Archive for June, 2008
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What I learned about CCR, Part I
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“This is a bit overdue for me given that I learned what I learned about CCR at the ASTM Workshop in May, 2008, conducted by David Kibbe, MD, MBA, and Steven Waldren, MD. I think what I learned is important for supporting patient-centered HIT, so I’m putting my summary here. A reminder that the beauty […]
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Possibility of National Electronic Medical Records System Growing
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“In San Francisco, Accenture recently hosted the last of its three town hall meetings gauging citizen views on health-care challenges and solutions in partnership with the Council for Excellence in Government. The other two meetings occurred in Miami and Detroit. As health-care costs and the number of uninsured citizens climb, some form of government-supported universal […]
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New Telemedicine Service To Help In The Care Of Sick Babies
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“Tiny Tom”, an innovative new telemedicine service which will help with the care of sick babies in North Queensland was launched in Townsville today Friday, June 27.
Tiny Tom is the latest development of the telepaediatric service, a major research project run by The University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health (COH), a research centre based […]
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A Shot in the Arm for Health Records?
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“Many employers have been skeptical about the value of personal health records, saying employees are concerned about privacy and likely won’t take the time to maintain the records. But with companies including Google and Microsoft Corp. launching such products, experts say the concept may take off.
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Kristin Gunderson Hunt, Workforce Management, 24 June 2008
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NHS electronic record films on YouTube
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“Connecting for Health has launched a new channel on global video sharing website YouTube.
The channel was launched to coincide with the release of a new DVD for nurses, midwives and allied health practitioners at a national CfH nursing conference last week.”
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e-Health Insider, 27 June 2008
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Validation of Surgical Intensive Care–Infection Registry: A Medical Informatics System for Intensive Care Unit Research, Quality of Care Improvement, and Daily Patient Care
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“Background: We developed a prototype electronic clinical information system called the Surgical Intensive Care-Infection Registry (SIC-IR) to prospectively study infectious complications and monitor quality of care improvement programs in the surgical and trauma intensive care unit. The objective of this study was to validate SIC-IR as a successful health information technology with an accurate clinical […]
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Building an inter-organizational communication network and challenges for preserving interoperability
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Background: The ideal scenario for information technology to bridge information gaps between primary and secondary healthcare and to improve the quality of healthcare in the medication process is to build an interoperable communication network. This type of undertaking requires diverse information systems to be integrated, and central to this are the preservation of data integrity […]
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The Impact of eHealth on the Quality & Safety of Healthcare
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“A Systemic Overview & Synthesis of the Literature Report for the NHS Connecting for Health Evaluation Programme.
We were commissioned by the Patient Safety Research Programme (which now no longer exists and whose remit has in part been subsumed by the recently created NHS Connecting for Health Evaluation Programme (CFHEP)) to produce a systematic overview of […]
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Realizing the Dream of 21st Century Health Care
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“Yesterday we announced the launch of the health information exchange in the greater-Newburyport community. The HIE is called WellportSM. It’s the culmination of an enormous and very successful collaboration among many parties, including MAeHC, our technology partners, and—most notably—the medical professionals and patients of the Newburyport community itself. Preparing to launch an HIE begins years […]
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AHIP adopts principles on patient-centered medical home
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“The board of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the trade group for health insurers, has adopted core principles on the development of a patient-centered medical home, including payment realignments.”
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Rebecca Vesely, Modern Healthcare Online, 26 June 2008
