Tracking viruses on Twitter
Faye Flam, Philly.com
“As a biologist and computer scientist, Pennsylvania State University’s Marcel Salathe studies the viral spread of information and the spread of real viruses.
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Vaccine
Social Media: US-Studie belegt Verbindung von Twitter-Meinungen und Impfraten
e-Health-com News
“Soziale Internet-Netzwerke haben einen starken Einfluss auf die Meinungen über Krankheitsepidemien und die Bereitschaft der Menschen, sich mit Impfstoffen zu schützen. Letztendlich sind sie somit auch ein bestimmender Faktor für die Verbreitung von Krankheiten.
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Assessing Vaccination Sentiments with Online Social Media: Implications for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Control
Salathé M, Khandelwal S. PLoS Comput Biol, 7(10)
There is great interest in the dynamics of health behaviors in social networks and how they affect collective public health outcomes, but measuring population health behaviors over time and space requires substantial resources. Here, we use publicly available data from 101,853 users of online social media collected over a time period of almost six months to measure the spatio-temporal sentiment towards a new vaccine. We validated our approach by identifying a strong correlation between sentiments expressed online and CDC-estimated vaccination rates by region.
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Pediatric Health System Streams 2D Vaccine Barcode Data Into EHRs
Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“Cook Children’s Health System, in Fort Worth, Texas, has initiated use of 2D barcodes on vaccine bottles, which facilitates the streaming of data into health record databases such as the Microsoft HealthVault patient portal and Athenahealth’s AthenaClinicals electronic health record (EHR) application.
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2-D Barcodes Can Automatically Update EHRs
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“A new 2-D barcode application developed through collaboration between Cook Children’s Health Care System, e-health record vendor Athenahealth, Microsoft, and two large drug makers can help clinicians and parents of pediatric patients to more easily manage vaccination information.
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“Physician Impressions of Using Text Messaging Technology to Increase Vaccination Compliance”
3gdoctor, mHealth Insight
“Authored by a team working at the Preventive Medicine, Public Health and Pediatric Departments at the University of Kansas School of Medicine—Wichita and published in the July/August issue of Telemedicine and e-Health this paper does a great job of adding complexity to the financial and clinical issues surrounding the adoption of Provider/Patient SMS communications
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Assessing and responding in real time to online anti-vaccine sentiment during a flu pandemic
Seeman N et al, Healthcare Quarterly, 13 Spec No
The perceived safety of vaccination is an important explanatory factor for vaccine uptake and, consequently, for rates of illness and death. The objectives of this study were (1) to evaluate Canadian attitudes around the safety of the H1N1 vaccine during the fall 2009 influenza pandemic and (2) to consider how public health communications can leverage the Internet to counteract, in real time, anti-vaccine sentiment. We surveyed a random sample of 175,257 Canadian web users from October 27 to November 19, 2009, about their perceptions of the safety of the HINI vaccine. In an independent analysis, we also assessed the popularity of online flu vaccine-related information using a tool developed for this purpose. A total of 27,382 unique online participants answered the survey (15.6% response rate).
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Text messages helped to reach vulnerable population for flu vaccine reminders
Pediatric SuperSite
“Sending text message reminders to parents of urban children appeared to be effective at increasing vaccine delivery in this at-risk population, according to study results presented this week during the 45th Annual National Immunization Conference.
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Impact of clinical alerts within an electronic health record on routine childhood immunization in an urban pediatric population
Fiks AG et al, Pediatrics, 120(4)
OBJECTIVES.
The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that clinical alerts for routine pediatric vaccinations within an electronic health record would reduce missed opportunities for vaccination and improve immunization rates for young children in an inner-city population.
METHODS.
A 1-year intervention study (September 1, 2004, to August 31, 2005) with historical controls was conducted in 4 urban primary care centers affiliated with an academic medical center. All children who were younger than 24 months were enrolled. Electronic health record–based clinical reminders for routine childhood vaccinations were programmed to appear prominently at every patient encounter with vaccines due. The main outcome measures were rates of captured immunization opportunities and overall immunization rates at 24 months of age.
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EHR “measurable benefits” – What it means to Immunization Information Systems
Janet Balog, STC
“In a March 8 briefing sponsored by Health Affairs journal, Dr. David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health IT announced its latest published studies on the impact that electronic health records (EHR) have on patient outcomes. The survey found evidence of “emerging measurable benefits” for small practices in addition to the larger health IT leaders.
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STC Releases IHub, an Immunization Interoperability and Meaningful Use Solution Suite
PRWeb
“STC has created a new suite of tools called IHub that is designed to assist any immunization registry system with their interoperability efforts. These capabilities will also be on display at the upcoming National Immunization.
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The Future of Public Health and Immunization Registries
Mike Popovich, STC
“As the immunization registry family of states, vendors and the CDC team start into the eighteenth year of implementing state registries, there are new opportunities for all of us to deliver on the original objectives of these systems.
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CDC will link public health EHRs with immunization tracking system
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to enable the electronic health records (EHRs) of state and local health departments to share data with immunization information systems, and to integrate the immunization systems with CDC’s vaccine tracking system.
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EHRs, health IT will play expanding role in national vaccine plan
Kathryn Foxhall, Government Health IT
“Electronic health records and other health information technology will play a growing and significant role in vaccine safety surveillance and reporting to registries as part of the recently released National Vaccine Plan, according to senior Health and Human Services Department officials.
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Bill Gates wants to register all new babies on the planet for vaccines
NaturalNews
“Bill Gates is promoting a plan to use wireless technology to register every newborn on the planet in a vaccine database.
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Application of Smart Phone in “Better Border Healthcare Program”: A Module for Mother and Child Care
Kaewkungwal J et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10(1)
Background
To assess the application of cell phone integrating into the healthcare system to improve antenatal care (ANC) and expanded programme on immunization (EPI) services for the under-served population in border area.
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Campagne de vaccination contre la grippe A(H1N1) et internet: les pouvoirs publics ont brillé par leur absence !
Alain Clergeot, La Santé dans la Cité
“Les rapporteurs concluent non sans humour : « La crise n’a finalement pas eu lieu, et c’est heureux ». Mais ils poursuivent immédiatement : « à l’évidence, les professionnels de santé et la population demandent un changement des règles ; celui-ci est aujourd’hui nécessaire pour obtenir l’adhésion de la population lorsque surviendra une pandémie grave ».
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Electronic Health Records Study Of 459,000 Children Sparked New CDC Recommendations Regarding Vaccine And Link To Seizures
Medical News Today
“The combination vaccine for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox (MMRV) is associated with double the risk of febrile seizures for 1- to 2-year-old children compared with same-day administration of the separate vaccine for MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and the varicella (V) vaccine for chicken pox, according to a Kaiser Permanente Division of Research study appearing online in the journal Pediatrics.
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