VA to trace veterans’ medical history
Shelia M. Poole, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“The Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center is one of 50 nationwide selected as an enrollment site for the Million Veteran Program.
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Medical History
Electronic personal health records easy way to track family’s health
Suzanne Kantra, Digital Life on Today
“My family’s health record currently consists of a folder stuffed with — physicals, hospital forms, test results. I’ve been fortunate in that my kids have been healthy and they’ve all had the same doctor since birth, so I haven’t really worried about it. But what if something went wrong or we moved? Would I have a complete health record to share in an emergency or with a new doctor?
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Electronic family history tool screens for risks during pregnancy
Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“Healthcare providers using a new computerized family history tool may soon be able to screen expectant mothers for risk of problems during pregnancy.
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Cloud Storage A Good Match For Healthcare
George Crump, InformationWeek
“Cloud storage has a role to play in many organizations. It can be used as part of the backup and archive processes and in some cases even used for primary storage. There are specific enterprise vertical markets however where cloud storage can be especially beneficial.
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The Never Identified Patient
T.P. Caruso & Associates
“Think about it. I walk into a doctors office and instead of giving my name, I give them a way to access all my medical information that does not release my identity. The doctor, who has read the medical information, meets with me and I respond to his questions. The doctor uses this information to develop a diagnosis and a care plan.
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Personal records keep an eye on your health
Katherine Dedyna, Postmedia
“It’s your health, but a personal record – never mind a family’s – can get long, complicated and confusing to recall on the spot, especially in an emergency. Moreover, thousands of Canadian residents don’t have general practitioners keeping records for them.
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Personal medical record archive
RayOnStorage Blog
“I was reading a book the other day and it suggested that sometime in the near future we will all have a personal medical record archive. Such an archive would be a formal record of every visit to a healthcare provider, with every x-ray, MRI, CatScan, doctor’s note, blood analysis, etc. that’s ever done to a person.
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Health literacy and task environment influence parents’ burden for data entry on child-specific health information: randomized controlled trial
Porter SC et al, J Med Internet Res, 13(1)
Background:
Health care systems increasingly rely on patients’ data entry efforts to organize and assist in care delivery through health information exchange.
Objectives:
We sought to determine (1) the variation in burden imposed on parents by data entry efforts across paper-based and computer-based environments, and (2) the impact, if any, of parents’ health literacy on the task burden.
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Test-retest reliability in a computer-based medical history
Slack WV et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2010
The authors developed a computer-based medical history for patients to take in their homes via the internet. The history consists of 232 ‘primary’ questions asked of all patients, together with more than 6000 questions, explanations, and suggestions that are available for presentation as determined by a patient’s responses. The purpose of this research was to measure the test–retest reliability of the 215 primary questions that have preformatted, mutually exclusive responses of ‘Yes,’ ‘No,’ ‘Uncertain (Don’t know, Maybe),’ ‘Don’t understand,’ and ‘I’d rather not answer.’
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What if instead of “taking a history” we let patients “give us their history”?
3G Doctor Blog
“What if someone invented an interactive tool that could enable patients to take their own time giving this information to their Doctor in a standardised/familiar format prior to their consultation?
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Evaluation of family history information within clinical documents and adequacy of HL7 clinical statement and clinical genomics family history models for its representation: a case report
Melton GB et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(3)
Family history information has emerged as an increasingly important tool for clinical care and research. While recent standards provide for structured entry of family history, many clinicians record family history data in text. The authors sought to characterize family history information within clinical documents to assess the adequacy of existing models and create a more comprehensive model for its representation. Models were evaluated on 100 documents containing 238 sentences and 410 statements relevant to family history.
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Vendor exec: Electronic history-taking has clinical as well as administrative benefits
Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“Let’s face it, nobody likes the clipboard you’re supposed to fill out every time you visit the doctor. Electronic alternatives for taking patient histories–such as in-office kiosks and online patient portals–have been around for years, with a moderate amount of uptake, but the clipboard remains almost ubiquitous.
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La Sanidad Digital en el Sistema Nacional de Salud español
Apiscam
“El Gobierno de España y las CCAA han impulsado desde 2006 la extensión de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en el área de la salud con programas como Sanidad en Línea.
La Historia clínica digital (HCD) y la receta electrónica son dos de las iniciativas más avanzadas de la e-health en España.
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Electronic health records system improves patient care
Meghan McCormick, The Norman Transcript
“Norman Physician Hospital Organization and Norman Regional Health System have developed a database that allows doctors to share medical history with each other.
To ensure privacy, patient permission must be granted before the information can be shared.
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Historia Clínica Electrónica para iPod de Epocrates
Aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“Durante la conferencia HIMSS10 que se ha celebrado en Atlanta durante los días 1-4 de este mes la gente de HealthcareIT News fue visitando cada uno de los ’stand’ para conocer las novedades y los objetivos de cada uno de los grupos empresariales. La entrevista con el representante de epocrates nos da una idea del volumen de negocio de esta industria; según sus datos 275000 médicos en los Estados Unidos utilizan su aplicación para smartphones.
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Los catalanes podrán acceder a su historial clínico por Internet a partir de julio
El País
La consulta del historial clínico a través de Internet en Cataluña empezará a aplicarse a partir del segundo semestre de 2010, según anunció hoy la consellera de Salud, Marina Geli.
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HHS teams with Microsoft on personal health app
John Moore, Government Health IT
“The Department of Health and Human Services is reaching out to third-party personal health record applications to extend its Internet-based family history health tool.
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Medicare’s New Online Personal Health Records Service Helps Fulfill New Year’s Resolutions to Live Healthier
PRWeb
“A new service from Medicare called Personal Health Records (PHR) can help people say on top of their medical history. The benefits of an online Personal Health Record (PHR) can help fulfill New Year’s resolutions to live healthier in 2010. A Web-based PHR keeps medical information at one’s fingertips, reduces paperwork and helps doctors provide the proper care for their patients. Most people see more than one doctor and fill more than one prescription.
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Cuatro aspectos esenciales sobre Data Centers
Somos Medicina
“Los Data Center son esas enormes habitaciones acondicionadas para alojar nuestra Vida Virtual. En ellos se acumulan kilómetros de cables, Terabytes de información y por supuesto un buen puñado de datos altamente confidenciales.
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Patients’ medical notes to be made electronic
Denis Campbell, The Observer
“The NHS is abandoning handwritten files of medical notes, sometimes several inches thick, and finally introducing electronic records of patients’ conditions, medications and allergies.
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