Meaningful use
Personal health data and medical records
Digital health data are rapidly expanding to include patient-reported outcomes, patient-generated health data, and social determinants of health. Measurements collected in clinical settings are being supplemented by data collected in
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Working with a scribe significantly improves physicians’ overall satisfaction, satisfaction with chart quality and accuracy, and charting efficiency, according to a study published online Sept. 11 in the Annals of Family
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Many patients whose providers adopt OpenNotes — a project in which providers share medical notes with their patients — report the option is helpful, according to recent research out of Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
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Healthcare is poised for an upheaval, with the arrival of artificially intelligent health apps that could replace visits to the doctor. Smartening up medicine. Your.MD By Douglas Heaven, New Scientist 19 July 2017 Stiff neck,
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This summer, KPCB partner Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends report singled out healthcare as a sector ripe with opportunity. The report proposed that the healthcare market, driven by a number of converging technologies, is
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The health care sector is facing a far-reaching and unpredictable revolution. Smartphones are capable of replacing many devices that have become standard in medical practices and some apps will soon be able to provide diagnoses as
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The phrase “patient centricity” makes us all feel good. Health professionals adopt the term regularly, spend more time with patients, express more concern, and try to push the policy envelope just that little bit further. Thank
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Questions raised over quality of consultations and universality principle. Virtual medical services that connect family physicians and patients with minor illnesses and injuries are popping up online in Canada, leading to questions
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The health care industrial complex has spent billions of dollars and untold amounts of time trying to make medical records as flexible, invisible and unobtrusive as possible for patients and clinicians alike. Dr. R. Adams Dudley, who
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Many years ago I worked with a doctor who would disappear for a few moments at important decision points in clinical care. Sometimes this was during ward rounds and sometimes on call. He was an excellent doctor—the momentary
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RAMQ investigating whether for-fee appointment booking service is against the law. An online service that finds clients a medical appointment within 48 hours for a fee has turned to Québec Superior Court to stop an audit by
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System easier for patients and cheaper for clinics. Physiotherapy patients can get more accurate feedback on rehab exercises and clinics can save money thanks to a new system developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo. A
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While you may think electronic medical records could only improve health care, health researcher Conrad Amenta says think twice. He says the increased workload that comes with EMRs is leading to doctor burnout – and even higher
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It was once commonplace for primary care physicians to seek informal guidance from specialists regarding a patient’s care during a “curbside consultation.” This phrase, still in use today, is said to have come about
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Nancy is “beyond frustrated” with how long her family has had to wait to see specialists. She has been waiting 16 months to see a rheumatologist, and has been told there’s a two-year wait to a pain management centre to help with
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An MRI isn’t always the best first-choice for diagnosis when patients present with knee pain. While MRI is highly sensitive and it can detect intra-articular pathology, these changes might be associated with degenerative joint
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Two years ago Medscape did a survey of physicians, healthcare providers, and consumers to gauge relative acceptance of new technologies and attitudes toward medical information sharing. We also published that survey in a peer-reviewed
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Adding scribes is even better. Scribe Warren Lam (right) works on notes, as attending physician Dr. Laura Burke (center) and Dr. Daniel Willner discuss a patient case, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Emergency Department on
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Full ‘Medical Records’ for Trump and Clinton? That’s Fiction. Casey Quinlan is a patient advocate who has a tattoo of a QR code — a type of bar code to store and track data — for her medical records. Credit Chet Strange for
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Mobile phone technology could help beat bad practices in healthcare delivery, research suggests. Innovations such as apps offer opportunities for improving governance in the healthcare sector, particularly in low and middle income
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Electronic health records slow doctors down and distract them from meaningful face time caring for patients. Hidden treasure. View from behind a cataloging desk, Army Medical Library, Washington, DC, ca. 1955. National Library of
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The Philips Health suite is a health-tracking platform that assists patients, and generally the people with health concerns, acquire a complete and detailed knowledge about their vital physiological information and how they change
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The OpenNotes movement is excited to share a milestone — 10 million Americans can now read their medical notes securely online. Overwhelmingly, patients agree that reading their notes helps them feel more in control of their health
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Tech giants moving into health may widen inequalities and harm research, unless people can access and share their data, warn John T. Wilbanks and Eric J. Topol. Open Effect, a non-profit applied research group that focuses on digital
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Use of mobile devices as a tool in the clinical setting among orthopedic surgeons and trainees has increased during a 48-month period, according to results. From August 2010 to August 2014, researchers sent a questionnaire to 678
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Telemedicine proponents have argued for years that virtual care is at least as effective as in-person care delivered in a traditional clinical setting. Based on new research, they may be more right than they had thought. Neil Versel,
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The official reason for my patient’s visit, according to her electronic medical chart, was fatigue, though that was far from her only concern. In the exam room, this usually upbeat woman had a sad tale to tell. Several months
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Alivecor this week introduced an Apple Watch EKG band, Kardia, that will let users obtain a single-lead EKG just by touching the Watch band. Satish Misra MD, iMedical Apps March 17, 2016 AliveCor is best known for its smartphone EKG
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Apps allow patients to share data with their doctor. Many orthopaedic patients are eager to track and improve their health and progress before, during and after treatment. A digital fitness device, technology already owned by 1 in 10
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“To deliver exemplary care, health care workers need technologies that can support them in their interactions with patients,” Khatri said. “This means moving from clinician-centric to patient-centric IT models.” MU researcher
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