Do’s and Don’ts of hospital health IT
Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“Last year I started a series of “Do’s and Dont’s” in hospital tech by focusing on wireless technologies.
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Connectivity
The Marvels of Technology Missing in Health IT
John, EMR and HIPAA
“While experiencing this amazing connectivity, I can’t help but think of how poor so much of the connectivity in healthcare is. That’s right. We can find a way to offer internet connectivity at 30,000 feet in an aircraft moving hundreds of miles per hour and yet we can’t get connectivity to rural hospitals and other healthcare locations?
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Interoperability workgroup defines standard connections between EHRs and HIEs
Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“On Nov. 8, the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup, an organization of states and vendors focused on eliminating the barriers to sharing EHRs issued a set of technical specifications to standardize connections between healthcare providers, health information exchanges (HIEs) and other data-sharing partners. The group said its objective is to define a single set of easy-to-implement connections to increase the adoption of EHRs and HIE services.
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Multiple States and Vendors Agree On Standard Health Data Connectivity Specifications
Andrew Moesel, interopwg
“A group of states and vendors focused on eliminating the barriers to sharing electronic health records (EHRs) today issued a set of technical specifications to standardize connections between healthcare providers, health information exchanges (HIEs) and other data-sharing partners.
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¿Se están invirtiendo mal los recursos públicos con tal de ser “modelnos pseudo 2.0″?
La bitácora de Fran Sánchez
“He dedicado alguna de mis últimas entradas a comentar el derroche de recursos (personas, tiempo y dinero) que en no pocas ocasiones se comete para construir verdaderos esperpentos bajo el amparo de un concepto mal entendido: el 2.0 (concepto ya muy trillado y que empieza a cansar, así que a partir de ahora lo llamaré “web colaborativa“, ¿os parece?).
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Patients more eager for wireless health connectivity, online health records
Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Patients are rapidly getting onboard with mobile health technology, according to a study released yesterday by the Consumer Electronics Association.
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Top 5 Reasons to Move Patient Data — System-Wide — Into An EMR
Peter Witonsky, Becker's Hospital Review
“Clinician workflows. IT budgets. It’s easy to understand why hospitals end up integrating a department at a time, or a device-type at a time, on their way to complete electronic medical record integration. But according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, this type of approach is not optimal.
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Physicians & Smartphones: The Story Behind the Numbers
Lisa Fratt, CMIO
“Physicians are all about smartphones, embracing them en masse. Adoption rates hover anywhere from 72 percent (Manhattan Research, May 2010) to 94 percent (Spyglass Consulting Group, July 2010).
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Electronic Health Records Connect a Fragmented System
Rob Unitan, The Lund Report
“HealthConnect and other Electronic Health Records help the care team work together with the patient to achieve Total Health. It’s the answer to the fragmentation that plagues much of American health care.
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7 things to consider when choosing mobile devices
Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“For physicians who want a mobile device, what’s the best choice — a smartphone or a tablet? Or both? Or something else? Experts say the answer depends on how a physician is planning to use the device, and where.
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Do we really need universal patient identifiers?
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“A person’s health picture is a fragmented, broken mirror, when you look across our archaic paper-based landscape. According to a survey we did last year, patients recall seeing over 19 different physicians in their lifetime, underscoring the reality that each place where health data is stored (each physician’s office) represents a piece of the whole picture.
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Mobile to help create high-definition health system
Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“Dr. Brigitte Piniewski is convinced that mobile and wireless technologies can bring the kinds of improvements in population health that policymakers can only dream of. “I really think that’s where the vision is at,” she says.
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Home health devices, mobile apps need to be connected to providers
Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Home healthcare, an essential ingredient of post-acute care, can help people recover from injury or illness faster, which ultimately can prevent relapses that leads to an emergency room visit or hospital readmissions.
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Ambulatory vs. Hospital EHRs
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Ambulatory practices are “service nodes” in a larger ecosystem. Much of the work is done in concert with other pieces of the delivery system – referring physicians, consultants, pharmacies, outside laboratories, outside x-ray and imaging centers, etc. Thus, the future of EHRs for these kinds of settings really does focus on connectivity.
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Only connect—meshing home devices and electronic health records
Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“I won’t go into all 11 of the recommendations in a report this week from the National Research Council on improving the connections between electronic health-records systems and home health-care monitoring devices, and the usability of those devices by nonclinicians.
You can read them all in a free copy here.
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mHealth needs to be network neutral to flourish
Pieter Streicher, TechLeader
“As we’ve started to see in South Africa and across the rest of the continent, the potential for mobile-enabled healthcare is enormous. Evidence from the GSMA Mobile Health Summit held in Cape Town at the start of June shows that mobile operators are currently leading the pack in this space.
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VA to open network to popular mobile devices
Alice Lipowicz, FederalComputerWeek
“The Veterans Affairs Department expects to enable employees to use iPhones, iPads, Androids and other popular mobile devices on the departmental network by Oct. 1, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker has announced.
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Connected health isn’t about the devices – it must align people and providers
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Under a normal statistical curve, between the chronically ill and the “motivated healthy,” is the largest segment of health citizens who are seeking missing information and solutions that could help them lead healthier lives. IBM has called out this information seeking segment, asserting that these people represent a huge unserved cohort of health care consumers.
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Protecting Medical Devices
Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“A new consortium is leading an effort to devise best practices for ensuring the security of networked medical devices.
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Wireless health opportunity begins at conception
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The week after at the WLSA Convergence Summit in San Diego McCray predicted during his opening remarks that all medical devices would have connectivity in the next five to ten years.
Whether it’s an in-hospital infusion pump, point-of-care handheld ultrasound, blood glucose meter, or fitness company’s heart rate monitor: It is becoming the norm for health-related devices to embed some form of connectivity whether cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth or other.
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