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different specialties and different service lines that really understand
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"We have different liaisons assigned to
different specialties and different service lines that really understand
how the nursing process integrates with the physician and vice versa." Read More
Mississippi emerges as leader in telemedicine
Mississippi has a sickly reputation.
The Magnolia State ranks at or near the bottom in most health rankings:
worst infant mortality and most kids born with low birth weight;
second-to-highest rate of obesity and cancer deaths; second from the
last in diabetes outcomes.
But the state is a leader in one aspect of health care:
telemedicine. The state’s only academic hospital has remote connections
with 165 sites, providing specialized services to some of the state’s
most far-flung, medically deprived cities and towns. Mississippi’s
telemedicine program, ranked among the seven best in the country,
has inspired neighboring Arkansas to take bigger steps in some areas of
the field, and the impact of its success is making waves in Washington
as well.
The Magnolia State ranks at or near the bottom in most health rankings:
worst infant mortality and most kids born with low birth weight;
second-to-highest rate of obesity and cancer deaths; second from the
last in diabetes outcomes.
Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) launches Guroo, price transparency website
The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), a non-profit organization, has launched a price transparency website, called Guroo,
to help consumers find national, state, and local pricing information
for common health conditions and services. The data is collected from 40
million anonymized members of four health insurers: Aetna, Assurant
Health, Humana, and UnitedHealthcare. Read More
Study: Decision Support-Enabled Mobile Apps Help Nurse Diagnoses
A study published in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners finds
that nurses who used a mobile device preloaded with an application with
evidence-based decision support tools were far more likely to diagnose
patients for certain health conditions than nurses who used mobile apps
without such tools. Clinical Innovation & Technology et al. Read More
The app that lets deaf people 'hear' phone calls
The Pedius
app was created to help deaf people speak to friends, family and
businesses on the phone using voice recognition and real-time speech
translation.
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Pedius (pictured) uses voice
recognition and speech translation to make calls more natural. When a
call is made using the app the user types a message on the screen. This
is translated to speech in real time, so the recipient can 'hear' them.
The recipient's spoken response is then immediately translated into text
Dr. Prakasam’s Excellent Social Media Adventure
It was inspiring to read the interview that HCI Senior Editor Gabriel Perna conducted recently with Gnanagurudasan Prakasam, M.D., a pediatric endocrinologist based in Sacramento, California. What Dr. Prakasam has achieved goes beyond a surface “win” do a deeper type of accomplishment, and should be widely noted. And the results speak for themselves: the children whom Dr. Prakash cares for—all 1,500 of them, whto whom he is available 24/7—have a hospital readmissions rate of 5 percent, while the nationwide rate is between 9 and 15 percent. That is a huge breakthrough. Read More
How Miami Telemedicine Helped Haiti
The
earthquake disaster in Haiti gave rise to improved trauma care in the
western hemisphere’s poorest country. And a big reason for that change
can be found 700 miles away in Miami, inside a conference room at
Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center. Read More
Ochsner’s O Bar connects patients with more than 200 health apps
A room
in the Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness has a fleet of five
iPads locked to a bar, each one loaded with all the apps the health
system has vetted and approved. The O Bar is staffed by a technology
specialist that can help patients find out what’s available and help
teach them to download and use the available apps.
“The apps are out there and people are going to get them,” Ochsner’s Chief Clinical Transformation Officer Richard Milani told H&HN Magazine last year. “The smart thing for us to do is get our hands around what we think are pretty good apps and make them more helpful to patients.” Read More
“The apps are out there and people are going to get them,” Ochsner’s Chief Clinical Transformation Officer Richard Milani told H&HN Magazine last year. “The smart thing for us to do is get our hands around what we think are pretty good apps and make them more helpful to patients.” Read More
Google Revamps Results Pages for Health-Related Searches
Google is launching a new search
function that will display a box with relevant health information at the
top of the search results page for health-related queries. The data
displayed are pulled from trusted medical websites and have been vetted
by a team of doctors at Google and another team at the Mayo Clinic. MedCity News et al. Read More
Telemedicne: The Missing Link
There's a lot of hype and excitement about
telehealth, but for it to be the healthcare revolution it promises to
be, it needs a more fully executed connected care delivery model.
We as an industry are not yet ready for this sea change. But this is
coming and it is fundamentally unstoppable. In fact, it
will be a boon. It’s terrifically scalable. It’s terrifically efficient.
And when provider compensation is fundamentally tied to outcomes
(that’s coming too)... Read More
Tablet, app system boosts nurse-patient interaction, treatment experience
Several hospitals within the Tampa-based BayCare Health System are deploying a mobile software-tablet solution to nurse managers who visit patients daily to capture patient feedback and manage patient-related tasks. Read More
Philly's Thomas Jefferson University Hospital turns to telemedicine to boost quality
The hospital has built a program to allow physicians to perform
consultations using video apps so that patients with less-critical needs
are treated in other settings besides the emergency room.
A telemedicine call center helped reduce the rate of readmissions among patients after hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction, according to a study in which a nurse could dispatch a mobile intensive care unit or make other recommendations while consulting with the physician on call.
Meanwhile, Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network is involved in a pilot project that allows patients to speak directly to ER physicians via an iPad connection.
The University of California-San Diego Health System also has a telemedicine pilot program in which on-call physicians who are outside of the hospital remotely link to a telemedicine station to see patients. Read More
A telemedicine call center helped reduce the rate of readmissions among patients after hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction, according to a study in which a nurse could dispatch a mobile intensive care unit or make other recommendations while consulting with the physician on call.
The University of California-San Diego Health System also has a telemedicine pilot program in which on-call physicians who are outside of the hospital remotely link to a telemedicine station to see patients. Read More
ONC Unveils Plan To Realize Basic Interoperability by 2017
January 30, 2015, the Office of the National
Coordinator for Health IT released a draft of its 10-year nationwide
interoperability roadmap, which calls for achieving basic electronic
health data interoperability by 2017. In addition, the draft outlines
four short-term actions and 10 guiding principles for meeting ONC's
goals. Healthcare IT News et al.Read More
CMS Posts Star Ratings for Medicare Dialysis Facilities Online
CMS has posted the first round of star
ratings to its Medicare Dialysis Facility Compare website as part of a
broader federal effort to increase transparency and help Medicare
beneficiaries compare providers. However, some providers have taken
issue with the new rating system. Modern Healthcare, AP/U.S. News & World Report. Read More
Two Little-Known Mega Trends That Are Shaping the Future of Digital Health Care
- Context: Working to ensure that technologies are optimized to have a real impact on the various factors influencing health and well-being, or the social determinants of health, and are seamlessly aligned with people's activities, perceptions and objectives.
- Convergence: Seeking to combine a range of digital technologies such as big data, predictive analytics and mobile health in complimentary ways that improve their reach, adoption and impact.
E-patients need e-doctors. Here’s why.
Patients need doctors. Doctors need patients. Let’s find a way to value both.
Patients deserve to be empowered
Health is more than not being ill. The World Health Organization definition puts the full range of patients’ needs first: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
How can patients achieve the health they deserve? Only if they’re empowered. The “e” in e-patient can mean many things, but if health is a basic human right, then empowerment is the only “e” ensuring that right.
Being empowered means being able to meet certain fundamental needs, ones that need to be in place before we can make accurate, informed decisions about health. Here’s what we need for empowerment- Read More:
Patients deserve to be empowered
Health is more than not being ill. The World Health Organization definition puts the full range of patients’ needs first: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
How can patients achieve the health they deserve? Only if they’re empowered. The “e” in e-patient can mean many things, but if health is a basic human right, then empowerment is the only “e” ensuring that right.
Being empowered means being able to meet certain fundamental needs, ones that need to be in place before we can make accurate, informed decisions about health. Here’s what we need for empowerment- Read More:
Most Patients Willing To Have Online Video Doctor Visits, Survey Finds
A Harris Poll survey finds that 64% of patients are willing to use an
online video to consult with a physician. However, the survey shows
about 88% of those willing to have an online video visit would prefer to
select their physician rather than be randomly assigned one. MobiHealthNews et al. Read More
Mobile Overcomes Communication Challenges
An Accenture survey has found mHealth is key to alleviating
communication problems in healthcare organizations, especially for
nurses.
The latest report from Accenture, Overcoming Communications Challenges in Hospitals, outlines the biggest hurdles to communication in healthcare and ways for providers to overcome them. According to mHealth News,
nurses can be considered “pioneers” of mHealth; before the time of
smartphones and tablets, they were on the frontline of the mobile
technology with pagers attached to their hips. Read More
The latest report from Accenture, Overcoming Communications Challenges in Hospitals, outlines the biggest hurdles to communication in healthcare and ways for providers to overcome them. According to mHealth News,
nurses can be considered “pioneers” of mHealth; before the time of
smartphones and tablets, they were on the frontline of the mobile
technology with pagers attached to their hips. Read More
Telemedicine may be the key to concierge medicine's succes
A continuous care telemehealth model will help improve outcomes....Based on the frequent capture of key
biometrics (blood pressure, glucose, activity, weight), such a
telehealth model allows providers to actively monitor their patients
and make incremental adjustments to treatment plans that will result in
better patient outcomes and keep patients from needing care that is more
expensive to deliver. It goes without saying that such a level of care
is better for patients... Read More
Patient Portal Adoption: Baby Boomers vs. Millennials
This intriguing
infographic shows how Baby Boomers and Millennials are embracing
healthcare portals in their own way. Do any of these stats surprise you?
http://bit.ly/1DAC9fv
Infograpic illustrates the differences
between Millennials and Baby Boomers when it comes to patient portals
from results of Xerox’s 5th annual EHR Survey Read More
Telepsychiatry: the New Frontier in Mental Health
How technology is helping 'bring' psychiatrists to people in underserved areas.
Like telemedicine, telepsychiatry relies on technology to bring clinical medicine to patients, rather than the other way around. Patients typically videoconference with doctors using computers or videoconferencing equipment. Telepsychiatric services are growing, and the advantage is that such technology opens access to care, particularly for those in remote areas where there are fewer psychiatrists.The disadvantage, Benjelloun says, is that the human touch is missing. “A caring touch or handing a patient a tissue can never be possible,” she says, adding that this can also lead to missed cues on her part. “I am unable to clearly see self-inflicted wounds or tears.” Read More
PwC predicts “DIY Healthcare” will be the top trend of 2015
“Do-it-yourself
healthcare”, including mobile apps and consumer medical devices, is set
to be the top healthcare trend of 2015, according to research and
consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. PwC announced its top 10
predicted healthcare trends of 2015 in a webinar promoting their new report, and their top three are mobile health-related trends, with mobile and digital playing a role in several more. Read More
Topol: Digital Health Tools Are Revolutionizing Health Care
In a Wall Street Journal essay,
Eric Topol -- a cardiologist and the director of the Scripps
Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, Calif. -- writes that smartphone
applications and other health IT are giving patients more control of
their health care. He argues that some health IT tools eventually could
replace some aspects of medical care. Wall Street Journal. Read More
New N.Y. Law Requires Insurers To Reimburse for Telehealth Services
Under a new state law, insurers in New York now are required to
reimburse some providers for telehealth services. Meanwhile, several
other states are expected to consider measures to expand telehealth
services, including Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Tennessee. Healthcare IT News et al. Read More
E-Learning Is Effective for Health Care Workers, Report Finds
A new report commissioned by the World Health Organization finds that
electronic learning methods are as effective as -- or better than --
traditional training for undergraduates studying to become health care
workers. The report suggests combining the two methods to increase
access to such education, particularly in underserved areas. Reuters et al. Read More
Text4Baby: How mobile campaigns can reach underserved populations
Patients enrolled in the program received three messages a week with health information ranging from breastfeeding tips to the effects of tobacco and were timed to the mother's stage of gestation or infant's age. Read More
Health IT Trendspotting: What’s on the horizon in 2015?
The past year has been a notable one for health IT, which leads us to
believe 2015 can only bring a slew of new achievements. In the spirit of
embracing the New Year, HIMSS15 Views From the Top speakers divulged
their insights on what we can expect in the coming year and beyond.
These individuals are leaders in their healthcare roles with real-world
experience from which they glean their predictions. Looking ahead, they
see the following trends taking center stage in health technology
policy, process and innovation:
1. Patient-to-patient social media collaboration – Mary Beth Mitchell
2. App-driven data liberation – Patrick Conway
3. Traction on ‘care without boundaries’ – Laura J. Wood
4. Customized personal health analytics – Judy Murphy
5. Continuation of tech-enabled patient engagement – Roy Rosin
6. Streamlined patient-to-physician mobile app data – Alan M. Muney
Explore these trends in greater detail: http://ow.ly/H5hqF
Knowing that the healthcare ecosystem is a complex one, what trends would you prioritize? Are these leaders on-point with your professional experiences? What trends are you noticing?
1. Patient-to-patient social media collaboration – Mary Beth Mitchell
2. App-driven data liberation – Patrick Conway
3. Traction on ‘care without boundaries’ – Laura J. Wood
4. Customized personal health analytics – Judy Murphy
5. Continuation of tech-enabled patient engagement – Roy Rosin
6. Streamlined patient-to-physician mobile app data – Alan M. Muney
Explore these trends in greater detail: http://ow.ly/H5hqF
Knowing that the healthcare ecosystem is a complex one, what trends would you prioritize? Are these leaders on-point with your professional experiences? What trends are you noticing?
Walgreens moves into telemedicine with MDLIVE deal medcitynews.com
Walgreens deepened its healthcare services in
a deal with MDLIVE that will bring telemedicine to its customers
through the drugstore chain's app. Read More
Practice Guidelines for Live, On Demand, Primary and Urgent Care
The American
Telemedicine Association recently released Practice Guidelines for Live,
On Demand Primary and Urgent Care. The document provides guidance on
specific clinical applications, practice, benefits, limitations, and
regulatory issues ...
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