mHealth: Remote Patient Monitoring Is On The Rise, With Smartphones Leading The Way
Rip Empson, TechCrunch
“Last month, we took a look at some of the ways mobile technology is transforming the health industry.
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5 stages of EHR maturity and patient collaboration
Michelle McNickle, Healthcare IT News
“By now, it’s apparent EHRs need to grow up. But, as patient-centered business models become increasingly popular, the EHR is also shifting into a vital part of the success of these organizations.
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Hospitals criticized for patient data-mining
Alicia Caramenico, FierceHealthcare
“Hospitals are coming under fire for using private health and financial records to target affluent or privately insured patients, according to Kaiser Health News and USA Today.
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GE rolls out patient portal
Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT The Health Record Review
“Does the real key to the health IT transition lie in getting patients to take responsibility for their own healthcare?
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Two Studies Find that Patients Want Access to their Health Records, Including Clinical Pathology Test Data
Dark Daily
“Data from two studies here in the United States affirms that patients want access to their health records. Consequently, health systems are increasingly making it easier for patients to get access to prescription lists, medical laboratory test results and now even doctors’ notes.
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Eric Topol: Patients Need To Demand, “Show Me My Data!”
Elizabeth Weingarten, Slate
“Eric Topol wants to digitize you. No, he doesn’t want to transform your body into a pixelated hologram or morph your visage into a virtual avatar.
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Why patients with implantable defibrillators deserve their data
David Lee Scher, KevinMD
“The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on February 17, 2009.
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Using Electronic Medical Records as patient teaching tools
Sheri Ross, Technology for Doctors Online
“Healthcare providers have a unique opportunity to not only address current or anticipated health problems with their patients, but also to help patients avoid future negative health consequences by teaching them how to care for themselves. Regular reinforcement increases the likelihood that patients will adhere to the concepts being taught.
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Why Cardiac Device Companies Want Patients to See Their Own Data
David Lee Scher, The Digital Health Corner
“In an ongoing series, I have been touching on multiple issues involved in cardiac patients and the data derived from their implantable defibrillators and pacemakers, which is heretofore unavailable directly to them. I have not fully discussed the viewpoint of device companies for a few reasons. I wanted to explore the multiple aspects of the problem and give the patient’s view first.
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Five Reasons Why Physicians Don’t Want Patients to Have Their Cardiac Device Data
David Lee Scher, The Digital Health Corner
“There is a groundswell of discussion concerning patients demanding to have direct access to data derived from their implantable defibrillators and pacemakers. I have discussed in other articles why patients deserve their data and the benefits derived thereof.
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New online databases help patients find adverse event
Sara Jackson, FierceHealthIT
“Two health IT startups aim to help patients sift through the reams of adverse event data collected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal.
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Healthcare technology: A competitive advantage in improving the patient experience
Chad Johnson, Healthcare IT News
“With Meaningful Use requirements, connecting to Health Information Exchanges, coordinating data flow in Accountable Care Organizations, updating devices to ICD-10 codes and general interoperability projects, there is a tremendous amount of work going on in Health IT.
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El paciente y la historia electrónica: agitar antes de usar
Apiscam
“Tras la guerra por la puesta en marcha de los sistemas de historia clínica electrónica, que ha motivado el lanzamiento masivo y descoordinado de proyectos por parte de todos los servicios de salud, y la tardía intervención del Ministerio de Sanidad con un proyecto de historia clínica nacional
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How changing patient workflow can make using an EMR fun
Margaret Polaneczky, KevinMD
“One day, about 5 years into using the electronic medical record in my practice, I came to the realization that I wasn’t having fun anymore. I was sitting throughout most of every office encounter facing a computer screen, my back to the patient on the exam table across the room.
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Gesundheit: immer mehr Patienten informieren sich online
e-Health-com News
“Eine von Swisscom in Auftrag gegebene Studie zeigt, dass Patienten ihre Diagnosen vermehrt online überprüfen und ihren Arzt auf die Informationen aus dem Netz ansprechen.
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Cyberchondria: the one diagnosis patients miss
Christine S. Moyer, amednews
“When Chicago family physician Kit C. Lee, MD, asks patients for their symptoms during office visits, some already have diagnosed their illness.
By visiting the Internet first.
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Patients as partners in health IT
Sheryl Cash, amednews
“Like many practices, Women’s Wellness Place is continually upgrading its technology to better serve and empower providers and patients.
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Man with defibrillator wants to know what his heart is saying
Lisa M. Krieger, Mercury News
“Hugo Campos has a small computer buried in his chest to help keep him alive. But he has no idea what it says about his faulty heart.
All the raw data it collects, especially any erratic rhythms it controls with shocks, goes directly to the manufacturer. And some of it later gets sent to his doctor.
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Electronic health record goes personal world-wide
Li YC et al, Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2009(1)
OBJECTIVE
Increasing patient demand for convenient access to their own healthcare data has led to more personal use of the Electronic Health Record (EHR). With “consumer empowerment” being an important issue of EHR, we are seeing a more “patient-centric” approach of EHR from countries around the world. Researchers have reported on issues in EHR sharing including concerns on privacy and security, consumer empowerment, competition among providers, and content standards. This study attempts to analyze prior research and to synthesize comprehensive, empirically-based conceptual models of EHR for personal use.
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Study indicates type 2 diabetes patients could receive improved care with EMR
LawrenceG, Microwize Technology
“Under the HITECH Act, individual physicians and small medical facility managers who can illustrate “meaningful use” through their deployment of electronic medical records software are eligible for thousands of dollars in federal funding.
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