Terry Ketchersid, Acumen Nephrology EHR Blog
“Last week I attended the AMIA meeting in Washington DC. On Monday a couple of members of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Staff led a session cleverly entitled, “Tablets in Healthcare: Not Just for Pills Anymore.”
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Healthcare IT News
“A new center that aims to develop technologies that will help to improve the access and cost of healthcare delivery is being launched by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Kathleen Lau, IT World Canada
“The icing on the cake for Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences is the 40 tablet PCs it successfully deployed late last year for mobile information access after having shifted from paper-based patient charts to an entirely digital environment.
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El cuaderno de bitácora de Fran Sánchez
“Como bien señala la fuente de nuestra entrada de hoy, en las últimas décadas, la Medicina ha pasado de ser una disciplina practicada en los hogares a realizarse en enormes instalaciones hiperespecializadas.
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Aim
The aim of the paper was to identify the models of information exchange for UK telehealth systems.
Methodology
Twelve telehealth offerings were evaluated and models representing the information exchange routes were constructed. Questionnaires were used to validate the diagrammatical representations of the models with a response rate of 55%.
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John DeGaspari, Healthcare Informatics
“I recently had an opportunity to speak with Mark Neuenschwander, an expert in drug dispensing automation and an advocate for the use of barcode point-of-care systems in hospitals. His goal, he says, is to “get the nation collectively off the dime and to do barcoding at all points-of-care all of the time.”
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Epstein BA et al, Journal of the Medical Library Association, 98(3)
Question:
What is the process of developing a clinical information tool to be embedded in the electronic health record of a very large and diverse academic medical center?
Setting:
The development took place at the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System.
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Cabarcos A et al, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 5(4)
Nowadays, medical practice needs, at the patient Point-of-Care (POC), personalised knowledge adjustable in each moment to the clinical needs of each patient, in order to provide support to decision-making processes, taking into account personalised information. To achieve this, adapting the hospital information systems is necessary. Thus, there is a need of computational developments capable of retrieving and integrating the large amount of biomedical information available today, managing the complexity and diversity of these systems.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“A handful of hospitals and physician groups in the Bloomington, Ind., area are in various stages of EMR implementation. Those who are live are relaying the benefits of having patient information at the point of care.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Veterans Affairs Department plans to expand its use of information technology and telecommunications – including mobile and landline phones and video conferencing – to deliver health care to aging veterans and others who suffer from chronic conditions, according to senior telehealth official.
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Joseph Kim, Medical Smartphones
“Compared to today’s medical breakthroughs, hospital communication systems fail to keep pace. Outdated paging systems and multiple communications device cause confusion and reduce efficiency in hospitals. Smartphones offer a solution to many of today’s healthcare communication issues.
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PRNewswire
“From the floor of the National Association for Home Care’s (NAHC) 29th Annual Conference & Exhibition, Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX) today introduced Allscripts Mobile Homecare™, an extension of the Allscripts Homecare solution and the industry’s first smartphone application specifically designed for physical therapists, nurse assistants and other clinicians who care for patients in their homes.
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Alan Brookstone, Canadian EMR
“The Canadian Medical Association’s recent Health Care Transformation in Canada report calls for a fundamental change in the way healthcare technology is developed. The CMA wants information technology development to shift from building an information superhighway for healthcare to practical applications of technology at the point-of-care.
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Healthcare IT News
“Reinforcing its leadership in the rapidly growing telemedicine market, TANDBERG (OSLO: TAA) today expanded its award-winning telehealth offerings with the introduction of the new TANDBERG Clinical Presence System (CPS). Available in the U.S. and Canada, the CPS is the first teleconferencing solution designed collaboratively with medical professionals to offer the functionality and flexibility needed for use in medical institutions at the point of care.
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EMR Daily News
“VitalHealth Software (www.vitalhealthsoftware.com) has entered into collaboration with Mayo Clinic to develop a next-generation Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed to support the workflow of primary care physicians.
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Shojania KG et al, CMAJ, 182(5)
Background:
The opportunity to improve care using computer reminders is one of the main incentives for implementing sophisticated clinical information systems. We conducted a systematic review to quantify the expect ed magnitude of improvements in processes of care from computer reminders delivered to clinicians during their routine activities.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Solo physicians and small practices will soon have a new low-cost electronic health records (EHR) solution option available to them from a brand they may know very well: Epocrates. The popular point-of-care mobile application provider will soon launch its own “mobile and Web-based” EHR (notice they put “mobile” first.)
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Business Wire
“Building on its leadership in providing innovative mobile medical reference tools for physicians, Epocrates, Inc. announced today that it will soon enter the electronic health records (EHR) market with the development of a new EHR solution. The company is designing a mobile and web-based offering that meets the unique needs of solo and small group physician practices.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Smartphones are so popular in medicine now that some health professionals “don’t know how colleagues manage without them,” C. Peter Waegemann, vice president of development for the Boston-based mHealth Initiative, tells Healthcare IT News.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“The introduction of a medical check list for the iPhone could be a benefit to providers as mobile technology is quickly being integrated into the care process.
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