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.
Empower Yourself...Welcome to your future and beyond.... Working together we will build upon our "collective wisdom" to create, for tomorrow, what we can only imagine today...J. Perl, Editor
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Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
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.