Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Health Informatics News

Health Informatics News

Survey: Privacy compliance has declined

Posted: 14 May 2006 01:56 AM PDT

Three years after federal rules governing the privacy of patients' medical records went into effect, compliance seems to have declined for 6 percent, according to an annual survey conducted by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Read more about this at here.

E-book: Making E-Health Work

Posted: 14 May 2006 01:53 AM PDT

E-Health has become an integral part of present-day healthcare delivery. With healthcare consumers, increasingly the focus of most health systems, the widespread implementation of health information and communications technologies offers cost-effective opportunities to meet their increasingly sophisticated healthcare needs.Bankix Systems Ltd has released its latest e-book. It is a 200-page in-depth analysis of the issues involved in "Making E-Health Work," the e-book's title. Read more about this e-book at here.

Consumer tools: UCompareHealthCare Offers Free Reports on Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Physicians

Posted: 11 Mar 2006 01:01 AM PST

"UCompareHealthCare has just unveiled its Web site, ucomparehealthcare.com, which features free reports on the nation's nursing homes, hospitals and physicians to help consumers make informed healthcare decisions. I checked the web site and found it very informative for health consumers to help them make informed decision about their choices of doctors, hospitals and others." Read more about this at UCompareHealthCare

Articles: Direct to Consumer: Women are a powerful, but untapped, audience

Posted: 03 Feb 2006 12:04 AM PST

"Women influence many family decisions—from choosing what's for dinner to selecting the medications their children take. In fact, nearly two-thirds of women are responsible for family healthcare decisions, according to a 2004 national survey conducted by Plan for Your Health. Many women also assume the care-giving role outside their nuclear families. Today's middle-aged woman may also look after her parents and in-laws too, often determining how long they can live on their own and how to best care for them. In addition, she often influences the important health decisions of grandchildren, co-workers, and friends." Read more at PharmExec.

Consumer tools: Really Personal PHRs

Posted: 27 Jan 2006 01:05 AM PST

"If we're committed to fostering the adoption of personal health records, we should take a page out of the consumer marketing textbooks — not the primers of health IT marketers. This was my conclusion after attending a recent meeting in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Markle Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Quality Research and Quality. " Read more about this at iHealthBeat .

Consumer trends: Manhattan Predicts Online Health Trends

Posted: 27 Jan 2006 12:06 AM PST

"US healthcare specialist Manhattan Research has published a summary of the major trends for health and pharmaceutical marketers to consider in 2006. The trends chart the increased use of the web and other new technologies as a health information and communication tool for both patients and physicians." Read more at Daily Research News Online.

News: Wall Street Journal Looks at Tools That Identify Low-Cost Care Options

Posted: 26 Jan 2006 01:07 AM PST

"The Wall Street Journal on Thursday looked at efforts by insurers to provide patients with tools - including a cell phone Web browsing service - to help them find low-cost treatment options. Lumenos, a unit of WellPoint, in February will launch the cell phone service, which lets patients type drug names into their cell phones' Web browsers and get lists of lower-cost alternatives. The program is designed so that patients can ask their physicians about cost-effective alternatives while they still are at their appointments." Read more at iHealthBeat.

Consumer tools: Consumer Health Complete Now Available from EBSCO Publishing

Posted: 25 Jan 2006 12:09 AM PST

"In continuing with the company's goal of providing the most comprehensive collection of online health and wellness resources, EBSCO Publishing has announced the release of Consumer Health Complete (CHC). This full text database is designed to support consumer and patients' information needs as well as foster an overall
understanding of health-related topics." Read more at Managing Information News.

Midwest Community Network Gets EMR

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 06:15 AM PST

InConcertCare, a network of facilities providing to underserved populations in Iowa and Nebraska, has selected U.K.-based GE Healthcare ’s Centricity Practice for Community Health Centers. According to the company, the solution will be utilized by more than 140 providers in the InConcertCare network, equipping the organization with tools to support their centers’ growing data collection needs, UDS and Title X reporting requirements and CHC-specific billing demands. With Centricity Practice, participating clinics can become fully automated by utilizing features such as integrated scheduling, electronic messaging, care alerts for physicians, real-time decision support, drug-disease interaction checks, ePrescribing and claims processing services to help improve management of the revenue cycle, it says. InConcertCare is a network of eight community and migrant health centers serving 78,000 people in underserved communities throughout Iowa and Nebraska. The non-profit organization was established in 1997 to improve the delivery of accessible, efficient, coordinated, quality, and appropriate health care services for the medically underserved.

Carolina Radiologists Gets PACS

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 06:12 AM PST

Carolina Regional Radiology PA (CRR, Fayetteville), an imaging and radiology practice serving a ten-county region in southeastern North Carolina, is implementing InteleOne from Westminster, Colo.-based Intelerad Medical Systems to interconnect its facilities. InteleOne will utilize a distributed architecture to provide interoperability between the different sites’ PACS and RIS systems, says the company. Through the deployment, CRR radiologists will have access to data and images regardless of their office location. CRR is an interventional practice providing state-of-the-art imaging solutions for hospitals, imaging centers, mobile services, urgent care centers, physician practices, and the armed services, as well as direct procedural care for patients. It offers onsite services and teleradiology to two imaging centers, four hospitals, and more than a dozen small clinics.

N.J. Foundation Awards $2.4 Million in Health IT Grants

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 09:40 AM PST

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF, Princeton, N.J.) has selected five teams for a project that will explore how patient-recorded observations of daily living (ODLs) can be captured and integrated into clinical care. RWJF is awarding a total of more than $2.4 million to five grantee teams to test whether and how information such as the stress levels of caregivers of premature infants and medication-taking routines of seniors at risk of cognitive decline can be collected, interpreted and acted upon by patients and clinicians in real-world settings, it says. Project HealthDesign , which is led by a team of experts working in health IT and patient-centered care at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will award a two-year, $480,000 grant to the following five teams: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh — develop and evaluate of new technology that will monitor the routine of older individuals who have arthritis and are at risk for cognitive decline; RTI International and Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va. — design a PHR application, BreathEasy, building on the latest clinical guidelines for treatment and self-monitoring for patients with asthma and depression; San Francisco State University, San Francisco — collect observations of daily living via smartphones for low-income teens that are simultaneously managing obesity and depression; University of California, Berkeley — partnership with The Healthy Communities Foundation and the University of California, San Francisco to help young adults with Crohn’s disease create visual narratives of their condition and treatment to provide concrete feedback to providers about how they feel from day to day; University of California, Irvine and Charles Drew University (Irvine) — create a mobile device for collecting data from pre-term low birth weight infants and their primary caregivers that will allow them to more easily interface with providers to improve care and communication.

CIOs Testify on Challenges of Implementing EHRs

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 09:37 AM PST

Four members of the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) testified yesterday before the Implementation Workgroup on challenges they foresee in implementing EHRs. The following CIOs spoke about their experiences and provided input aimed at accelerating the adoption of proposed standards or mitigating barriers to adoption: Mitzi G. Cardenas, vice president and CIO, Truman Medical Centers (Kansas City, Mo.) Charles Christian, CIO, Good Samaritan Hospital (Vincennes, Ind.) David Muntz, senior vice president and CIO, Baylor Health Care System (Dallas) Michael J. Sauk, vice president and CIO, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics (Madison, Wis.) According to CHIME, Cardenas spoke about the challenges involved in implementing EHRs in a rapid timeframe, while Muntz stressed that transforming clinical care through the use of enabling technology can’t happen without process redesign and change management support. Christian emphasized the importance of getting applications and processes such as CPOE in place to support clinical transformation, and Sauk highlighted the fact that CMS can’t accept electronic data submissions, making it difficult for organizations to fulfill reporting requirements. The Implementation Workgroup is charged with developing real-world implementation experiences that can be included into recommendations of the HIT Standards Committee, a federal advisory panel that reports to National Health IT Coordinator David Blumenthal, M.D.

Cancer Center Automates Patient Flow

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 07:53 AM PST

CancerCare of Maine (CCOM), operated by Eastern Maine Medical Center (Bangor), is deploying the Versus Advantages solution from Versus Technology, Inc. (Traverse City, Mich.) in its new facility in Brewer, Maine to automate patient flow. According to Versus, the solution integrates with other systems such as digital phones, scheduling and nurse call to automatically communicate patient care progression and room status and to maximize efficiency. Versus’ real-time locating system enables allows hospitals and clinics to identify patient location, notify staff of patient events and monitor staff time with patients.  
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