Digital Divide
Kim E-H. Evaluation of Patient-Controlled Personal Health Record on Different Populations (Dissertation), 2011
Over the last decade, personal health records (PHRs) have been increasingly recognized and actively promoted by the U.S. federal government and experts as a tool for improving healthcare and containing skyrocketing costs in the U.S. More recently, the 2010 health reform legislation includes PHRs as an important means to improve the quality and efficiency in healthcare delivery. However, the use of PHRs by various patient groups has not been well studied, and its utility has not been firmly established.
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2 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Digital Divide, phr
Jennifer Dennard, EMR and EHR
“There’s a lot of talk in the healthcare industry right now about bringing health management tools to the consumer. Whether it’s apps for your iPhone or iPad, games to play on your Wii, or free-standing health-and-wellness kiosks at your local pharmacy, digital applications seem to the delivery method of choice right now.
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10 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adoption, Broadband, Digital Divide, mHealth
López L et al, Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 37(10)
BACKGROUND:
Racial and ethnic disparities in health care have been consistently documented in the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of many common clinical conditions. There has been an acceleration of health information technology (HIT) implementation in the United States, with health care reform legislation including multiple provisions for collecting and using health information to improve and monitor quality and efficiency in health care. Despite an uneven and generally low level of implementation, research has demonstrated that HIT has the potential to improve quality of care and patient safety. If carefully designed and implemented, HIT also has the potential to eliminate disparities.
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23 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Digital Divide, Disparities, Health Information Technology
fllordachs, Una de Médicos
“De un tiempo a esta parte, como si fuese algo lógico, se habla mucho del e-paciente y su empoderamiento como algo inexorable (que probablemente lo es, en base al paso del tiempo y a la modificación de los hábitos de la población en materia de conectividad y llamémosle habilidad digital). También se considera (o esa es la postura) algo sin duda cercano, de para ayer, porque los americanos, y tal, y tal… Incluso se ha puesto de acuerdo una buena parte de la blogosfera-twittesfera sanitaria española para componer a n-manos un libro de distribución gratuíta,
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6 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tag(s): Digital Divide, Empowerment, Health Information, Online Communities, Patient, Physicians, social-network, Usability
Patrick Howard, SearchHealthIT
“HHS and Quest Diagnostics recently announced that Quest will give away their Care360EHR, an EHR lite product, to physicians serving the minority community in Houston.
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12 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Digital Divide, Industry
Thomas McMennamin, EHR Bloggers
“The Office of Minority Health (OMH) recently announced an exciting initiative to ensure that all groups in the US have improved access to electronic health records and that disparities that already exist in the US don’t worsen due to a growing digital divide. The OMH is encouraging EHR adoption and meaningful EMR use by working with vendors to secure significant discounts on typically costly EHR systems.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Digital Divide, Underserved
Peter Orszag, Bloomberg View
“I now have more health information on my wrist than my doctor had about me 10 years ago, and I’m hopeful that it’s going to help keep me healthier.
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22 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Behaviour, Digital Divide, Lifestyle, mHealth, Privacy
Urmimala Sarkar, Informatics for Consumer Health
“With all the recent discussion of internet use, health information technology (HIT) and health care, it’s important to talk about who might be getting left behind. With the HIT revolution, the digital divide is becoming an increasingly important consideration for health care. As a primary care provider in a safety-net health system, I worry that my patients, who are low-income and often uninsured, may not benefit from the widespread implementation of patient-facing health information technology because they lack access or ability to use the internet.
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21 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Diabetes, Digital Divide, Health Information, Portal
David Hastoglis, Healthcare IT Solutions
“Evidence from the Miami Project, which studied the use of patient portals and telehealth on low-income diabetes patients, show that telehealth is giving those who typically have more difficulty accessing healthcare (due to income or rural residence) increased access to health. However, I happened upon a study from Health Services Research recently, which uncovered some interesting insights into the “digital divide”. This survey compared telephone versus online responses to follow-up care surveys.
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7 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Digital Divide, Telehealth, Telemedicine
Joseph C. Kvedar, Healthcare IT News
“Often when I speak about connected health, I am asked ‘What are you doing to provide these services to communities with health disparities?’ For many years, connected health advocates took it on the chin when this important topic was brought up. We relied heavily on home computers and home Internet access to achieve the power of our programs.
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11 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Digital Divide, Disparities, mHealth, SMS
van Deursen AJAM, van Dijk JAGM. J Med Internet Res, 13(2)
BACKGROUND
Despite the amount of online health information, there are several barriers that limit the Internet’s adoption as a source of health information. One of these barriers is highlighted in conceptualizations of the digital divide which include the differential possession of Internet skills, or “eHealth literacy”. Most measures of Internet skills among populations at large use self-assessments. The research discussed here applies a multifaceted definition of Internet skills and uses actual performance tests.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to assess how ready a sample of the general population is for eHealth. More specifically, four types of Internet skills were measured in a performance test in which subjects had to complete health-related assignments on the Internet.
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11 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Digital Divide, e-Health, Health Information, Internet, Literacy, Online
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, Patients Know Best
“I was reminded this while watching the computer of a patient yesterday testing out Patients Know Best. She cannot see, something I kept on forgetting because she was so deft in navigating the computer. And it was only at the end that I understood that she was operating the mouse with her voice and the keyboard with her toes.
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8 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Digital Divide, disabled
Ashley DeNyse, EndocrineToday
“Disparities in access to technology have inhibited adoption of Internet-based medical information, particularly among minority populations, according to recent findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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21 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Chronic Diseases, Digital Divide, phr
Cardiologytoday
“Disparities in access to technology have inhibited adoption of Internet-based medical information, particularly among minority populations, according to recent findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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20 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Digital Divide, phr
Brian Eastwood, HealthITExchange
“The ability to use a patient portal or personal health record (PHR) service to view lab results, renew prescriptions and communicate with physicians is a key component of patient-centered care. That, in turn, is arguably the fundamental goal of both health care reform and the HITECH Act.
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19 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adoption, Digital Divide, Patient, Portal
EMR Daily News
“DrFirst announced today that the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) has chosen to partner with DrFirst to offer their award-winning and certified solutions to Hispanic physicians.
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12 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Digital Divide, e-prescribing, Health Information Technology, Meaningful Use, Physicians
Kim E-H, Kim Y. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2010
Personal Health Record (PHR) has been increasingly recognized and actively promoted by the federal government, experts and industry as an important tool for improving healthcare in the U.S. However, the PHR use by patients and its utility have not been studied well. We have evaluated a web-based PHR in multiple locations covering diverse population groups. The study sites included a surgical specialty clinic, a medical specialty clinic, and a mental health clinic at the University of Washington, and a low-income elderly housing facility near Seattle in the state of Washington. The PHR use by the low-income elderly was limited due to poor technical skills and low physical/cognitive abilities.
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10 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Digital Divide, phr
Mary Stevens, CMIO
“In the midst of a week that included both the further mapping of meaningful use and the release of the proposed rules for ACOs, the message of the mHealth Initiative Conference in Chicago may have been easy to miss. However, it shouldn’t be ignored.
Careful steps are vital to move the national health IT strategy forward in the same direction, but DIY has a place—formal or not—in improving healthcare as well. As mHealth Initiative vendors and clinicians put it, m-health is a way to use every means available to improve care, even non-healthcare-specific devices and systems.
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2 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Digital Divide, Engagement, mHealth
Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“Personal health records (PHRs) have been touted as a way for patients to improve their healthcare experience and the quality of their patient care. However, a closer look shows that a “digital divide” has opened up among various population groups — creating major gaps among those who do — and don’t — access their medical data online, according to a new Archives of Internal Medicine study.
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1 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Access, Digital Divide, Patient, phr
CMIO
“A ‘digital divide’ appears to exist among primary care patients adopting an online personal health record (PHR), according to “The Digital Divide in Adoption and Use of a PHR,” a report in the March 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
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30 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Digital Divide, phr
