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How Do Pediatricians Communicate?

Lodewijk — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:47:28 +0000

Source: Pingmd Content: “With so many communication tools available, pediatricians are eager to discover a smarter way to communicate with parents. However, most of the options available are not panaceas. A portal may be secure and structured, yet not user-friendly. Email communications may be quick and easy, yet bog down the doctor’s schedule as inquiries [...]

‘If you don’t have mobility in your strategy, then you don’t have a strategy’

Lodewijk — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:38:46 +0000

Source: Neil Versel, mobihealthnews Content: “Hospital CIOs, or at least some of the best hospital CIOs, seem to get it. The others need to get on the ball, fast. “If you don’t have mobility in your strategy, then you don’t have a strategy,” Susan Heichert, senior VP and CIO at Allina Health System, a 10-hospital system [...]

Big data is the next big thing in health IT

Lodewijk — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:51:20 +0000

Source: Brian Ahier, O'Reilly Radar Content: “During the 2012 HIMSS conference in Las Vegas I was invited by Dell Healthcare, along with a group of health IT experts, to discuss issues in health information technology. The session sparked some passionate discourse about the challenges and opportunities that are important to the health IT industry. Moderator Dan [...]

The Patient of the Future

Lodewijk — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:45:57 +0000

Source: Jon Cohen, Technology Review Content: “Back in 2000, when Larry Smarr left his job as head of a celebrated supercomputer center in Illinois to start a new institute at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of California, Irvine, he rarely paid attention to his bathroom scale. He regularly drank Coke, added [...]

Impact of electronic medical record on physician practice in office settings: a systematic review

Lodewijk — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:18:39 +0000

Source: Lau F et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 12(1) Content: Background Increased investments are being made for electronic medical records (EMRs) in Canada. There is a need to learn from earlier EMR studies on their impact on physician practice in office settings. To address this need, we conducted a systematic review to examine [...]

An e-Patient Perspective on Stage 2 of Meaningful Use (Adrian Gropper)

Lodewijk — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:20:07 +0000

Source: e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net Content: “At last week’s enormous HIMSS (health IT) conference, ONC (the Office of the National Coordinator for health IT) announced the long-awaited rules for Stage 2 of meaningful use. (These are the rules that must be met, for health IT systems to qualify for Federal incentives and, later, avoid penalties. Stage [...]

Under 10% of people manage health via mobile: a reality check on remote health monitoring from HIMSS

Lodewijk — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:13:42 +0000

Source: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi Content: “With mobile health consumer market projections for ranging from $7 billion to $43 billion, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, a casual reader might think that a plethora of health citizens are tracking their health, weight, food intake, exercise, and other observations of daily living by smartphones and tablets. But as the chart [...]

The Role of HIEs

Lodewijk — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:06:42 +0000

Source: EHRScope Content: “With the health care IT market currently in a state of rapid growth and change, a new focus is being placed on the pressures and opportunities faced by companies and organizations who are invested in the coordinated sharing of information among providers, insurers, and ultimately patients across a common network. In his [...]

Turin hospitals share X-rays online

Lodewijk — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:32:58 +0000

Source: ePractice EU Content: “Three hospitals in Turin (the emergency ward of the University Hospital San Giovanni Battista ‘Molinette’, the Maria Adelaide Centre for Orthopedic Trauma and the Regina Margherita – Sant’Anna Paediatric hospital), have been sharing and exchanging their patients’ X-rays online in real time. This allows time to be saved in the treatment [...]

Enhance your Patient-Physician Relationship with a Patient Portal

Lodewijk — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:27:41 +0000

Source: Priyal Patel, Perficient Healthcare IT Solutions Content: “Another Valentine’s Day just passed and I couldn’t help but recall all the movies, shows and interviews that were on television talking repeatedly about how the most important thing for a strong, long lasting, trusting relationship is good communication. Sure, this is no big secret, but [...]

Perceived Barriers and Benefits in the EHR System

Lodewijk — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:23:00 +0000

Source: EHRScope Content: “As the word is out on Big Government backing the electronic health records (EHR) concept, and with the implementation of technology infiltrating every aspect of our lives, it comes as no surprise that hospitals and medical centers across the country are investigating and embracing the EHR system. With a record number of [...]

Las redes sociales ayudan a los pacientes crónicos a no abandonar su tratamiento.

Lodewijk — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:18:25 +0000

Source: Noticias Medicina Content: “Los medios sociales en el ámbito de la salud (salud 2.0) ayudan a llevar el control de los pacientes crónicos, como diabéticos o hipertensos, y a que éstos cumplan con las recomendaciones de los profesionales sanitarios. Así coinciden en señalar diversos trabajos que se presentan en la Jornada de Actualización sobre [...]

A content citizen health management system: a tele-health and tele-care prototype portal for the public

Lodewijk — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:02:20 +0000

Source: Christopoulou SC, Papoutsis JL. Health and Technology, 2012 Content: The main inspiration for the implementation of the Content Citizen Health Management System (CCHMS) is to provide a daily, convenient and easily accessible collaborative supportive environment, which will concern social and personal health and welfare matters, to computer literate citizens and those who desire to [...]

Les évolutions du marché de la m-santé

Lodewijk — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:44:51 +0000

Source: Le monde de la e-santé Content: “Le mobile (smartphone, tablette,…) est en passe de devenir l’accessoire incontournable en e-santé. Un terme spécifique a été même créé ; le m-health. Et cela semble devoir prendre de l’ampleur. Pour s’en convaincre, il suffit de consulter la récente étude menée par Research2Guidance sur ce marché.” Article (French) Le monde [...]

Mobile devices and data everywhere, not a drop of information to drink

Lodewijk — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:39:51 +0000

Source: Laurie Orlov, Aging In Place Technology Watch Content: “So much money to be spent, so little value for older adults. Skepticism on. If you believe that within 5 years there will be significant spending on wearable home monitoring applications for assisted living, you are what some might call a tech optimist. That industry is [...]

Chronic Pain Can Be Quickly And Objectively Evaluated With New ‘Barcode’ Tool

Lodewijk — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:03:53 +0000

Source: Medical News Today Content: “How we move is an excellent indicator of overall health. When we feel good, we move around continually. When we’re in pain, we reduce our physical activity. This observation might seem trivial, but it has led to an original approach for evaluating chronic pain. A team from EPFL’s Laboratory of [...]

Barcoding Human Physical Activity to Assess Chronic Pain Conditions

Lodewijk — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:55:50 +0000

Source: Paraschiv-Ionescu A et al, PLoS ONE, 7(2) Content: Background Modern theories define chronic pain as a multidimensional experience – the result of complex interplay between physiological and psychological factors with significant impact on patients’ physical, emotional and social functioning. The development of reliable assessment tools capable of capturing the multidimensional impact of chronic pain has [...]

Healthcare IT Goes Star Trek

Lodewijk — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:09:37 +0000

Source: Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek Content: “Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts, believes the practice of medicine is about to change. “Your iPad, your voice, and your hands will be the new input devices for the EHR of the future,” according Tullman. He said in an interview at the HIMSS conference that we’re reaching the point where [...]

Patients to get more access to records

Lodewijk — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:45:35 +0000

Source: UPI Content: “Stage 2 of the Electronic Health Record Incentive programs involve new standards for online access for patients to their records, a U.S. health official said. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, part of the American [...]

HIMSS 2012 in retrospect – from patient engagement to Big Data. Viva Las Vegas or Tumbling Dice?

Lodewijk — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:41:17 +0000

Source: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi Content: “The record attendance at HIMSS12, in terms of both attendees (numbering some 38,000) and exhibitors, illustrated just how hot health information technology has become in the 20 years since I first began attending this meeting — when it was only a few thousand hospital computer geeks and materials managers [...]

The Power of Rare Disease Patients

Lodewijk — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:29:57 +0000

Source: Wendy White, e-patients.net Content: “Thanks to the Pew Internet Project, we have a lot of data about ePatients. These empowered, engaged and educated patients (and families) are helping to bring about a transformation of healthcare in this country. Pew’s Susannah Fox has named them “healthcare superheroes.” Through our experience at Siren Interactive, we know a [...]

As HIMSS comes to a close, Topol challenges docs to embrace the digital revolution

Lodewijk — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:24:19 +0000

Source: Eric Wicklund, mHIMSS Content: “Eric Topol finished off the mHIMSS-related track of events Thursday afternoon at HIMSS12 with a somewhat defiant call to physicians: Stop trying to hoard all that medical information and let patients assume control of their own data. “We’ve had enough of the medical priesthood. The days of ‘Doctor Knows Best’ are [...]

Supercomputer ‘Watson’ Tries Hand at Medicine

Lodewijk — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:44:41 +0000

HIMSS: Bridging the gap between IT, clinical engineering; 20% merged now

Lodewijk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:06:17 +0000

Source: Justine Cadet, CMIO Content: “To achieve the overarching concept of “system-ness or enterprise-ness,” converging the IT and the clinical engineering (CE) departments could help to eliminate latency or downtime with medical devices that now are integrated into the EMR and the greater network, according to Vi Shaffer, research vice president at Gartner, who took [...]

HL7 makes IP freely available for EHRs

Lodewijk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:00:36 +0000

Source: Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News Content: “At HIMSS12 this week, Health Level Seven International (HL7) announced a pilot program that will offer some of its intellectual property, free of charge, in an effort to spur further EHR implementations. “HL7 is keeping its promise to lower the barriers to adoption of electronic health records by making [...]

The True Measure Of Success For HIT Systems

Lodewijk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:46:01 +0000

Source: Paul Roemer, HealthSystemCIO Content: “The title of the book on the lap of the person sitting next to me was “Cost Justifying Usability”. My cynicism jumped immediately to Def-Con 4. Cost Justifying Usability. Did the author get his inspiration for the title at the Shopping-For-New-Ideas store? Now, before you laugh too hard, recall that many [...]

What are the fundamental questions mhealth consumers have?

Lodewijk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:56:35 +0000

Source: mhealth strategy Content: “As we seek to drive mhealth forward in the healthcare conversation and heighten its impact on the industry, it is important that we keep in mind what questions/problems we are seeking to provide answers and solutions for. The solution possibilities will be numerous and to guide ourselves we must remember [...]

Can patients improve their own health? Results from a study of smartphone use in diabetes and hypertension

Lodewijk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:51:49 +0000

Source: Joseph Cafazzo, iMedicalApps Content: “In the last several years that I’ve been studying the topic, I’ve been continually amazed at patients’ seemingly unlimited capacity to perform self-care. Faced with a life-threatening chronic illness, I see patients looking to take control of their condition, rather than recoil in despair. I feel as healthcare providers, we are [...]

Mobile phone-based telemonitoring for heart failure management: a randomized controlled trial

Lodewijk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:44:04 +0000

Intelligence Goes Mobile

Lodewijk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:00:44 +0000

Source: Mike Jenkins, Perficient Healthcare IT Solutions Content: “I want to discuss how easy it has become to take desktop applications to the floor of HIMSS 2012. Health BI is a comprehensive healthcare analytics solution with over 600 key performance indicators, ONC certification for Meaningful Use and a real-time intelligence engine that reevaluates patient compliance each [...]

Study: Patients like EHRs, still worry about their security

Lodewijk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:03:42 +0000

Source: Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR Content: “The vast majority of patients see the value in electronic health records, but they’re still leery about the systems’ abilities to keep their health information safe. That’s the upshot of a recent study commissioned by the National Partnership for Women and Families; the organization calls it “the most in-depth survey [...]

EHR Speech Recognition: Solving the Problem with Patient Attention

Lodewijk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:33:14 +0000

Source: EHRScope Content: “Doctors and health care professionals across the country have a universal complaint when using electronic health records (EHRs). They report that they become so immersed in research, data input and typing that they neglect making eye contact with their patients and providing them with the personal attention they deserve. New [...]

How better-performing providers integrate EHR software into practice

Lodewijk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:28:57 +0000

Source: Greg McInerney, Health IT Pulse Content: “The health care industry has shifted toward the use of EHR software at a rapid rate, and by now most users are aware of the perceived benefits of adopting electronic health record systems. More data is now emerging to show how better-performing providers are using EHR software to [...]

HIMSS: EHR, mobile device use catapult security threats

Lodewijk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:24:15 +0000

Source: Cynthia E. Keen, AuntMinnie Content: “Do you use mobile tablets and smartphones as extensions of your radiology information system and PACS? Do you use them to access hospitals’ electronic health records (EHRs)? Do they have traces of protected health information (PHI) when you turn them off? Mobile devices have become a part of imaging informatics [...]

NIST to test EHR usability

Lodewijk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:18:49 +0000

Source: Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR Content: “The National Institute of Standards and Technology has decided to tackle the problem of poor electronic health record usability, asking EHR vendors to share their products with the agency so it can research how they work, according to an iHealthBeat report. According to NIST’s Federal Register notice, the agency plans [...]

Are consumers of internet health information “cyberchondriacs”? Characteristics of 24,965 users of a depression screening site

Lodewijk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:03:48 +0000

Source: Leykin Y et al, Depression and Anxiety, 29(1) Content: BACKGROUND The number of individuals looking for health information on the Internet continues to expand. The purpose of this study was to understand the prevalence of major depression among English-speaking individuals worldwide looking for information on depression online. METHODS An automated online Mood Screener website was created and [...]

A suggestion for future research on interface design of an internet-based telemedicine system for the elderly

Lodewijk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:34:43 +0000

Source: Chuna YJ, Patterson PE. Work, 41(Suppl. 1) Content: Telemedicine has emerged as an effective tool for providing high quality healthcare service and health-related information, especially in rural areas. Rural areas often have a larger elderly population with greater rates of preventable disease. These areas also have fewer medical resources and specialists, and have limited [...]

All EHRs Are Not Created Equal: Improving Outcomes with Advanced CDS

Lodewijk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:05:58 +0000

Source: Steven Shaha, It Takes a Community Content: “Do acute care Electronic Health Records always achieve their intended goals? The literature on “unintended consequences” has long warned of the potential downside of EHR implementations and the unique challenges associated with computerization in healthcare settings. Alert fatigue, for example, continues to frustrate clinicians overloaded with un-prioritized [...]

Presidential Panel Wrestles with Ethical Issues Linked to Clinical Use of Whole Genome Sequencing

Lodewijk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:52:15 +0000

Source: Alex Philippidis, Insight & Intelligence™ Content: “The U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is grappling with many of the ethical issues arising from the falling price—and resulting potential for increased use—of whole genome sequencing in clinical care. The aim is to find the balance between researchers’ use of such data and [...]

Personal Health Data Better Protected By ISO Standard

Lodewijk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:43:14 +0000

Source: Scoop Content: “A new Standard for Health informatics – Classification of purposes for processing personal health information, ISO/TS 14265:2011, will increase protection of personal health information used by clinicians and others in healthcare organisations. The Standard defines a set of high-level categories of purposes for which such personal health information can be processed. Elaine Sawatsky [...]

Mes premiers e-médecins

Lodewijk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:01:11 +0000

Source: Catherine Cerisey Content: “Pourquoi ce titre? Et bien en réponse au très joli post intitulé “ma première e-patiente” du Docteur Jean-Marie Vailloud, alias Grange Blanche, blogueur et twittos extrêmement connu dans le milieu des médecins 2.0, encore bien trop rares sur le net. Ce jeune médecin a reçu récemment et pour la première fois [...]

Are meaningful use bonuses enough to drive EMR adoption?

Lodewijk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:37:43 +0000

Source: Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews Content: “If a health system made up of accountable, coordinated, patient-centered care is to be achieved in the U.S., the existing information technology infrastructure is not enough to get the country there, according to a report by the Bipartisan Policy Center. The center’s Task Force on Delivery System Reform and Health [...]

Monitoring Your Health With Mobile Devices

Lodewijk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:05:37 +0000

Source: Peter Wayner, New York Times Content: “Dr. Eric Topol is only half joking when he says the smartphone is the future of medicine — because most of his patients already seem “surgically connected” to one. But he says in all seriousness that the smartphone will be a sensor that will help people take better control [...]

Kenya’s Startup Boom

Lodewijk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:52:29 +0000

Source: David Talbot, Technology Review Content: “Erick Njenga, a 21-year-old college senior wrapping up his business IT degree at Nairobi’s Strathmore University, has a gap-toothed grin and a scraggly goatee. A mild-mannered son of auditors, he didn’t say much as we tucked into a lunch of grilled steak, rice, and fruit juice at an outdoor [...]

Why physicians don’t want patients to have their cardiac device data

Lodewijk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:52:37 +0000

Source: David Lee Scher, KevinMD Content: “There is a groundswell of discussion concerning patients demanding to have direct access to data derived from their implantable defibrillators and pacemakers. I have discussed in other articles why patients deserve their data and the benefits derived thereof. There are no substantive arguments against this practice, and I [...]

Apps will help patients manage their healthcare

Lodewijk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:45:33 +0000

Source: HealthTechWire Content: “A call by the Department of Health to find the best new ideas and existing smartphone apps that can help people and healthcare professionals better manage care has received nearly 500 entries. All the entries were published online and voted for by the public and a panel chosen by the Department of [...]

Nursing Information Officers: Newest Health IT Leaders

Lodewijk — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:08:13 +0000

Source: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare Content: “Does your organization have a chief nursing informatics officer (CNIO)? If not, chances are you’ll need one. The prevalence and role of CNIOs have been on an uptick, especially as hospitals, healthcare systems, and other providers are rolling out health technology for participation in Health Information Technology for Economic [...]

GPs ‘to prescribe health apps’

Lodewijk — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:06:44 +0000

Source: Michelle Roberts, BBC News Content: “GPs could soon offer their patients free smartphone apps to help with managing health conditions. The Department of Health says its initiative is the “next step” in the drive to give patients more control over their own health.” Article Michelle Roberts, BBC News, 22 February 2012

The Outrageous, the Outraged and the Courageous: Another Attempt to Halt the Healthcare IT Evolution

Lodewijk — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:03:01 +0000

Source: Michael Planchart, The EHR Guy's Blog Content: “When I first read The American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) request to urge HHS to move forward with ICD-10 plans and to not delay the compliance date I finally felt relief from my outrage. HIMSS also raised their voice and recommends not delaying the ICD-10 implementation. There is [...]

Meeting the Challenge of Managing Population Health

Lodewijk — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:58:42 +0000

Source: Martin Sizemore, Perficient Healthcare IT Solutions Content: “In the closing weeks before the Christmas holiday, I made a whirlwind tour of several large integrated delivery networks (IDNs) in search of the newest Holy Grail in healthcare: Managing Population Health. The race to Accountable Care Organizations and Shared Savings performance contracts has resulted in [...]