Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Developers of GP desktop software working on NEHTA’s vendor panel expect the authority to be able to make a series of positive announcements in the early part of next year, as they make steady progress on key elements of the infrastructure needed to launch the nation’s ehealth revolution.
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Finkelstein SM et al, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 17(6)
We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the perception, satisfaction and utilization of a home telehealth service for frail elderly people living independently in their home communities. Control group subjects continued with their usual care and intervention group subjects were able to supplement their usual care with the use of a web portal. The web portal allowed videoconferencing and electronic messaging between home care nurses and clients, ordering health-related and home care services, access to health-related information and general access to the Internet. A total of 99 eligible people (59 female, 40 male) from one urban and one rural study site agreed to participate in the study. Eighty-four subjects were active participants for nine months.
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Linda Davidson, e-Health Insider
“US healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente has achieved a 58% adoption rate for its electronic personal health record among eligible members.
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n4a
“People of all ages are using the internet, cell phones and other technologies to communicate with family and friends in new and exciting ways. In a matter of seconds you can send a message to your son, receive a photo from your granddaughter or email an invitation to a family gathering.
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Christina's Considerations
“NCR got its start in banking, but healthcare is benefiting from their success as hospitals respond to the needs of ePatients and empower them to do more for themselves.
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Simon GE et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2011
BACKGROUND:
Quality of antidepressant treatment remains disturbingly poor. Rates of medication adherence and follow-up contact are especially low in primary care, where most depression treatment begins. Telephone care management programs can address these gaps, but reliance on live contact makes such programs less available, less timely, and more expensive.
OBJECTIVE:
Evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of a depression care management program delivered by online messaging through an electronic medical record.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“Online messaging can deliver organized follow-up care for depression effectively and efficiently, according to a randomized controlled trial of 208 Group Health patients. The Journal of General Internal Medicine published the results online earlier this month.
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Pablo Pazos Gutiérrez, Informática Médica y Estándares
“Hablar del estándar HL7 es difícil, no solo por su complejidad estructural, ya que está formado por conjunto de estándares, si no también porque es difícil elegir el enfoque.
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Heather Leslie, Archetypical
“Attending the International Council meetings on the first day of the recent Sydney HL7 meeting, the resounding theme was that of many countries focussed on messages, documents and terminology as the solution for our health IT future; our EHRs; health interoperability. 19 countries presented and 18 repeated this theme.
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Todd Neale, MedPage Today
“Direct outreach to patients — either electronically or through the mail — appears to be effective for increasing colorectal cancer screening rates in the short term, two randomized trials showed.
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Sequist TD et al, Arch Intern Med, 2010
Background
Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer mortality, yet effective screening tests are often underused. Electronic patient messages and personalized risk assessments delivered via an electronic personal health record could increase screening rates.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“With the initial model for the Direct Project, a streamlined version of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), decided a standards committee has been evaluating how well it stacks up technically against other point-to-point data exchange methods.
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melissaulbricht, MobileActive.org
“Over 5 million people in South Africa are living with HIV and the country has the highest burden of TB-HIV co-infection. TB treatment completion and cure rates fall below 50% in almost half of the districts. Project Masiluleke, Zulu for to give wise counsel or lend a helping hand, stepped up to the challenge and is using mobiles to provide end-to-end care through awareness, testing, and ensuring treatment compliance.
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Justine Cadet, CMIO
“The Privacy and Security Tiger Team has a finite amount of time to determine how to protect personal health information (PHI), particularly in the growing trend of message handling in directed exchanges where intermediaries may be required, and therefore, an increased exposure to risk, explained Deven McGraw, Chair of Privacy & Security Tiger Team, during the HIT Standards Committee meeting on June 30.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“GP practices in Birmingham have used text messaging to invite patients for vascular screening checks, generating a 44% response rate from patients.
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Adamson SC et al, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 85(8)
OBJECTIVE:
To study the use of e-visits in a primary care setting.
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Fred Trotter
“Beyond the security issues, there are good reasons to prefer any of the implementation protocols.
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Elizabeth Landau, CNN
“Before iPhones, Foursquare and Facebook, B.J. Fogg envisioned a mobile fitness device that coaches the user, tracks her location, and shows her friends also exercising at that time. The concept appeared in Fogg’s 1997 dissertation about how computing and psychology can merge to change behavior, and people thought the idea sounded “Star Trek-ish.”
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Jaan Sidorov, Disease Management Care Blog
“Did you know that in some countries, the number of cell phones in circulation exceeds the number of persons? That in the U.S., 58% of persons have sent text messages, 89% of teens use text messaging regularly and that 30% of teens do so daily?
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“A network of ophthalmology clinics in the Czech Republic are using text appointment reminder technology to interact with its patients throughout their care pathway.
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