Blog Silence
Readers,
Sadly I am in hospital so there well not be we posts till further notice.
Comments won't be moderated for now.
CU when a bit better!
David.
This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David. (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 1, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 01st April, 2017.
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.healthdatamanagement.com/news/hl7-publishes-release-3-of-fhir-standard-for-trial-useHL7 publishes Release 3 of FHIR Standard for Trial Use By Greg SlabodkinPublished March 23 2017, 7:15am EDTHealth Level 7 International has published Release 3 of its Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Standard for Trial Use (STU), moving it closer to a normat...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 1, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
E-Patient Update: Reducing Your Patients ’ Security Anxiety
Even if you’re not a computer-savvy person, these days you can hardly miss the fact that healthcare data is a desirable target for cyber-criminals. After all, over the past few years, healthcare data breaches have been in the news almost every day, with some affecting millions of consumers.
As a result, many patients have become at least a bit afraid of interacting with health data online. Some are afraid that data stored on their doctor or hospital’s server will be compromised, some are afraid to manage their data on their own, and others don’t even know what they’re worried about – but they’re scared to get ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 31, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Technology Healthcare Healthcare Business HealthCare IT HIPAA General Patient Portal Practice Management Cybersecurity Health Data Privacy Health Data Security Polici Source Type: blogs
This Is Really Important News For Those Hoping To Improve Information Access And Interoperability.
This appeared last week.HL7 publishes Release 3 of FHIR Standard for Trial Use By Greg SlabodkinPublished March 23 2017, 7:15am EDTHealth Level 7 International has published Release 3 of its Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Standard for Trial Use (STU), moving it closer to a normative version of FHIR.According to HL7, FHIR STU 3 is the “culmination of 18 months of extensive work to incorporate changes and enhancement requests received from implementation partners across the world” including the Argonaut Project, an industry-wide effort to accelerate the development and adoption of the emerging standards frame...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 31, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
A new focus: How to become empowered patients
Attention, kind readers. After years of doing this blog in fits and starts — particularly the two-year gap while I was essentially prohibited by a full-time employer from writing about health IT here or anywhere else but that company’s site — I have decided to refocus on healthcare consumers rather than industry insiders.
The “Meaningful HIT News” name itself has become dated, given that the Meaningful Use program from which this blog takes its name has evolved and kind of fallen out of favor. For those not up on the lingo, “meaningful use” is the standard healthcare providers must meet to...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - March 30, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Healthcare IT empowered patients patient safety Source Type: blogs
Healthcare CIOs Focus On Optimizing EMRs
Few technical managers struggle with more competing priorities than healthcare CIOs. But according to a recent survey, they’re pretty clear what they have to accomplish over the next few years, and optimizing EMRs has leapt to the top of the to-do list.
The survey, which was conducted by consulting firm KPMG in collaboration with CHIME, found that 38 percent of CHIME members surveyed saw EMR optimization as their #1 priority for capital investment over the next three years. To gather results, KPMG surveyed 122 CHIME members about their IT investment plans.
In addition to EMR optimization, top investment priorities ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 30, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Clinical Decision Support EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Implementation EMR Technology Healthcare Healthcare Analytics Healthcare Business Healthcare Business Intelligence Healthcare CIO HealthCare I Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - Fifth Week of March 2017
We continue to refine the sanctuary buildings, prepare the new animal care areas, and keep our creatures healthy.Sweetie, our 18 year old Welsh Pony developed a sore on her right lip. Using my human medicine training I inspected it for abscess formation and drained it, while also applying local antibiotics. It did not heal this week, so we asked the horse vet to take a look. It turns out that when horses have tooth abscesses in the lower jaw, they develop drainage tracts in their lips. Tooth abscesses in the upper jaw drain into the sinuses and out the nose. She ’s now on syst...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - March 30, 2017 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
It Is Good To See The Value Of Telemedicine Being Confirmed Over The Long Term.
This appeared last week.UC Davis tracks 18 years of telemedicine and finds benefits beyond the bottom lineRather than only looking at how the technology reduces costs and improves outcomes, researches focused on related time, transportation and environmental factors. By Heather MackMarch 23, 2017 10:58 AM
Telehealth use is growing but the question of whether the technology reduces costs and improves outcomes remains a point of contention.
Whereas the bulk of such analysis focuses on the bottom line of health plans and employers, researchers at University of California Davis instead are looking on how it impacts pati...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 30, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Financial And Political News Relevant To E-Health And The Health Sector In General.
March 30, 2017 Edition.The big news in the US this week was the defeat of the Republicans on their US Health Care Plans which were defeated because of internal in-fighting. It was the first major political defeat for the new administration.In Australia the major news has been some success on some of their budget measures – and no seem to be heading to a budget session after only 4-5 more weeks. It will be very interesting to see how the present financial instability is addressed.-----Here are a few other things I have noticed.-----National Budget Issues.http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/land-tax...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 30, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Scene Supporters
I have to feel pretty lucky to be a healthcare IT blogger. Certainly it’s a lot of work, but it’s also a lot of fun. What’s amazing to me is that just on this EMR and HIPAA blog, I’ve published over 2750 posts and generated over 12 million views. If you look at the broader Healthcare Scene network we’ve published over 11,000 blog posts, generated 18 million pageviews, 55,000 email subscribers, and have over 72k Twitter followers. That’s insane for me to think about when I look back on what started as a fun side project one weekend over 11 years ago.
Today I’m feeling a lot of grati...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 29, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare Scene AndPlus Breakaway Learning Solutions Conduent HIPAA One HIPAA Risk Assessment Stericycle Stericycle Communication Solutions Windows 10 HIPAA Source Type: blogs
Penn Medicine security exec: Advanced threat protection vendors and hospitals must join forces to fight cybercriminals
To fend off increasingly sophisticated ransomware, phishing and other malicious attacks, infosec professionals and software vendors can tap into ATD tools to more effectively share threat information. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - March 29, 2017 Category: Information Technology Tags: Privacy & amp; Security Source Type: blogs
Early Experiences with Ambient Listening Devices (Alexa and Google Home)
BIDMC has a long tradition of testing speculative technologies with the notion that breakthroughs often require tolerance for failure. For example, we ’ve embraced blockchain in healthcare because we believe public ledgers have promise to unify medical records across institutions.Over the past few months, we ’ve developed healthcare applications for Alexa, Amazon’s ambient listening device that combines natural language processing and easy to use application program interfaces. We have also tried Google Home.Here ’s our experience thus far.1. We ’ve used Alexa in a pilot inpatient setting (n...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - March 29, 2017 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
An Interesting Article In The Conversation Asking Why The MyHR is Not Being Used More?
This appeared on the Conversation a few days ago.Why aren ’t more people using the My Health Record? March 24, 2017 2.49pm AEDT My Health Records were a big government investment, but they ’re just not being used. AuthorsBronwyn Hemsley Associate Professor in Speech Pathology, University of Newcastle Jacqueline Meredith Research Assistant, University of Newcastle Shaun McCarthy Director, University of Newcastle Legal Centre, University of Newcastle The My Health Record is an online summary of personal health information that patients can share with health providers. As many as one in five Au...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 29, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Use of AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 3/31 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Amy Landry (@amyinmaine) from HBI Solutions (@HBI_Solutions) on the topic of “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare”.
Will doctors and nurses be replaced by robots? While this is unlikely, the use of artificial intelligence is increasingly changing the way in which they deliver care.
Up until just a few years ago the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare was rare, confined mostly to research and exploratory pilot programs. Bu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 28, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Healthcare HealthCare IT #HITsm Topics Behavioral Science Healthy Behavior Change Melissa McCool Stellicare Source Type: blogs
There ’s a healthcare lesson for people in the behavior of two little dogs
We have two little dogs. Pepe is a 10-year old Shih Tzu/poodle and Coco is an 8-year old Shih Tzu /Bichon. Pepe had been getting frailer and weaker throughout the Fall months.
We thought this might be her last year with us. But her blood work in November showed that she has a thyroid problem. She now gets a daily medication and has more energy and no longer sleeps most of the day. The name Pepe (as in peppy) is fitting her again. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - March 28, 2017 Category: Information Technology Tags: Patient Engagement Women In Health IT Source Type: blogs
