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Hospital Report Cards Do Not Appear to Result in Significant Improvements

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Hospital Report Cards Do Not Appear to Result in Significant Improvements

An analysis of quality of cardiac care following the public release of data on measures of care at hospitals in Ontario, Canada, did not result in significant systemwide improvement in hospitals’ performance on most quality of care indicators, according to a new study.
Policy makers and clinicians may wish to consider the findings from the EFFECT study in the design and evaluation of future public reporting initiatives. Greater attention to developing common strategies across hospitals for addressing report card results might enhance the systemwide effectiveness of future report cardsRead more at www.sciencedaily.com
 
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Posted by Mike Pearson  2 months ago

Why crutches may soon be relics of the past

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Why crutches may soon be relics of the past

The Freedom Leg, released at MedTrade in October, functions like a hands-free brace. In the company’s words:

Go beyond the limitations of crutches, wheelchairs, or scooters. It is truly an off-loading prosthetic that allows the user to fully integrate the device into their lives, giving them complete mobility. The user has the ability to accomplish all their normal day-to-day tasks without assistance, while at the same time keeping the strength in upper muscles of the injured leg.
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Posted by Mike Pearson  3 months ago

Hospital Issues iPhones For Nurses

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A successful iPod Touch trial at a Florida hospital has resulted in a new trial of 100 iPhones.

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Florida Hospital Dials Up iPhones For Nurses

iPhones are helping a Sarasota hospital connect its nursing staff via text messaging, and soon, VoIP telephony.

For the 60-day pilot, Sarasota Memorial handed out 25 iPod Touches to nurses on a single floor in June. The decision was made to use the iPod Touch because it’s less expensive than the iPhone, does not require a cell-phone service contract, and basically has all the capabilities of the iPhone exclusive of phone functionality.

On the floor where the iPods were deployed, the hospital reduced overhead pages from 172 in eight hours to 38. The 25 deployed iPods were receiving 4,000 messages per day. “Nurses were getting comment form patients on how quiet it was,” Baker said.

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Posted by Mike Pearson  3 months ago

Wireless digital ‘plaster’ that monitors vital signs

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This type of technology has the potential to be a personal medical sensor.

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One small strip of plaster, one giant strip of data

A wireless digital ‘plaster’ that monitors vital signs is being tested on patients and volunteers at Imperial College London.

A range of vital signs, including body temperature, heart rate, and respiration, is currently being monitored–continuously and remotely–by a small strip of digital plaster affixed to a patient’s chest, neck, and/or arm.

“This technology has the potential to improve the capturing of patient’s vital signs within all areas of the hospital, enabling key physiological data to be acquired at an increased frequency, with the minimum of inconvenience to patients, and without the requirement to connect patients to immobile pieces of equipment,”Read more at news.cnet.com
 
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Posted by Mike Pearson  3 months ago

Lessons from London e-Health “scandal”

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At least three important lessons which have relevance for any large scale public sector technology change project.

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London e-Health scandal: Diane Beattie breaks her silence

Following is Diane Beattie’s personal account of what happened following a furor over untendered contract spending at London hospitals, related to electronic health services, that ultimately cost Beattie her job.
There are important lessons in what happened at LHSC in our successful effort to begin the implementation of electronic health records. T
There are at least three important lessons of this experience. The public sector procurement process, when the service required is scarce and the need is critical, needs reform.
No matter what the selection process a “stage and gate” approach to all projects is required.
The third issue is the challenge to tradition and traditional practice boundaries that a comprehensive e-Health system involves. Read more at www.lfpress.com
 
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Posted by Mike Pearson  3 months ago

Consumer Electronics Can Help Improve Patient Health

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Research confirms that consumer electronics can play an increasingly important part in improving patient health.

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Consumer Electronics Can Help Improve Patient Health

Electronic tools and technology applications for consumers can help improve health care processes, such as adherence to medication and clinical outcomes like smoking cessation
Consumer health informatics applications are defined as any electronic tool, technology or electronic application designed to interact directly with consumers, with or without the presence of a health care professional, and that provides or uses individualized (personal) information to help a patient better manage his or her health or health care. Personalized informatics tools can include applications such as online health calculators, interactive computer programs to aid decision making, SMS text and email messages, which can be applied to a variety of clinical conditions, including cancer, smoking, diabetes mellitus, physical activity and mental health disorders.Read more at www.sciencedaily.com
 
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Posted by Mike Pearson  3 months ago

Tony Ryall Speech - The NZ Government’s Health Agenda

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Tony Ryall Speech - The Government’s Health Agenda

Our health workforce is world class, but it is clear to me that many of those who participate in it are concerned about the current state of our health system.

Like health professionals, the public - and therefore patients - see a system where increasing amounts of money have been invested in recent years, taking up an ever larger proportion of the national income, without commensurate growth or improvement in services. People have become frustrated by unnecessary bureaucracy, long waits for patient assessment and specialised treatment, and an evident deterioration in some services.

Governments in the United States, Great Britain and Australia, are also considering how to deliver better value health services to populations for whom quality health services are a top expectation.

It is a time of major challenge, but also a time of opportunity and innovation.

Read more at www.beehive.govt.nz
 
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Posted by Mike Pearson  3 months ago

New Health Care Scorecard Finds Wide Differences In Access, Quality And Cost Across U.S. States

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New Health Care Scorecard Finds Wide Differences In Access, Quality And Cost Across U.S. States

The cost and quality of health care, as well as access to care and health outcomes, continue to vary widely among states, according to the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System’s second state scorecard report.

The report, Aiming Higher: Results from the 2009 State Scorecard on Health System Performance, is a follow-up to the Commission’s 2007 State Scorecard report; it ranks states on 38 indicators in the areas of access, prevention/treatment quality, avoidable hospital use and costs, healthy lives, and equity. In 2009, Vermont, Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, Maine, and New Hampshire lead the nation as top performers on a majority of scorecard indicators. Leading states set new, higher benchmarks on a majority of indicators. Conversely, states in the lowest quartile often lag the leaders on multiple areas and the gaps have grown wider in multiple areas.

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Posted by Mike Pearson  3 months ago

Who will hold Australia’s health e-records?

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Governments change direction on health e-records

GOOGLE, Microsoft and other new providers will host Australians’ electronic health records as the federal and state governments back away from funding a nationwide scheme.

National E-Health Transition Authority chief executive Peter Fleming said the original vision of a single e-health record system had been abandoned in favour of “person-controlled” records that could be adopted more quickly.

“Five years ago, there was a strong view that there would be an e-health record for all Australians held on a massive database somewhere,” he told the Medical Software Industry Association conference in Sydney last week. “That’s no longer the view.

Mr Fleming said the foundation work on healthcare identifiers, secure messaging and other technical standards would support a rollout of personal health records by 2012, although a new indexing service would be needed to bring disparate files together at the point of care.

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Posted by Mike Pearson  3 months ago

Lack of Governance Spawned Canada’s eHealth Failure

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Lack of Governance Spawned Canada’s eHealth Failure

We all know large technology projects can get out of control quickly. But when they’re funded by taxpayer dollars and feature revolving-door agency management, a lack of planning, little governance, and an over-reliance on consultants, failure is a near certainty.

That’s the story line behind the failings of Ontario’s eHealth initiative, according to results of an investigation released by Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter.

There were several factors that led to this debacle, but the two most egregious were lack of planning and little or no governance.

Read more at www.internetevolution.com
 
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Posted by Mike Pearson  3 months ago
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