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Mhealth study in Brazil shows tech can help the poor
“Researchers have found that this technology can be very helpful to people living in the slums of Rio. A study conducted in Rio de Janeiro has now shown that using mhealth technology for monitoring patients who are living in poor urban neighborhoods can help to increase the access that those individuals have to healthcare services while [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 12, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News diagnose mHealth Monitoring Underserved Urban Source Type: news

Private clinic’s web portal unlocks patient information, resulting in better care and cost savings
“The clinic, Continuum Care Centre, provides family physicians, specialists, health care professionals and home care services to 15,000 patients. It was a pioneer in adopting electronic medical records a few years ago and its most recent innovation, in late January, is an Internet platform called Health eGateway. The new technology, an innovation of Telus Health, [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 12, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Benefits Hospitals Patient Information Portal Source Type: news

U.S. Doctors Ramp Up ‘Routine’ Use of EHRs, E-Prescribing: Report
“U.S. doctors have increased their adoption of digital health records and electronic prescribing at twice the rate of other countries, an Accenture survey revealed. U.S. physicians have shown a significant increase in accessing digital health data at double the rate of their global counterparts, according to a new report by IT consulting company Accenture.” Article Brian T. Horowitz, [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 12, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption e-prescribing Source Type: news

EMR and HIE Use Increases Among U.S. Doctors, Survey Finds
“Ninety-three percent of U.S. doctors report actively using electronic medical records (EMR), and nearly half (45 percent) of doctors surveyed said they regularly access clinical data outside their own organization, representing a 32 percent annual increase, according to consulting firm Accenture. On behalf of Accenture, Harris Interactive conducted an online survey of 3,700 physicians across [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 10, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News emr Health Information Exchange Source Type: news

Why Telemedicine Should Be Integrated With EHRs, ACOs
“A veteran observer of telemedicine says that it’s time for the various technologies grouped under that rubric to be integrated with mainstream medicine so that patients can receive the appropriate care from the right provider at the right site of care, while reducing waste and duplication of effort. In a lengthy editorial in the publication Telemedicine [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 10, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News ACO integration Monitoring Telemedicine Source Type: news

Finding the value in HIE, IT integration will push adoption: Q&A
“What’s in it for me?” isn’t an unreasonable question when it comes to healthcare information technology. Providers are being asked to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on new IT systems, and finding the business case for these massive investments is crucial to spurring adoption and improving healthcare at its core. EHRintelligence.com spoke to Shahid [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 10, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption Health Information Exchange integration Meaningful Use Source Type: news

The Road to Big Data Passes Through Informatics
“I have written a number of postings over the last year about various aspects of electronic health record (EHR) data, from the transition of the work of informatics from implementation to analytics to the problems that still prevent us from making optimal use of data, such as the difficulties of data entry. One of my [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 10, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Big Data Health Informatics Source Type: news

E-prescribing continues to grow
“Almost 800 million prescriptions were routed electronically in 2012, 44 percent of prescriptions and up from 570 million in 2011, according to Surescripts’ annual National Progress Report and Safe-Rx Rankings. More than 38,000 physicians (69 percent) used e-prescribing in 2012 and nearly half of all office visits (48 percent) resulted in electronically generated medication history requests, [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 10, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News e-prescribing Source Type: news

Five reasons virtual doctor visits might be better than in-person ones
“In relatively few years, videoconferencing has advanced tremendously, from something that required expensive and complicated hardware setups to something most smartphone, tablet, and PC owners have easy access to. Using video for virtual visits in healthcare is a little more complicated — the connection has to be reliable and the service HIPAA compliant to protect [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 10, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Telemedicine virtual-consult Source Type: news

Can a smartphone do what your doctor does?
“During our medical training, we’re taught to gather and use information from three sources: a patient history, a physical exam and lab tests. By far the most difficult to master is the physical exam. A good exam requires knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and awareness of normal variations that allow a doctor to recognize abnormalities. Technology [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Devices mHealth smartphone Source Type: news

Effective Electronic Health Records Require Medicare Incentives, Says AMA
“Federal agencies should align to Medicare pay so it supports interoperability seamlessly within paperless systems, the American Medical Association (AMA) plus other medicine groups have urged. If the USA is serious about achieving goals of an efficient and high quality health care system, it will need to improve health information exchanges and interoperability, AMA along with [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Incentives Interoperability Meaningful Use Source Type: news

Are Electronic Health Records Hindering Patient Care?
“SHM board member Eric Siegal, MD, SFHM, wasn’t surprised by the findings in a new report in the Journal of General Internal Medicine that found medical interns spent just 12% of their time in direct patient care and a whopping 40% of their time using computers. “There certainly are advantages to electronic health records (EHRs), but [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 8, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Patient Physician-Patient Relationship Source Type: news

Why telemedicine must become ‘integral’ to mainstream care efforts
“Telemedicine must move to the forefront of medical efforts in the U.S. for domestic care efficiency and quality improvements to be considered anything better than “marginal,” according to an editorial published this month in the journal Telemedicine and e-Health. Rashid L. Bashshur (pictured), director of telemedicine at the University of Michigan Health System and the commentary’s [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 8, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Telemedicine Source Type: news

mHealth needs to focus on consumers
“A panel of telemedicine industry executives took on the topic of user-friendly design Monday afternoon at the American Telemedicine Association’s18th Annual International Meeting & Trade Show. Their conclusion: Healthcare needs to design new methods of care delivery that appeal to the consumer. “I think there’s such an opportunity with consumers and what their demands are,” said [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 8, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Consumer mHealth Telemedicine Source Type: news

Health IT Interoperability: How Far Along Are We?
“Electronic health record adoption is on the rise. The number of hospitals using basic EHR systems tripled from 12.2 percent in 2009 to 44.4 percent in 2012, according to a report released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and CMS. However, the move towards efficient care coordination and care [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - May 8, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption Interoperability Source Type: news