Source: Jaan Sidorov, KevinMD Content: “Years ago, if you were elderly, had diabetes, high blood pressure, low back pain, needed a yearly flu shot and came to see this electronic health record-enabled physician (now with the nom de plume “Disease Management Care Blog”), you would have had your diabetes, high blood pressure and low back [...]Source: Gary Palgon, Healthcare IT News Content: “The day is rapidly coming when healthcare providers across the country will be able to share information about patients with a few clicks of a mouse. Key to this future, at least initially, is the formation of health information exchanges (HIEs)—entities that electronically mobilize disparate health information and [...]Source: Ericka Chickowski, Dark Reading Content: “Just like “the cloud” of 2009 and 2010, this year’s red-hot buzz term bandied about by executives who may or may not have clue what it means is ‘big data.’ But just as 2011 saw the world wrap its head around the cloud, the time is coming when technology [...]Source: Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Content: “IBM and WellPoint produced a couple of weeks an infographic in their “Watson in Healthcare” series, titled “What makes you sick?”.
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Source: Ralf-Gordon Jahns and Grace Gair, research2guidance Content: “The smartphone application market for mobile healthcare will reach US$ 1.3 billion in 2012 – up from US$ 718 million in 2011. Despite this substantial growth, the mHealth market is still in an embryonic state – especially in comparison to the US$ 6 trillion of the overall [...]Source: Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Content:
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Build It, and Will They Come? Unexpected Findings From a Study on a Web-Based [...]Source: MedicalXpress Content: “Many working professionals wouldn’t want to imagine what their job would be like without email. However, many physicians go about their profession with little or no email communication with patients. A new study by two University of Kansas professors examines email communications between doctors and patients in a primary care setting, finding [...]Source: Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security Content: “The privacy risks involved in using social media in healthcare can be minimized through innovative staff education, says risk management expert Paul Anderson.
“If you use social media in a thoughtful, planned way, the potential benefits of improved patient and community communication can far outweigh the risks,” says Anderson, [...]Source: Evan Godt, CMIO Content: “Implementation of a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) solves most of the problems associated with PACS, can save money over the long term and can prepare an enterprise to participate in a health information exchange (HIE), according to Michael J. Gray of Gray Consulting who presented during a webinar on Jan. 26 [...]Source: Chloe Herrick, Computerworld Content: “The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has continued to lobby the government to change its $466.7 million e-health record system to an “opt-out” model, arguing that the current “opt-in” model will undermine the system’s health improvement objectives.
In its submission (PDF) to the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) Bill 2011, the [...]Source: CBS News Content: “America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system’s conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue.
Hospitals and doctors’ offices increasingly are going digital, the Bipartisan Policy Center says in a report being [...]Source: Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News Content: “ONC’s Office of the Chief Privacy Officer (OCPO) recently launched a Privacy & Security Mobile Device project, and is at work achieving its stated goals.
The project aims to develop an effective and practical way to bring awareness and understanding to those in the clinical sector, helping them better [...]Source: Mathias JS et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2012 Content: Background
National organizations historically focused on increasing use of effective services are now attempting to identify and discourage use of low-value services. Electronic health records (EHRs) could be used to measure use of low-value services, but few studies have examined this. The aim of [...]Source: Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers Content: “The idea has been that these HIEs would knit different ambulatory practices together, giving physicians using disparate Electronic Health Records systems a common place to exchange clinical data with each other – at first, it would simply be the summary data (problem lists, medication lists, allergies, immunizations, and lab [...]Source: Atalag K et al, electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 7(1) Content: Maintaining health information systems over time requires significant effort and time. This is especially marked in clinical information systems where most, if not all, functional software requirements are dependent on healthcare concepts and processes which are prone to high rate of change. Software [...]Source: Ross SE et al, J Med Internet Res, 13(3) Content: BACKGROUND
Adverse drug events are a major safety issue in ambulatory care. Improving medication self-management could reduce these adverse events. Researchers have developed medication applications for tethered personal health records (PHRs), but little has been reported about medication applications for interoperable PHRs.
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Our objective was to [...]Source: Schuemie MJ et al, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 2012 Content: PURPOSE:
Increasingly, patient information is stored in electronic medical records, which could be reused for research. Often these records comprise unstructured narrative data, which are cumbersome to analyze. The authors investigated whether text mining can make these data suitable for epidemiological studies and compared a [...]
I recently read the last book from James Taylor, Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics. As a data miner, I was interested by the subtitle of the book. Although, the book is really well written, I’m a bit disappointed regarding the content for someone in analytics. I was [...]