Few SMS health applications have been evaluated
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The Journal of Medical Internet Research recently published a research paper called, SMS Applications for Disease Prevention in Developing Countries
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Prevention
Short Message Service (SMS) Applications for Disease Prevention in Developing Countries
Déglise C et al, J Med Internet Res, 14(1)
Background:
The last decade has witnessed unprecedented growth in the number of mobile phones in the developing world, thus linking millions of previously unconnected people. The ubiquity of mobile phones, which allow for short message service (SMS), provides new and innovative opportunities for disease prevention efforts.
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Is Clinical Decision Support the Missing Link in Prevention?: Comment on “Shared Electronic Vascular Risk Decision Support in Primary Care”
Stafford RS, Romano MJ. Archives of Internal Medicine, 171(19)
Electronic health records (EHRs) are touted as a key strategy for reducing costs and improving quality in our health care system, which are both urgent goals. The shortcomings of our current system are perhaps most apparent in the provision of preventive services. Contrasted with treatment services focused on addressing symptomatic disease, preventive services aim to forestall or decrease future adverse health outcomes and thus improve quality of life, as well as life span.
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Beyond individual patient care: enhanced use of EMR data in a primary care setting
Tolar M, Balka E. International Perspectives in Health Informatics, 2011
With the introduction of electronic medical record (EMR) systems into the primary care sector the collected data become available for purposes beyond individual patient care, i.e. chronic disease management, prevention and clinical performance evaluation. However EMR systems are primarily designed to support clinical tasks, and physicians focus on the treatment of individual patients.
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New Caribbean Campaign Uses Cell Phones, Social Media to Fight Chronic Diseases
PAHO
“People throughout the Caribbean will soon be receiving text messages with tips on how to be healthier and prevent diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Through social networks, they’ll also be able to share their personal stories and ideas about healthy living, thanks to a campaign launched today by the Healthy Caribbean Coalition.
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Utility of electronic patient records in primary care for stroke secondary prevention trials
Dregan A et al, BMC Public Health, 11(1)
BACKGROUND:
This study aimed to inform the design of a pragmatic trial of stroke prevention in primary care by evaluating data recorded in electronic patient records (EPRs) as potential outcome measures. The study also evaluated achievement of recommended standards of care; variation between family practices; and changes in risk factor values from before to after stroke.
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Data mining looks for clues to prevention, treatment of depression
Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“Business intelligence specialists in Australia are examining how to mine patient data and clinician notes in search of better ways to diagnose and treat depression, a condition not linked to specific biological causes.
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Use remote monitoring for prevention, says West Wireless and Scripps leader Topol
Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“For all we’ve written about the West Wireless Health Institute and related institutions and activities in the San Diego area, we haven’t had much lately about Dr. Eric Topol, who co-founded the institute in La Jolla, Calif., last year.
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Communicating health promotion and disease prevention information to patients via email: a review
Atherton H et al, J Telemed Telecare, 16(4)
Email could be used in primary health-care settings for delivering health promotion and disease prevention information, providing an alternative method of delivery for brief interventions. We examined the literature on the use of email for this purpose. Systematic review methodology was used. The main medical databases were searched and there were no restrictions by study design, health-care setting or population.
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Preventing Falls Among the Elderly
Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Falls are one of the greatest risks to maintaining good health for millions of elderly Americans living at home today. “Falls Among the Elderly: Key is Prevention, Not Detection” is the featured topic of the newest installment of The Home Telehealth Community of Care web page at www.informationfortomorrow.com/community. This web page helps healthcare providers and family members find much needed information on developing tools and applications to prevent falls among the elderly.
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Text Messaging as a Tool for Behavior Change in Disease Prevention and Management
Cole-Lewis H, Kershaw T. Epidemiologic Reviews, 32(1)
Mobile phone text messaging is a potentially powerful tool for behavior change because it is widely available, inexpensive, and instant. This systematic review provides an overview of behavior change interventions for disease management and prevention delivered through text messaging. Evidence on behavior change and clinical outcomes was compiled from randomized or quasi-experimental controlled trials of text message interventions published in peer-reviewed journals by June 2009. Only those interventions using text message as the primary mode of communication were included.
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Reconstructing the Whole: Present and Future of Personal Health Systems
Cristiano Codagnone, PHS2020
“The book envisages the research themes needed to be funded and pursued in the future in order to infuse PHS with bio-medical knowledge, produce more intelligent data processing in support of decision making and actuation
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Online Tools to Transform the Way People Manage Their Health
PRWeb
“With the national debate on healthcare still churning, innovations in technology will have a bottom-line impact on people’s health. While a lot of attention has been paid to electronic health records, there is a new breed of technology aimed at preventative, integrative health solutions.
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The Myth of Prevention and EHR’s?
Scott Shreeve, Crossover Healthcare
“I was just referred this article which I found to be thoughtfully crafted. Abraham Verghese is a Professor and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University.
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Group tackles definition of ‘meaningful use’ for e-health records
Bob Brewin, NextGov
“The United States can develop an electronic health record system that could, within the next five years, help prevent a million heart attacks annually and reduce the number of medication errors by 50 percent, a top health official in New York City said on Tuesday.
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Telehealth interventions for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease
The Medical News
“The study’s senior investigator, Professor Ben Freedman from the Department of Cardiology at Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, Australia, says that the provision of “telehealth” models could help increase the uptake of coronary prevention activities
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Interoperability Summit: Establishing the Infrastructure for Health Assurance and Disease Prevention, Washington 1-2 June 2009
Michael L. Popovich, ICMCC
“Establishing infrastructure for health assurance and disease prevention through healthcare transformation was the theme of this invitation-only event.
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Microsoft: Dollars Won’t Cure Health Care
Peter Neupert, Forbes
“We’re all wondering how the billions of dollars that the Obama administration and Congress have committed will affect our nation and each of us as citizens. No area has more potential than health care, which represents a large portion of the economy and touches each of us so personally.
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Georgia portal to engage public in disease prevention
Heather Hayes, Government Health IT
“The Georgia Department of Human Resources’ Division of Public Health (DPH) said it will rely on MyHealthVillage.com, a Web portal from New Jersey-based Longitude Health, Inc., to promote heart health
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Why Technology is No Longer Optional in Public Health
Andre Blackman, The Health Care Blog
“So I just got back from a very informative & interactive event where I learned about the application of mobile technologies in creating social change.
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