From the iPhone to the EMR

RWJF: When Patients Share Health Information with Providers Through Personal Technologies, Clinical Care and Patient Engagement Can Improve
Project HealthDesign, a program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has demonstrated clear potential for improving health care delivery and outcomes, as well as patient engagement—through the use of personal technology. Five research teams studied whether patients' use of technologies, such as smartphone apps, sensors, iPads, and others, to collect information from their daily lives and share it with their health care providers, could enhance clinical care.

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Ethics and HIT

Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
  • patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
  • transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
  • institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
  • vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.

e-Behaviorial Health


Benefit from new technologies... enable people to have remote access to CBT

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