Healthcare IT News
“A new center that aims to develop technologies that will help to improve the access and cost of healthcare delivery is being launched by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Senior Housing News
“The need for caregivers to stay connected to love ones and service providers for knowledge and support continues to be critical according to a new study by the National Alliance for Caregiving and UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).
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NAC/UnitedHealthcare
This report describes the results of a study conducted to examine family caregivers’ receptivity to technology. In particular, the study assessed how helpful 12 technologies would be in supporting caregivers or helping them provide care. These 12 technologies can be viewed as characteristic of the types of technologies that might be attractive to technology‑using family caregivers.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“A new survey sponsored by the National Alliance for Caregiving and UnitedHealthcare highlights the ways emerging technologies can alleviate the financial and emotional burdens on family members caring for sick or disabled loved ones.
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Andreassen HK. Social Science & Medicine, 2010
There is increasing interest in using electronic mail and other electronic health technologies (e-health technologies) in patient follow-ups. This study sheds light on patients’ reception of provider-initiated e-health in their everyday environments. In a research project carried out in Norway (2005-2007), an electronic address for a hospital dermatology ward was offered to 50 patient families for improved access to expert advice from the patients’ homes. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 12 families, this paper explores how the electronic address was integrated into everyday health practice. The research illuminates how the electronic address did not only represent changes related to treatment procedures and frequency or nature of expert contact; it was also important to other practices in the everyday lives of the families of patients with chronic illness.
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Gaynor M et al, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 3(3/4)
This paper discusses how to share medical information between heterogeneous applications via web services. Our design theory is based on a real-options framework, performance analysis and experience building iRevive, a working web-services-enabled pre-hospital documentation application.
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Bennett K et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(5)
Security considerations are an often overlooked and underfunded aspect of the development, delivery, and evaluation of e-mental health interventions although they are crucial to the overall success of any eHealth project. The credibility and reliability of eHealth scientific research and the service delivery of eHealth interventions rely on a high standard of data security. This paper describes some of the key methodological, technical, and procedural issues that need to be considered to ensure that eHealth research and intervention delivery meet adequate security standards.
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Joseph Kim, Medicine and Technology
“What is a physician technologist? You won’t find this job description too often. There is no formal medical specialty that gives anyone the title or designation of “physician technologist.”
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The Medical News
“Members of IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional association, are advancing the application of engineering sciences and technology with medicine and biology to make healthcare personal again.
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Wang L. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 11(6)
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) can improve services and management in medical and healthcare systems. It helps monitor patients, link patients with key drugs and personnel, and track medical devices and potentially hazardous materials in hospitals. In telemedicine, RFID integrated with sensors can monitor blood products’ temperature, send patients’ physiological status, and identify patients’ locations in case of emergency.
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Ilioudi S et al, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 5(4)
Achieving benefits from the introduction of ICTs as part of processes aimed at building sustainable self-efficacy and self-management is very difficult, not least because of a desire to avoid simply replacing patient dependency on health professionals with dependency on technology. Chronic illnesses require ongoing attention that differs from traditional, encounter-based care for acute illnesses. Patients with chronic illnesses such as asthma, cardiovascular disease, depression, diabetes, heart failure and migraine headaches play a central role in managing the broad array of factors that contribute to their health. Individuals with diabetes, for example, provide close to 95% of their own care.
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Michael Kirsch, KevinMD
“Folks across the country are paying hard cash for total body scans, abdominal aortic aneurysm testing, CAT coronary artery scans and carotid artery evaluations to prevent disease or find important lesions early. It’s a seductive argument, and it’s a scam.
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Umejei CN, Wiafe D. International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2(4)
The emergence of the internet coupled with its increase in bandwidth and overall accessibility to the populace has redefined the human interactions. However, despite sporadic growth of technology adoption in most facets of everyday living, there appears to be a lag as it pertains to healthcare.
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Ortega Egea JM et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2010
Purpose
This paper provides a five-year (2002-2007) comparative segmentation analysis of how the Internet and dedicated health networks are used by European general practitioners (GPs) and the extent to which external factors affect their use of various eHealth services.
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Steve Lohr, The New York Times
“Mention health care reform and the image that instantly comes to mind is a big government program. But there is another broad transformation in health care under way, a powerful force for decentralized innovation. It is fueled in good part by technology — low-cost computing devices, digital sensors and the Web.
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Jennifer Ruzek Liebermann, The Health Care Blog
“To explore answers to that, this week I am joining with physicians, nurses and design thinking, quality and innovation experts from the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and Kaiser Permanente for three days in South Devon, England
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Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, ICTconsequences
“I have collected all the presentations in the same post to summarise the information. Thank you very much indeed to all the participants for these inspiring and wonderful days.
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Colin Barras, New Scientist
“While we don’t yet have holographic physicians to consult, healthcare is moving online, encouraged by an international coalition of medical and technology companies.
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Jeff Blander, SciDev Net
“Globally, just ten per cent of medical research and discovery budgets target the 80 per cent of people who live on less than US$10 a day.
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Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau, Helen Rebecca Schindler, Lorenzo Valeri, Anna-Marie Vilamovska, Evi Hatziandreu, Annalijn Conklin
“This report provides an assessment of the main drivers, obstacles and uncertainties surrounding the deployment of RFID in healthcare in Europe. It identifies the most promising RFID applications in healthcare delivery by reviewing potential for increasing patient safety and the reduction of costs.
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