Knowledge management (KM) has made a significant impact on the global healthcare sector. However, it is important to address the link between knowledge, information and engineering. This paper discusses how concepts from the established KM field can be applied to the area of e-Health.
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Finkelstein SM et al, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 17(6)
We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the perception, satisfaction and utilization of a home telehealth service for frail elderly people living independently in their home communities. Control group subjects continued with their usual care and intervention group subjects were able to supplement their usual care with the use of a web portal. The web portal allowed videoconferencing and electronic messaging between home care nurses and clients, ordering health-related and home care services, access to health-related information and general access to the Internet. A total of 99 eligible people (59 female, 40 male) from one urban and one rural study site agreed to participate in the study. Eighty-four subjects were active participants for nine months.
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Jim Doyle, STLtoday
“On the top floor of St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, doctors and nurses watch banks of video feeds, peering in on intensive care patients at rural hospitals across the Midwest.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“There remains an unhealthy level of skepticism in the market as to whether or not consumers will use a personal health record (PHR). While a certain level of skepticism is healthy in any market, the level to which it is laid towards PHRs is unwarranted and likely more a function of ignorance then malicious intent.
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De Leon S et al. The Journal of Medical Practice Management, 25(6)
Electronic health records (EHRs) are expected to transform and improve the way medicine is practiced. However, providers perceive many barriers toward implementing new health information technology. Specifically, they are most concerned about the potentially negative impact on their practice finances and productivity. This study compares the productivity of 75 providers at a large urban primary care practice from January 2005 to February 2009, before and after implementing an EHR system, using longitudinal mixed model analyses.
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McConnochie K et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(3)
Background:
Health-e-Access, an urban telemedicine service, enabled 6,511 acute-illness telemedicine visits over a 7-year period for children at 22 childcare and school sites in Rochester, NY.
Objectives:
The aims of this article were to (1) describe provider attitudes and perceptions about efficiency and effectiveness of Health-e-Access and (2) assess hypotheses that (a) providers will complete a large proportion of the telemedicine visits attempted and (b) high levels of continuity with the primary care practice will be achieved.
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BizTimes
“UnitedHealthcare recently partnered with California-based Cisco to build the first national telehealth network known as Connected Care.
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Fresh News
“REACH Call, Inc., the leading provider of 100 percent Web-based solutions for remote treatment of medical conditions such as stroke, today announced that Ochsner Health System will use the REACH turn-key telestroke and telehealth service to improve stroke care in urban and rural areas throughout Louisiana.
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Newswise
“A push for widespread use of electronic health records (EHRs) has become a central part of the national health care debate, but a new study shows that the technology is not equally available to American patients.
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“Father Joe’s Villages, a nonprofit corporation based in San Diego that provides services to the homeless, aims to improve medical record documentation and promote health screenings thanks to an electronic health record system donated by McKesson.”
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News, 8 May 2008
“Whether it’s done in person or electronically, good doctor-patient communication helps reduce the risk of heart disease, says a Temple University School of Medicine study.”
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Washington Post, 30 March 2008
“Isolation can be an enemy. But in future, medical practices in both urban and rural areas will be able to benefit from an advanced communications platform. For medical practitioners in isolated situations, ICT will be a must and hospitals too will be able to depend on communications technology to overcome isolation.”
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Destination Santé, 7 November 2007
“TeleKidcare, operated by the Kansas University Medical Center, is believed to be the first and most successful school-based telemedicine program. As such, it has had to successfully adapt to the changing needs of its users.”
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Colleen Egan, iHealthBeat, 14 September 2007
