Ericka Chickowski, Dark Reading
“Just like “the cloud” of 2009 and 2010, this year’s red-hot buzz term bandied about by executives who may or may not have clue what it means is ‘big data.’ But just as 2011 saw the world wrap its head around the cloud, the time is coming when technology around big data will gain traction, understanding and deployments.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Because of recent major healthcare information breaches, and tough federal fines for HIPAA infractions, organizations are placing a stronger emphasis on regulatory compliance, says Adam Greene.
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RichardM, World of DTC Marketing
“There is a misconception within marketing that just because people are using a certain technology or going to a certain website that they want marketers to follow them there.
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3gdoctor, mHealth Insight
“Authored by a team working at the Preventive Medicine, Public Health and Pediatric Departments at the University of Kansas School of Medicine—Wichita and published in the July/August issue of Telemedicine and e-Health this paper does a great job of adding complexity to the financial and clinical issues surrounding the adoption of Provider/Patient SMS communications
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Hart T et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 17(6)
Introduction:
Immunization schedules are complicated and difficult for parents to remember. Parents are willing to receive text message reminders. However, it is unknown whether physicians are willing to implement such a system. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a text messaging reminder system from the physician’s perspective.
Materials and Methods:
Surveys were distributed in the winter of 2009–2010 by e-mail, facsimile, and telephone interview to 149 family physicians and pediatricians who provide immunizations in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
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Oetgen WJ et al, Arch Intern Med, 171(10)
Romano and Stafford present an innovative analysis of the most current National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and National Hospital Ambulatory Survey data. They found that (1) the use of EHRs was not associated with higher compliance with quality indicators and (2) the use of CDS systems within the EHR visits was likewise not associated with higher compliance with quality indicators.
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David Gorn, California Healthline
“According to Mohit Kaushal of the West Wireless Health Institute in San Diego, the promise of wireless technology is multifaceted, encompassing a range of devices, including the ubiquitous cell phone.
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Healthcare IT News
“New Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) research indicates that medical groups face significant challenges as they seek to transition to the new HIPAA Version 5010 electronic standards.
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White P, Roudsari A. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2011
Ontologies can assist with translating information from an electronic health record to a clinical practice guideline and reformatting it into a compliance report. A 2009 literature search reviews publications on the use of ontologies to support automated reporting of compliance with clinical practice guidelines via electronic health records. Research stage, data-pulling capabilities, ontologies used, and issues raised are some of the comparative data pulled from 13 articles from the literature review results. Suggestions for further research are given.
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Thuc Huynh, Medicine and Technology
“One of the largest problems we see in the clinic is medication non-compliance. All too often, patients forget to take their pills and their health suffers as a result.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Results of a pilot study of a mobile app meant to improve medication compliance among chronically ill, low-income patients are mixed but encouraging, the pilot’s facilitators announced at an event MobiHealthNews attended in Washington, DC this week.
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Julie M. Donnelly, Boston Business Journal
“Scott MacLean, the chief information officer at Newton Wellesley Hospital, has a bird’s eye view of what it really means to comply with the “Meaningful Use” guidelines the federal government has established to determine whether or not hospitals and doctors will be eligible for financial incentives tied to electronic health records initiatives.
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Amber Dance, Los Angeles Times
“Did you take your medicine today?” Soon, patients won’t have to rely on their memories for the answer. Scientists are developing tablets and capsules that track when they’ve been popped, turning the humble pill into a high-tech monitoring machine.
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Kevin B. O'Reilly, amednews
“An electronic monitoring system and personalized counseling can help patients improve their medication adherence rates, according to a new study.
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Ano Lobb, Justmeans
“Findings published recently in the journal European Psychiatry point to a potential reservoir of unmet mhealth (mobile health) need in the area of depression treatment. The Spanish study followed 7525 patients starting medications for depression to see how many would continue to take their meds for the recommended 12 months treatment period. Within three months 56% had stopped taking their medication, and by the eleventh month, only one quarter were still popping their pills.
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Robert Rowley, KevinMD
“A recent report in the Annals of Internal Medicine on the characteristics of prescriptions that are abandoned at the pharmacy raise the question of (1) how to ensure that people actually pick up their prescriptions, and (2) how to make sure that people actually take the medications that are prescribed.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“One of the really interesting things that I’ve heard at the Mobile Health Expo has been the use of text messages to assist with patient compliance.
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Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors Online
“An open-source EMR that was implemented in Belize by a Canadian team more than three years ago is showing results. “We put it in for a buck a citizen for the whole nation, and it runs all the clinics, hospitals, pharmacies and labs,” says Dr. Michael Graven (pictured), co-developer of the system and a neonatologist with the IWK Health Centre in Halifax.
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Tom Sullivan, Healthcare IT News
“ICD-10 is a multi-headed beast. As such, there are many faces to the new code sets; some are well known while others, often just as important, are not so understood.
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Ed Sperling, Forbes
“The push toward electronic medical records has garnered a lot of attention lately as the federal rules roll out for public funding of what the government calls “meaningful use.”
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