ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics 
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“Having clinicians diagnose and treat patients over the Internet, without their ever having seen those patients in person, is making a comeback.
In the early 2000s, a state medical board shut down one attempt to make such online care legitimate. But today, in an age of greater comfort with telemedicine and delivering care over the Internet, [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Costs Physician-Patient Relationship Teleconsultation Telemedicine Source Type: news
Five reasons you might actually like ICD-10
“It’s too much work. It’s too expensive. It’s too confusing. It’ll slow my coders down. With all the fears, complaints, warnings, and dire predictions surrounding ICD-10, it’s easy to lose sight of the benefits that the new code set will bring to medicine starting on October 1, 2014. Here are [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Benefits diagnose ICD-10 Research Source Type: news
Proper EHR Software Training Could Prevent Unintended Consequences
“Healthcare providers with poor medical software training often rely on EHR workarounds, which can pose a threat to patient safety. Better training could reduce their occurrence.
Electronic health record (EHR) software can offer many benefits to physicians and their patients, such as improved care quality and patient safety, greater efficiency, and better clinical workflow; but it [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Education Source Type: news
Paper- and computer-based workarounds to electronic health record use at three benchmark institutions
BACKGROUND:
Healthcare professionals develop workarounds rather than using electronic health record (EHR) systems. Understanding the reasons for workarounds is important to facilitate user-centered design and alignment between work context and available health information technology tools.
OBJECTIVE:
To examine both paper- and computer-based workarounds to the use of EHR systems in three benchmark institutions.
METHODS:
Qualitative data were collected [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Primary Care Source Type: news
Un casque, des capteurs et un smartphone pour diagnostiquer les maladies neurologiques !
“Parce qu’il est long et fastidieux de diagnostiquer des maladies cérébrales telles que les commotions, une startup lance le “MindReader”, un casque qui permet de connaître l’activité du cerveau en temps réel.
Pour détecter une commotion cérébrale, les outils classiques se révèlent parfois contraignants et combinent une multitude de tests longs à réaliser tels que l’IRM [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - April 9, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Applications Brain ECG mHealth Neurology smartphone Source Type: news
