Sheri Ross, Technology for Doctors Online
“Healthcare providers have a unique opportunity to not only address current or anticipated health problems with their patients, but also to help patients avoid future negative health consequences by teaching them how to care for themselves. Regular reinforcement increases the likelihood that patients will adhere to the concepts being taught.
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Delaney BC et al, The Annals of Family Medicine, 10(1)
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The learning health care system refers to the cycle of turning health care data into knowledge, translating that knowledge into practice, and creating new data by means of advanced information technology. The electronic Primary Care Research Network (ePCRN) was a project, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, with the aim to facilitate clinical research using primary care electronic health records (EHRs).
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“It’s probably not too early to get your physicians involved in your ICD-10 transition.
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is going Hollywood, or at least contracting a California production company, to create a video to explain to the public the value of health IT and how individuals can engage with their providers.
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Baldwin G. Health Data Management Magazine, 19(12)
To summarize, fear of the costs, complexity and numerous unknowns of a transition to ICD-10 have many on the industry on edge.
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Cocosila M, Archer N. Electronic Markets, 2010
This research is an unbiased empirical evaluation of user reasons to accept or resist a mobile information and communication technology (ICT) application for health promotion. This innovative use of mobile ICT consists of developing services that educate people to stay healthy, with clear benefits for both individuals and society. Receiving customized health advice through mobile devices may be an attractive service. However, despite their ability to support users, mobile services may sometimes irritate by being too intrusive.
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Tu HT. HSChange Tracking Report No. 26, 2011
In 2010, 50 percent of American adults sought information about a personal health concern, down from 56 percent in 2007, according to a new national study from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). The likelihood of people seeking information from the Internet and from friends and relatives changed little between 2007 and 2010, but their use of hardcopy books, magazines and newspapers dropped by nearly half to 18 percent.
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Jennifer Dennard, Healthcare IT News
“I recently got a pleasant healthcare surprise while listening to one of my favorite radio stations here in Atlanta. In between some really good jazz tunes, Clark Atlanta University’s WCLK radio station played what to me seemed like a public service announcement from Medicare.
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Peter J. Polack, KevinMD
“Our practice went live with our own EMR system in late 2008. For the most part, this was uneventful. The reason for this was mainly due to proper planning. And credit for our implementation plan goes primarily to our administrator, our IT director, and staff members of our appointed EMR committee. Although some of the physicians were an integral part of the committee, we tried our best not to micromanage the process.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Patients can benefit by getting a variety of healthcare information electronically–as these seven options prove.
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Anthony Aspesi, FutureDocs
“A classroom at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine was packed earlier this month with both medical students and students in the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy (GPHAP) interested in learning more about the IHI and quality improvement.
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Technology for Doctors Online
“Self-described geek, Dr. Gerard Farrell (pictured), director of the E-Health Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, is working and advocating with medical teaching faculty and staff to reconsider how they are using and teaching technology, including electronic medical records (EMR).
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Chicago Tribune
“Advances in health care are not all in operating rooms or laboratories. Technological advances have rapidly changed the face of health care information and how it is used and disseminated.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will conduct a nationwide campaign to educate the public about the importance of privacy and security in the electronic exchange of their personal health information. ONC said it will include consumer attitudes and preferences when mobile devices are used to communicate health data.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Now that we have accumulated some experience with the criteria for the EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use), we can see where some of the pain points are. When the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) set up the criteria for demonstrating Meaningful Use, it was the result of a long, open, and deliberative process, which most everyone applauded.
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Davey Winder, ITPRO
“While the NHS gets all the bad publicity it deserves as far as lapsidaisical data security policy implementation is concerned, I am not convinced it should be singled out as the pantomime villain on the ITsec stage: sloppy security is behind you. Oh yes it is…
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“If clinicians hope to use electronic health records (EHR) to improve patient care, they will have to be fully versed in how to use them–but a new survey suggests they are not getting the training they need. An AmericanEHR Partners report reveals doctors need at least three to five days of EHR training, but nearly half (49.3%) receive three or fewer days.
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Beth Walsh, CMIO
“When Hospital Sisters Health System, a 13-hospital system in Wisconsin and Illinois, implemented computerized physician order entry and EHR, everything seemed fine—for a little while. Just a couple of months after the installation, William Montgomery, CIO, received a letter from the physicians listing 38 issues that they wanted fixed within two weeks.
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PRWeb
“A new survey reveals key findings concerning the use of tablets, eReaders, and smartphones within the nursing community. The survey was conducted by Springer Publishing Company, which polled more than one thousand nurses on their ownership and usage of mobile devices, their preferences for nursing and medical apps, and their social media use.
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Michael Martineau, Technology for Doctors Online
“Earlier this summer I wrote a column on eHealth trends in which I identified the “Engaged Patient” as one of three significant trends to watch.
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