See In Action How Medical Education Is Re-Designed!
I’ve been teaching medical students about the meaningful use of health IT, social media and other disruptive technologies for 5 years. I created a digital format of the course therefore any medical student or medical professional in the world can access the materials and finish the course.
There are 3 additional projects going on right now:
My students fight for bonus points on the Facebook page of the course. I post challenges every single day during the semester and I will also measure the effectiveness of this approach with the surveys students will fill in soon, but I can tell you now it’s going just grea...
Source: ScienceRoll - March 31, 2013 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Dr. Bertalan Meskó Tags: Education Health 2.0 Medical education Medicine Medicine 2.0 Technology Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs
Integrated Practice Management and EMR is Better For Your Practice
Many medical practices are becoming more efficient through the use of practice management software and electronic medical records. These developments have proven to be effective at improving patient care, as well as increasing the profits of those practices who have implemented them. However, they have not been without their challenges.
Many providers prefer to keep the two systems separate. Many of them already had practice management software before electronic medical records started to become popular. Using two separate systems can come with many problems because the two don't always work ...
Source: EMR EHR Blog for Physicians - March 7, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Aparna Prasad Source Type: blogs
The Anti-ACO / Hospital Medical Practice Consolidation
A physician, Charles Beauchamp, recently left the following comment (shown below) on my ACO and Hospital Consolidation post on EMR and EHR. This might be another example of the EHR Physician Revolt. I wonder how many other doctors will go “against the grain” like Dr. Beauchamp.
As a physician who is going “against the grain” (ie “hospital owned” to private practice” rather than in the opposite direction) I have the following model of action to become part of a patient centered rather than exploitative ACO:
1) Establish my rural practice in my house at a very low cost, including asking some of my pat...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 11, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare HealthCare IT HIE LabCorp Rural Healthcare Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Is Hospice Care an After Thought?
For many dying seniors Hospice care (palliative care) happens only as an afterthought.
By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
I wonder how many dementia caregivers really understand Hospice? How many take the time to plan well, in advance, for the utilization of Hospice? The evidence seems to indicate not many.
Do you know how Hospice works? Have you discussed Hospice care with your doctor? Do you and your doctor have a plan in place to utilize Hospice?
If so, wonderful. If not, you should consider getting ahead of the Alzheimer's curve and developing a plan well in advance.
There were two times when ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - February 8, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Moving Beyond Tactics: How to Create a Digital Conversation with Patients
Today's guest post is by: Pete Mehr, PhD, Chief Strategy Officer, Merkle Life Sciences
Are your marketing methods “typical”, or “transcending”? Are you utilizing the capabilities available that will drive patient engagement?
Pharmaceutical marketers have developed and offered patient opt-in programs for many years. A standard approach to these programs is to spend money on advertising – websites, BRCs, in-office, in-pharmacy, etc. – in the hopes of motivating patients to opt in. Once a patient opts in, there is a pre-defined campaign that the patient receives. A typical campaign starts with a welcome ...
Source: ePharma Summit - February 7, 2013 Category: Medical Marketing and PR Tags: 2013 epharma summit Digital Marketing for Pharma merkle life sciences Source Type: blogs
Bringing Patients Into Health System Change
Editor's note: For more on the attitudes of Americans toward medical care and empowering patients to be active participants in their own care, see the February issue of Health Affairs, "New Era Of Patient Engagement."
The attention now devoted to defining the proper role of patients and consumers in clinical decision-making is unusual, both in terms of who is addressing the issue and the intensity of the concern. Once, it was physicians and bioethicists who took the lead; now it is health policy analysts and health care administrators. Their aims go well beyond improving doctor-patient communication or promoting patient...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 5, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: David Rothman Tags: All Categories Bioethics Consumers Effectiveness Health Care Costs Pharma Prevention Public Opinion Quality Source Type: blogs
Understanding the 12 major application clusters in mobile health (mHealth)
The nice folks at the mHealth Initiative invited me to join their merry band of mobile phone-based healthcare applications proponents at a conference they held in DC last month. Claudia Tessier kicked off the conference with this great presentation that describes major mobile phone application clusters. It describes mobile phone usage in patient communication, point of care documentation, disease management, body area networks, education programs, pharma/clinical trials, professional communication, public health, emergency medicine, and financial applications. (Source: The Healthcare IT Guy)
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - March 5, 2010 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Social Media and Postmarketing Surveillance. Signal vs. Noise
New technologies that support postmarketing patient communication and safety surveillance can produce a mountain of data. But are these new tools creating value or just more noise? YourEncore recently convened a panel of experts to discuss this topic after the 2015 Regulatory Affairs Professional Society (RAPS) Convergence conference in Baltimore, Maryland. To watch the panel discussion, click here. (Source: drugwonks.com Blog)
Source: drugwonks.com Blog - September 6, 2007 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs
Improving Patient Communication often leads to improved healthcare
I recently ran across Emmi Solutions (www.emmisolutions.com), which I was fascinated to learn was co-founded by a surgeon and a computer game designer (not exactly a common combo). What I liked about Emmi was that it facilitates physician-patient communication by providing “prescription-strength” multimedia programs to help patients understand what to expect before, during, and after a surgical or invasive medical procedure. As most of us who’ve been in this industry for a while intuitively get, the more a patient knows and understands about their care providers, their diagnoses, and their procedures, the better ...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - January 23, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Improving Patient Communication often leads to improved healthcare
I recently ran across Emmi Solutions (www.emmisolutions.com), which I was fascinated to learn was co-founded by a surgeon and a computer game designer (not exactly a common combo). What I liked about Emmi was that it facilitates physician-patient communication by providing “prescription-strength” multimedia programs to help patients understand what to expect before, during, and after a surgical or invasive medical procedure. As most of us who’ve been in this industry for a while intuitively get, the more a patient knows and understands about their care providers , their diagnoses, and their procedures, the better the...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - January 23, 2007 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
