Leung AA et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2011
BACKGROUND
It is uncertain if computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems are effective at reducing adverse drug event (ADE) rates in community hospitals, where mainly vendor-developed applications are used.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the impact of vendor CPOE systems on the frequency of ADEs.
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Alicia Caramenico, FierceHealthcare
“Hospitals are coming under fire for using private health and financial records to target affluent or privately insured patients, according to Kaiser Health News and USA Today.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Doctors are using iPads in huge numbers for personal life project management. 80% of doctors are excited about using them in clinical practice. But when it comes to clinical applications, don’t confuse physicians’ desire for mobility with their current use of iPads in everyday practice.
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Ken Congdon, Healthcare Technology Online
“As consumers in the age of infomercials, many of you have probably seen television spots for the Roomba — a robotic vacuum cleaner that automatically sweeps the floor without the aid of a human operator. Who would have thought that the next big market opportunity for iRobot Corporation (www.irobot.com) — the makers of the Roomba — would be in healthcare?
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Anne Zieger, Hospital EMR and EHR
“When the triage nurse asked my kid to step on the scale, she wrote the result on her hand. Then she measured his height. She recorded that on her palm, as well. As she took his blood pressure, pulse ox and temperature, she transferred the data from her palm to a yellow sticky, and then into the EMR.
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Chad Johnson, Healthcare IT News
“With Meaningful Use requirements, connecting to Health Information Exchanges, coordinating data flow in Accountable Care Organizations, updating devices to ICD-10 codes and general interoperability projects, there is a tremendous amount of work going on in Health IT.
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Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“Information silos in healthcare settings are a primary reason why available data often isn’t used to its fullest potential, concludes Russ Richmond, M.D., CEO of McKinsey Healthcare’s Objective Health consulting firm, in a new post that appears on The Health Care Blog.
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Chad Johnson, Healthcare IT News
“With Meaningful Use requirements, connecting to Health Information Exchanges, coordinating data flow in Accountable Care Organizations, updating devices to ICD-10 codes and general interoperability projects, there is a tremendous amount of work going on in Health IT.
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Sabrina Rodak, Becker's Orthopedic, Spine & Pain Management
“Telemedicine and telehealth have the potential to increase access to care, improve quality of care and decrease costs. For instance, the American Telemedicine Association proposed legislation that would expand telemedicine and save an estimated $186 million over the next 10 years.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The idea has been that these HIEs would knit different ambulatory practices together, giving physicians using disparate Electronic Health Records systems a common place to exchange clinical data with each other – at first, it would simply be the summary data (problem lists, medication lists, allergies, immunizations, and lab results) that could be encoded in standard-format transport files (CCDs or CCRs). More robust full-document exchange of complete chart notes, imaging files, etc., would come later.
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Nancy Fliesler, Vector
“Your child has been in the hospital and it’s discharge day. It’s a chaotic scene: You’re trying to take care of him and maybe his little sister who keeps running down the hall, while completing hospital paperwork and packing your bags.
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Newsham D et al, ElectronicHealthcare, 10(3)
Significant progress is being made in the clinical adoption of electronic records in hospitals, regions, clinics, communities and jurisdictions across Canada. The goal of such adoption is to enable continuing improvements in patient care quality, safety and effectiveness at a time when the healthcare system faces increasing performance, capacity and sustainability pressures. We know that transformative changes involving the implementation of new information systems and technologies do not occur overnight – adoption is a journey and the realization of the full benefits of our investments will require sustained effort, innovation and continuous learning for health informatics professionals along with our clinical colleagues.
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Nearly 70 percent of hospitals are building or planning to build the infrastructure for a health information exchange, according to a survey of 200 hospital executives by Beacon Partners, a health IT consulting firm.
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Nari Kannan, SearchHealthIT
“The Ottawa (Ontario) Hospital is the largest acute care hospital in Canada, with 1,163 beds and 11,967 staff members, among them 1,159 attending physicians and 3,886 registered nurses. The hospital announced in December that it will use Aruba Networks Inc.’s WiFi Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) system to connect 3,000 Apple devices — including iPads, iPhones and iPod Touch units — at the medical facility.
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Anne Zieger, Hospital EMR and EHR
“To date, few hospital IT administrators have whole hog into supporting Apple devices, though many facilities are testing them out. Most testers have found that neither the smartphone nor the tablet work well as clinical data entry devices, and some have actually ended i-whatever pilots when doctors refused to use them.
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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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chiscosayans, doctordoctores
“Me recomendaba el otro día mi compi @josecdiaz un post titulado: A medida que los Smartphones se han más inteligentes, tú te pones más sano. He de decir que el título del post es, cuanto menos, resultón, aunque puede llegar a originar un poquito de controversia.
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Burke RV et al, Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 47(1)
PURPOSE
During a disaster, hospitals may be overwhelmed and have an insufficient number of pediatric specialists available to care for injured children. The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of remotely providing pediatric expertise via a robot to treat pediatric victims.
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Nicole Lewis, EBN
“Many hospitals experiencing electronic patient data growth can gain enormous benefits from cloud technology, which creates data storage efficiencies and can provide an alternative to costly storage infrastructure systems.
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