3gdoctor, mHealth Insight
“Pulse, the UK’s leading weekly publication for UK GP’s, reports on the GPC’s warning to government on their plans to give patients online access to their full GP record by 2015 as part of its ‘Information Revolution’:
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Public Service
“NHS patients must be given access to their own medical records online before the end of this Parliament to enable them to better manage their own health, the NHS Future Forum has urged.
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider
“Algorithms designed to help the early detection of cancer may be integrated into GP IT systems.
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Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“Approximately half of French hospitals still use film for their imaging exams. The Ministry of Health, through its state agency, has enlisted the Orange-GE Healthcare consortium to deliver digital cloud-based PACS to France’s most populous region, the Ile de France.
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Amir Hannan, Guardian Professional
“The NHS needs to change. As the costs of healthcare escalate, huge efficiency savings need to be found through improvements in quality and productivity with the spotlight rightly on elderly and vulnerable patients receiving dignified and compassionate care.
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider
“New research on patient records access recommends a set of national standards for implementation, training and promotion and a centralised IT support service.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Developers of GP desktop software working on NEHTA’s vendor panel expect the authority to be able to make a series of positive announcements in the early part of next year, as they make steady progress on key elements of the infrastructure needed to launch the nation’s ehealth revolution.
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Acute
“The greatest challenge to making the health service information-driven is cultural, not technical, a new report has suggested.
The report commissioned by BCS Health canvassed the views of NHS and non-NHS organisations on the current state of health information practices.
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider
“A number of GP practices waiting for EMIS’ next generation system, EMIS Web, will have to wait until after the New Year.
EMIS says it has delayed some GP installations to allow it to focus on issues such as training needs for new users.
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Shanna Crispin, e-Health Insider
“New research has found that more than 4% of electronic prescriptions written by general practitioners contain errors.
Researchers from Reading University have been studying prescription data from 15 general practices over the past 18 months and are on the verge of publishing the results.
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Stewart Segal, KevinMD
“The art of practicing medicine is dying, soon to be replaced by the art of template medicine.
Modern medicine is based on laudable terms: “quality,” “outcomes,” “cost effective,” and “evidence based medicine,” which all sound good when sold in infomercials to the medical world and public. When examined closely, all are vague and open to abuse.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“The eHealth Central prize for the most ironic ehealth news story of 2011 is almost certainly going to be picked up by The Australian for last week’s piece headed “Panic to meet Nicola Roxon’s ehealth deadline”
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Greiver M et al, Canadian Family Physician, 57(10)
Objective
To apply the diffusion-of-innovations theory to the examination of factors that are perceived by family physicians as influencing the implementation of electronic medical records (EMRs).
Design
Qualitative study with 2 focus groups 18 months after EMR implementation; participants also took part in a concurrent quantitative study examining EMR implementation and preventive services.
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Gill Hitchcock, Guardian Professional
“Wales’ emergency Individual Health Record (IHR) service is available at almost 50% of GP surgeries and will be available nationally by the end of 2011, the NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS) says in a report on its first year of operation.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“More than 80% of clinicians and patients want to see online GP services such as repeat prescribing requesting and appointment booking, a survey of almost 3,000 patients and health professionals has found.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“The gestation period was a touch prolonged, they significantly underestimated the complexities and the difficulties and had to push out the delivery timeline by three months to resolve some data-coding issues
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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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Shanna Crispin, e-Health Insider Mobile
“Use of a telemedical electrocardiogram by GPs in Manchester is said to have saved local hospitals £4m in the past year.
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The Telegraph
“Professor Sir Bruce Keogh said that IT will ”completely change the way we deliver medicine” making access to GPs at any time a reality and giving patients the ability to talk to specialists anywhere in the country.
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David Astley, ComputerWeekly
“At a government event recently, Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS, said he would like to see more doctors regularly offering remote consultations to patients via video link within the next year. With the NHS facing severe spending cuts, the move could allow the NHS to make savings while reducing waiting times for millions of patients in the UK.
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