Forbes
“According to the United Nations International Telecommunications Union, nearly 70 percent of people in the developing world have a mobile subscription, and Cisco reports worldwide 48 million people without electricity and landline Internet access have a mobile phone, showing that of mobile use outpaces basic infrastructure in many rural and developing areas.
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Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“Usually, when you hear the phrase “underserved area” in terms of healthcare, you think of small towns in the Corn Belt or villages in the mountains. But the growing shortage of physicians is creating underserved areas that may surprise you.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“The Center for Connected Health has received a research grant from the McKesson Foundation’s Mobilizing for Health initiative to integrate a text-messaging program into an existing program at Massachusetts General Hospital to help diabetes patients better manage their condition.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has awarded $25 million to help behavioral health organizations implement health IT to enable clinicians to access, manage, and monitor patient data.
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Roger Downey, GlobalMedia
“Federal HIT policymakers have dedicated themselves to moving the healthcare sector away from paper and into the digital future.
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Cory Schultz, iMedicalApps
“A recent announcement was made from the United Nations regarding mobile communication and various information technologies and tools. This comes at a time when the proliferation of mobile phones around the world has increased the awareness of their potential to promote healthy lifestyles and inform people of medically relevant information.
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Meaningful HIT News with Neil Versel
“Today marks the official launch of a historic healthcare and human rights advocacy consortium, Health eVillages, which aims to bring mobile medical reference and decision support technology to clinicians fighting to save lives in underserved regions worldwide.
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Thomas McMennamin, EHR Bloggers
“The Office of Minority Health (OMH) recently announced an exciting initiative to ensure that all groups in the US have improved access to electronic health records and that disparities that already exist in the US don’t worsen due to a growing digital divide. The OMH is encouraging EHR adoption and meaningful EMR use by working with vendors to secure significant discounts on typically costly EHR systems.
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Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Minority Health–working with Quest Diagnostics and its subsidiary MedPlus–rolled out a new initiative this week to help improve electronic health record (EHR) adoption among small healthcare practices serving medically underserved and minority populations.
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Healthcare IT News
“The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Minority Health and Quest Diagnostics, based in Madison, N.J., announced on Wednesday a program through which Quest Diagnostics will donate electronic health record (EHR) software and services to physicians in small practices serving minority populations in Houston, Texas.
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Crystal Phend, MedPage Today
“Primary care physicians with telemedicine support can manage hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection as effectively as specialty clinics, researchers found.
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Kimberly Leonard and Josh Israel, The Center for Public Integrity
“Home care providers in rural areas and other underserved communities may soon be eligible to receive Medicare payments for audio and video home monitoring under a Senate bill reintroduced last week after going nowhere in three recent sessions of Congress.
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Mary Stevens, CMIO
“If these are challenging times for healthcare, things are also moving fast, and it’s important that health IT efforts include a focus on delivering care to underserved communities, Garth Graham, MD, MPH, deputy assistant secretary for minority health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health, said in an interview.
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Hassan Masum, Aman Bhandari, Jody Ranck and Alex Jadad, GlobalHealthHub.org
“There have been many examples of eHealth impact in resource-limited settings, using technologies such as cell phones and telemedicine. But many questions remain. Which eHealth innovations have the most potential? What are the barriers to scaling up these innovations? How can they be designed with front-line health providers in mind?
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Gibbons MC. Perspectives in Health Information Management, 8(Winter)
This article examines the potential role of health IT in addressing healthcare disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations. An overview of health IT utilization among healthcare providers notes certain characteristics that may disproportionately affect minority populations. Current and emerging health IT use among racial and ethnic minority populations is examined, highlighting areas in which technology use in these populations differs from that of nonminority populations and emphasizing the importance of new social media applications in healthcare education and delivery.
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Brewer R et al, Perspectives in Health Information Management, 8(Winter)
This article presents Georgia’s telehealth response to some of the significant healthcare challenges and disparities facing the rural citizens of this state. When compared to their urban and suburban counterparts, rural communities have fewer healthcare providers, and residents must travel longer distances to reach them.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“Rural and Native Americans, ethnic minorities in poor, urban communities and Alaskan Natives often suffer negative health outcomes disproportionately due to a lack of access to various health IT tools, according to five research studies published in Perspectives in Health Information Management.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“There is an ever increasing disease-burden gap between developing and developed countries. Consequently, people involved in health care industry are thinking of ways to develop and implement effective healthcare technologies to curb this gap.
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Carolyne Krupa, amednews
“Every Wednesday afternoon, Thomas Magnuson, MD, goes to a designated room at the University of Nebraska Medical Center to meet with patients in nursing homes around the state via an interactive video screen.
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Glueck DA. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 20(1)
Telepsychiatry is being increasingly adopted in private practice and is predicted to play an important role in increasing access to care in rural communities and other underserved areas. With the current level of need, it is unlikely that all of the required services can be fully met through existing telepsychiatry practitioners.
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