CMIO
“A recent study examining the effects of introducing health IT in long-term care found that nursing home residents responded positively to health IT, but no significant care improvements were realized, according to a recent article published online in the Journal of Aging and Health.
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Pillemer K et al, Journal of Aging and Health, 2011
OBJECTIVE:
To examine the effects of electronic health information technology (HIT) on nursing home residents.
METHODS:
The study evaluated the impact of implementing a comprehensive HIT system on resident clinical, functional, and quality of care outcome indicators as well as measures of resident awareness of and satisfaction with the technology. The study used a prospective, quasi-experimental design, directly assessing 761 nursing home residents in 10 urban and suburban nursing homes in the greater New York City area.
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Rantz MJ et al, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 11(7)
Objective
There is growing political pressure for nursing homes to implement the electronic medical record (EMR) but there is little evidence of its impact on resident care. The purpose of this study was to test the unique and combined contributions of EMR at the bedside and on-site clinical consultation by gerontological expert nurses on cost, staffing, and quality of care in nursing homes.
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Amir Hannan
“On 26th May 2010, Dr Hannan presented to the Primary Health Care Specialist Group summer conference how access to the GP electronic health records may help residents in Nursing Homes. He talked about how successful access to the GP records has been in general at Haughton Thorney Medical Centres for those patients that are able to provide an EXPLICIT CONSENT process.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“A GP is to explore giving nursing home staff electronic access to patient records in a move he claims could save the NHS millions of pounds.
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ScienceDaily
“Front-line staff in the nursing and care sector would welcome sensor and robot technology in nursing homes and the homes of elderly people.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“A Norwegian study has shown that staff in the nursing care sector would welcome sensor and robot technology in the homes of the elderly and in nursing homes.
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“A unique and innovative telemedicine project is providing nursing home patients that have Parkinson’s disease access to neurologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). The effort is a joint initiative between URMC and the Presbyterian Home for Central New York in New Hartford, a 250 bed nursing home near Utica and about 150 miles from Rochester.
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Emily Beaver, Health Leaders Media
“Few nursing homes are using electronic health records that allow them to share information with other healthcare providers—a standard known in the technology world as “interoperability.”
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