Preventive Care
Wright A et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 27(1)
BACKGROUND
Provider and patient reminders can be effective in increasing rates of preventive screenings and vaccinations. However, the effect of patient-directed electronic reminders is understudied.
OBJECTIVE
To determine whether providing reminders directly to patients via an electronic Personal Health Record (PHR) improved adherence to care recommendations.
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16 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Alert/Reminder, Decision Support, phr, Preventive Care, trials
Krist AH et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 11(1)
Background
Evidence-based preventive services offer profound health benefits, yet Americans receive only half of indicated care. A variety of government and specialty society policy initiatives are promoting the adoption of information technologies to engage patients in their care, such as personal health records, but current systems may not utilize the technology’s full potential.
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27 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): phr, Preventive Care, Usability
Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“In a New York City program that subsidized doctors’ electronic health records (EHRs) in return for sharing quality data with the city, physicians showed significant improvements on eight of 10 preventive care indicators, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
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7 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Preventive Care, Primary Care
De Leon SF, Shih SC. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
The Primary Care Information Project is a New York City initiative aimed at improving population health through the improved delivery of preventive care. It has assisted with the adoption of a fully functional electronic health record (EHR) in over 300 primary care practices. Practices with EHRs automatically transmit summary data that can be used to track population health indicators for recommended preventive care. Early analysis, focusing on small practices with fewer than 10 providers serving Medicaid and uninsured populations, showed increases in the delivery of recommended services of 0.1–2.4% per month (p≤0.05).
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21 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adoption, Preventive Care, Primary Care
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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22 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Europe | Tag(s): Mental Health, Patient Centric, Personal Health Systems, Preventive Care, Virtual Reality
Lau F et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(6)
The purpose of this review is to consolidate existing evidence from published systematic reviews on health information system (HIS) evaluation studies to inform HIS practice and research. Fifty reviews published during 1994-2008 were selected for meta-level synthesis. These reviews covered five areas: medication management, preventive care, health conditions, data quality, and care process/outcome. After reconciliation for duplicates, 1276 HIS studies were arrived at as the non-overlapping corpus. On the basis of a subset of 287 controlled HIS studies, there is some evidence for improved quality of care, but in varying degrees across topic areas. For instance, 31/43 (72%) controlled HIS studies had positive results using preventive care reminders, mostly through guideline adherence such as immunization and health screening. Key factors that influence HIS success included having in-house systems, developers as users, integrated decision support and benchmark practices, and addressing such contextual issues as provider knowledge and perception, incentives, and legislation/policy.
24 October 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): health-information-system, Preventive Care, Quality
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As doctors increasingly extract more data from the health IT they’ve deployed, a new study finds that software that tracks population health at physician practices is very limited.
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11 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Education, Preventive Care
David Doherty, mobihealthnews
Forget about remote monitoring, wearable sensors, NFC/RFID, smartphones, software apps, GPS, mEHR’s, video messaging, 3G video calling and SMS.
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21 August 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): Cellphone, mHealth, Preventive Care, Primary 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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23 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adoption, Chronic Diseases, Data Sharing, Devices, Health Information Technology, HealthVault, Incentives, Monitoring, Prevention, Preventive Care
John Timmer, Ars Technica
“Google and Microsoft find themselves competitors in a variety of areas, including the field of electronic medical records (EMR), where they are going up against a number of entrenched players. Because of the potential barriers for interoperability among these systems, early wins and signs of momentum may be key.
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21 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Alert/Reminder, HealthVault, phr, Preventive Care
