JAMIA Study Reports 22-68% Interoperability Across EHR Platforms: 7 Implications
by Vince Kuraitis, JD and Ian McNicoll, MD
A recent study of EHR interoperability found that 68% of data was "understood" when exchanged across different sites using the same vendor, but only 22% was "understood" when exchanged across different EHR vendors.
The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). In this post, we will:
Summarize the JAMIA study and its findings
Interpret the findings
Discuss possible solutions
Describe seven implications
While we mostly agree on the study’s findings, we’ll offer some nuanced interpretations. Vince is a U.S. based healthcare cons...
Source: e-CareManagement - January 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Expertise in Platform Strategy & Business Models CDR EHR interoperability Epic openEHR Cerner Source Type: blogs
Avian influenza (bird flu)
My local park has notices up about an outbreak. Here are sources of latest official information (for the UK). Travel related information is at the end of the post. In addition to the sites below try your local authority ' s website.Animal and Plant Health Agency reports relating to wild birdsDEFRA and APHA, preliminary outbreak assessment, for Europe, Russia and the UK - includes Weekly disease reportsDEFRA and APHA, guidanceDepartment of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland), Avian influenzaHealth and Safety Executive, Avian influenza(PDF) (information particularly for those i...
Source: Browsing - January 26, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: avian influenza Source Type: blogs
More about Robert Burns
If you are in the UK, here are two very interesting BBC programmes that aired on Burns Night 2022.First, made in 1996, the poet Maya Angelou (whose name I have consistently mispronounced since for ever, it seems, and I am sorry about that) explores the poetry of Burns. You ' d need to be in the UK towatch it, Angelou on Burns, on the BBC iPlayer, sometime in the next 29 days. Angelou draws comparisons between her upbringing in Arkansas and Burns ' life in Ayrshire. Heed the warning about upsetting scenes - because she talks about enslaved people in the southern United States, there are some...
Source: Browsing - January 26, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: poetry Robert Burns Source Type: blogs
Big Health ’s Softbank Money, FDA Board Member Send Strong Signals About Digital Therapeutics Market
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
With a $75 million investment from Softbank last week, and the addition of former FDA Deputy Commissioner Dr. Anand Shah to its Board of Directors this week, Big Health has sure kicked 2022 off with some noise! But, this is more than just big news for Big Health as CEO Peter Hames is here to tell us. This is a story about the market potential for an all-tech approach to mental health care, AND an important endorsement for digital therapeutics – specifically, those that do NOT require a prescription.
Big Health sits at the intersection of two of the hottest health-tech markets: digita...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech WTF Health Anand Shah Big Health dtx Jessica DaMassa Mental Health Softbank Source Type: blogs
A health librarian and poetry: Robert Burns
Reposting on Burns Night 2022, but with a new title. I think a new series may be needed.Nothing new in PubMed about Burns, so last year ' s post is still good!On Burns ' Night it seems appropriate to write about Robert Burns, Scotland ' s national poet, or one of them anyway! Today, 25th January, is the anniversary of his birth.Some of his poems, includingAddress to a Haggis, will be read all over Scotland and beyond (even in my house), tonight at Burns ' Suppers. As well as that light hearted verse, he wrote in Scots a wide variety of styles and on a wide variety of subjects - tryA red, red ro...
Source: Browsing - January 25, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: poetry Robert Burns Source Type: blogs
My 22 Oldest Jokes and Why they Still Matter in 2022
By IAN MORRISON
I have been studying American healthcare for more than 40 years and I have assembled a large number of one-liners over the years. As we enter 2022, I thought I’d share my 22 oldest jokes and why they still matter.
Coming to America
I grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. In Glasgow, healthcare is a right, carrying a machine gun is a privilege. America got it the wrong way round.
Gun violence continues to ravage the United States. We have more guns than people. Kids get gunned down in school playgrounds and classrooms routinely. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy American healthcare healthcare quality Source Type: blogs
China Marks 20 Years in the World Trade Organization. We Should Celebrate It.
This report was made by the Trump administration; it is unclear whether the Biden administration feels the same way.But this view is wrong. Overall, China ’s integration into the rules‐based multilateral trading system has generated significantly more stability, predictability, and transparency in the economic relations of the rest of the world with China than existed before China’s accession. The WTO has played an important role in opening C hina’s market to foreign goods and services. This opening has produced major economic gains for China and for all its trading partners – not least the United States. Even...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 9, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Inu Manak, James Bacchus Source Type: blogs
Omicron (B.1.1529) COVID variant
Last updated 1245 UK time 17th December 2021. Items added that day are flagged NEW.Research literature and scientific informationPubMedUPDATED -Both strategies amended 13th December to find Omikron.Less sensitive strategy (finding 28 items as of 13th December)More sensitive strategy - to find the two Omicron lineages, BA.1 and BA.2 as well (finds 67 items as of 13th December, but including any COVID work from UK postcodes BA1 and BA2...)PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Query (finds one relevant item as of 13th December)PreprintsCOVID preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv (sorted by date so newest first).Twit...
Source: Browsing - November 27, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
GrandPad: One-of-a-kind Tablet/Phone for Older Adults Surprisingly Flexible
Dear Readers: You may have heard of the GrandPad, a uniquely designed, purpose-built tablet for older adults that’s an international hit. A fun fact that many local people may enjoy is that Scot Lien, GrandPad’s CEO can be found working and living in Wabasha, Minn. The Iowa native and his family fell in love with the river town in 1995, maintaining a presence there even before becoming full-time residents. GrandPad came to be because Lien noticed that his mother had trouble with cell phones and computers. Determined to find a solution, he recruited advisors in their 80s and 90s, and with their input, he and his son Isa...
Source: Minding Our Elders - November 21, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
An Unnecessary Evil: How Canada Ended up Insuring Bank Deposits
George SelginI ' ve often drawn attention here tothe virtues of the Canadian banking system, especially as it was between the passage of Canada ' s first Bank Act in 1871 and the establishment of the Bank of Canada in 1935. Afterthe Scottish banking system that flourished between 1716 and 1845, it is generally regarded, by myself and other members of theModern Free Banking school, as the next closest thing to a genuinely " free " banking system. We also claim that such systems tended to be more stable than ones in which governments interfered more heavily.In Canada ' s case, this claim inevitably raises several questions. ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Public Health Protection and Health Security Framework: outline agreement
Department of Health and Social Care - This framework has been jointly developed and agreed between the UK government, the Welsh Government, the Scottish Government, the Northern Ireland Executive and each of the UK ’s national public health agencies. It provides a formal basis and governance structure for collaboration between all parts of the UK on health security and health protection policy. It supports cooperation on issues which require UK-wide approaches, as well as on devolved issues where the sharing of knowledge and expertise is beneficial.FrameworkMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 2, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
#Healthin2Point00, Episode 234 | An M & A and shedloads more money!
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, the word is SHEDLOAD. On Episode 235, Jess and I talk about the scoop on an M&A and shedloads more money in today’s health tech funding climate. First up, Lark gets $100 million, bringing its total to $185 million. How much more money can we throw at a chronic condition management platform? Next, Scottish remote patient monitoring company Current Health gets acquired by Best Buy. TrialSpark raises $156 million, working on developing drugs via their clinical trials software, Twin Health raises $140 million to run clinical trials in silico in “digital twins,” and virtual c...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Current Health Lark Oshi Health TrialSpark Twin Health Source Type: blogs
Policies, Techies, VCS: Musings From a Futurist
By IAN MORRISON
I should’ve been in Paris last week on vacation with my wife, instead I listened in to the Policies Techies VCS: What’s Next For Healthcare conference (I’ll explain why later). Matthew Holt and Jessica DaMassa did a magnificent job of assembling the Who’s Who of digital health tech to wax lyrical about what the new kids on the block were up to, where it is all headed, and what it will mean for the system. (Full disclosure Matthew and Jess are friends of mine, I hired Matthew from Stanford almost 30 years ago to join the Institute For The Future (IFTF) and have watched proudly as he ha...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Futurists Ian Morrison Policies Techies VCs Source Type: blogs
Review Body on Doctors ’ and Dentists’ Remuneration: forty-ninth report 2021
This report contains recommendations from the Review Body on Doctors ’ and Dentists’ Remuneration on doctors’ and dentists’ pay in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.ReportReview Body on Doctors ’ and Dentists’ Remuneration - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 22, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 17 July, 2021.
Here are a few I came across last week. Note: Each link is followed by a title and 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. ----- https://www.digitalhealth.net/2021/07/covid-19-vaccine-status-added-to-personal-health-records-in-scotland/ Covid-19 vaccine status added to personal health records in Scotland Covid-19 vaccine status is now available through personal health records across the majority of Scotland. Andrea Downey – 02 July, 2021 The Scottish government has struck a deal with ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 17, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
