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IDDSI Implementation: How ’s It Going?
Last spring, ASHA announced its support for the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) framework. This new framework standardizes terminology and definitions for food textures and liquid thicknesses. The framework was designed to avoid the confusion created by the different names used throughout the world to describe texture-modified foods and thickened liquids, so as to ensure patient safety. The IDDSI framework includes characteristics and examples of food or liquid at each level, testing methods, as well as photos and videos of the testing methods. Public access articles published to support the...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Luis F. Riquelme Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Slider Speech-Language Pathology Dysphagia Professional Development Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs

Big Data Studies and Abuse of Fiduciary Duties
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. A study published in the May 17th, 2018 issue of Cell, “Disease Heritability Inferred from Familial Relationships Reported in Medical Records,” shows a connection between families and certain diseases at three large urban university medical centers. The researchers took private health information from electronic medical records, identified family trees by matching emergency contacts, examined diagnoses and other health information, and matched that with any tissue samples from biobanks to build a picture of disease heritability.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 17, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: Featured Posts Informed Consent Privacy Research Ethics Source Type: blogs

It Seems EMR Systems Are Getting Really Expensive – I Wonder Why So Much?
This appeared last week:Vic government to spend $124 million on digital patient recordsEMR system to cover four health servicesRohan Pearce (Computerworld) 01 May, 2018 12:32 Victoria ’s 2018-19 budget will earmark $124 million for the rollout of electronic medical records at three health services, the state government revealed today.The Victorian government said that the EMR rollout at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne Health and Royal Women’s Hospital will see th e records linked to the currently operating EMR system at the Royal Children’s Hospital. The rollout will reduce avoidable errors and duplicati...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 10, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

AI-Driven Interactive Patient Engagement: Interview with TeleHealth ’s Richard Bootes
Discussions are guided by the patient’s EMR and data analytics created through interactions with the patient. iCare Navigator is unique in that our system differentiates between a patient’s participation and engagement levels. For example, while a patient may appear participative by interacting with health-agnostic functions of the system, such as watching television, at the same time they may demonstrate a low level of engagement toward their health condition. In such patient situations, iCare Navigator leverages a patient’s overall participation to introduce motivational-type activities designed to increase their i...
Source: Medgadget - May 8, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Informatics Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs

Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 7th May, 2018.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General CommentA huge week – read on!-----https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/640655/vic-government-spend-124-million-digital-patient-records/Vic government to spend $124 million on digital patient recordsEMR system to cover four health servicesRohan Pearce (Computerworld) 01 May, 2018 12:32 Victoria’s 2018-19 budget will earmark $124 millio...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 7, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Israeli Medical Records Placed On-Line to Promote Research
Electronic medical records are being viewed in some smaller countries like Iceland as a national asset. They are viewed as a means to improve population health and also to stimulate research in the country and elsewhere. Iceland has been pursuing such a strategy for years (see:Centralized Health Databases: Lessons from Iceland; Iceland ’s Research Resources: The Health Sector Database, Genealogy Databases, and Biobanks; PDF) and Israel now seems to be pursuing a similar goal (see:Israelis' medical records to be put online for research):The Israeli Cabinet...[recently] passed a decision launching the"Nation...
Source: Lab Soft News - May 5, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Electronic Health Record (EHR) Genomic Testing Healthcare Business Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Lab Information Medical Research Public Health Source Type: blogs

5 ways young physicians can advocate for themselves
Why don’t doctors advocate for themselves? Or young doctors, at least. Maybe it’s because we’re bombarded with patient care, never ending-educational opportunities or the mountain of electronic medical records that still need signed. Maybe it’s because it’s too overwhelming. Understanding and conquering the health care behemoth that organizations, third-party payers, and the government have created seems nearly impossible if you’re not already on your way to adding a master of health care administration to your CV. Maybe it’s because any spare time you have away from work, you’d rather be spending with frie...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 4, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/lauren-a-umstattd" rel="tag" > Lauren A. Umstattd, MD < /a > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs

Curb Your Enthusiasm
KIP SULLIVAN Lawton Burns and Mark Pauly, economists at the Wharton School, just published an article that should be required reading for all policy makers and health services researchers. The article, entitled “Transformation of the health care industry: Curb your enthusiasm,” appears in the latest edition of the Milbank Quarterly. Burns and Pauly undertook an enormous task and executed it well. They first sought to explain the assumptions underlying Managed Care (MC) 2.0 – the proposals promoted by the managed care movement in the wake of the HMO backlash of the late 1990s. Then they evaluated the probability t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 16, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Isn't It Ironic, Don't You think?
I Hate EMR'sThere. I said it. The bane of my existence, as a primary care physician, are the idiotic electronic medical records I have been forced to use. Lets see...I have mastered Epic, Point Click Care, All scripts, Practice Fusion, etc., etc. I can't even begin to remember all the different systems. The one point that is glaringly clear, they have added pain, frustration, and increasing amounts of time. But none, I said none, have actually improved patient care. I have spent thousands of dollars and countless hours using electronic medical records. They have altered my work flow,...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - April 11, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs

Isn't It Ironic, Don't You think?
I Hate EMR ' sThere. I said it. The bane of my existence, as a primary care physician, are the idiotic electronic medical records I have been forced to use. Lets see...I have mastered Epic, Point Click Care, All scripts, Practice Fusion, etc., etc. I can ' t even begin to remember all the different systems. The one point that is glaringly clear, they have added pain, frustration, and increasing amounts of time. But none, I said none, have actually improved patient care. I have spent thousands of dollars and countless hours using electronic medical records. They have altered my work f...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - April 11, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs

Spectralink Versity Smartphones Designed for Hospital Use
Smartphones have become commonly used tools in modern hospitals, connecting clinicians to in-house electronic medical records, providing research capabilities, and even functioning as the core components of medical tools such as ophthalmoscopes, stethoscopes, and even therapeutic devices. Yet, smartphones are designed for consumers and often lack features important when used in medicine. Spectralink, a company out of Boulder, Colorado, is releasing a new line of Smartphones designed specifically for use in healthcare. The Spectralink Versity phones are resistant to water and chemicals (IP-68 rated), so blood and other liq...
Source: Medgadget - March 8, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: News Source Type: blogs

Integrating with EMR vendors? Tell us More! The 2018 Health 2.0 API Survey
By MATTHEW HOLT & KIM KRUEGER TL;DR Accessing and using APIs from major EMR vendors has proved a real problem in the past — in 2016, Health 2.0 (with support from CHCF) collected the data to prove it. This year, we’re updating the survey and are asking again: how hard is it for smaller tech companies to integrate their solutions with big EMR vendors? Take the survey here. In 2016, Health 2.0 conducted a survey of health tech startups on behalf of the California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF) to shed some light on the difficulties around integrating third party applications–mainly from a new generatio...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 27, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Health 2.0 Matthew Holt Tech THCB API Cerner EMR Epic Source Type: blogs

What The Hell Is Blockchain And What Does It Mean For Healthcare And Pharma?
Blockchain already earned the buzzword of the year award, so it is high time to address the elephant in the room. Is it really there? If it is, will it really change everything? How will it impact healthcare? Blockchain: More transformative than Trump on Twitter Don Tapscott, author of the book entitled Blockchain Revolution said in his superb, no-frills TED Talk that blockchain is the technology that is likely to have the greatest impact on the next few decades. No, it’s not social media. No, it’s not big data, not robotics, not even artificial intelligence. It’s the technology behind the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. S...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 15, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Security & Privacy blockchain future Health Healthcare Innovation Medicine pharma technology Source Type: blogs

The Opportunity for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) to Untangle Health Records
The following is a guest blog by Monica Stout from MedicaSoft. As the government’s Meaningful Use incentive program accelerated the adoption of Electronic Health Records, it also increased the use of patient portals and PHRs to meet MU patient engagement measures. You see this today when you’re offered a portal login at your doctor appointments. Other encouraging trends developed around the same time: Studies proved that engaged patients tend to exhibit more positive health outcomes at lower costs. Interest increased among patient populations to be involved in their health and wellness, including a desire to see (a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 6, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Digital Health Healthcare Healthcare Interoperability HealthCare IT Patient Portal PHR HIEs Medicasoft Monica Stout Patient Portals Patient-Centered Data Home PCDH Source Type: blogs

National Patient Identifiers (from Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease)
Readers from outside the United States are probably wondering why the United States agonizes over the problem of patient identification. In many other countries, individuals are given a unique national identifier, and all medical data associated with the individual is kept in a central data repository under the aegis of the government ’s health service. A single, permanent identifier is used by a patient throughout life, in every encounter with a hospital, clinic, or private physician. As a resource for researchers, the national patient identifier ensures the completeness of data sets and eliminates many of the problems ...
Source: Specified Life - February 4, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: confidentiality identification medical identifier national patient identifier privacy Source Type: blogs