By Brianna Flavin for Rasmussen College Anyone with an interest in technology has probably encountered the field of health information technology (HIT) in the past few years. This sector of healthcare has received some well-deserved limelight for the innovations it has brought to the industry at large. But while we see the fantastic results of
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11Feb
Patients Believe in Partnership to Improve Health
Patients overwhelmingly believe in partnership with their clinicians to improve health. A new survey shows people want to collaborate with their doctors and co-produce their clinical data. As announced on e-patients.net blog, and according to a survey released by the Society for Participatory Medicine and conducted by ORC International, patients/consumers express their thoughts about the value of sharing
14Jan
Patient-Centered Care, Costly for the Small
“For primary care practices, participating in a medical home demonstration requires substantial investments,” said Grand Martsolf, RAND policy researcher and the study’s lead author. “These costs of transformation include both one-time startup costs and ongoing, every-year costs. High-functioning IT systems are crucial to converting a physician practice to a patient-centered medical home model, but only
15Dec
Are medical devices difficult to secure?
Many of the aging medical devices still in wide use at hospitals across the U.S. were built without much consideration for security controls. Kevin Fu, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at University of Michigan, spoke about medical devices’ security at the HIMSS and Healthcare IT News Privacy & Security Forum in Boston.
09Nov
Consumers want health apps to do more for their lives
A recent study designed by New York University and published by the Journal of Medical Internet Research exposed the consumer perspective of health app use in the U.S. More than 1,600 mobile phone users were surveyed, assessing sociodemographic characteristics, health app history and reasons for use and the status of their overall health. Consumers want access
15Oct
The Value behind the Patient’s Voice
One of the most important pieces of an electronic health record is often overlooked or ignored, leading to incorrect diagnoses, wasted resources and patient dissatisfaction. It’s the patient’s voice, that highly personal collection of feelings, fears and self-collected health data that goes beyond the clinical record. The patient’s voice – or the lack of it in
23Sep
Tech that Reduces Health Disparities
Concerned that food stamp users lacked the opportunity to buy fresh vegetables, the anti-hunger group Just Harvest decided two years ago to take credit card machines to local farmers markets that were operating on a cash basis. Besides credit and debit cards, the machines accept the state-issued Electronic Benefit Transfer cards holding food stamps. “As
14Sep
HealthIT says “hello” to Qualcomm
The San Diego-based healthcare spinoff of Qualcomm, whose 2net hub gathers and organizes data from medical-grade devices in homes and other locations outside the healthcare setting, has acquired Capsule Technologie, whose focus is on gathering data from devices inside hospitals, clinics and other healthcare sites. “We now have the largest ecosystem of connected medical devices with
21Aug
Between The Lines of Pink and Blue
17 years ago, Pfizer unveiled a revolutionary new drug that has since transformed the landscape of sexual libido. The blue pill, Viagra, paved the way for a multi billion-dollar industry that even made its way into Hollywood when Sex and the City aired an episode called “The Man, The Myth, The Viagra”. Following the astronomical
27Jul
The Lowdown on Lyme Disease – Should you be worried?
A tearful Avril Lavigne breaks down during an interview with Good Morning America as she opened up about her fight with Lyme disease. The 30-year-old singer is just the latest celebrity to be affected by Lyme disease which is now reported in 49 out of 50 states. Lyme disease is now the fastest growing infectious
