December 13, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
A new survey from Wolters Kluwer Health, a Philadelphia-based provider of business intelligence services, has found that 80 percent of Americans feel the trend of people being involved with their healthcare from a consumer standpoint is a good and necessary change. Despite positive feelings on this “consumerization” of healthcare, only 19 percent of those people surveyed said they have a personal health record (PHR), and 86 percent admit they have to take a more proactive role in managing their own healthcare.
December 12, 2012 Gabriel Perna
article
A recent study conducted by researchers at the Oakland, Calif.-based integrated healthcare organization, Kaiser Permanente, found that users of Kaiser’s personal health record (PHR), My Health Manager, visited their doctor’s office 16 percent than those who weren’t users of it. One of the study’s authors explains why this result shocked him and what it might mean.
December 10, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
The Biparistan Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit policy watchdog organization, released a report this week that urges various healthcare industry stakeholders to make increased patient engagement a priority. The report’s authors, from BPC’s Health IT Initiative, found that electronic tools such as secure messaging between patients and clinicians, in-home monitoring for patients, and patient portals are critical in improving the cost and quality of care.
December 10, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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The University of Utah Health Care, a four-hospital, 10-clinic health system, announced it has added an online tool that allows patients to score their satisfaction with their physicians. The physicians will be ranked on 40,000 patient surveys based on nine questions. Utah Health Care claims it is the first system in the nation to do something like this.
December 10, 2012
news
In a new study from researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and other institutions, people who use the internet to acquire health or medical information are less likely to have a fatalistic view on cancer than those who do not. The study, which was published in the Journal of Communication, found that the internet reduced fatalism, which is when people think that getting cancer is a matter of luck or fate, among the less educated and less health-knowledgeable people.
December 5, 2012 Michael Craige
blog
Rapid improvements in technology, semantic data structures, informatics professional collaboration and sequencing technologies are not necessarily the only gaps needed for the realization of personalized medicine (improving genomic and phenotypic data integration) but these must be taken into account on how best to exploit the opportunities to facilitate personalized medicine.
November 30, 2012 Gabriel Perna
blog
More hospitals and healthcare systems have adopted online ER reservations bringing a popular service in the dining industry to healthcare. However while some see it as a good way to increase patient population scores, others are a little more leery.
November 27, 2012 Gabriel Perna
blog
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In healthcare, there are many places where that saying applies. For instance, the journey of an engaged population begins with a single informed patient. But how do you get from the beginning to the end – or at least some semblance of engagement? NeHC has created a guide to do just that.
November 27, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
In addition to its recently announced patient engagement framework, the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is releasing an affiliated online assessment tool that will help providers and payers evaluate where they stand in this area. NeHC, which worked with HealthCAWS on the platform, says its Consumer eHealth Readiness Tool (CeRT) can be used as a real-time progress evaluator for payers and providers looking to gauge their patient engagement activities. It also can give recommendations to providers on how they can improve.
November 21, 2012 John DeGaspari
news
Patients with online access to their medical records and secure email communication with clinicians have increased use of clinical services, including office visits and telephone encounters, compared to patients who do not have online access.
November 19, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) has released the patient engagement framework, a five-step model that will attempt to help providers, payers, and other healthcare entities on the path to engaging patients. A few of the stakeholders who helped develop this newly created framework recently discussed the tool on a NeHC-sponsored webinar.
November 6, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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According to new research from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research, various providers in the health information exchange (HIE) market have expressed dissatisfaction with their vendors thanks to continued connectivity issues. The report, "Health Information Exchange 2012: Muddled in Interfaces, looked at the insights of more than 200 providers, who cited inadequate support around building timely interfaces for even the highest rated vendors.
