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“Consumer advocate Deven McGraw says many provisions in the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, including better breach notification guidance and expansion of HIPAA liability to business associates, will provide substantial benefits to patients.
“There are lots of positives in the rule for consumers,” says McGraw, director of the privacy project at the Center for Democracy & Technology.”
Article
Marianne Kolbasuk [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 24, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Benefits Patient Privacy Security Source Type: news
Impatient About Electronic Health Records
“I’m impatient about realizing the benefits of electronic health records—we all are. But, as the futurist Roy Amara once cautioned, “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”
Amara’s law came to mind recently when six U.S. Senators published a report called “Reboot” [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 24, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Benefits Infrastructure Source Type: news
How a physician’s smartphone camera might save lives
“A team of doctors at the University of Virginia medical center has developed an app to more easily, quickly, and efficiently transmit electrocardiogram tracings from heart attack patients to doctors, enabling doctors to diagnose a particular kind of heart attack that can benefit from immediate treatment.
A STEMI, or ST segment myocardial infarction, is a kind [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 23, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Applications Cardiology Image mHealth smartphone Source Type: news
mHealth impact in Brazil, Mexico could be huge – report
“More than 40 million additional patients could be treated in Brazil and Mexico in 2017 through the adoption of mobile health services, according to a new report from the GSMA.
The report, which was developed in collaboration with PwC, said mobile services could extend healthcare to 28.4 million patients in Brazil and 15.5 million patients in [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 23, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News mHealth Source Type: news
DoD to explore commercial EHR options
“The U.S. Department of Defense will look to the commercial market for an electronic health record system instead of developing one based on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ VistA system, Nextgov has reported.
In a memo to Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Frank Kendall and Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 23, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Interoperability Source Type: news
Incentives push doctors to electronic medical records
“More than half of doctors’ offices and 80% of hospitals that provide Medicare or Medicaid will have electronic health records by the end of the year, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.
“We have reached a tipping point in adoption of electronic health records,” said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and they “are critical [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 23, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption Incentives Source Type: news
La maison intelligente allie surveillance médicale et gestion des appareils électriques
“En 2012, des chercheurs allemands de l’Institut Fraunhofer de Munich et du Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mechanics de Kaiserslautern avaient mis au point un système de prises intelligentes pour gérer l’extinction et l’allumage d’appareils électriques à distance. Cette découverte permettait entre autres d’optimiser la consommation d’électricité via l’utilisation d’un ordinateur ou d’un smartphone. Wattio, une [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 23, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Devices Digital Homecare mHealth Monitoring Surveillance Telemedicine Source Type: news
Failure to use linked health records may lead to biased disease estimates
“Failure to use linked electronic health records may lead to biased estimates of heart attack incidence and outcome, warn researchers in a paper published in BMJ today.
They show that up to 50% of all heart attack cases are missed using just one data source. These findings may be relevant to other common conditions, such as [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 22, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Cardiology Failure Record Linkage Source Type: news
Completeness and diagnostic validity of recording acute myocardial infarction events in primary care, hospital care, disease registry, and national mortality records: cohort study
Objective
To determine the completeness and diagnostic validity of myocardial infarction recording across four national health record sources in primary care, hospital care, a disease registry, and mortality register.
Design
Cohort study.
Participants
21 482 patients with acute myocardial infarction in England between January 2003 and March 2009, identified in four prospectively collected, linked electronic health record [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 22, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science UK EHR Cardiology Source Type: news
The Explosion of Computing Power
“Accelerating advances in computing will affect health care. More computing power equals more automation; greater efficiency; lower costs; better clinical, administrative and logistical decisions; better clinical research and understanding; and, ultimately, better care for the patient and better support for those delivering that care — those left standing, that is, after the tsunami hits.
In fact, [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 21, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Big Data Cloud Source Type: news
Why EHRs are Data Systems, Not Information Systems
“If your house is burning, you want the fire department ASAP. If you called the number for the fire department and got street sweeping or business licenses instead, you would be in big trouble. Words matter.
Names matter. They precondition and orient thought. When words like “information” and “data” are confused, thinking is confused. Most “definitions” [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 21, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Data Systems Source Type: news
Making Sense of Big Data in Pharma
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Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 21, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Video Big Data Pharmaceutical Source Type: news
Study: Smartphone-enabled dermatology is comparable, less comprehensive
“A small validation study in Sweden suggests that teledermatology, conducted using an iPhone, a dedicated app, and a connected dermascope, can be roughly as effective as a face-to-face dermatology consultation.
The study of 69 lesions (the number of patients is not specified) was conducted at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden and published in the journal Dermatology [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 21, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Applications Dermatology mHealth Teledermatology Telemedicine Source Type: news
How can EHRs engage patients by integrating medical devices?
“Patients with diseases such as diabetes produce valuable data regularly, some of which can prevent serious medical events from escalating if providers are able to intervene more quickly and directly. For these patients, medical device integration and patient engagement are seemingly one and the same. However, prior to the adoption of EHR systems and medical [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 21, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Chronic Diseases Devices Engagement integration Patient Source Type: news
15% Of Physicians Declining EHRs: Deloitte Survey
“Nearly all U.S. doctors responding to a recent Accenture survey said they use electronic health records (EHRs). But a new report from Deloitte shows a somewhat different picture: Just two-thirds of physicians said they have an EHR capable of showing Meaningful Use (MU), and 45% of the remaining third, or about 15% of all respondents, [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 21, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Implementation Physicians Source Type: news
