HealthITXchange

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Access to Different Types of Information

You can choose from three types of information, referred to as views, that are currently shared in the HealthITxChange:

• Lessons Learned: Real-world information to help you avoid issues, solve problems, and share experiences and best practices.
• Resources: Summaries of important information relating to tools, templates, checklists, and documents for you to learn about and leverage during implementation.
• Gaps: Information identifying gaps in the current marketplace, existing standards and policy, as well as content on this site.

 

Hospitals use iPads to improve patient experience

www.fiercemobilehealthcare.com Deciding whether to provide iPads to your medical staff may be only half of your decision-making when it comes to the uber-popular devices. New efforts ongoing at hospitals around the U.S. are testing out patient reactions to the devices as a way to improve the patient's inpatient and post-hospital experience. Read more...

4 Ways Mobile Technology Can Improve Care

Mobile technology is popular. That in itself is not shocking. The adoption rate of mobile technology has been rapid. You can take one look around and see most people are using smart phones, iPads and tablets. Beckers Hospital Review

Ethiopia: A “learning lab” for national mHealth strategy

If managed successfully, mHealth can be an effective tool for advancing the government’s key health initiatives, particularly community-based interventions that have women at their center...More

Microsoft Kinect, HealthVault Boost Senior Wellness Program in L.A.

The Microsoft Kinect system for Xbox and HealthVault personal health platform allow senior citizens in L.A. to improve their chronic conditions and track their medical data.  eweek.com READ MORE

Mobile-Based Hospital Communication System Improves Care

A new study published in the journal BMJ Open finds that a hospital in the United Kingdom reduced its length of patient stay by replacing a phone- and pager-based communication system with a smartphone- and tablet-based communication system. FierceMobileHealthcare.

CMS Releases Quality Measures for MU Stage 2 Proposed Rules

CMS has published a list of clinical quality measures included in the proposed rules for Stage 2 of the meaningful use program. Under the Stage 2 proposals, eligible professionals would need to meet 12 clinical quality measures out of a list of 125, and hospitals would need to meet 24 measures out of a list of 49. CMS is accepting public comment on the measures through May 7. CMIO et al. ihealthbeat

Clinicians Ignore Most Drug Alerts From CPOE Systems, Study Finds

A study presented at a Society of Hospital Medicine meeting finds that clinicians ignore or override most drug warning alerts generated by hospitals' computerized provider order entry systems. Researchers say alarm fatigue could be contributing to the problem. MedPage Today. More

Military using social media and mobile apps to promote healthy living to soldiers

Improving patient health outcomes is the goal of a new initiative from the Air Force Medical Service (AFMS). This culture of wellness and healthy living is being promoted to Air Force personnel...DVIDS

Physical therapy through gaming

Video games have come a long way since that little yellow guy and the ghosts. Find out how some doctors are using gaming to change patients' lives.  More

App to help wounded soldiers created by Department of Defense

The Department of Defense (DOD) has recently released a mobile app to help wounded soldiers and their families access information that can assist in their recovery and return to U.S. civilian life.  More

Poor health IT implementation planning affects patient care

A poorly planned health IT implementation can have deleterious effects on the quality of patient care, and can even increase inpatient mortality, according to an article published in the March edition of the American Journal of Managed Care. CMIO

Growing the Nursing Informatics workforce!

Hats off to UC Irvine Healthcare for the development of this program and its success in "growing" the Nursing Informatics workforce!

 

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Reform Education for Health Care Professionals

The Lancet Commission,  Health Professionals for a New Century: Transforming Education to Strengthen Health Systems in an Interdependent World report, based on research funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the China Medical Board,  recommends comprehensive reform in the training of health care professionals. Like the Future of Nursing report, it calls for competency-based curricula, creative use of information technology, transformative learning and interprofessional teamwork, as well as a systems approach to institutional reform. 

In response to both these reports, the Institute of Medicine has called together a Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education

National eHealth Collaborative Offers Guidance for Successful HIE

Washington, DC (April 2, 2012) – National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) today released the Health Information Exchange Roadmap: The Landscape and a Path Forward. This Roadmap offers stakeholders a clear picture of efforts being undertaken by both the public and private sectors to create and implement the building blocks for widespread deployment of interoperable HIE. It also provides an understanding of how these diverse approaches fit together into a cohesive strategy for nationwide HIE and suggests a four phase roadmap to help HIE initiatives make progress and become sustainable. Health Information Exchange Roadmap: The Landscape and a Path Forward