Benefits Realization is a strategy for quality improvement used by the Alberta Health Services Information Technology Department. The approach is currently used within the enterprise-wide, ambulatory care IT initiative “eCLINICIAN.”
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Hoekstra R. Tijdschrift Voor Psychiatrie, 53(10)
Background
The internet used to be mainly ‘one-way traffic’ (1.0). Nowadays it is becoming easy for internet users to communicate with each other via the web (2.0).
Aim
To describe the concept of Health 2.0 and to explore the possibilities of 2.0-technology for psychiatry.
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Philip van de Poel, Skipr
“Zorgaanbieders hebben onvoldoende inzicht in de kosten en baten van informatietechnologie. Zo zijn ze niet in staat een prognose te geven van de ontwikkeling van de IT-uitgaven voor de komende drie tot vijf jaar.
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Eric Topol, ModernHealthcare
“Mobile digital devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and e-readers, have had a rapid and profound impact on our daily lives, affecting how we read, shop, play games, search for information, think and behave. This transformation was predicated on a mature Internet with highly developed wireless networks, ever-increasing bandwidth and pervasive connectivity.
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Margaret Mayer, EHRWatch
“As organizations move to implement electronic medical record (EMR) systems, they are quickly discovering there is a tremendous amount of manual data entry, or many tasks that are repetitive in nature, which delay the benefits of an EMR system.
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Linda Davidson, e-Health Insider Acute
“We have only just scratched the surface in developing information technology to optimise radiology practice, this week’s UKRC conference in Manchester has been told.
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Hussain AA. Annals of Internal Medicine, 154(10)
To reduce costs of care and improve quality, the federal government is stimulating adoption of health information technology through meaningful use policy. The legislation, however, is built on several assumptions that are unrealistic from a provider’s perspective-the group that is expected to purchase, use, and sustain the information technology infrastructure.
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PRWeb
“Scientific Technologies Corporation (STC), one of the nation’s leading public health and Health Information Exchange (HIE) organizations, has formed a Public Health Practice group. The goals of the group are to elevate STC’s reputation as a leader in public health, to support state, local, and national public health entities through assessments and studies, and to research and identify emerging public health business practices.
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Russ AL et al, Health Informatics Journal, 16(4)
The aim of this investigation was to assess helpful and challenging aspects of electronic health information with respect to clinical workflow and identify a set of characteristics that support patient care processes. We conducted 20 semi-structured interviews at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center, with a fully implemented electronic health record (EHR), and elicited positive and negative examples of how information technology (IT) affects the work of healthcare employees. Responses naturally shed light on information characteristics that aid work processes. We performed a secondary analysis on interview data and inductively identified characteristics of electronic information that support healthcare workflow.
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DesRoches CM, Health Affairs, 29(12)
Understanding the benefits of electronic prescribing systems has important implications for quality and efficiency in medical care. We surveyed physicians about their use of e-prescribing in outpatient practices. We found that physicians who use e-prescribing systems integrated into an electronic health record have different characteristics, usage patterns, perceived benefits, and levels of satisfaction than physicians who use stand-alone systems.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“The economic and financial crunch has led to the upheaval of many industries. Medical research has also been affected due to funding pressure increasing more than ever. However, future health challenges can only be met by consistently undertaking research and development in the medical realm, both technical and administrative.
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Gour N, Srivastava D. Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(9)
Information technology has radically changed the way that many people work and think. Over the years, technology has touched a new acme and now it is not confined to developed countries. Developing countries such as India have kept pace with the world in modern technology. Healthcare professionals can no longer ignore the application of information technology to healthcare because they are key to e-health. This study was conducted to enlighten the perspective and implications of computers among healthcare professionals, with the objective to assess the knowledge, use, and need of computers among healthcare professionals. A cross-sectional study of 240 healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, lab technicians, and pharmacists, was conducted. Each participant was interviewed using a pretested, semistructured format. Of 240 healthcare professionals, 57.91% were knowledgeable about computers.
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Mäkelä K et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(10)
We investigated factors that could govern the use and user competence of electronic patient record (EPR) systems used in Finnish primary healthcare in the county of South Ostrobothnia. A structured questionnaire was sent to 400 health center (HC) staff (general practitioner, nurse, and clerical) from eight HCs. The questions dealt with Information Technology (IT) management, use, and potential problems with EPR and user EPR training within the HC. The response rate to the questionnaire was 79%. This study shows that there are large differences in working practices and in the way EPR systems are managed and utilized in the primary care organizations studied.
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Basoglu N et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
This paper presents the patient preferences for an application in remote health monitoring. The data was collected through a mobile service prototype. Analytical Hierarchy Process and Conjoint Analysis were used to extract the patient preferences. The study was limited to diabetes and obesity patients in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Chris Gibbons, Healthcare Disparities Solutions Blog
“Advances in technology are changing almost every facet of US life including how Americans shop, bank and even elect their Presidents. This technology based transformation is now moving into the healthcare arena and has the potential to similarly transform Public Health.
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Chris Fleming, Health Affairs Blog
“While the share of U.S. hospitals that had adopted either basic or comprehensive electronic health records rose modestly between 2008 and 2009, from 8.7 percent to 11.9 percent, only 2 percent of this country’s hospitals reported having records that would meet the federal government’s “meaningful use” criteria.
These findings are reported today in a Health Affairs Web First article by Harvard’s Ashish Jha, who is serving as a senior adviser to the under secretary for health of the Veterans Health Administration and coauthors.
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Jha AK et al, Health Affairs, 29(10)
Given the substantial federal financial incentives soon to be available to providers who make “meaningful use” of electronic health records, tracking the progress of this health care technology conversion is a policy priority. Using a recent survey of U.S. hospitals, we found that the share of hospitals that had adopted either basic or comprehensive electronic records has risen modestly, from 8.7 percent in 2008 to 11.9 percent in 2009.
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Richard Smith, BMJ Blogs
“Why has the NHS been so much slower to use information technology than other sectors and what might be done to encourage it to speed up?
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Elizabeth Montalbano, InformationWeek
“A second attempt to build an outpatient-scheduling application at the Veterans Administration could fail if officials don’t address poor management of the project that plagued its first iteration, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.
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World Pharma News
“Pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research releases Taking the Pulse® Nurses v10.0, the latest iteration of its study focused on how nurses use digital resources, handheld devices, and other technologies in the professional setting.
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