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Augmented Reality System to Help Understand Medical Conditions and Assist in Patient Education
At the Birmingham City University in the United Kingdom researchers are working on an augmented reality system that would help clinicians manipulate and interact with patient imaging scans, related anatomical models, and data from electronic medical records. Many practical use cases for this technology is envisioned, including helping to relay to patients the effects of their lifestyle choices, how their anatomies are impacted by various diseases, and what to expect from interventional procedures. Additionally, it may be a practical hands-free way of navigating through tomography scans during surgeries without having to w...
Source: Medgadget - June 19, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Informatics Source Type: blogs

This story of 5 doctors is being seen around the country
Many years ago, three doctors formed an internal medicine practice and were proud of the thousands of patients they accumulated. They were fine physicians and very dedicated to the masses who walked through their clinic doors. They saw patients in the office, rounded at two hospitals, and visited a number of nursing homes. This was truly a full-service practice. Around 2005, Dr. A was starting to fatigue. He was well into his sixties and did not like the direction medicine was going. The hours were too strenuous, the documentation requirements were getting increasingly complicated, and he saw the writing on the wal...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 11, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jordan-grumet" rel="tag" > Jordan Grumet, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs

Eko DUO, a Novel Mobile Stethoscope with ECG Capability Unveiled
Eko, the company that’s responsible for the Eko CORE digital stethoscope we highly praised, is now releasing an interesting new device that provides ECG and auscultation capabilities in a mobile package. The Eko DUO looks a bit like a cell phone from the 1990’s, but with only three buttons on its body. When held against the chest, it provides both a 1-lead ECG and auscultation comparable to a standard stethoscope. The device can be used by clinicians or by patients themselves. As a clinical tool, it can work just like a typical stethoscope, featuring a 3.5 mm audio jack on the bottom that can accept headphone...
Source: Medgadget - June 9, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine OTC Source Type: blogs

Would ACOs Work if They Were Turned into HMOs?
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD CMS has now conducted three demonstrations of the “accountable care organization,” and all of them have failed. The Physician Group Practice (PGP) Demonstration, which ran from 2005 to 2010, raised Medicare costs by 1.2 percent. [1] The Pioneer ACO program, which ran from 2012 through 2016, cut Medicare spending by three- or four-tenths of a percent on average over its first four years. And the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), which began in 2012 and may lumber on indefinitely, has raised Medicare costs by two-tenths of a percent on average over its first four years. It is way past time for C...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 8, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Why health IT is such a tragedy
I’ve spent a lot of time writing about the suboptimal nature of electronic medical records and what we need to be doing better. At their best, health care information technology systems can make finding patient medical data unbelievably quick and easy. However, at their worst, they take up an unacceptable amount of physicians’ time and also dumb down medicine, reducing our patients’ stories to rows of meaningless tick boxes. If you were to ask any doctor (or nurse) what one of their biggest daily frustrations is, health care IT would be at or near top of the list. The problem isn’t with the technology itself, whic...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 1, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/suneel-dhand" rel="tag" > Suneel Dhand, MD < /a > Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs

A year without blogging
It ' s not I ' ve stopped writing - besidesthe peer-reviewed stuff there ' s articles and commentary atEPMonthly andTelemedicine magazine, tweets @nickgenes, and the occasional piece forMedscape.But coming to blog at this site doesn ' t just feel like a chore - it ' s laden with a sense of guilt. I was so very wrong about the potential of blogging and social media.There were warnings. Back in 2010 I commented ona WSJ blog about our experience implementing electronic medical records in our ED. Another commenter then accused me of practicing " Tuskegee medicine " and experimenting on patients without consent, because EM...
Source: Blogborygmi - May 27, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nick Genes Source Type: blogs

The NHS Ransomware Attack & Data Privacy in the Era of Digital Health – Part One
The data explosion in healthcare through digital health networks goes hand in hand with concerns of data privacy and security. The recent WannaCry ransomware attack impaired the smooth operation of several NHS hospitals in the UK; and led to burning questions about the state of IT security in healthcare on the individual or systemic level, and what the future of health data security should look like. Unprecedented cyberattack of scale on the NHS On 12 May 2017, the WannaCry ransomware hit 61 NHS trusts and hospitals in the UK in what is known today as one of the most serious cyberattacks on any healthcare network before. O...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 25, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine big data cybercrime cybersecurity data privacy data security digital digital health gc4 health data healthcare data ransomware technology wannacry Source Type: blogs

Death By A Thousand Clicks: Leading Boston Doctors Decry Electronic Medical Records
Channeling Lyndon Johnson on Walter Cronkite, in clinical medicine, when you ' ve lost Boston (including MGH), you ' ve probably lost the health IT war.Death By A Thousand Clicks: Leading Boston Doctors Decry Electronic Medical RecordsMay 12, 2017By Drs. John Levinson, Bruce H. Price and Vikas Sainihttp://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/05/12/boston-electronic-medical-recordIt happens every day, in exam rooms across the country, something that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago: Doctors and nurses turn away from their patients and focus their attention elsewhere — on their computer screens.By the time the doctor can...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 18, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: healthcare IT dissatisfaction Healthcare IT failure Massachusetts General Hospital MGH texting while driving Source Type: blogs

Health Datapalooza 2017 Day 2: Consumer Tech Ecosystems, Healthcare Policy and Two Big RWJF Announcements
Ensuring that a conference discussing health did indeed practice what it preached, day two of this year’s Health Datapalooza got off to an early start with a Stride Health-sponsored 3 and 5 mile fun run. Back at the conference venue, the day’s content began on the main stage with Dr. Mark McClellan, Director of the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy and Former Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Mark’s opening comments characterized the politics of healthcare as one of consistent bipartisan stories, since healthcare spending has historically been prioritized over ...
Source: Medgadget - May 16, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Informatics Source Type: blogs

Electronic Medical Records 2017: Science Ignored, Opportunity Lost
By KENNETH BARTHOLOMEW, MD My big brother Bill, may he rest in peace, taught me a valuable lesson four decades ago. We were gearing up for an extended Alaskan wilderness trip and were having trouble with a piece of equipment. When we finally rigged up a solution, I said “that was harder than it should have been” and he quipped in his wry monotone delivery, “There are no hard jobs, only the wrong tools.” That lesson has stuck in my mind all these years because, as simple as it seems, it carries a large truth. It rings of Archimedes when he was speaking about the simple tool known as the lever: “Give me but one fir...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 8, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized EHR EMR Knowledge Coupler Number Needed to Kill POMR value-based care Source Type: blogs

New HHS Secretary, rather then singing unabashed praise for EMRs like his predecessors, states the obvious. However, the " solutions " are the usual boilerplate.
In the past, politicians on both sides of the aisle have generally sung unfettered and uncritical praise for electronic medical records and other health IT systems.Perhaps letters like this one from Jan. 2015, from near 40 major US medical societies bemoaning the injurious effects of health IT on medical practice, have finally had an effect: http://mb.cision.com/Public/373/9710840/9053557230dbb768.pdfFirst page preview of Jan. 2015 medical societies complaint letter to HHS about health IT. Full letter athttp://mb.cision.com/Public/373/9710840/9053557230dbb768.pdfIn any case, this recent article caught me by surp...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 6, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: big data datapalooza healthcare IT burden healthcare IT difficulties healthcare IT dissatisfaction interoperability ONC Tom Price MD Source Type: blogs

New HHS Secretary, rather than singing unabashed praise for EMRs like his predecessors, states the obvious. However, the " solutions " are the usual boilerplate.
In the past, politicians on both sides of the aisle have generally sung unfettered and uncritical praise for electronic medical records and other health IT systems.Perhaps letters like this one from Jan. 2015, from near 40 major US medical societies bemoaning the injurious effects of health IT on medical practice, have finally had an effect: http://mb.cision.com/Public/373/9710840/9053557230dbb768.pdfFirst page preview of Jan. 2015 medical societies complaint letter to HHS about health IT. Full letter athttp://mb.cision.com/Public/373/9710840/9053557230dbb768.pdfIn any case, this recent article caught me by surp...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 6, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: big data datapalooza healthcare IT burden healthcare IT difficulties healthcare IT dissatisfaction interoperability ONC Tom Price MD Source Type: blogs

Focus on the outcome, not what ’s negative
A free moment to read my favorite health care blog is hard to find. The days are packed with complex and time-intensive patients. In between them, I struggle to complete documentation and take care of a myriad of tasks, making phone calls and plodding through cumbersome electronic medical records. Then, there’s still actual paperwork to review and complete. I still have to make time to read clinical literature in addition to interesting blogs and opinion pieces. After all that and braving a long commute, life at home is just as hectic. For these reasons, I haven’t been reading my favorite blogs with regularity. But whe...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 5, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/shabbir-hossain" rel="tag" > Shabbir Hossain, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs

Genentech Beats FCA Suit, Thanks to Escobar
On Monday, May 1, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit stopped a False Claims Act suit that accused Genentech Inc. of defrauding Medicare by concealing certain side effects of its cancer drug Avastin, stating that the whistleblower did not show that failing to report such safety information was relevant to government reimbursement for medication. Prior to filing his qui tam suit, The relator, Gerasimos Petratos, a prior global head of health care data analytics for Genentech, allegedly recommended implementing a different database that he believed would more accurately reflect the drug’s side e...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 4, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs