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Access to Digital Technology Among Families Coming to Urban Pediatric Primary Care Clinics
OBJECTIVE: Digital technologies offer new platforms for health promotion and disease management. Few studies have evaluated the use of digital technology among families receiving care in an urban pediatric primary care setting. METHODS: A self-administered survey was given to a convenience sample of caregivers bringing their children to 2 urban pediatric primary care centers in spring 2012. The [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 11, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Children Information Technology Social Media Underserved Urban Source Type: news

Expert: Industry Not Ready for SNOMED Criteria in Stage 2
“The complexities of clinical quality measures in the 2014 Edition of the electronic health records meaningful use program may outweigh potential benefits as the measures are beyond the ability of many EHR vendors and providers to comply with. That’s the view of Dave Delano, project director at Massachusetts eHelath Collaborative and executive director of NEHEN, an [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 11, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News ICD-10 Meaningful Use SNOMED Source Type: news

Unlocking the Power of Big Data at the National Institutes of Health
The era of “big data” presents immense opportunities for scientific discovery and technological progress, with the potential to have enormous impact on research and development in the public sector. In order to capitalize on these benefits, there are significant challenges to overcome in data analytics. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases held a [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 10, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Benefits Big Data Source Type: news

Telemedicine faces many hurdles
“Despite a stable political environment and increasing levels of social and economic development, our health sector still lags behind in terms of telemedicine compared to their counterparts in developed countries. This is largely attributed to the limited budget ratio, coupled with the healthcare sector being over stretched due to the crisis in the health worker force. [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 10, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Infrastructure Telemedicine Source Type: news

mHealth key to improving EU healthcare systems – report
“A rollout of mobile healthcare (mHealth) technology across the EU could help save as much as €99 billion in healthcare costs by 2017, according to the findings of a new report by GSMA, a grouping of mobile technology stakeholders, and PwC, with ageing populations and rising numbers of people suffering from chronic diseases such as [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 10, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Benefits mHealth Telemonitoring Source Type: news

mHealth adoption to have socio-economic impact in Europe, reveals GSMA report
“The GSMA today published research that demonstrates the significant socio-economic impact that mHealth adoption will have in Europe. Findings reveal that mHealth could save almost €100 billion in healthcare costs in the EU by 2017 as well as add €93 billion in GDP. The new GSMA report, developed in partnership with PwC, also indicated that, [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 6, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption Benefits mHealth Source Type: news

Les patients de plus en plus demandeurs de senseurs pour contrôler leur santé
“L’envoi d’appareils mobiles possédant des capacités de monitorage, appareils intelligents, smartphones, tablettes, atteindraient les 515 millions de produits en 2017 contre 107 millions en 2012. Les avancées technologiques récentes dans l’amélioration des senseurs ont permis ainsi une plus grande attention des patients et des sportifs à leur santé, et dans son rapport Mobile Sensing Health [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 6, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News mHealth Patient Wireless Source Type: news

Why a great ICD-10 steering committee is so important
“You can order all your coding workbooks, schedule your physician lectures, hand out ICD-10 lollipops by the dozen, and nag your vendors until you’re blue in the face, but the chances of your hospital being fully prepared for ICD-10 without a strong project plan and central leadership are slim at best. The ICD-10 steering [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 6, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Hospitals ICD-10 Source Type: news

Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems: Is Certification Ever Certain?
“The 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (“HITECH”) Act provides the Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) with the authority to establish programs to improve health care quality, safety, and efficiency through the implementation of health IT, including electronic health record technology (“EHR Technology”). Under HITECH, eligible health care providers can [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 5, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Certification Implementation Legal Source Type: news

EHR usability issues still confront docs
“As of early 2012, only about 10 percent of U.S. physicians were meeting meaningful use standards with their digital health record systems, according to a survey published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Of the 1,820 office-based primary care and specialist doctors polled, 43 percent reported having a basic EHR, although more recent data gathered by [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 5, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Meaningful Use Usability Source Type: news

Docs have trouble meeting electronic record goals
“Despite the U.S. government offering hefty financial incentives to doctors for using electronic records to assess the care they provide, a new study says few doctors met the program’s criteria last year. Researchers found that only one in 10 doctors with an electronic health records system satisfied the U.S. government’s requirements of “meaningful use” by early [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 5, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Incentives Interoperability Meaningful Use Usability Source Type: news

Benefits Of Electronic Health Records Years Away, As More Doctors Digitize But Fail To Leverage Data
“Forty-three percent of American doctors now use an electronic health records (EHR) system, though only a quarter them leverage the data in aggregate for more meaningful assessment of care. Since 2010, the United States has spent more than $3.9 billion to encourage primary care physicians and specialists to adopt computerized record systems, as the U.S. Centers [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 5, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption Benefits Costs Incentives Meaningful Use Source Type: news

Survey: 83 percent of doctors would use mobile EHR apps but don’t have access
“Black Book Rankings, which publishes customer satisfaction survey results for a wide range of industries, shared the results of national surveys of EHR vendors, hospital CIOs, and physicians in the US that found a very strong demand for mobile apps for EHRs. The survey is a follow-up to last year’s, which the firm called “Year of [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 5, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Applications mHealth smartphone vendors Source Type: news

Researchers: Use of mobiles for health has not been fully explored
“The volume of scientific research about mobile healthcare technology has grown as the field itself has exploded, but the quality and focus of academic studies has not kept pace with the speed of innovation, a review of 10 years’ worth of published literature suggests. “Mobile technology, with its diffusion and characteristics, holds a great potential for [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News mHealth Research Source Type: news

Hybrid EHR-paper workflows contribute to medical errors
“Healthcare organizations or providers using a mixture of paper and electronic records for clinical documentation are setting themselves up for potentially dangerous medical errors, according to research published by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority. “Use of a hybrid workflow can lead to miscommunication among caregivers when orders and administration information differ between paper and electronic systems,” [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Medical Errors Transition Workflow Source Type: news