• Benchmarking electronic medical records initiatives in the US: a conceptual model

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:44:13
    This article provides a conceptual model for benchmarking the use of clinical information systems within healthcare organizations. Additionally, it addresses the benefits of clinical information systems which include the reduction of errors, improvement in clinical decision-making and real time access to patient information. The literature suggests that clinical information systems provide financial benefits due to [...]

  • Economic evaluation in telemedicine – still room for improvement

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:21:25
    It has been reported that economic evaluations of telemedicine are less adherent to methodological standards than economic evaluations in other fields. Systematic reviews also show that most studies evaluate benefits in terms of the cost savings, with no assessment of the health benefits for patients. In a recent review of economic evaluations, I found 33 [...]

  • Health IT to-do list: Timetable for maintenance and security tasks

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:09:19
    “Practices have tasks that need to be done regularly to ensure smooth operations. Health information technology adds a new set of recurring chores. These tasks generally are broken down as those needed for maintenance, those that help protect and secure patient data, and those that help the practice get the best return on investment, both [...]

  • Video Game Research Project To Help Blind Children Exercise

    Updated: 2010-05-31 18:05:39
    “VI Fit, a project at the University of Nevada, Reno, helps children who are blind become more physically active and healthy through video games. The human-computer interaction research team in the computer science and engineering department has developed a motion-sensing-based tennis and bowling exergame that can be downloaded for free at www.vifit.org. “Lack of vision forms [...]

  • Communicating health promotion and disease prevention information to patients via email: a review

    Updated: 2010-05-31 16:47:12
    Email could be used in primary health-care settings for delivering health promotion and disease prevention information, providing an alternative method of delivery for brief interventions. We examined the literature on the use of email for this purpose. Systematic review methodology was used. The main medical databases were searched and there were no restrictions by study [...]

  • A Password-Based User Authentication Scheme for the Integrated EPR Information System

    Updated: 2010-05-31 11:24:42
    With the rapid development of the Internet, digitization and electronic orientation are required in various applications of our daily life. For e-medicine, establishing Electronic patient records (EPRs) for all the patients has become the top issue during the last decade. Simultaneously, constructing an integrated EPR information system of all the patients is beneficial because it [...]

  • Quality and Certification of Electronic Health Records

    Updated: 2010-05-30 16:42:42
    Background: Numerous projects, initiatives, and programs are dedicated to the development of Electronic Health Records (EHR) worldwide. Increasingly more of these plans have recently been brought from a scientific environment to real life applications. In this context, quality is a crucial factor with regard to the acceptance and utility of Electronic Health Records. However, the dissemination [...]

  • Telemedicine

    Updated: 2010-05-30 16:30:49
    As the health care industry is facing many challenges and is undergoing extensive change, telemedicine is in the position to address these challenges and be an important part of health care’s development. Telemedicine has been used for approximately a half century, in which researchers have explored the different technologies utilized, clinical outcomes, cost benefits, perceptions, [...]

  • Animated Zoom at Seattle International Film Festival

    Updated: 2010-05-30 15:12:15
    I love the Zoom books by Istvan Banyai, and I really like the SIFF trailer which animates the Zoom concept over classic cinema moments:

  • When Patients Meet Online, Are There Side Effects?

    Updated: 2010-05-30 15:00:44
    “Could we cure diseases faster, or at least better control them, through crowd-sourcing? That is the premise behind social networking sites like CureTogether.com and PatientsLikeMe.com, which offer online communities for patients and collect members’ health data for research purposes.” Article Natasha Singer, The New York Times, 28 May 2010

  • Albertans to gain electronic access to personal health files

    Updated: 2010-05-29 07:26:22
    “Alberta, already a leader in Canada in connecting health professionals to electronic information systems, is gearing-up to bring patients into the loop. And that, says the province’s health minister, will radically change the way Albertans get healthcare. Starting this fall, says Gene Zwozdesky, Alberta’s Minister of Health and Wellness, the province will introduce an internet-based system that [...]

  • EHRs Lack Standards, Best Practices

    Updated: 2010-05-28 21:02:10
    “A report raises growing concerns that electronic health record products are being developed without specific best practices and design standards related to EHR product use in a healthcare setting. To overcome this difficulty, many vendors support an independent body guiding development of voluntary usability standards for EHRs, the study found. The Electronic Health Record Usability Vendor [...]

  • How can we make EHRs secure?

    Updated: 2010-05-28 20:56:33
    “The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT awarded four Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) grants funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. One of the projects is being led by Professor Carl Gunter of the Department of Computer Science and the Information Trust Institute at the University of [...]

  • GP plans nursing home access to records

    Updated: 2010-05-28 20:31:06
    “A GP is to explore giving nursing home staff electronic access to patient records in a move he claims could save the NHS millions of pounds. Dr Amir Hannan, a GP in Hyde Cheshire who has pioneered patient access to records, has launched a project to enable a local nursing home to access patient records, make [...]

  • Features of an EMR for Practical Use

    Updated: 2010-05-28 19:52:23
    “For those of you who don’t read many of the comments on here and EMR and HIPAA, you’re really missing out. Some of the very best discussion and information comes out in the comments. At times I like to highlight some of the more interesting and thoughtful comments so that more people get to read [...]

  • Ten Catechisms of Meaningful Use

    Updated: 2010-05-28 19:33:48
    “Meaningful Use has become the government’s de facto Maginot Line for large healthcare providers, hospitals. It has single-handedly disrupted hospitals’ business strategies. How did it do that—by offering cash. The government’s offer of cash is disrupting the large provider model. As you may have guessed, I am a fan of disrupting the model, [...]

  • Lessons from the Front Lines of EHR Adoption

    Updated: 2010-05-28 19:20:02
    “A World Congress summit in Washington, D.C., May 24-25 brought together a dynamic assortment of health IT leaders on the front lines of the battle to engage physicians around electronic health record (EHR) adoption. CIOs joined with leaders of independent physician associations and regional extension centers to share their experiences on the summit’s topic: “Leveraging [...]

  • Secure Patient-Provider Communication: Risks and Privacy Concerns

    Updated: 2010-05-28 16:15:32
    “Secure, web-based patient–provider communication tools are dedicated systems designed to support patient–provider and provider–provider electronic communication. They require unique log-in procedures and user identifiers to secure the privacy of such communications, and are often augmented by additional features like appointment scheduling, medication refill processing, viewable diagnosis and medication lists, and a means by which patients [...]

  • Feds map progress on road to health IT

    Updated: 2010-05-28 16:09:29
    “Sometime around the third week of June, the Department of Health and Human Services is expected to provide the latest guidelines to the health care community, and to federal agencies, regarding the effort to put in place a uniform system of electronic medical health records nationwide. Meanwhile, some of the federal officials who are engaged in [...]

  • Whose Oil Spill is it Anyway?

    Updated: 2010-05-28 13:23:05
    While to most of us, the first name that comes to mind when we hear about the oil spill is BP, as this article in the New York Times indicates, there are a number of commercial entities involved, including BP,...

  • US Oncology To Demonstrate iKnowMed In The EHR Lab At The 2010 ASCO Annual Meeting

    Updated: 2010-05-28 11:59:09
    “iKnowMed the US Oncology electronic health record (EHR) system, is one of eleven EHR vendors selected to participate in the fourth American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) EHR Lab to be held June 5-7 at the 2010 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago. US Oncology, the leading integrated oncology company uniting the nation’s largest network of [...]

  • The Power of Push

    Updated: 2010-05-28 08:03:20
    “This is not the first time that the NHIN Direct push-only model has come under attack, so I wanted to discuss this. Push-only means that A can send messages to B, but B cannot automatically get data from A (that would be pulling). Email and Faxes are push models. Web pages are pull [...]

  • Patients’ Experience is Key to Electronic Health Records (EHR)

    Updated: 2010-05-28 07:45:37

  • A Visual Guide to the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)

    Updated: 2010-05-27 11:12:54
    I’m continually impressed by the breadth of content presented at ICWSM. This conference is truly achieving a unique position for social media and social network researchers: bringing together social science and computer science. I thought it would be interesting to...

  • The Full Wiki Marries Mapping and Wikipedia

    Updated: 2010-05-26 13:37:54
    Due to an increased amount of traffic from Factbites, I visited the site today and found their new product: The Full Wiki. The Full Wiki extracts locatable concepts from Wikipedia articles and provides an accompanying map annotated with these locations.

  • Bob Cliff: Fwd: Automation Anywhere 6.5 Server Edition released w/ web services, xml & better mgt of complex environments. http://bit.ly/AAServer (via http://ff.im/kVUo2)

    Updated: 2010-05-26 06:27:24

  • Ethnicity and Geography of Facebook Users

    Updated: 2010-05-24 15:26:23
    ePluribus: Ethnicity on Social Networks, by the Facebook data science team includes some interesting estimates of the geographic distributions of Facebook users. My guess is that these are not dissimilar to those found in the census data, confirming the team's...

  • Bob Cliff: Fwd: @freelancework4u Automation Anywhere's web data extraction can automate website data extraction & collate it into xls. http://bit.ly/26kiyZ (via http://ff.im/kP8IU)

    Updated: 2010-05-24 06:43:02

  • The Buzz on Facebook's Open Graph

    Updated: 2010-05-23 18:25:49
    Here's what Blogpulse says about Facebook's Open Graph:

  • What is Data?

    Updated: 2010-05-22 05:41:24
    Of all the concepts that are thrown about in the web/data mining space, data, information, knowledge and content seem to be the most important, but also the most overloaded and slippery. In many situations, this isn't too much of a...

  • Manufacturing Consent in the Google Age Part 2

    Updated: 2010-05-14 04:56:41
    I finally bit the bullet and wrote some code to pull news stats from Google News to provide something more attractive than the charts that Google News Archive provides. I should be living up to other posts on this blog...

  • SAS comments inside macros

    Updated: 2010-05-10 12:15:10
    I recently had a bug with SAS comments that I would like to share with you. In SAS, you can mainly use two kinds of comments: * Here is my comment; /* Here is my comment */ However, I noted that with SAS 9, the first one may give some problems. I usually program in SAS using Enterprise [...]

  • Doraemon Puzzle Applications

    Updated: 2010-05-10 04:13:41
    A friend visiting from Japan showed me how the creators of Doraemon have a number of free apps which when arranged on the iPhone create a full image. Interesting to think of such strategies to drive app downloading.

  • Bob Cliff: Fwd: Automate Flash websites using Automation Anywhere's Image recognition. #web #automation #software. http://bit.ly/304oe4 (via http://ff.im/jxMJE)

    Updated: 2010-05-07 09:06:31

  • Data, data everywhere

    Updated: 2010-05-05 21:59:04
    I have recently read an interesting article from the Economist entitled “Data, data everywhere”. The author has regrouped some interesting (and impressive) figures regarding amount of data. I learned that astronomy is certainly the domain where most data are generated: “WHEN the Sloan Digital Sky Survey started work in 2000, its telescope in New Mexico [...]

  • Bob Cliff: Fwd: Do u screen scrape using ASP/PHP/Cul/Python? With Automation Anywhere u don't require any type of coding/scripting. Just Point-n-Click Data Extraction. http://bit.ly/bdiJjl (via http://ff.im/jQIkI)

    Updated: 2010-05-05 08:53:55

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