“At “As Records Go Digital, Cultures Clash, Bringing to Life Secrets the Health IT Companies Don’t Want You to Know” I wrote of the used-car nature of the healthcare IT market, where lemon laws do not seem to exist and “physician buyer beware” seems a defining characteristic.
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund now has a report [...]“The commons refers to resources that are collectively owned. There are two tragedies that may befall a commons: The Tragedy of the Commons and The Tragedy of the Anticommons. Paraphrasing Michael Heller (Gridlock Economy): the tragedy of the commons is when too many people share a single resource, we tend to overuse it; and [...]“Our clinic recently moved to a new charting system whnotes are no longer handwritten. Instead, doctors and therapists now type their notes into a, we are abundantly assured, very secure database. The idea is to make records more easily accessible to other providers and to help make one’s medical history more “portable.” Plus, doctors’ legendarily [...]“Fresh fears have been raised over the protection of personal information after both the city council and NHS Lothian were hit by new “data loss” incidents.
The Evening News has uncovered a series of cases where sensitive information has been lost or stolen in the past year.
They range from medical records blowing away in a gust [...]‘Over the years I have spoken with many physicians, practice managers and change management consultants about the process of EMR implementation. What makes for a successful implementation? How can a practice improve their chances of success?
Through all of those conversations, there are certain discussions that always come up. One is about defining a clear set [...]“How to search for medical and health information ?! This question is buzzed often from many non professional users who are seeking simple medical information. There are many health and medical search engines , those provide quality and directed search result.”
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Hamza Mousa, Goomedic, 30 January 2010
Background
The Internet is a fundamental part of the daily life of adolescents, they consider it as a safe and confidential source of information on health matters. The aims is to describe the experience of Spanish adolescents searching for health information on the Internet.
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A cross-sectional study of 811 school-age adolescents in Granada was carried out. An [...]“Privacy concerns, chronic delays and mounting costs – now an incoming government has decided to shelve an ambitious national care records project, writes PulseToday editor Steve Nowottny.
Not in England, of course – or not yet, at least. But in Germany, after a coalition government won the election, the new health minister Phillipp Rösler has taken [...]Cardiac surgery patients get precisely the right dose of blood thinners to avoid clotting. Glaucoma patients use the least costly, most effective eye drops that lower pressure in their eyes. Diabetics get the therapy they need, based on their genetics, to avoid amputations. Personalized medicine projects already under way are working toward achieving these and [...]“Keep some things in mind as you read this – first, this is from a limited subset of experience – I’m not a travelling consultant, so I speak from personal and trusted second-hand experiences and from a deep well of understanding how to make technology work – hardware & software – within an enterprise business [...]“The Patient Centered model of care is predicated among other things on physicians factoring in knowledge of the “person behind the patient” into their treatment. That’s means understanding and, where practical, honoring the patient’s beliefs, values and preferences. In order for a communication between a physician and person (patient) to be “patient centered,” it [...]“A recent CNN.com article (http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/01/14/medical.records) entitled “Patients demand: ‘Give us our damned data’” highlights the barriers that many patients must overcome in order to get access to their own medical records.
The Health Information Privacy and Portability Act (HIPAA) gives patients the right to their own health information, and dictates that doctors and hospitals must provide [...]‘I firmly believe the right EHR and CPOE will be great for hospitals. Providers will be better served by finding answers to the question, “What’s in it for me,” rather than, “What do they want me to do?” Unless of course, providers want them running their business.”
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Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy, 29 January 2010
“Sometimes, a little guidance is helpful—even if it has to come in the form of being led around like camel with a ring through its nose. One of my on-line friends, a nurse who teaches nursing—seems like a good fit–asked me what are the success factors for EHR.
Often, what is important in a leader [...]“In response to freelancer Linda Wilson’s “Med students not ready to use EHRs: study”:
I am not at all surprised by this, and, in fact, would bet a substantial portion of my income that most of their attending physicians are not either. We have certainly lagged terribly in our instruction to both students and staff about [...]“India is willing to share its expertise with Africa in bridging the digital divide, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has said in Addis Ababa while inaugurating a telemedicine facility of India’s flagship information technology initiative, Pan-African e-network.
Speaking in Addis Ababa, Tharoor said: “We will be happy to share our own development expertise [...]“Elektonische Patientenakten als Mehrwertanwendung der elektronsischen Gesundheitskarte eGK sind aktuell politisch ausgebremst. Derweil schafft die Industrie Fakten: Die elektronische Patientenakte von Microsoft, die im Ausland bereits verfügbar ist, wird nun auch in Deutschland eingeführt. Das Produkt heisst HealthVault und ist eine internetbasierte elektronische Patientenakte. Microsoft hat am Donnerstag bekanntgegeben, dass der Software-Konzern mit der Siemens [...]“The Socket Bluetooth CHS 7XRx is designed for use in healthcare applications such as scanning patient wristbands for identification purposes and reading medications imprinted with 2D barcodes. The Socket Bluetooth CHS 7XRx incorporates everything the standard version has plus the added benefit of an antimicrobial casing, which is essential in healthcare settings in that it [...]“According to a new study, as many as 90 percent of hospitals and health systems use social media, but just one in three have a formal social media plan in place – something researchers say is key to using such media successfully.
The survey, which was conducted by Atlanta-based Greystone.Net, a provider of Web-related services for [...]“When Microsoft first entered the health IT industry a few years ago it was seen as an interloper, an outsider, a mainline “PC software” company trying to muscle into a specialist area in direct competition with its own customers.
Microsoft has worked hard to change that impression. That work is now paying off. Its deal with [...]“I was talking to a fellow physician about a mutual patient. I had information that would help him in their care and he was taking the unusual step of asking me for my information. I was impressed.
“Could you fax me those documents?” he asked. ”Here’s my fax number.”
I scrambled to get [...]“As expected, Apple unveiled its new tablet device, the iPad, and it dominated the news cycle this week. Apple positioned the device as a new platform positioned at the intersection of the “liberal arts and technology” — a clear indication that the healthcare industry was not its top of mind use case. Despite recent news [...]“Would you want to find out you have skin cancer by reading the diagnosis in an e-mailed copy of your electronic medical record? Of course not. Nobody would.
Most doctors are also shocked by that possibility. They much prefer to deliver the news in person so they can fully explain the diagnosis and provide some treatment [...]“GW’s Department of Emergency Medicine has established a new fellowship in the field of telemedicine in hopes of expanding the University’s work in the emerging field of practicing medicine remotely.
A practice of medicine used when the doctor and patient are widely separated, telemedicine uses two-way voice and visual communication by satellite or computer. The physicians [...]“Smartphones (e.g. Blackberrys, iPhones, Droids, etc.) have become a common tool of the trade in healthcare — not only among IT professionals and hospital executives, but physicians as well. In fact, last week we polled our newsletter audience on smartphone usage and discovered that 43% of our readers currently leverage a smartphone in their day-to-day [...]“Today, Siemens announced that it has struck a deal with Microsoft to create a German instance of the HealthVault platform to serve the citizens of Germany. In a deal similar to the one that Microsoft struck with Canadian telecom, Telus, Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS) will re-purpose the base HealthVault platform to meet Germany’s [...]
Starting a decade ago more and more schools across the US began implementing data mining programs to improve school performance.
It was claimed that data-mining real-time and after the school year had ended could identify students who were in danger of not graduating. Real-time data mining would be a way to find these students early on [...]“A survey sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Dell has found that the data centers of small and medium-sized hospitals in North America, Europe, and China are not prepared for the “wave of data” that will soon be inundating them.
Speaking on a conference call on Wednesday, Jeremy T. Bonfini, [...]“The January 21 New England Journal of Medicine contains an article entitled “Accelerating the Use of Electronic Health Records in Physician Practices.” Two physicians from the Columbia University Medical Center wrote it. The article says the North Shore Hospital System on Long Island has announced it will pay an incentive of up to $40,000 for [...]“Microsoft and Siemens have signed an agreement to licence Microsoft’s personal health record platform, HealthVault, in Germany.
Siemens will host all the stored health data in what the two companies describe as “security enhanced” data centres in Germany. Data will be transmitted over an encrypted connection over the Internet.”
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Lyn Whitfield, e-Health Insider, 28 January 2010
“Most personal health record offerings are not ready for prime time, says Marjorie Martin, general manager or Everyday Health, the parent company of Revolution Health. For consumers, the experience can be laborious and frustrating, she said.
Martin explained Wednesday why Revolution Health was retiring its PHR offering on its Web site. In an e-mail to [...]“The day that Dave Debronkart learned he had Stage 4 kidney cancer, his doctor handed him a prescription slip. On it, he’d scribbled ACOR.org. Within 11 minutes of submitting his first post to the Association of Cancer Online Resources, deBronkart, a software marketer in Nashua, N.H., received recommendations for top specialists–with links included–from patients on [...]“Even when seriously injured people make it to hospital, the risk is high that they will die the emergency department.
It’s known that people who live or work in rural areas are more likely to suffer and die from serious injuries compared to those in more urban environments. But while time and distance play a role [...]“Healthcare providers in Europe are facing incongruous challenges, including an aging population and an increase in chronic diseases or long-term conditions, while having to meet an overriding need to reduce costs and maintain high quality healthcare. These necessities fuel the demand for e-health IT in general, and electronic health records (EHR) in particular, but also [...]“Het TweeSteden ziekenhuis voor het EPD van Alert gekozen en is daarmee het vierde ziekenhuis in Nederland dat deze keuze maakt.
De nieuwe applicatie bevat alle medische en verpleegkundige gegevens van patiënten die het ziekenhuis bezoeken.”
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ICTzorg, 28 January 2010
“Das Innovationszentrum “Connected Living” hat sich das Ziel gesetzt, einen einheitlichen Standard für die Heimvernetzung zu schaffen. Wie dieses Ziel erreicht werden kann und wie alle Geräte im Haushalt herstellerübergreifend vernetzt und gesteuert werden können, ist auf der CeBIT 2010 vom 2. bis 6. März zu sehen.”
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Innovations report, 28 January 2010
“The European Commission has selected Continua for inclusion in its Smart Personal Healthcare research initiative.
Continua’s European Union Policy Work Group announced that the health interoperability alliance will support the 12-month EU-funded project.”
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe, 28 January 2010
“King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has started rolling out its iSoft e-prescribing system trust-wide.
The system enables prescribers to order their patient’s medication electronically and view scheduled and administered medications on an electronic drug chart via the iSoft Clinical Manager electronic patient record system.”
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider, 28 January 2010
“A new agreement between Microsoft and Siemens paves the way for the launch of Microsoft HealthVault in Germany. Using HealthVault, a personal health application platform, individuals can store personal information including immunizations, disease history and prescriptions in an online account. Citizens will also be able to connect to systems run by physicians, hospitals, pharmacies and [...]“Telehealth will take off as a mainstream technology for remote disease and home health monitoring from 2012, a new research report predicts.
Medical market research specialist InMedica says 2012 gives a two to three year timescale for current barriers to be overcome and for the benefits of telehealth to be demonstrated on a wide scale.”
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Fiona Barr, [...]“As 2011 and the milestone for the first financial incentive of “Meaningful Use” draws near, health care providers are trying to understand the impact of filling gaps in electronic medical records system features and associated workflows given their unique baseline situation. There is no “one size fits all” plan to “implement” Meaningful Use. Some providers [...]