Research
Gabriel Perna, Healthcare Informatics
“In the world of medical research, the emergence of the electronic medical record (EMR) in hospitals is a game-changer, giving researchers the opportunity to use large, previously unobtainable data sets for their studies. You don’t have to tell that to Atul Butte, M.D., director for the Center for Pediatric Bioinformatics at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (Palo Alto, Calif.) and associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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8 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Pain Management, Research
Christen Brownlee, Magazine of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
“mHealth is short for mobile health, a growing field that takes advantage of mobile communications devices—mostly cell phones—to enhance access to health information, improve distribution of routine and emergency health services, or provide diagnostic services.
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3 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): mHealth, Research
Brian Ahier, Ahier.net
“Led by researchers at University of Oxford (UK) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) at Harvard University, (USA), more than 50 collaborators at over 30 scientific organizations around the globe have agreed on a common standard that will make possible the consistent description of enormous and radically different databases compiled in fields ranging from genetics to stem cell science, to environmental studies.
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30 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Data Sharing, Genetics, Research, Standards, stem-cell
Ben Rooney, Wall Street Journal
“Big Data — the ability to collect, process and interpret massive amounts of information — is one of today’s most important technological drivers. While companies see it as a way of detecting weak market signals, one of the biggest potential areas of application for society is health care.
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20 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): Data, mHealth, Research
e-Health-com News
“Im Rahmen des europäischen Projektes „Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research” (EHR4CR) bauen Partner aus akademischer Forschung und Industrie bis 2014 gemeinsam eine europaweite Technologieplattform auf, die künftig die Sekundärnutzung von Daten aus elektronischen Patientenakten für die klinische Forschung ermöglichen soll.
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18 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Ethics, Legal, Research, Secondary Data Use
aerzteblatt.de
“Daten aus elektronischen Patientenakten (EPAs) für die klinische Forschung soll bis 2014 eine gemeinsame europaweite Technologieplattform nutzbar machen. Partner aus akademischer Forschung und Industrie bauen diese gerade im Rahmen des Projektes „Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research” (EHR4CR) auf.
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16 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Data Mining, Research
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) has been an ongoing effort to identify best-practices for health care, based on clinical evidence. The AHRQ defines comparative effectiveness as research “designed to inform health-care decisions by providing evidence on the effectiveness, benefits, and harms of different treatment options.”
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13 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Effectiveness, Research
Delaney BC et al, The Annals of Family Medicine, 10(1)
PURPOSE
The learning health care system refers to the cycle of turning health care data into knowledge, translating that knowledge into practice, and creating new data by means of advanced information technology. The electronic Primary Care Research Network (ePCRN) was a project, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, with the aim to facilitate clinical research using primary care electronic health records (EHRs).
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10 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Education, Primary Care, Research
Kim J et al, Healthcare Informatics Research, 17(1)
OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this study was to review history and trends of personal health record research in PubMed and to provide accurate understanding and categorical analysis of expert opinions.
METHODS
For the search strategy, PubMed was queried for ‘personal health record, personal record, and PHR’ in the title and abstract fields. Those containing different definitions of the word were removed by one-by-one analysis from the results, 695 articles. In the end, total of 229 articles were analyzed in this research.
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2 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): phr, Research
Terry AL et al, Family Practice, 27(1)
In Canada, use of electronic medical records (EMRs) among primary health care (PHC) providers is relatively low. However, it appears that EMRs will eventually become more ubiquitous in PHC. This represents an important development in the use of health care information technology as well as a potential new source of PHC data for research. However, care in the use of EMR data is required. Four years ago, researchers at the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, The University of Western Ontario created an EMR-based research project, called Deliver Primary Health Care Information. Implementing this project led us to two conclusions about using PHC EMR data for research: first, additional time is required for providers to undertake EMR training and to standardize the way data are entered into the EMR and second, EMRs are designed for clinical care, not research.
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16 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Canada | EHR: EHR, EHR Canada | Tag(s): Primary Care, Research
Kent Bottles, KevinMD
“Whether you call it Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, or e-Health 2.0, the Internet is changing medicine in ways that challenge the status quo. This article explores how a group of amateurs who call themselves “health hackers” and “citizen scientists” are trying to use the Internet to connect with other patients, run experiments, and conduct clinical trials on their own diseases.
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12 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Engagement, Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, Patient, Research
Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Acute
“The government wants to change the NHS Constitution so that patient information is automatically included in clinical research.
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7 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tag(s): Consent, Research, trials
BBC News
“Healthcare companies could be given access to anonymous NHS patient records and other NHS data under new plans.
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5 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tag(s): Confidentiality, Consent, Data Sharing, Patient, Research
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As cancer researchers better understand the “panomics” of cancer–the “combination of genes, proteins, molecular pathways and unique patient characteristics that together drive the disease,” electronic health records (EHRs) can play a transformational role in cancer research. So concludes the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), which calls for EHR vendors to implement standards to facilitate capturing, storing, and sharing this panomics-related data, with the goal of increasing cancer survival.
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1 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Oncology, Research, Standards
Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“A new data network should be created to integrate the emerging research on the molecular make up of diseases with the clinical data of patients in electronic health records, the National Research Council determines in a recently published report.
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18 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Biomedicine, Research
Gillian Hayes, Project HealthDesign
“Anyone doing research about records of any kind knows the challenges of handling missing data. We often hear about epidemiologists who struggle to find patterns in incomplete data sets, clinicians who carefully interview patients and family members to fill in the gaps in a medical record, and so on. This problem becomes particularly acute, however, when you are monitoring the data in real time.
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15 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Data, Research
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Tapping into the wealth of data stored in electronic health records (EHRs) could advance medical research and improve clinical outcomes for patients with cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, according to a new report from the National Research Council (NRC). With that possibility in mind, the NRC is calling for a new data network, one that integrates the molecular makeup of diseases with clinical data from patients’ digitized medical records.
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9 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Biomedicine, ICD-10, Research
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“Is my health data safe on the Internet? That is a question we hear frequently when describing web-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, as well as the newly evolving field of mobile health (mHealth) applications.
Is my health data safe on the Internet?Privacy and security of health information is a central plank in the policy framework surrounding Meaningful Use and the encouragement to move health care out of a paper-based legacy and onto an e-platform. Banking did this a decade or more ago, but now is the time for health data to move into the modern era.”
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers, 3 November 2011
3 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Cloud, De-identification, Privacy, Research, Safety, Security
EurekAlert!
“A new data network that integrates emerging research on the molecular makeup of diseases with clinical data on individual patients could drive the development of a more accurate classification of disease and ultimately enhance diagnosis and treatment, says a new report from the National Research Council. The “new taxonomy” that emerges would define diseases by their underlying molecular causes and other factors in addition to their traditional physical signs and symptoms.
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3 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Biomedicine, Clinical Data, Genetics, Research, Taxonomy
David Perera, FierceGovernmentIT
“If medical practices are to take advantage of widespread electronic health records to create a “learning health system” in which patient data is aggregated and analyzed in order to provide better individual and population health care, regulations regarding which data constitute research and which constitute operations will need clarification, says the federal Health Information Technology Policy Committee.
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1 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Consent, Data, Research
