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A better way to share and store electronic health records
“Missy Krasner faces a big challenge in taking care of her aged mom, who sees eight doctors for different medical issues. Krasner discovered that these doctors have no way other than fax to share data with one other, so each has an incomplete picture of her mom’s medical status. That creates risk of misdiagnosis, bad [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 28, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Cloud Data Sharing Data Storage phr Security Source Type: news

Should You Be Worried About Your Health Data?
“Do you know where your health data goes? Whenever you go to the doctor, are admitted to a hospital, or pick up a prescription, your personal health data is being recorded. If you think that data stays within the walls of your health care provider, think again. Interoperability is the name of the game for health [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 28, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Data Interoperability Security Source Type: news

How big data will save your life
“Dr. Robert Walker, director of health innovation for the U.S. Army Surgeon General, has been more a frustrated data entry clerk in recent years than a physician, a frustration shared by thousands of his colleagues. Instead of freeing him for more face-time with patients, the electronic health record (EHR) system he uses has become a third [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 26, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Big Data Data Mining Source Type: news

The controversial rise of surgical robots
“When introduced over ten years ago, surgical robots were hailed as a major breakthrough in health care. Lauded for their virtuosic feats of precision, the surgeon-guided robots have been variously shown folding paper planes, lacing footballs, and even deftly peeling the skin off a grape. Now, thanks to enthusiastic adoption from surgeons, these high-tech helpers are [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Devices Robot Surgery Source Type: news

The Biggest “Big Ideas” At TEDMED 2013
“I had the pleasure of attending the TEDMED conference last week in Washington DC. I never experienced the event before, but I heard a lot about it. Everyone told me that TEDMED would be unlike any other conference I’ve ever attended. And it was. One of the primary goals of TEDMED is to bring the brightest [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Big Data mHealth Source Type: news

PHRs to reduce health disparities, collect longitudinal data?
“A compelling presentation about the secure exchange of radiological imaging in the cloud from last week’s Information Management Network (IMN) Hospital Cloud Forum included insightful commentary into how personal health records (PHRs) could potentially minimize healthcare disparities. Before overviewing the strides made by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Image Share (which we covered over [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Disparities Health Information Exchange phr Source Type: news

Is it “too much to hope” that EHRs will streamline care?
“EHRs only make life more complicated for physicians, state Rebecca Mishuris, MD, MS and Jeffrey Linder, MD, MPH, FACP in an editorial published in the most recent edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Electronic health records simply add to the administrative burdens that clinicians face, and haven’t been proven in any measurable [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Meaningful Use Source Type: news

EHR use provides Canadian docs billions in benefits
“Electronic health records have proven very useful to Canadian physicians in community-based care, helping them to reap more than $1.3 billion in benefits since 2006, according to a new report by PwC. The report, commissioned by Canada Health Infoway, involved review of over 250 research articles, surveys and other information. The researchers found a number of [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Benefits Physicians Source Type: news

Electronic health records key to patient care quality improvement
“A new Accenture (NYSE:ACN) survey reveals that almost two thirds of doctors surveyed in England (65%) believe that the introduction of electronic health records has improved the quality of patient care. A majority of doctors (86%) agree that electronic health records will become integral to effective patient care in the next two years, reflecting the Government’s [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News RA News Record Access Patient Quality Source Type: news

Healthcare Patient Engagement Remains Elusive
“It seems as if everyone in healthcare is talking about patient engagement, yet few know how to achieve it. What people do seem to agree on is that patient engagement will not be easy, but technology will be an essential part of the process. “We know today that key patient needs are not being met,” Dr. [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 25, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Engagement Incentives Meaningful Use Patient Source Type: news

How an EHR helps with practice efficiency
“Efficient is the word that Mike Jordan, MD, of East Lake Pediatrics, P.A. in Trinity, Fla., would use to describe the information technology in use in his practice. Jordan chose to use an EHR from the very first day he opened his practice back in 2004. An efficient office is also an organized one, and Jordan [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 24, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Efficiency Source Type: news

Report quantifies EHR benefits for Canadian docs
“As some U.S. lawmakers still remain skeptical about the long-term value of federal health IT investments, a PricewaterhouseCoopers report on EHRs in Canadian physician practices pegs the efficiency and patient benefit value at about $1.3 billion since 2006. Commissioned by Canada Health Infoway, a federally-funded health information technology nonprofit, the PwC study tried to quantify the [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 24, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption Benefits Physicians Primary Care Source Type: news

Two thirds of doctors support introduction of electronic health records
“Technology company Accenture has unveiled its latest research which has found that almost two thirds of doctors in England believe that the introduction of electronic health records has improved the quality of patient care. A majority – at 86% – also agree that these will become integral to effective patient care in the next two years, [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 24, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News RA News Record Access UK EHR Patient Source Type: news

Biomedical and Health Informatics vs. Data Science, mHealth, etc. — New Disciplines or New Terminology?
“When I entered the field of informatics in the 1980s, a great deal of the research was driven by “artificial intelligence” (AI). Many people were trying to build “rule-based expert systems,” while those interested in knowledge representation were constructing “semantic networks.” We rarely hear these terms in quotes these days, perhaps with the exception of [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 22, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Artificial Intelligence Biomedical Informatics Decision Support Health Informatics mHealth Ontology Terminology Source Type: news

Patients Are Slow To Adopt PHRs According To Experts
“It has been indicated that personal health records (PHR) benefit both patients and healthcare professionals, however patients are slow to embrace them. “Revolution Health and Google Health are two high-profile examples of the literally dozens of consumer-based electronic PHR (personal health record) providers to close their doors over the past few years. Many chalked these [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 22, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption Patient phr Source Type: news