ICD-10 Transition: How to engage, not scare, physicians
Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“Hospitals need to get their physicians more involved with ICD-10 transitions.
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Engagement
Software is about to eat chronic disease and save us USD2 Trillion per year
Phineas Barnes, Business Insider
“This morning I headed over to BluePrint Health to hang out with some entrepreneurs. It is fair to say I have healthcare on the brain and I am going to write a little bit about why over the next few days.
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Transforming Health Care: The Role of Health IT
BPC
“Health information technology (IT) plays a critical role in supporting new models of care and payment that are designed to achieve health care’s triple aim: improve health, improve the experience of care for patients and families, and reduce the cost of care. Despite the introduction of IT to nearly every other aspect of modern life, the U.S. health care system remains largely paper-based. Greater use of health IT enjoys bipartisan support.
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Why patients with implantable defibrillators deserve their data
David Lee Scher, KevinMD
“The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on February 17, 2009.
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5 points concerning patient engagement and health IT
Michelle McNickle, Healthcare IT News
“With the slow demise of paper records and the rise of electronic platforms, the opportunity for patients to take hold of their healthcare has never been stronger.
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Is 2012 The Year Of Online Patients?
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Sticking with New Year’s resolutions is still top of mind for many folks. No doubt many are looking to the new smartphones, iPads, and health-related apps that Santa delivered to help fulfill those resolutions. So could 2012 be the year of tech-enabled patient engagement?
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Online Patient Engagement: Key Factors of Trusted Health Websites
Seeman N, Ing A. ElectronicHealthcare, 10(3)
Objectives:
(1) To identify some of the most trusted web pages that relate to patient engagement in their own healthcare, and (2) to identify the key themes of these trusted websites that most capture the attention of participants, thereby fostering the mutual sharing of personal and factual information.
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Qualcomm collaborative could help spark EHR use
Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“Lack of patient interest in managing their own care and in electronic health records have long been problematic. But a new project may help to spark patient engagement and improve health.
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Using EHRs to Their Fullest Potential: Barriers Still Exist
Marisa Torrieri, Physicians Practice
“Heather Haugen, director of Health Information Technology CLSC Program at University of Colorado, who spoke during this year’s HIMSS 2011 conference, pointed out then that physicians need to first be engaged in the buying process.
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The rise of citizen scientists and patient initiated research
Kent Bottles, KevinMD
“Whether you call it Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, or e-Health 2.0, the Internet is changing medicine in ways that challenge the status quo. This article explores how a group of amateurs who call themselves “health hackers” and “citizen scientists” are trying to use the Internet to connect with other patients, run experiments, and conduct clinical trials on their own diseases.
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5 reasons why physicians will love mobile health
David Lee Scher, KevinMD
“1. Mobile health technology will increase patient engagement. Most patients do not take the responsibility they should for their own health. They are likely preoccupied with all the stresses of everyday life and might therefore take the ‘I feel good, so I must be’ approach.
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Improving patient engagement with (good) technology
Brita Van Fossen, Health IT Pulse
“In recent weeks, the idea of collaboration has been fresh on the minds of health care leaders. The accountable care organizations (ACO) model, recently discussed at length at the Partners Healthcare Connected Health Symposium 2011, endorses the idea of collaborative care and communication among primary care providers, emergency service providers and patients themselves.
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ONC: Engaging the patient, improving care through EHRs
Brian Dunham, Cardiovascular Business
“A highly functional EHR can facilitate better care by providing complete, accurate and up-to-date information for patients and physicians. But realizing such improvements requires the involvement of physicians who actively engage patients in the information gathering process.
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So what’s patient engagement, exactly?
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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Will mHealth Change the Role of Physician?
David Lee Scher, MD
“There are many benefits of mHealth technology to physicians It will increase patient engagement, it will provide data and input from patients on a continuum of time (versus the snapshot of office encounters), it is mobile, it will make office or telehealth conferencing more meaningful, and it will improve the physician-patient relationship (see http://davidleescher.com/2011/10/10/five-reasons-why-physicians-will-love-mhealth/ ).
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Growth in consumer EHR access signals shift in patient engagement
Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“Results of a new study from Manhattan Research reveal that an estimated 56 million U.S. consumers have accessed their medical information on an EHR system maintained by their physician.
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The Next Five Years in Health IT: ONC’s Plan for the Future
Helen R. Pfister, Susan R. Ingargiola, iHealthBeat
“On Sept. 12, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released an updated strategic plan for implementing a nationwide health information network. The Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2011-2015 sets forth activities to improve health care through use of health IT tools.
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Five Reasons Why Physicians Will Love mHealth
David Lee Scher, MD
“An estimated 75% of physicians have either an iPhone or iPad. They are adopting EHR technology and are busier than ever. Mobile health promotes patients as partners in healthcare and a coordinated care effort involving the patient, caregiver, and provider.
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Just Text Me: Using SMS Technology for Collaborative Patient Mood Charting
Foreman AC et al, Journal of Participatory Medicine, 3
Summary:
Mood 24/7 is an innovation in traditional mood charting using text messaging technology. Mood 24/7 allows the user to collect mood data in a standardized text message format, receives optional 160-character annotations from users in addition to their daily mood ratings, and securely stores user response data on a protected server.
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When Data Isn’t Enough
Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“OK, so information is power. But does information alone have the power to transform healthcare? To help people make healthy lifestyle choices and get patients fully engaged in their care? Can healthcare information technology transform healthcare — as so many say we must — from a system that treats disease to one that prevents it?
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