Effectiveness
Haug S et al, BMC Public Health, 12(1)
BACKGROUND:
Particularly in groups of adolescents with lower educational level the smoking prevalence is still high and constitutes a serious public health problem. There is limited evidence of effective smoking cessation interventions in this group. Individualised text messaging (SMS) based interventions are promising to support smoking cessation and could be provided to adolescents irrespective of their motivation to quit. The aim of the current paper is to outline the study protocol of a trial testing the efficacy of an SMS based intervention for smoking cessation in apprentices.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Adolescents, Effectiveness, mHealth, Smoking, SMS
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) has been an ongoing effort to identify best-practices for health care, based on clinical evidence. The AHRQ defines comparative effectiveness as research “designed to inform health-care decisions by providing evidence on the effectiveness, benefits, and harms of different treatment options.”
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13 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Effectiveness, Research
Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“Health games have the difficult task ahead of them to be fun, yet taken seriously by physicians, according to a panel held at the mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C. last week.
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13 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Effectiveness, games
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Without actually trying it out, an early critic may have faulted the first automobile for not having a horse to pull it. After all, how else would a vehicle of the day transport a person from one location to another? Horses were a necessary part of the equation back then; the rubric of the day made their participation mandatory.
Such may be the state of mobile health efficacy studies.
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28 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Applications, Effectiveness, Evaluation, mHealth
Basel Kayyali, Zeb Kimmel, and Steve van Kuiken, McKinsey Quarterly
“On the surface, technology-enabled home health care should be thriving in the United States. The country’s aging population and the transformation of acute illnesses such as heart failure into chronic diseases mean that the number of patients is growing.
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9 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Digital Homecare, Effectiveness, Elderly
Guy Boulton, Journal Sentinel
“The information that exists in Medicare billing records, patient registries and electronic health records could help answer one of the most common questions in modern medicine: How well does one treatment work compared with another?
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4 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Effectiveness, modelling, Research, Software
Guy Boulton, Journal Sentinel
“What is the maximum dose of a drug that will limit side effects to an acceptable level? How many patients would benefit from a treatment and how many would be harmed? Would the potential benefit of screening everyone for a disease outweigh the potential harm to people who receive unneeded care because of inaccurate results?
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4 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, Effectiveness, Research
MarketWatch
“A new study conducted by Humana and the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange (WHIE) found that health information exchanges (HIE), when used in emergency departments, resulted in improved provider efficiencies and health plan cost savings.
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28 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Benefits, Effectiveness, emergency, Health Information Exchange
Tzeel A et al, American Health and Drug Benefits, 4(4)
Background:
As emergency department utilization continues to increase, health plans must limit their cost exposure, which may be driven by duplicate testing and a lack of medical history at the point of care. Based on previous studies, health information exchanges (HIEs) can potentially provide health plans with the ability to address this need.
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26 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Effectiveness, emergency, Health Information Exchange
Ancker JS et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
With the proliferation of relatively mature health information technology (IT) systems with large numbers of users, it becomes increasingly important to evaluate the effect of these systems on the quality and safety of healthcare. Previous research on the effectiveness of health IT has had mixed results, which may be in part attributable to the evaluation frameworks used. The authors propose a model for evaluation, the Triangle Model, developed for designing studies of quality and safety outcomes of health IT.
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23 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Effectiveness, Evaluation, Health Information Technology, Quality, Safety
Anker SD et al, The Lancet, 378(9792)
Advances in telecommunication technologies have created new opportunities to provide telemedical care as an adjunct to medical management of patients with heart failure. Meta-analyses suggest that telemedicine can reduce morbidity and mortality in such patients; however, two prospective clinical trials not included in the analyses do not support these findings. Therefore, the effectiveness of telemedicine in heart failure is not established. Telemedicine approaches range from computer-based support systems to programmes led by nurses and physicians. Standardisation and appropriate classification of telemedical systems are needed to enable accurate interpretation of clinical trials.
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23 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Chronic Heart Failure, Effectiveness, Telemedicine
Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“I will be presenting at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCon) in Portland at the end of the month. As an avid reader of dozens of O’Reilly’s technical books over the years I was excited when they reached out to ask if I would talk about open source in the healthcare world.
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12 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Data, Devices, Effectiveness, Meaningful Use, Open Source, Research
Hal Amens, EHR Bloggers
“Traditional pharmaceutical research for regulatory approval looks like this:
Test panel -> Test -> Analyze -> Yes or No
This is a limited test to support approval of a new medication based on demonstrated safety and effectiveness. It supports a yes or no by the Food and Drug Administration based on the evidence that can be derived from a relatively small sized sample.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Data Aggregation, Drugs, Effectiveness, Pharmaceutical, Research, Safety
Healthcare IT News
“For decades, researchers have used de-identified claims and prescription data from the Thomson Reuters MarketScan Research Databases to conduct studies that evaluate medical treatments — commonly called “outcomes research” or “comparative effectiveness research.”
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23 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, Clinical Data, De-identification, Effectiveness, emr, Research, Secondary Data Use
PHYSorg
“In a telemonitoring system, intensivists in a central monitoring facility have the ability to provide care to patients in another location (such as a geographically remote region) through the use of technology: they can see the patient through video cameras, speak to them and listen to them through audio equipment, monitor their vital signs, directly interact with nurses and other medical staff at the point of care and enter medication orders.
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17 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Effectiveness, Hospitals, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
iHealthBeat
“However, according to Adam Kaufman — president of DPS Health, which contracts with insurers and physicians for patient support programs — no studies have assessed how well health-related apps change behaviors primarily because academic research tends to lag behind innovation in technology (LiveScience/Fox News, 3/21).
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23 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Applications, Effectiveness, mHealth
Richard, World of DTC Marketing
“Despite popularity of health applications on smartphones there has been little research on how well apps work, or even if any comply with known public health guidelines on how to change people’s behaviors. Early studies suggest that nearly all antismoking apps fail to connect users to proven methods that help people quit smoking. Weight-loss apps fare slightly better.
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22 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Applications, Effectiveness, mHealth, smartphone
Jay Parkinson, The Future Well
“Are there any home runs in the health app world that engage users consistently over time and truly changes behavior? People claim Nike+ and Livestrong’s Calorie Tracker, as reflected by sales in the App Store. There’s no reason to assume that any of these apps have better than 5% usage after one month of downloading them. In fact, the majority of these apps require an active engagement such as inputting your food to count calories. Try doing that for longer than a week and see what happens.
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23 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Applications, Effectiveness, mHealth
Rubin AD, McFerran VA. The American Journal of Managed Care, 16(12 Suppl HIT)
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Health System seeks to align its purpose of “healing humankind” with its approaches for people and performance management. These approaches include lean process improvements initiatives, sustained by efforts to impact daily team member work flows. The electronic health record (EHR) serves as a powerful supportive instrument in improving processes and sustaining performance.
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21 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Barcode, Effectiveness, Stroke, Telemedicine, Workflow
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has awarded two contracts for work that assesses the effectiveness of electronic health records (EHRs) and the progress of health information exchange, now that healthcare providers are beginning to move from paper to digital records.
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5 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adoption, Effectiveness, Health Information Exchange
