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Evaluation of the awareness and effectiveness of IT security programs in a large publicly funded health care system.
CONCLUSION: Strategies to improve staff education and mitigate against IT security and privacy risks are discussed. Future research should focus on integrating health IT competencies into the educational programs for health care professionals. PMID: 28745562 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Validity of routinely collected data in identifying hip fractures at a major tertiary hospital in Australia.
CONCLUSIONS: When it is not practical to use the algorithm for regular monitoring of HFs, using PD by admission to estimate total HFs and PD by episode in combination with a procedure code to estimate HFs with surgery can produce robust estimations. PMID: 28745563 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Patient and clinician perspectives of an integrated electronic medication prescribing and dispensing system: A qualitative study at a multisite Australian hospital network.
CONCLUSION: The majority of patients and clinicians reported a positive impact of e-prescribing on safety and efficiency. Both groups valued safe and effective use of medicines, although differences existed in the importance placed on key system features. A greater focus on patient engagement and communication is needed to optimise the delivery of patient-centred care. PMID: 28745564 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Information management for aged care provision in Australia: development of an aged care minimum dataset and strategies to improve quality and continuity of care.
CONCLUSION: The development an internal aged care minimum data set highlighted the critical role of primary data quality in the upstream and downstream use of client information; and presents a platform to build national consistency across the sector. PMID: 28691563 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 13, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Concerns and hopes about outsourcing decisions regarding health information management services at two teaching hospitals in Semnan, Iran.
CONCLUSION: While results of this study indicated that staff in hospitals surveyed held both positive and negative views of outsourcing, a large number of staff in these hospitals (a third of the total sample) had reservations about the skills of outside providers to securely manage hospital data, and did not consider that outsourcing health information management services would be positive for the organisation, their working environment or for staff and patient satisfaction. These findings have important implications for healthcare organisations planning to outsource health information services. Further research that focu...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 13, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Type 1 diabetes self-management: developing a web-based telemedicine application.
CONCLUSION: Patients or their carers could use the web-based application as a log book by entering the level of blood glucose and insulin doses on a regular basis, and as an educational resource to improve self-management skills. Physicians could use the system at any time convenient to them to support patients by giving medical advice. Further research is needed to report the effectiveness of the system in practice. PMID: 28691565 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 13, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Improving data collection processes for routine evaluation of treatment cost-effectiveness.
This article describes the systematic collection of HRQoL survey data, and addresses challenges in the implementation of patient surveys and acquisition of cost data in the case hospital. Challenges include problems with incomplete data and undefined management processes. In order to support CEA of hospital treatments, improvements are sought from the process management literature and in the observation of healthcare professionals. The article has been written from an information system and process management perspective, concluding that process ownership, automation of data collection and better staff training are keys to...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 13, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Exploring the use of technology pathways to access health information by Australian university students: a multi-dimensional approach.
CONCLUSION: The results suggest that appealing, persuasive and reliable MWCT and SM can be used extensively to promote health amongst Australian youth. PMID: 28691567 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 13, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Book Review: Health Law in Australia Health Law in Australia Edited by McDonald Ben White Fiona and Lindy Willmott Publisher: Thomson Reuters Australia July 2010 . Price: $115.
Authors: Took A PMID: 28683604 [PubMed] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Smart Use of Data, Information and Communication: The INFORM-Ed Best Local Practice Project - Grafton Base Hospital.
Authors: Lloyd S, Collie J, McInnes A, King K, Lollback A, Garland A Abstract This paper describes current progress for an information management project in a medium-sized rural hospital after the first four months of the one-year project. In particular, the article examines some of the project outcomes to date as these relate to the National Hospitals and Health Reform recommendations for the smart use of data, information and communication. The paper identifies a number of important challenges and issues that have been addressed by the project and proposes that the project findings may be used to inform ...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Book Review: Health Care and the Law (5th Ed.) Health Care and the Law (5th ed.) by McLlwraith Janine and Madden Bill Thomson Reuters (Professional) , 2010 ISBN 9780455 227030 . 735 pp. Price $98.00 (softbound).
Authors: Mair J PMID: 28683606 [PubMed] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Emerging Technologies: Web 2.0.
This article explores various applications of Web 2.0, their benefits and some of their potential legal and ethical implications when implemented in Australia. PMID: 28683607 [PubMed] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Industrial Relations and Human Resources: Management Challenges for Health Information Managers.
Authors: Shepheard J PMID: 28683608 [PubMed] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Professional Practice and Innovation: Level of Agreement between Coding Sources of Percentage Total Body Surface Area Burnt (%TBSA).
This study evaluated the level of agreement between four sources of %TBSA using 120 cases identified through the Victorian State Trauma Registry. Expert clinician, ICD-10-AM, Abbreviated Injury Scale, and burns registry coding were compared using measures of agreement. There was near-perfect agreement (weighted Kappa statistic 0.81-1) between all sources of data, suggesting that ICD-10-AM is a valid source of %TBSA and use of ICD-10-AM codes could reduce the resource used by trauma and burns registries capturing this information. PMID: 28683609 [PubMed] (Source: Health Information Management Journal)
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research

Privacy, Employees and Human Resources: A Case Report.
Authors: Mair J Abstract Health practitioners are well versed in the need to maintain privacy and confidentiality of patients/clients in healthcare relationships. This need for confidentiality is likewise required when an employee of a healthcare institution becomes a patient of that institution. The question which arises is whether any information which emerges as a result of the employee also being a patient can or should be disclosed to the administration of the employing institution where such information may affect the employee or others in the workplace. PMID: 28683610 [PubMed] (Source: Healt...
Source: Health Information Management Journal - July 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research