Self Management
Ross SE et al, J Med Internet Res, 13(3)
BACKGROUND
Adverse drug events are a major safety issue in ambulatory care. Improving medication self-management could reduce these adverse events. Researchers have developed medication applications for tethered personal health records (PHRs), but little has been reported about medication applications for interoperable PHRs.
OBJECTIVE
Our objective was to develop two complementary personal health applications on a common PHR platform: one to assist children with complex health needs (MyMediHealth), and one to assist older adults in care transitions (Colorado Care Tablet).
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adherence, Adverse Events, Disease Management, Medication, phr, Self Management
iMedicalApps
“While interest in mHealth applications for self-management of diabetes is growing, research on both the design and the use of these applications is scarce and the potential influence of social media is largely unexplored.
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24 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Diabetes, mHealth, Self Management
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Sticking with New Year’s resolutions is still top of mind for many folks. No doubt many are looking to the new smartphones, iPads, and health-related apps that Santa delivered to help fulfill those resolutions. So could 2012 be the year of tech-enabled patient engagement?
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13 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Engagement, Monitoring, ODL, Online, Patient, Self Management
Alpay L et al, Health Informatics Journal, 17(4)
E-health is seen as an important technological tool in achieving self-management; however, there is little evidence of how effective e-health is for self-management. Example tools remain experimental and there is limited knowledge yet about the design, use, and effects of this class of tools. By way of introducing a new view on the development of e-health tools dedicated to self-management we aim to contribute to the discussion for further research in this area.
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4 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): e-Health, Empowerment, Self Management
Pulvirenti M et al, Health Expectations, 2011
Background
Patient or person centred care is widely accepted as the philosophy and practice that underpins quality care. An examination of the Australian National Chronic Disease Strategy and literature in the field highlights assumptions about the self-manager as patient and a focus on clinical settings.
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3 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Australia | Tag(s): Chronic Diseases, Empowerment, Quality, Self Management
ePractice EU
“The Strategy contains a foreword by the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy, and sets out the Scottish Government’s vision for eHealth in 2017. The strategy is ambitious; it has the citizen at its centre; and seeks to build on the significant progress that was made collectively over the course of the last three years.
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28 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): Communication, e-Health, Patient Centric, Self Management
Michael Martineau, Technology for Doctors Online
“Earlier this summer I wrote a column on eHealth trends in which I identified the “Engaged Patient” as one of three significant trends to watch.
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28 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tag(s): e-patient, Education, Engagement, Self Management
Gienna Shaw, HealthLeaders Media
“One of my favorite quotes from last week’s Center for Connected Health Symposium in Boston came from Peter Tipett, MD: “Information technology can reduce cost, increase quality, and advance science,” said the vice president of industry solutions and security practices at Verizon’s business unit. “But other than that it’s not worth it.”
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26 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Patient, Research, Self Management
Krakoff LR. The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2011
Effective control of hypertension and the other cardiovascular risk factors has been dependent on primary medical care as provided by family practitioners and internists. The progressive reduction in availability of primary care for adult populations in the United States threatens the likelihood of better control of the risk factors and potential loss of opportunity for prevention of cardiovascular disease. Recent progress has been made in the use of home blood pressure monitoring for improvement in classification of risk for hypertensive patients. Several studies establish the feasibility of home pressure monitoring combined with telemedicine for improving control of hypertension. Some studies have explored the role of self-care for adjustment of medication, as well.
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19 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Cardiovascular, Hypertension, Self Management, Telemedicine
Hoekstra R. Tijdschrift Voor Psychiatrie, 53(10)
Background
The internet used to be mainly ‘one-way traffic’ (1.0). Nowadays it is becoming easy for internet users to communicate with each other via the web (2.0).
Aim
To describe the concept of Health 2.0 and to explore the possibilities of 2.0-technology for psychiatry.
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17 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Netherlands | Tag(s): Health 2.0, Information Technology, Internet, Psychiatry, Self Management
Chomutare T et al, J Med Internet Res, 13(3)
Background:
Interest in mobile health (mHealth) applications for self-management of diabetes is growing. In July 2009, we found 60 diabetes applications on iTunes for iPhone; by February 2011 the number had increased by more than 400% to 260. Other mobile platforms reflect a similar trend. Despite the growth, research on both the design and the use of diabetes mHealth applications is scarce. Furthermore, the potential influence of social media on diabetes mHealth applications is largely unexplored.
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7 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Diabetes, Education, mHealth, Monitoring, phr, Self Management, social-network
Glasgow RE et al, Patient Education and Counseling, 2011
OBJECTIVE:
Internet-based programs offer potential for practical, cost-effective chronic illness self-management programs.
METHODS:
We report 12-month results of an Internet-based diabetes self-management program, with and without additional support, compared to enhanced usual care in a 3-arm practical randomized trial. Patients (n=463) were randomized: 77.3% completed 12-month follow-up. Primary outcomes were changes in health behaviors of healthy eating, physical activity, and medication taking. Secondary outcomes were hemoglobin A1c, body mass index, lipids, blood pressure, and psychosocial factors.
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4 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Chronic Diseases, Diabetes, Internet, Self Management
Healthcare Informatics
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Minority Health, the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE), and AT&T recently announced a first-of-its-kind initiative to evaluate the use of mobile devices to deliver Diabetes Self-Management Training (DSMT) within an underserved minority community in Dallas, Texas.
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29 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Diabetes, mHealth, Self Management, smartphone
Katherine Gombay, Medical Xpress
“In a pilot project for the Public Health Agency of Canada, diabetic patients in four regions of Quebec – the Lower North Shore, the Îles de la Madeleine, and in two different areas in Montreal – submitted their blood sugar readings to the nurse on a daily basis, using a secure website. Patients also answered a series of questions daily about their exercise, diet, and food care practices.
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15 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tag(s): Behaviour, Nurses, Self Management, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
Dumaij ACM et al, Handbook of Digital Homecare - Successes and Failures, 2011
This study aims to assess the adoption potential of healthcare innovations in their infancy. Such an assessment is useful, since the context of the innovations change rapidly as a result of the health care reform process. Successful innovations comply to a complex system of social, technical, and financial attributes. First we narrow down the vast amount of innovations in healthcare into a review set of innovations and select attributes of successful innovations from literature. Next the compliance of the review set with the attributes is assessed by an expert panel.
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4 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Digital Homecare, Innovation, Self Management
Radhakrishnan K, Jacelon C. The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2011
PURPOSE
The objective of the study was to explore the impact of telehealth interventions on individuals’ self-care of heart failure (HF).
BACKGROUND
Heart failure is a chronic illness that requires a complex treatment regimen over a long period. Historically, effective self-care has been difficult for this population. There is a need for innovative and effective approaches to improve individual self-care. Telehealth can potentially help individuals with HF follow the plan of care resulting in improved health outcomes and a better quality of life.
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13 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Chronic Heart Failure, Digital Homecare, literature, Self Management, selfcare, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
Dumaij ACM, Tijssen ECG. Health and Technology, 1(1)
A health companion is a patient who supports another patient or patient group with a similar health condition. Health companions deliver more and more support by the Internet. However, little is known about the characteristics of the users, their motivation, type of technology used and effects on health and the healthcare delivery process. The objective of the paper is to understand motivation, technology and effects of on-line health companion contact in the Netherlands concerning chronic diseases (DBM, COPD, CHF, CRD, CMD). The On-line Health Companion Contact Model was created to frame the research process. An extensive on-line questionnaire was taken from patients with various chronic disorders and using on-line health companion contact to obtain quantitative and qualitative data.
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1 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Netherlands | Tag(s): Chronic Diseases, Empowerment, Internet, Patient, Self Management
Cardiovascular Business
““Chronic disease management works; there are plenty of examples,” he said. For example, Carter and Howard University created a diabetes self-management portal to study the impact health IT can have on chronic disease self-management, among minorities in particular.
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12 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Diabetes, Portal, Self Management
Chira P et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 43(5 Suppl)
Living Profiles is a health media platform in development that aggregates multiple data flows to help teens with special healthcare needs (SHCN), particularly with regard to self-management and independence. A teen-oriented personal health record (PHR) incorporates typical teen behaviors and attitudes about health and wellness, encompasses how teens perceive and convey quality of life, and aligns with data related to their chronic medical condition. We have conceived a secure personalized user interface called the Quality of Life Timeline, which will assist with the transition from pediatric care to an adult provider through modules that include a mood meter, reminder device, and teleport medicine. With this personalized PHR, teens with SHCN can better understand their condition and its effects on daily activities and life goals and vice versa; additionally, use of this PHR allows for better information sharing and communication between providers and patients. The use of a teen-oriented tool such as Living Profiles can impact teens’ overall quality of life and disease self-management, important attributes for a successful transition program.
25 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adolescents, Care Management, Patient Management, Quality, Self Management
Miller DM et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 17(1)
Objective:
No studies have addressed the use of electronic personal health records (e-PHRs) for self-management in complex neurological disorders. We assessed and tested an Internet-based self-management system that utilized the e-PHR and determined its impact on self-assessed well-being, clinician-assessed well-being, and healthcare utilization in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).
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7 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Clinical Trials, phr, Self Management
