November 27, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Keith J. Dreyer, M .D. not only sees the future of automation-facilitated radiology practice; he has been instrumental in bringing clinical decision support tools to the radiologist masses nationwide. In a frank discussion with HCI's Mark Hagland, Dr. Dreyer shares his perspectives on where radiology practice is going, and what radiologists-and healthcare IT leaders-need to understand about the near future in healthcare.
November 26, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
Meeting this morning during RSNA 2012 with executives from the Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, one thing was clear: those patient care organizations with an imaging informatics strategy—perhaps almost any imaging informatics strategy??—are already light years ahead of their peer organizations whose senior executives have no such strategy.
November 21, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
Pediatricians are not as up to par in the usage of EHRs as some of their fellow doctors, a recent survey led by researchers at Seattle Children's Hospital and East Carolina University with accompanying data from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), revealed. According to the researchers, pediatricians are up to two years behind the overall rate of EHR adoption, while those that have systems are without basic functionality.
November 14, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
One thing seemed clear last week at the AMIA 2012 Conference: physician informaticists are helping to move the discussion—and the solutions—forward towards new solutions in the physician documentation arena
November 8, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
In the wake of the Nov. 6 federal elections, Blair Childs, senior vice president for public affairs at the Charlotte-based Premier health alliance, spoke with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland regarding the election’s implications for healthcare policy and healthcare IT policy
November 8, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
A recent report, from various researchers at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix and elsewhere, looked at how telemedicine could be used to diagnosis concussions among rural-area high school students. The report, "Teleconcussion: An Innovative Approach to Screening, Diagnosis, and Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury,” looked at how doctors of a 15-year-old boy in Arizona effectively used telemedicine tools to evaluate and determine his concussion symptoms.
November 7, 2012 Mark Hagland
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As self-created electronic physician documentation replaces transcribed clinical documentation, what are the implications of that shift for physician workflow, efficiency, and clinical effectiveness, and ultimately, for care quality? Those questions were explored by a panel of clinical informaticists, all of whom have engaged in recent research and study of some of these issues. That discussion took place during a Nov. 6 session at the AMIA 2012 Symposium, currently being held at the Chicago Hilton & Towers in downtown Chicago, and sponsored by the American Medical Informatics Association. Not surprisingly, one of the big topics of discussion was the oft-discussed tension between supporting a rich narrative within the patient record, and facilitating EHR-focused efficiency.
November 5, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Four medical informaticists present findings and learnings from their research and development work in the area of providing clinical decision support to physicians treating patients with co-morbidities
November 5, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
The National Quality Forum (NQF) Board of Directors has endorsed 10 quality measures focused on behavioral health, focused on issues such as alcohol and tobacco abuse, antipsychotic medication adherence, and post care follow-up after hospitalization for mental illness.
October 31, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
According to a new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, wikis would be an effective participatory tool for patients in the development of a clinical practice guideline. Wikis, which are user-friendly websites that allow readers to put in their own modifications of content with a simple text editor, were tested by researchers looking to create clinical guidelines for infertility treatment.
October 29, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Researchers from the University of Michigan Pediatric Trauma Program and its Michigan NeuroSport program have created a mobile phone app that aims to help concussion patients track their activities and symptoms. The app, called Return2Play, will allow athletes who suffer concussions to enter the date and details of their injury, and the it helps them track through recovery.
October 26, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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According to a report produced by a Loma Linda University Medical Center researcher, and posted on the Annals of Emergency Medicine website, a number of intubated emergency patients within a federal database were listed as both dead and alive. The report calls into the data quality of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), which is produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
