Raymond Rendleman, The Lund Report
“Technology is changing so quickly that state officials and advocates overseeing more streamlined transfers of health information in Oregon are scrambling to keep up.
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Robert C. Davis, McKnight's
“There is little doubt that these are difficult times for long-term care providers. Margins are tight, new regulations are constantly emerging, and staff turnover is a chronic problem. Given these and other challenges, it’s more important that operators carefully manage every aspect of care delivery and overall operations.
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Andrew R. Watson, mHIMSS
“Our industry has been deeply engaged in spirited debate, dialogue and discussion these past several years – most of it centered on the future of healthcare.
And if there’s anything this discourse has revealed it’s that everything old is new again.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“The market for health and wellness has traditionally included over-the-counter medicines, gym memberships, and vitamins/minerals/supplements. In 2012, the boundaries of health/wellness are blurring beyond these line items toward preventive medical services and consumer electronics.
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“Who’s more important to the advancement of mHealth – the physician or the patient?
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ePractice EU
“The Strategy contains a foreword by the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy, and sets out the Scottish Government’s vision for eHealth in 2017. The strategy is ambitious; it has the citizen at its centre; and seeks to build on the significant progress that was made collectively over the course of the last three years.
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Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“Thanks to new PC-based software, patients living with cancer can track, organize document, monitor and share information associated with their illness, treatment and recovery.
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Jim Anderson, JAAPA
“Even for those of us not paying much attention to the world of Health Information Technology (and if you are in clinical practice and not doing do, you will soon enough), it’s clear that most of the discussions taking place in the medical arena about HIT focus on providers, not patients. This issue has come up before in this blog, and will no doubt come up again, because it’s pretty darned salient.
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Steve, EMR Daily News
“The theme of Mr. Tempesco’s presentation was that, while numerous forms of organizational structures have attempted to create value from health data exchange, including Community Health Information Organizations and Regional Health Information Organizations, ACOs may in fact be the model that will finally cause the financial need for clinical data exchange that has eluded healthcare delivery for decades.
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Two of the most important developments in ambulatory practice over the past 20 years are the advent of patient and relationship-centered care (PRCC) and electronic health records (EHRs). However, there is a large gap in knowledge and practice between PRCC and EHR use. We believe the integration of PRCC with EHRs has the potential to personalize care, improve population-based care, and increase patient involvement.
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Brita Van Fossen, Health IT Pulse
“With so much discussion surrounding the achievement of meaningful use, electronic health record (EHR) implementation and the consequent ability to produce a more patient-centered environment, it’s easy to lose sight of the reality of the situation.
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eHealth Initiative
“Electronic health records (EHRs) are considered an essential ingredient of care coordination by Medical Homes; however, detailed descriptions of how it actually happens in real life are rarely found. eHealth Initiative, working with sanofi-aventis and Health & Technology Vector (H&TV), recently concluded an exploratory project to understand how eHRs can be used to improve care coordination for complex patients.
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Greg Freiherr, Carestreamhealth
“Patients are increasingly demanding access to electronic medical records. This is happening at precisely the time when advances in consumer electronics and healthcare IT are converging to provide the means to make this possible. Mobile devices, Droids, iPhones and tablets are proliferating.
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Sullivan-Taylor P et al, International Perspectives in Health Informatics, 2011
Primary Health Care (PHC) is the most common health care experienced by Canadians and is an important source of chronic disease prevention and management; however, PHC providers say they have little information about their patient populations, especially groups of patients with multiple conditions. The Canadian Institute for Health Information in collaboration with 50 PHC providers examined the ability to extract and use a subset of PHC EMR data from four disparate environments in an agreed and privacy sensitive manner.
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Archer N et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 18(4)
Electronic personal health record systems (PHRs) support patient centered healthcare by making medical records and other relevant information accessible to patients, thus assisting patients in health self-management. We reviewed the literature on PHRs including design, functionality, implementation, applications, outcomes, and benefits. We found that, because primary care physicians play a key role in patient health, PHRs are likely to be linked to physician electronic medical record systems, so PHR adoption is dependent on growth in electronic medical record adoption.
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Riva G et al, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 18 - NextMed, 2011
Since the European funded project VREPAR–Virtual Reality in Neuro-Psycho-Physiology (1995)–different European research activities have been using virtual reality and advanced information and communication technologies to improve the quality of care in the treatment of many different mental health disorders including anxiety disorders, eating disorders and obesity. Now the European Commission funding is shifting from the traditional hospital-centred and reactive healthcare delivery model toward a person-centred and preventive one.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“The National Partnership last week led a coalition of 27 consumer, labor and patient advocacy groups called the Consumer Partnership for eHealth in releasing a potentially groundbreaking document that spells out a vision for a communication-centric healthcare system that makes patients the leaders and partners in their own wellness and care.
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Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“The term patient-centered has become a serious contender for the most flippantly used term in health care publications and conversations. Of course meaningful use is still #1 on the popularity charts, with ACO quickly moving up, but even meaningful use and ACO are almost always accompanied by patient-centered as a way to add legitimacy and desirability to the constructs.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Whatever happens in Washington with healthcare reform, the industry is moving toward a patient-centered care model. Whether it’s called a patient-centered medical home or an accountable care organization, the goals are the same – to improve quality of care, reduce inefficiencies and therefore costs and medical errors, and empower patients to be part of their health and wellness.
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Doug Trapp, amednews
“New medical home standards released by the National Committee for Quality Assurance on Jan. 31 place greater emphasis on patient feedback, access to physicians and care coordination.
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