ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics 
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“In the present days physicians want to utilize the power of video conferencing for high-quality audio/video interaction for Tele medicine, individual care, undercover research and other programs. Video conference meetings removes the access, overall performance and cost issues of traditional systems that require expensive MCU (Multipoint Control Unit) equipment and dedicated QoS (Quality of service) [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 28, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Remote Surveillance Telemedicine Videoconferencing Source Type: news
“mHealth” in the Middle East
“The digital revolution is about to change more than just the realms of freedom of speech and expression. Meet digitized medicine and the mobile health revolution.
Like many other parts of the world, a number of countries in the Middle East are seeing a rapid rise in “lifestyle” related health problems such as obesity and diabetes. [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 28, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News mHealth Source Type: news
Les nano-technologies au service de la santé, un secteur en passe de se démarquer
“Internet offre une multitude de possibilités d’innovation – notamment dans les secteurs des objets connectés et de la santé – permettant ainsi à des pays comme la France de se placer en véritable concurrent et d’innover toujours plus.
Actuellement 2,5 milliards de personnes se connectent régulièrement sur internet, et ce chiffre englobera prochainement la moitié des [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 28, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Nanotechnology Source Type: news
The internet of you: How wireless medical implants will change medicine
“Strap on a Fitbit (see disclosure) and you can track your physical activity and sleep patterns over weeks, months and years, generating long-term personal data and potential health insights that otherwise might have been missed. But what if there was a personal health tracker that could go deeper?
That’s the promise of future medical implants that [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 28, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Implants Wireless Source Type: news
Small data for big wins
“Barely a week passes without news about how big data stands to transform healthcare delivery and outcomes. Without question, we are seeing some amazing examples of its potential. It is important, however, in our quest to advance care, we not think only “big,” but we also think about small data — in other words, the [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 27, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Data Health Information Exchange Source Type: news
Outpatient electronic health records and the clinical care and outcomes of patients with diabetes mellitus
BACKGROUND: Physicians can receive federal payments for meaningful use of complete certified electronic health records (EHRs). Evidence is limited on how EHR use affects clinical care and outcomes.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between use of a commercially available certified EHR and clinical care processes and disease control in patients with diabetes.
DESIGN:
Quasi-experimental design with outpatient EHR [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 27, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Ambulatory Care Diabetes Source Type: news
Infoway can help solve your standards woes
“Healthcare IT standards like DICOM, HL7, and IHE are often touted as the best way to connect the medley of systems used in hospitals and healthcare regions today. Also in the mix is SNOMED CT, an important healthcare IT standard that can be used for clinical decision support and reporting. But what if you’re having [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 27, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News dicom HL7 IHE SNOMED Standards Source Type: news
“Big Data” comes to medical imaging
“Google has changed the way people do a lot of things, from planning road trips to checking e-mail, to — if Google Glass pans out — choosing eyewear. A few years ago, the California tech giant decided to shake up another field: epidemiology. In 2008, amidst much fanfare, the company launched Google Flu Trends. The [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 27, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Big Data Imaging Source Type: news
Why EMR companies don’t care about usability
“I overheard nurses praising the pilot of a new technology with the promise of improving communication, safety, and saving on healthcare spending. The innovation: two-way texting. That’s one of the many indicators that hospitals are stuck the technological stone age.
Imagine how many eyes light up when you offer providers fewer logins, autopopulating forms, and uncluttered [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 27, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Usability vendors Source Type: news
M-santé : des efforts nécessaires pour une utilisation uniforme entre patients et médecins
“La m-santé gagne sans cesse du terrain mais se voit freinée par le manque d’adaptabilité des centres médicaux, dont les outils technologiques ne correspondent pas à ceux des patients.
Si les applications de m-santé séduisent toujours plus de personnes, la question est de savoir comment parvenir à satisfaire cette clientèle toujours plus exigeante ? L’étude menée [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 27, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Implementation mHealth Source Type: news
EHR design must better support care coordination
“Electronic health records could improve patient care coordination among providers if they were better designed for such functionality, according to a perspective article published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
The authors, from RAND Corp., Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, said that coordinating a patient’s care can involve the [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 26, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Care Coordination Source Type: news
Let the left hand know what the right is doing: a vision for care coordination and electronic health records
Despite the potential for electronic health records to help providers coordinate care, the current marketplace has failed to provide adequate solutions. Using a simple framework, we describe a vision of information technology capabilities that could substantially improve four care coordination activities: identifying collaborators, contacting collaborators, collaborating, and monitoring. Collaborators can include any individual clinician, caregiver, [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 26, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science Care Coordination Source Type: news
Emergency department EHRs ‘particularly error prone’
“Electronic health records provide many benefits, but also bring about “unintended consequences” of errors that can affect patient safety in the emergency department, according to a new article in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
The article, a joint effort by members of two workgroups of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), notes that emergency department [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 26, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News emergency Medical Errors Safety Source Type: news
Quality and Safety Implications of Emergency Department Information Systems
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “meaningful use” incentive programs, in tandem with the boundless additional requirements for detailed reporting of quality metrics, have galvanized hospital efforts to implement hospital-based electronic health records. As such, emergency department information systems (EDISs) are [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 26, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science emergency Hospitals Quality Safety Source Type: news
EHR systems pose serious concerns, groups say
“Electronic health-record systems used in emergency departments are beset with poor data displays, loaded with so many alerts warning of potential patient-safety issues that they can lead to user alert fatigue, and may be generating incorrect physician orders, according to a report by two emergency physicians’ study groups.
Meanwhile, providers wanting to address these EHR issues [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - June 25, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Alert/Reminder emergency Patient Safety Source Type: news
