patients in her internal medicine practice suffer from at least one chronic condition. “Diabetes is really common,” says Friesen, whose practice is located in Wheat Ridge, Col., a Denver suburb. “I also treat hypertension, obesity and back pain.” Left unchecked, such conditions can be debilitating, and patient involvement in their own care is critical, Friesen says.
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Gene Ostrovsky, MedGadget
“A new mattress developed by a spinoff company of Swiss institutes Empa and the ETH Zurich can gently turn a patient so as to prevent decubitus ulcers and help nurses avoid doing this difficult, and often unpleasant, task.
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Rosemann T et al, Swiss Medical Weekly, 2010
Background:
The importance of electronic medical records for the healthcare system is well documented. IT enables easy storage, communication and decision support and can provide important tools in the care of chronically ill patients in the form of a reminder system.
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HealthTech Wire
“Nine European regions have teamed up to run one of the largest ever telemedicine trials, the Renewing Health large-scale pilot project. By February 1, 2011, all regions will have gone live. The aim is to generate data for European healthcare systems so that telemedicine can be adopted as part of regular care for chronically ill patients.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Overall, health and medical apps grew by 66%. However, growth rates by categories vary: medication adherence, still a small category, was the single fastest-growing category of iPhone health apps between February and August 2010 growing by 131%, followed by three areas with similarly high growth rates in the 80s – EMR/operational, medical reference (a huge category of apps), and apps all-about-babies – prenatal and infant care.
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Landers SH. N Engl J Med, 2010
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Buffalo, New York, acutely ill patients have been sent out of the emergency department for hospital-like care at home. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Little Rock, Arkansas, home health agencies provide chronic care management services, emphasizing care coordination and support for patients’ management of their own conditions.
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Phillips K et al, Journal of Hospital Marketing & Public Relations, 20(3)
Long-term care (LTC) facilities possess unique characteristics in terms of implementation and utilization of electronic medical records (EMRs). The focus of LTC is on a population requiring care encompassing all aspects associated with quality of life rather than simply acute treatment. Because this focus is of a larger scale than traditional medical facilities, the priorities in the implementation and utilization of EMRs are higher in accessing patient history information.
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Zhou YY et al, Health Affairs, 29(7)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act identified secure patient-physician e-mail messaging as an objective of the meaningful use of electronic health records. In our study of 35,423 people with diabetes, hypertension, or both, the use of secure patient-physician e-mail within a two-month period was associated with a statistically significant improvement in effectiveness of care as measured by the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS).
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John W. Sharp, eHealth
“Accenture has published a report on “Connected How Technology Will Transform the Future of Chronic Care.” From the Accenture Innovation Center for Health, a good source for research white papers. The paper reports that “a broad range of consumer health electronics at home, a two-way, direct-to-consumer infrastructure” and smart devices which set the stage for health care connectivity.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“Patients who have access to their health information via an electronic personal health record know more about their health and take better care of themselves, according to the findings of a recent national health IT survey.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
“Digital Homecare, as defined in the first ICMCC book on the subject, is “a collection of services to deliver, maintain and improve care in the home environment using the latest ICT technology and devices”, covering aspects like assistive technology, telemedicine, mhealth, rehabilitation, aimed at elderly, chronic patients and/or handicapped people with the objective of improving efficiency and quality of care and life.
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Fernandopulle, Rushika, and Neil Patel, Health Affairs, 29(4)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 will soon provide billions of dollars to small physician practices nationwide to encourage adoption of electronic health records. Although shifting from paper to computers should lead to better and cheaper care, the transition is complex. In this paper we describe our struggles to adapt a commercial electronic health record to an innovative practice serving high-cost patients with chronic diseases.
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Accenture
“Focused on a growing aging population well-versed in technology, ”connected health“—continuous, remote monitoring of chronic conditions, as well as online and mobile care—will improve quality, contain costs and provide a new level of convenience for health consumers.
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Mohamoud S, Byrne C, Samarth A., AHRQ
As part of AHRQ’s mission to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans, the AHRQ National Resource Center (NRC) for Health IT provides technical assistance and conducts analysis and dissemination of results from project work funded in AHRQ’s health IT portfolio. The NRC team members developed this report summarizing the key challenges noted, solutions identified, and lessons learned by AHRQ funded projects implementing health IT in LTC settings.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Remote patient monitoring is among seven technologies with great potential to improve care of chronic conditions, reduce healthcare costs and maximize the independence of older adults, according to a study from the Center for Technology and Aging, an Oakland, CA-based public health research organization.
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Mario Gibbels, ICTZorg
“Zorg op afstand is een belangrijk middel om het dreigend arbeidstekort in de zorg het hoofd te bieden. Projecten voor zorg op afstand komen echter tot nu toe onvoldoende van de grond.
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Jessica Papay, HIN
“When we designed our medical home model, we conceptually built it with a four-story house in mind. On the first and second floors of our home, we have designed the services for a relatively healthy patient population. The patient profile for level two and level one floors is that they’re healthy, but they may have acute episodic illnesses.
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Howard Anderson, Health Data Management
“A new research report on care management for the chronically ill asserts that information technology is essential to controlling costs for these patients and improving their treatment.
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Federal Telemedicine News
“Many companies successfully exhibited at the ATA meeting held this week in Las Vegas.
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