Eric Savitz, Forbes
“We sometimes forget that we are responsible for managing our health, and that how healthy we are depends on actions we take every day. Our health care system does not have enough capacity, nor should it, to micromanage our health.
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Berryhill TL. Perspectives in Health Information Management, 7(fall)
This tongue-in-cheek essay hopes to prompt discussion among health information management (HIM) professionals of all levels with regard to the fast-changing HIM landscape, particularly the electronic health record (EHR) and the financial and career options that healthcare systems and employees have had to accept, adapt to, and decipher.
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Top M, Gider O. Journal of Medical Systems, 2011
Electronic medical records are generally used by nurses in hospitals. However, studies investigating views on and evaluations of electronic medical records by nurses are limited in Turkey and in other countries around the world. Thus, in this study, nurses’ views on electronic medical record systems will be investigated in terms of use, quality and user satisfaction. Our goal was to investigate the views on electronic medical records used by nurses working at hospital clinics (inpatient care units). Moreover, in this study, we will examine whether there are relationships among the use, quality and user satisfaction of electronic medical records. This study is composed of field research conducted using questionnaires. To prepare the data-measuring instrument, the literature on electronic medical records was reviewed. In addition, during the pilot run of the questionnaire, some revisions were made to the measuring instrument to account for the views of nurse managers in the field.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“As I see it this article is talking about a rather different take on the personal involvement in their Health Information that the one outlined by the still secret (and outrageously so) Concept of Operations for the PCEHR.
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Valerie Watzlaf, Advance
“As an educator and researcher in health information management and epidemiology, I have spent many years examining the quality of documentation in the medical record for risk factors and other data elements that may be linked to specific diseases.
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Hung M, Jen W. Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
As their populations age, many countries are facing the increasing economic pressure of providing healthcare to their people. In Taiwan, this problem is exacerbated by an increasing rate of obesity and obesity-related conditions. Encouraging the adoption of personal health management services is one way to maintain current levels of personal health and to efficiently manage the distribution of healthcare resources. This study introduces Mobile Health Management Services (MHMS) and employs the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to explore the intention of students in Executive Master of Business Management programs to adopt mobile health management technology.
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Tani S et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 34(3)
Recently, a patient with diabetes mellitus (DM) type 2 has been increasing in Japan. The patient should be managed not only by a specialist but also by himself focusing his attention on the improvement of his lifestyle at home. In the present study, we tried to develop a health management support system by which a diabetic patient in early stage can easily enter his daily life information, i.e. the biological information such as the data of blood sugar levels and blood pressure levels etc., the information of exercise and diet and send the information to the medical institution with a personal digital assistant (PDA). Afterwards, the patient can receive health instruction information by the physician in charge for self-care at his home with a PDA.
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Lau Hesselbæk Andreasen, JBoye
“Interaction between patients and healthcare providers and between fellow patients is taking place on a growing number of (digital) platforms. Healthcare providers wish to enable the “engaged health citizens” to better manage their health conditions themselves.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“The California HealthCare Foundation released its findings on a survey about consumers and health IT, specifically PHRs. Historically PHRs have not gotten great adoption by consumers or general acceptance by industry stakeholders because the patient health data wasn’t portable or incorporated into EHRs.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Here’s a deal that Steve Linke, Associate Director Open Development at Verizon Wireless hinted at last month at MobiHealthNews Presents, Everywhere Healthcare: Verizon Wireless announced an “initiative” with BL Healthcare, a number of customers and third-party providers to jointly trial next-generation solutions for the delivery of remote healthcare applications and services to patients.
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Pantaleon, Acumeme
“Healthcare is the world’s most information intensive industry. Every day this industry produces massive volumes of data that, if properly used, can improve clinical practice and outcomes, guide planning and resource allocation, and enhance accountability.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Medicare beneficiaries are using the Internet to help manage their health, according to a Kaiser Permanente survey.
The California-based healthcare organization surveyed 4,560 seniors about their comfort in using computers, Internet use habits and health status, including chronic conditions and prescriptions.
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Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, ICTconsequences
“Information access and distribution are growing and the ways in which this information and knowledge democratisation occurs are many, scattered and diverse.
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“Incredible idea! What might be the next step? I’m just wondering…”
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Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll, 14 December 2008
