Personal Health Records: Evaluation of Functionality and
Utility
The PHRs selected for review employed data entry methods that limited
the range and content of patient-entered information related to medical history,
medications, laboratory tests, diagnostic studies, and immunizations. Representative
PHRs created with information abstracted from an actual case displayed varying
amounts of information at basic and comprehensive levels of representation.
Medical Approaches: A free textbook for handheld computers
Welcome to Medical Approaches. This is the website of the book.
And the book is a guide written by junior doctors for junior doctors,
that's available for free on most handhelds.
The Hottest IT Issues Facing Healthcare Organizations in 2002
Gartner provides advice on:
1) Computerized physician order entry (POE)
2) Healthcare web initiatives
3) Application service providers (ASPs)
4) IT's (information technology's) contribution
5) Maximizing value from IT standards
6) Customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives
7) Impact of attention to homeland security
8) Decreasing costs through enterprise resource planning (ERP) and
supply chain management (SCP)
9) Mobile health care devices
10) Meeting HIPAA deadlines
President Bush Outlines Agenda for Improving Health Security in the
Best Health Care System in the World
To create a health care system that puts the needs of patients
first, the President proposed steps to: (1) help all Americans get affordable
health care coverage; (2) help patients get high-quality care every time;
and (3) develop new treatments to keep patients healthy and prevent complications
from diseases and strengthen the health care safety net. The President
will back up this agenda with more than $300 billion in proposed funding.
Taking the Pulse: Physicians and Emerging Information Technologies
Understanding the medical profession's attitudes and actions regarding
technological evolution and advances is vital to the strategic planning of
all companies focused on the health sector today. In order to improve their
own organizational performance as well as to maximize overall efficiency
and quality of care, health care industry players who deal with physicians
are increasingly interested in transforming and re-inventing their administrative
and clinical relationships with physicians through the use of emerging information
technologies.
Strategy and e-Health: How to Harness the Power of the Internet for
Competitive Advantage in Health Care
Rather than being primarily stand-alone Internet ventures, in
the future, the most successful e-Health initiatives will provide those
services/applications enabling incumbent health care market players (providers,
health plans and life science companies) to strengthen their competitive
position, enhance organizational performance and ensure their long-term
financially viability.
A virtual medical record for guideline-based decision support
A
major obstacle in deploying computer-based clinical guidelines at the point
of care is the variability of electronic medical records and the consequent
need to adapt guideline modeling languages, guideline knowledge bases,
and execution engines to idiosyncratic data models in the deployment environment.
We discuss the possibility of using the HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM)
as the basis for a standardized virtual medical record, showing how this
approach also complies with the European pre-standard ENV13606 for electronic
healthcare record communication.
Using GEM-encoded Guidelines to Generate Medical Logic Modules
We describe an XML-based application that facilitates automated generation
of partially populated MLMs from GEM-encoded guidelines. These MLMs can
be further edited and shared among Arden-compliant information systems to
provide decision support. Our work required three steps: (a) Knowledge extraction
from published guideline documents using GEM, (b) Mapping GEM elements to
the MLM slots, and (c) XSL transformation of the GEM-encoded guideline.
A Framework for the Evaluation of Internet-based Diabetes Management
The framework
is based on the recognition that the management of diabetes via the Internet
is based on several integrated dimensions: Monitoring, Information,
Personalization, Communication, and Technology. A successful diabetes management
system should efficiently integrate all dimensions. The evaluation found
that LifeMasters is successful in integrating the health care professional
in the management of diabetes and that MyDiabetes is quite effective in providing
a communication channel for community creation.
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