TECchannel
“Virtualisierung und die Service-basierte Bereitstellung von IT-Anwendungen und Storage bilden auch im Gesundheitswesen die IT-Basistechnologien. Mit diesen erreicht man funktionale, operative und geschäftliche Effizienz.
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chiscosayans, doctordoctores
“La medicina en los próximos años deberá realizar profundos cambios para adaptarse a la situación actual. En un entorno como el presente, con grandes dificultades económicas, vemos como la necesidad de disminuir los costes sanitarios es fundamental para que el sistema siga siendo sostenible. Por otra parte, los pacientes cada vez exigen una atención más rápida y eficaz.
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Alexandra Wilson Pecci, HealthLeaders Media
“Steven L. Kelley, president and CEO of Ellenville Regional Hospital in Ellenville, NY, admits that he’s a bit “fanatical” when it comes to efficiency.
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Mark van Dorresteijn, Zorgvisie
“Ziekenhuizen in Nederland kunnen tussen 100 en 170 miljoen euro besparen door invoering van gestandaardiseerde barcodes bij medische hulpmiddelen. Dit blijkt uit de GS1 business case ‘Patiëntveiligheid en efficiency in de OK’.
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Angela Petty, The Washington Post
“With money tight, congressional appropriators rarely insist that agencies spend money. Yet the omnibus spending bill passed Dec. 17 approved $100 million for a joint Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs effort to develop digital medical records — even though they missed deadlines for requesting the money.
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Jay Mehta, Express Healthcare
“Hospitals, manufacturers, doctors, insurance companies and patients—all are looking forward to efficient means to better these. Each entity faces different kind of challenges.
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Connelly DP et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
Objective
To evaluate if electronic health records (EHR) have observable effects on care outcomes, we examined quality and efficiency measures for patients presenting to emergency departments (ED).
Materials and methods
We conducted a retrospective study of 5166 adults with heart failure in three metropolitan EDs. Patients were termed internal if prior information was in the EHR upon ED presentation, otherwise external. Associations of internality with hospitalization, mortality, length of stay (LOS), and numbers of tests, procedures, and medications ordered in the ED were examined after adjusting for age, gender, race, marital status, comorbidities and hospitalization as a proxy for acuity level where appropriate.
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Parmeeth M.S. Atwal, Health IT Buzz Blog
“A physician since 1989, Dr. Karen Smith runs a one-physician family medicine practice in Raeford, NC. She credits her electronic health record (EHR) with allowing her to deliver quality care in a rural setting – and to do it so efficiently that she still has time to be a wife and mother.
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Brita Van Fossen, Health IT Pulse
“Although there are a significant number of clinical practices that are still selecting a suitable electronic health record (EHR) system, there are also many that have finished the grueling process and are now tackling the next hurdle — EHR implementation itself.
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Paul Winandy, Government Health IT
“Government incentives have made EMR implementation a hot topic for many medical practitioners. Everyone loves getting money back from the government, but don’t let the incentive money push you into a decision you will regret.
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“The New England Journal of Medicine has just published a study that compared the differences in health outcomes between paper-based and EHR-based practices, and if all you did was skim the headlines announcing the results you might think all questions surrounding EHRs had finally been put to rest.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“In what could end up being a watershed moment for health IT, new research has shown a large difference in outcomes among diabetics whose providers have electronic health records (EHRs), as compared to patients whose doctors still use paper records.
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van der Heijden JP et al, The British Journal of Dermatology, 2011
Background:
Teledermatology, the application of telemedicine in the field of dermatology has similar accuracy and reliability as physical dermatology. Teledermatology has been widely used in daily practice in The Netherlands since 2005 and is fully reimbursed.
Objective:
This study prospectively investigated the effect of teledermatology on efficiency, quality and costs of care when integrated in daily practice and applied following patient selection by the general practitioner.
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The Malaysian Star
“Each day, referring physicians encounter enormous tasks serving patients and making accurate diagnoses. Regardless of location, they want to be on the go and demand easy access to online patients’ images and exams. Being mobile whilst carrying out these tasks is key to a physician’s productivity and efficiency.
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Janet Dillione, AOL
“Copy-and-paste, templates, macros, checked-boxes and other documentation shortcuts can provide valuable efficiency to doctors and nurses alike. But when it comes to patients’ medical records, there is a fine line between convenience, comprehensiveness and risk.
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Business Wire
“One of America’s leading advocates of electronic health records (EHRs) today called upon physicians around the country to overcome any remaining barriers and convert to this system as a way to foster improvements in healthcare quality, safety, efficiency and access.
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Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“A study by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) finds that wireless networks, tablet computers and portable phone handsets improve clinical collaboration and patient care.
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Schmickl CN et al, Respiratory Medicine, 2011
Participant recruitment is an important process in successful conduct of randomized controlled trials. To facilitate enrollment into a National Institutes of Health–sponsored clinical trial involving patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), we developed and prospectively validated an automated electronic screening tool based on boolean free-text search of admission notes in electronic medical records. During a 2-week validation period, all patients admitted to prespecified general medical services were screened for eligibility by both the electronic screening tool and a COPD nurse. Group discussion was the gold standard for confirmation of true-positive results.
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Annie Getsinger, Herald-Review
“With electronic health records systems being implemented and improved at hospitals, clinics and medical offices throughout the nation, improving the flow of information among organizations has become increasingly important.
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Furukawa MF et al, Medical Care Research and Review, 68(3)
Electronic medical records (EMR) have the potential to improve nursing care in the hospital setting. This study estimated the association of EMR implementation with nurse staffing levels, skill mix, contract/agency percent, and nurse-sensitive patient outcomes in U.S. hospitals. Data on nurse staffing and patient outcomes came from the 2004-2008 National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators. Data on EMR implementation came from the 2004-2008 HIMSS Analytics Database.
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