Source: Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT Content: “Researchers from technology companies and universities are trying to figure out how to apply analytic tools to a wide range of information to improve healthcare and find new cures for diseases. Most of these “big data” efforts involve the use of clinical records. But an article in the Atlantic says [...]Source: Peter Groen, COSI 'Open' Health Content: “Mention standards and my eyes usually start to glaze over. However, standards can be exciting and do matter, especially to businesses, because they may have to ensure that their products interoperate with the dominant industry standards if they are to succeed. Where standards don’t exist, a particular business [...]Source: Wuyts K et al, Health and Technology, 2012 Content: The advent of Web 2.0 has resulted in the emergence of a new generation of user-centric applications. Healthcare too follows this trend and a whole range of health-related applications are being introduced. Electronic health record (EHR) systems are being developed to enable electronic storing and [...]Source: Wood GC et al, BMC medical informatics and decision making, 12(1) Content: BACKGROUND:
The effectiveness of weight loss therapies is commonly measured using body mass index and other obesity-related variables. Although these data are often stored in electronic health records (EHRs) and potentially very accessible, few studies on obesity and weight loss have used data [...]Source: Jensen PB et al, Nature reviews. Genetics, 13(6) Content: Clinical data describing the phenotypes and treatment of patients represents an underused data source that has much greater research potential than is currently realized. Mining of electronic health records (EHRs) has the potential for establishing new patient-stratification principles and for revealing unknown disease correlations. Integrating [...]Source: Luchenski S et al, BMC medical informatics and decision making, 12(1) Content: BACKGROUND:
Immediate access to patients’ complete health records via electronic databases could improve healthcare and facilitate health research. However, the possible benefits of a national electronic health records (EHR) system must be balanced against public concerns about data security and personal privacy. Successful [...]Source: Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare Content: “With Medicare payments soon to be tied in part to patient satisfaction scores, hospitals are testing myriad methods to keep patients happy.
One enterprising facility, Park Nicollet Health Service in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, uses text messaging to identify how patients feel about their hospital stay, and track down the source [...]Source: Nadine van Dongen, pharmaphorum Content: “Up to now, the reimbursement of new innovative pharmaceuticals was merely based on registration data (efficacy, safety and quality parameters). Nevertheless, increasing health care costs have become a major concern for health care decision-makers, resulting in the implementation of new cost containment measures. These measures lead to additional data [...]Source: Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT Content: “The Continuity of Care Document (CCD), a standardized format for clinical summaries that can be exchanged between disparate electronic health record systems, could greatly advance public health initiatives, according to a new paper in the American Journal of Public Health.
Among the public health areas that the CCD could benefit, the [...]Source: D’Amore JD et al, American journal of public health, 102(5) Content: Electronic health records in the United States currently isolate digital information in proprietary, institutional databases. Experts have identified inadequate data exchange as a leading challenge to advancements in care quality and efficiency. Recent federal health information technology incentives adopt an extensible standard, called [...]Source: Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Content:
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mHealth: [...]Source: Weitzman ER et al, BMC medical informatics and decision making, 12(1) Content: BACKGROUND:
Data stored in personally controlled health records (PCHRs) may hold value for clinicians and public health entities, if patients and their families will share them. We sought to characterize consumer willingness and unwillingness (reticence) to share PCHR data across health topics, and [...]Source: Kathy Kincade, DrBicuspid Content: “Electronic health records are a major development in the practice of dentistry, and dental schools and dental curricula have benefitted from this technology,” wrote co-authors Robert Cederberg, DDS, and John Valenza, DDS, of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. “Quick and easy access to patient data has [...]Source: Marcos Hung, Dr Chrono Content: “Can Google inspire the healthcare industry? With the recent loss of Steve Jobs by pancreatic cancer and the need for better diagnostic tools to detect disease in its early phases, Google’s proprietary PageRank algorithm inspired a new way to determine cancer stage and treatment. Researchers from Dresden University of [...]Source: EHRScope Content: “The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is striving to meet the many challenges posed by the adoption of health information exchanges (HIE).“We’re on the verge of turning the corner on HIE,” said ONC director Claudia Williams during a recent webinar.“The building blocks put in place by [...]Source: Whitney L.J. Howell, Diagnostic Imaging Content: “Patient safety, satisfaction, and the quality of care you provide are no longer merely questions of how well you complete the appropriate services. More and more, group practices and hospital departments are turning to advanced analytics tools for data to streamline their work flow and improve efficiency. The [...]