Remote Dermatology Consultations Can Boost Outcomes, Study Finds
Patients who have live, interactive telemedicine consultations with
dermatologists could receive better treatment and have better outcomes,
according to a study. About 69% of patients who had at least two such
visits in a year saw clinical improvements. Modern Healthcare, FierceHealthIT.
DOD's Telehealth Center Launches Website for Kids in Military Families
The Department of Defense's National Center for Telehealth and
Technology has launched a website to help children of deployed military
personnel cope with stress. The site provides educational videos and
forums to help children share their experiences. Modern Healthcare. More
Lessons from Going Mobile with EHRs
SutterCare at Home is migrating to tablet computers, with
about 20 percent of the 1,000 clinicians using the mobile EHR doing so
on the new tablets.
New Health I.T. Tutorials from the AMA
The American Medical Association’s newest additions to
its Web site are three video tutorials to aid physicians in adopting
health information technology.
Mass General Hospital deploys iPhones to nurses
Following
a research and test phase of Voalte’s iPhone-based voice, alarm, and
text communication offering, Massachusetts General Hospital has begun
to deploy iPhones to nurses...More
Cedars-Sinai RNs to use smartphones for improved communication
January 9, 2012
Nurses.com
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., recently approved the use of smartphone technology for its nurses and clinicians at the point of care to improve response time and patient outcomes.
Nurses.com
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif., recently approved the use of smartphone technology for its nurses and clinicians at the point of care to improve response time and patient outcomes.
Using
Voalte's communication solution, Cedars is standardizing the use of
iPhones to increase the speed and quality of hospital voice, alarm and
text messaging.
People, process, or technology -where are the improved patient outcomes?
Decision Critical Competency Tools for Healthcare decisioncritical.comPeople Process and Technology - Invest in people and people improving technologies to put an end to preventable healthcare injuries and deaths.
Cloud Solves Health Care Problems for the Elderly
As populations age worldwide, cloud-based health services manage the
care of the elderly, whether at home or at assisted-care residential
communities. READ MORE >>
What Effects Do PCPs Think Giving Patients Electronic Access to Doctor Notes Would Have?
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Sixty-two percent of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center primary
care physicians, 58% of Geisinger Health System PCPs and 36% of
Harborview Medical Center PCPs participating in a program that gives
patients electronic access to doctor notes believe it would help their
practice deliver safer care, according to a new survey published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
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VA Expands its Fleet of Telehealth-Equipped Mobile Health Centers
The Department of Veterans Affairs has expanded its fleet of mobile
health centers from 50 to 70 vehicles that are equipped with telehealth
technology to provide care to veterans in rural areas. The vehicles also
allow for access to VA's VistA electronic health record system. NextGov.
Six Blind Men and the Elephant – Why is mHealth Inevitable?
| An old Buddhist fable goes like this: Six Blind men tried to touch an elephant and describe what the elephant was like. One touched the body and said “It’s like a wall”. One touched the tusk and said “It feels like a spear”....More |
Study: Nurses Using EHR Systems Report Better Patient Health Outcomes
A new study published in the Journal of Nursing Administration finds that U.S. nurses who used electronic health record systems consistently saw improvements in patient care and outcomes. United Press International, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing release.More
EHRs Can Help Address Health Care Disparities, Study Finds
A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine concludes
that blood pressure disparities between black and white patients could
be reduced if more physicians adopted electronic health records.
According to the study, the gap in blood pressure control rates between
black and white patients was larger in primary care offices that used
paper-based records and smaller in offices that used EHRs. Reuters.
Resident Physicians in Botswana using Android smart phones to practice in remote locations
www.imedicalapps.com mHealth
Research Daily, with Tim Bredrup
With the growth of mobile health in recent years, learning through the
use of mobile devices (mobile learning [mLearning]) has gained
recognition as a potential method for increasing healthcare providers’
access to medical information and resources in resource-limited
settings.
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More than 2 million patients are being treated with remote patient monitoring
Berg
Insight concludes that around 2.2 million patients worldwide were using
remote medical monitoring services as of the end of 2011. InformationWeek, Berg Insight and ReportLinker
UCSF Researchers Create Online Tools To Assess Older Patients' Prognosis
University of California-San Francisco researchers have developed online tools to evaluate the likelihood that an older patient will die within a
certain time frame. The tools aim to help doctors assess whether a
patient should consider hospice care or other options. New York Times.
Researchers describe smartphone platform to monitor elderly patients with chronic conditions
mHealth Research Daily, by Tim Bredup:
The need for continuous remote health monitoring is growing, especially
amongst elderly patients that suffer from chronic diseases and heart
conditions.
In efforts to address this need, Informaticists in Portugal have
proposed a system...More
Utah home health provider says app saves time, money
A
small healthcare provider in Utah has saved $500,000 over the past year
and reduced employee travel time 70 percent using a mobile EMR app,
according to a report in ZDNet.
Guide to Reducing Unintended Consequences of Electronic Health Records
New AHRQ resource: “Guide to Reducing Unintended Consequences of Electronic Health Records” available at http://www.ucguide.org/.
Essential Nursing Resources 2012 Now Available Online
The Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing (ICIRN) has released the 26th edition of Essential Nursing Resources (ENR), an
expansive resource list intended to be used by nurses and librarians.
Because the list of possible resources has grown so large the ENR has
become too large and expensive to publish in print and so it appears
only online at www.icirn.org on the ICIRN website.
Nurses
can use ENR as a tool to assist them with building a personal
professional collection of resources to support and advance their area
of practice. Librarians can utilize this tool as an evaluation point in
determining collection development, and as a reference tool. ENR is
neither a comprehensive presentation nor product endorsement, but
represents the opinions of the contributors. This tool is meant to
assist nurses and librarians to evaluate on their own what resources
best apply to their particular situation. Only the most recent editions
and website addresses have been included. The ENR was compiled to point
to pathways for exploration, rather than be an end point, and to expand
to other formats beyond traditional references.
New to this edition is a very handy key to let users know if: $ =fee required; M=mobile; O=online; P=print for each resource listed. New and redesigned sections in
this edition include Blogs; Forums and Discussion list; Evidence-based
Nursing; Management; Patient Safety/Quality Assurance; and Toxicology,
Environmental, Occupational Health.
Healthcare professionals becoming increasingly distracted by mobile devices
imedicalapps
The
smartphone era is presenting new challenges for doctors, who are
increasingly becoming distracted by the devices, which may impact
patient care.
Younger Workers Can't Be Trusted
The new generation gap centers on information security. READ MORE from Baseline Briefings >>
A Healthcare List - Forbes
Here’s a list of healthcare statistics from Forbes. It is by no means complete or comprehensive and some of the data isn’t actually from 2011, but they all relate directly to any debate on healthcare reform (existing or proposed). Some are well known and others less so. These are among the more compelling... [Forbes]
Some e-prescribing kinks still must be worked out, study says
E-prescribing is catching on, thanks to federal incentives, but doctors
using electronic prescriptions still face many challenges, according to a
recent study. healthcare techreview More…
Half of medical technicians text during surgery
Mobile tech devices give doctors and other staff easy access to
patients' medical records, which can help prevent errors. But do they
also bring new distractions that can put patients in danger? More from healthcaretechreview…
iPad App Remotely Monitors Pacemakers, Defibrillators
A Florida doctor has developed an iPad app that remotely monitors readings from patients' pacemakers and defibrillators. The app can also program a PC to control heart rhythms. eweek
How Social Media Can Destroy Your Organization . . .and Improve it Too
Some insights about the impact of social networking on healthcare orgs...By Jennifer Prestigiacomo health-careinformatics.com
Doctors' Notes: A Must Read for Patients
Patients are enthusiastic about embracing access to their medical notes,
while doctors are cautious. That’s one of the key findings from a new
study in the Annals of Internal Medicine reporting on OpenNotes.
The study found:
The study found:
- Nearly all patients (92-97%) thought open visit notes were a good idea.
- Most participating doctors (69-81%) thought open visit notes were a good idea, compared with only 16-33% of doctors who declined participation.
- More than half of participating doctors (50-58%) and most nonparticipating doctors (88-92%) expected that open visit notes would result in greater worry among patients. Far fewer patients (12-16%) expected the same.
Explore ‘Health IT Body of Knowledge’
Content is comprised of articles, tools and guidelines from HIMSS and
other authoritative sources. Each document has been reviewed by content
experts to ensure credibility, accuracy and completeness. More than two
dozen topic areas are covered in the Health IT Body of Knowledge,
including patient- and business-centered systems, strategy and planning,
project management, privacy & security and workforce development. More
Portable ECG makes splash in India by enabling remote diagnosis by cardiologists
Maestros Mediline Systems announced the release of their portable ECG
device which is being promoted as a high tech tool for use in rural
areas, More
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