Archive for October, 2008
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Participatory Medicine, Connected Health
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“The Center for Connected Health’s 2008 Symposium was held in Boston on October 27-28, 2008. I gave a talk entitled, “Participatory Medicine: How User-Generated Media are Changing American Attitudes and Actions, Online and Off.” As always, the conversations I had with people after the speech were the best part of the event.”
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Susannah Fox, e-patients.net, 30 […]
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Innovatie in de zorg
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“De langdurende zorg in Nederland staat de komende decennia voor de uitdaging voldoende goede zorg te blijven leveren, terwijl het aantal zorgvragers toeneemt en het aantal zorgverleners niet stijgt. Als er niets verandert, is er binnenkort al te weinig personeel om te voldoen aan de stijgende zorgvraag. Vraag en aanbod van zorg moeten echter in […]
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Improving Medication Adherence with a Cell Phone
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““Drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them.” This quote, by the former Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, M.D, appeared in a New England Journal of Medicine article on drug therapy and adherence.
There are many reasons (cost, inconvenience, forgetfulness, unpleasant side effects) why patients don’t take their medicine. Medication adherence has become an issue […]
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ICD9, ICD10 and SNOMED, a guest blog
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“Knowing that yesterday’s blog about ICD-10 would raise questions about how HITSP will incorporate ICD-10 into its future work products as well as the role of SNOMED verses ICD-10 as a clinical vocabulary, I asked one of our HITSP Technical Committee Co-chairs to give me his perspective. Jamie Ferguson leads standards efforts for Kaiser and […]
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£12bn NHS computer system crashes at the first attempt
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“The roll-out of a new computer system to every London hospital has been frozen after being installed in just one organisation.
IT experts have stopped setting up the software across the capital and have rushed to sort out problems caused by the system at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS trust the only acute hospital to have […]
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Professors Call For Regulation Of Electronic Health Records
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“Cost and security concerns about bringing health care record keeping into the 21st century through electronic health records (EHR)have led to a call for an effective regulatory and oversight system from a pair of Case Western Reserve University professors.”
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ScienceDaily, 30 October 2008
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Surveillance On the Average Joe: Another Blow To Patient Confidence In Electronic Medical Records?
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“In 2006 I’d commented on Healthcare Renewal about the Wall Street Journal story “Spread of Records Stirs Patient Fears of Privacy Erosion”, by Theo Francis, published Dec. 26, 2006.
As I wrote at “Another Electronic Medical Record Horror Story” here, a patient, Patricia Galvin, was betrayed after medical information she thought was confidential about her psychotherapy […]
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HIMSS: Ambulatory EMR Growth Slow but Steady
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“Market growth of EMR implementations in ambulatory healthcare settings such as private medical practices or specialty clinics continues at a slow but steady pace, according to results from the Ambulatory Healthcare IT Survey, conducted by the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) and HIMSS Analytics.”
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Healthcare Informatics, 30 October 2008
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The Patient’s Voice
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Unfortunately I have not been able to attend the Healt2.0 Conference in San Francisco. However I was able to get a good grasp of it. I published a lot of the output on the ICMCC Newspage and you can still read most of the reactions on Twitter: here and here.
During my observations there were 3 […]
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Medical Software – The Netherlands tackles EHRs
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“Like most countries, The Netherlands population is getting older, their bad capacity is getting smaller and their GPs (or PCPs) are beginning to get overrun with patients. Right now there are 5 GPs for every 10,000 patients. Ouch. So they believe a EHR will fix some of those problems.”
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Nathan Low, An Ozzie in Boston, 29 […]
