Forbes
“Mobile devices are proving instrumental for a growing number of healthcare professionals. Smartphones and tablets are progressing beyond ways for doctors and nurses to check in during a busy day, and becoming part of the very fabric of healthcare delivery.
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Eileen Shepherd, Nursing Times
“The Queen’s Nursing Institute has launched a new drive to encourage district nurses to make the best use of new communications technology such as telehealth systems. A report published by the institute said some district nursing teams had already made significant changes to their practice as a result of new technology but others lagged behind.
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“With an increased emphasis on patient access to their own health data, electronic health system vendors are offering patient portals to their offerings, according to an article published by the Healthcare Billing Management Association (HBMA).
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Carrington JM, Effken JA. Computers Informatics Nursing, 29(6)
The purpose of this research was to compare nurses’ perceptions of the strengths and limitations of the electronic health record with and without nursing languages for documenting and retrieving patient information regarding a clinical event. The effectiveness of the electronic health record to facilitate nurse-to-nurse communication is not well understood. Furthermore, little is known how nurse-to-nurse communication influences patient safety and failure-to-rescue events.
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Vedel I et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2011
Given the increasing prevalence of multimorbidity in primary care (PC), interdisciplinary PC teams supported by appropriate clinical information systems (CIS) are needed in order to deal with the complexity of multimorbid patients’ care. Our team has developed such a system, called the Da Vinci system. However, despite the expected benefits, evidence suggests generally low rates of CIS adoption. To optimize adoption in PC settings, a better understanding of the implementation process of such systems is crucial.
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Cole Petrochko, MedPage Today
“As physicians and other health professionals become more savvy in ways of the digital universe, many of them like what they have found but want more, especially more seamless information exchange between hospital records and physician practice-based electronic health records.
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Vest JR, Miller TR. Applied Clinical Informatics, 2(4)
Objective:
Health information exchange (HIE) is the interorganizational sharing of patient information and is one of many health information technology initiatives expected to transform the U.S. healthcare system. Two outcomes expected to be improved by HIE are patient-provider communication and patient satisfaction . This analysis examined the relationship between the level of HIE engagement and these two factors in a sample of U.S. hospitals.
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Davis Giardina T, Singh H. JAMA. 2011
In the outpatient setting, between 8% and 26% of abnormal test results, including those suspicious for malignancy, are not followed up in a timely manner. Despite the use of electronic health records (EHRs) to facilitate communication of test results, follow-up remains a significant safety challenge.
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ePractice EU
“The Strategy contains a foreword by the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy, and sets out the Scottish Government’s vision for eHealth in 2017. The strategy is ambitious; it has the citizen at its centre; and seeks to build on the significant progress that was made collectively over the course of the last three years.
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Heike Unverhau, Health Care meets Social Media
“Sind auch Sie ein ePatient? Wenn sie Informationen zu Gesundheitsthemen online abrufen, dann gehören auch Sie zu der immer grösser werdenden Gruppe an Menschen, die in Ergänzung zu den klassischen Informationsmedien auch im Internet nach Informationen über Krankheiten und Behandlungsmethoden suchen.
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Cory Schultz, iMedicalApps
“The number of consumers who are willing to communicate with their physicians via wireless devices is on the rise. A recent study from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) corroborates this.
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Plus91
“A large part of managing a patient over a long period of time is communicating with the patient. All old (follow up) cases in medical practices have niche requirements and expectations from their doctors. A satisfied patient is a doctor’s most powerful marketing asset. Healthcare professionals should strive to provide all old (follow up) cases with special features to improve quality of service, which in turn will increase the Patient Satisfaction Index.
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Felasfa Wodajo, iMedicalApps
“As we discussed in the first of this two part series, mobile devices are already entering the world of the surgeon. Currently, it is mostly downloadable apps that promise to help surgeons with the informational portions of their tasks, such as tracking the cases they have done, e.g. Surgichart or helping in the consent process, e.g. Surgery Risk
While apps that are dedicated to the technical aspects of surgery, such as the excellent AO Surgery Reference, are becoming available, in the future we will see the iPad (or its brethren) actually in the operating room.
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Taneva S et al, Health and Technology, 2011
With the goal to achieve a better understanding of the challenges to communication technology adoption in the clinical setting, we conducted intensive observations of activities of clinical and administrative staff in a large teaching hospital’s surgical unit prior to and 8-months post-implementation of an electronic whiteboard communication tool (eWhiteboard). The hospital IT department developed the e-Whiteboard for the support of inter-team coordination of patient status within the surgical flow. After the system had been integrated into the work process for 8 months, we conducted another round of intensive observations. The RATE data collection platform was utilized in both studies. Data were coded and analyzed quantitatively. Qualitative observational notes complemented the statistical results. We compared the pre- and post-implementation observational data with regard to communication load, types of coordination breakdowns, triggers, and consequences. Additionally, a questionnaire on perceived usefulness of the eWhiteboard was administered.
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Brita Van Fossen, Health IT Pulse
“With so much discussion surrounding the achievement of meaningful use, electronic health record (EHR) implementation and the consequent ability to produce a more patient-centered environment, it’s easy to lose sight of the reality of the situation.
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Wu R te al, J Med Internet Res, 13(3)
Background:
Communication between clinicians is critical to providing quality patient care but is often hampered by limitations of current systems. Smartphones such as BlackBerrys may improve communication, but studies of these technologies have been limited to date.
Objective: Our objectives were to describe how smartphones were adopted for clinical communication within general internal medical wards and determine their impact on team effectiveness and communication.
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McInnes DK et al, BMC Research Notes, 4(1)
BACKGROUND:
When detected, HIV can be effectively treated with antiretroviral therapy. Nevertheless in the U.S. approximately 25% of those who are HIV-infected do not know it. Much remains unknown about how to increase HIV testing rates. New Internet outreach methods have the potential to increase disease awareness and screening among patients, especially as electronic personal health records (PHRs) become more widely available. In the US Department of Veterans Affairs medical care system, 900,000 veterans have indicated an interest in receiving electronic health-related communications through the PHR. Therefore we sought to evaluate the optimal circumstances and conditions for outreach about HIV screening. In an exploratory, qualitative research study we examined patient and provider perceptions of Internet-based outreach to increase HIV screening among veterans who use the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) health care system.
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Jordan Lanham H et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
Objective
Despite efforts made by ambulatory care organizations to standardize the use of electronic health records (EHRs), practices often incorporate these systems into their work differently from each other. One potential factor contributing to these differences is within-practice communication patterns. The authors explore the linkage between within-practice communication patterns and practice-level EHR use patterns.
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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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John Pulley, NextGov
“When it comes to electronic records, health care providers have a lot of explaining to do, say consultants who analyzed results of an online poll of 2,720 U.S. adults.
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