“Kathryn Marchesini, a privacy adviser at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, outlines the three most important steps healthcare organizations should take to avoid breaches of information on mobile devices.
The key steps, she says are to make extensive use of encryption; create, implement and document reasonable security and privacy policies; and train [...]
“My wife Elaine was hospitalized for 6 days recently with an array of ailments related to her advancing cancer, so diagnosing and addressing her problems required a multidisciplinary approach. In addition to the nursing and support staffs, she was tended by an emergency physician, two hospitalists, three gastroenterologists, a pulmonologist, an infectious disease physician and [...]
“Despite the potential of mobile healthcare, experts say they worry about the added risks of security breaches, privacy violations and other concerns that come with the increasing use of mobile technology.
Lisa Gallagher, senior director for privacy and security at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), says the biggest privacy concern with the use [...]
“When it comes to electronic health records, “the switch to cloud is inevitable.” That’s according to Joy Pritts, Chief Privacy Officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in the Obama administration, who spoke at a “Health Care, the Cloud, and Privacy” panel hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, Patient Privacy [...]
“Federal regulators are one step closer to issuing guidance on best practices for how healthcare organizations should authenticate the identities of patients when they want to view, download or transmit their health records online.
The Health IT Policy Committee on Jan. 8 approved recommendations from its Privacy and Security Tiger Team regarding patient IDs in cyberspace. [...]
“Health Level Seven International (HL7), the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, has announced the release of a Continuity of Care Document (CCD) to Blue Button Transform Tool.
The tool allows organizations to convert information already available in the existing HL7 CCD format into a Blue Button ASCII text [...]
“Some physicians practice potentially risky behavior when using electronic health records, according to a recent study published by the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Researchers examined 2,068 electronic patient progress reports created by 62 residents and 11 attending physicians working in the intensive care unit of a Cleveland hospital for the study. Plagiarism-detection software was used [...]
“A New York City study finds electronic health records can improve patient care in small physician practices if technical help is provided, researchers say.
Lead author Dr. Andrew M. Ryan of the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and colleagues at the Primary Care Information Project of the New York City Health Department used an [...]
“The relationship between a physician practice’s adoption of electronic health records (EHR) and quality improvements in patient care remains unclear. However, a new study published in the January issue of Health Affairs by Weill Cornell Medical College and the Primary Care Information Project (PCIP) of the New York City Health Department shows evidence that EHR [...]
Dear Data Mining Research readers, I wish you all an excellent year 2013! How to better start this new year than with an introduction to data mining (for non-experts)? Enjoy!
Data alone is worth almost nothing. While data is increasing exponentially, people in some fields are “starving” for knowledge. In spite of this, the gap between [...]
“While the data stored in electronic health records is primarily clinical in nature, intended to help physicians diagnose patients and record treatments, researchers interested in examining rare diseases and other genetic health factors are increasingly turning to those EHRs as a source of data. Instead of relying on questionnaires or interviews by staff to [...]
The combination of improved genomic analysis methods, decreasing genotyping costs, and increasing computing resources has led to an explosion of clinical genomic knowledge in the last decade. Similarly, healthcare systems are increasingly adopting robust electronic health record (EHR) systems that not only can improve health care, but also contain a vast repository of disease and [...]
BACKGROUND
Within the medical community there is persistent debate as to whether the information available through social media is trustworthy and valid, and whether physicians are ready to adopt these technologies and ultimately embrace them as a format for professional development and lifelong learning.
OBJECTIVE
To identify how physicians are using social media to share and exchange medical [...]
“About one in four U.S. doctors uses social media daily to scan or explore medical information, according to a new study.
The survey of nearly 500 cancer specialists (oncologists) and primary-care doctors also found that 14 percent contribute new information via social media each day, said the researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in [...]
The clinical element model (CEM) is an information model designed for representing clinical information in electronic health records (EHR) systems across organizations. The current representation of CEMs does not support formal semantic definitions and therefore it is not possible to perform reasoning and consistency checking on derived models. This paper introduces our efforts to represent [...]
Purpose
This paper explores the implications that different technical strategies for sharing patient information have for healthcare workers and, as a consequence, for the extent to which these systems provide support for integrated care.
Methods
Four technical strategies were identified and the forms of coupling they made with healthcare agencies were classified. A study was [...]
Today, I have the pleasure to welcome Mark Zielinski, co-founder and former director at Winning Research in Toronto. He writes about analyzing social network traffic to better understand patterns and derive knowledge from them. Thanks for your contribution Mark.
Since late 2011, the market research industry and market research technology in general has been very [...]
If you are working on forecasting, you may be interested by the book from Steve Morlidge and Steve Player: Future Ready – How to master business forecasting. Whereas Dance with Chance was more about the limitations of forecasting, the present book is about the way to apply forecasting to existing businesses.
Let’s [...]
At the beginning of the year, Google's results page for {restaurants in seattle} looked like this: Note: the size of the map, the presence and colouration of the main column ad block and the use of the restaurant's web page...