PDF Title: The Impact of
eHealth on the Quality and Safety of Healthcare
PDF Title: Benchmarking Deployment of eHealth among General Practitioner
(2013)
PDF Title:Trends "future directions"eHealth review 2013
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http://www.ehealthnews.eu/images/stories/Impact_of_eHealth.pdf
Link: http://www.sanita.ilsole24ore.com/pdf2010/Sanita2/_Oggetti_Correlati/Documenti/Lavoro-e-Professione/Finalreport.pdf?uuid=c5283d94-dabc-11e3-84c0-4486710f8eb3
Link: https://www.academia.edu/2866970/Health_Communication_Trend_s_and_Future_Directions
Link: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_IT_Report_2012.pdf
First Blog
The three most helpful things
1. Importance of information exchange and
interoperability:
Even today, both in developed and developing countries, their is difficulty
in having easy access and exchange of patient's information, which is the most
important aspect of healthcare. Adopting new ways to exchange information
through the use of technology can, not only help in better organizing the
information but also to provide right information about the right patient at
right time by elimination of errors.
2. Electronics facilitate better record keeping:
Electronic Health record keeping serves, to be the most effective and
efficient way to build records that helps in better formatting and securing of
data. Major advantage of building electronic health record is to acquire more
details about patients assessment, history, prescriptions and other
information, with well- integrated and efficient way that gives universal
access; reducing the processing time of clinical data. Electronic collection of
data also, helps care providers to have standardized information about
patients, that increases better monitoring and utilization of the clinical
data, billing optimization, the quality of cost and increase in workers
productivity.
3. Potential drawbacks of
electronic/ computerized medical records:
Use of technology does prove
helpful in providing undeniable benefits to medical record keeping, but
it also does have some risk factors attached, like tampering of records,
fraudulent entries, unauthorized disclosure of patients records, crashes of
servers, lack of technical experiences and accidental deletion of data. Hence,
the major concern, eHealth based systematic medical industry has, is to
overcome malpractices both ethical and technical to improve quality of care,
patient safety and public health.
Second
Blog
The three important things:
1. An Integrated Framework:
To understand how among different countries, has been able to adopt eHealth,
a set of model or framework was developed that would, undertake gaining of
better knowledge of individual, meso and macro level variables of different
countries. Under this framework, a set of questionnaire was develop that
targeted both the measurement and explanatory dimension that would give in
depth knowledge and statistical data for performing analysis. Again the main
focus, for the model to work was by putting a set of questionnaire that would
measure the availability and usage specific infrastructure that concerned
Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchange, Telehealth and Personal
Health Record.
2.Difference between stages of awareness and use of eHealth systems:
Among the test conducted between 2007 and 2013 in the study, it showed
increase use of computers, which is more likely with the awareness and
availability of the technology. Also, there was a substantial increase in many
other factors, like giving out ePrescriptions, electronically lab reports and
use of computers during consultations. This changes in the functionalities
related to the storage of patients medical records, usage of technology to make
appointments, interact through emails, transfer of prescriptions, and other
functions; to make optimum use of technology for easy and effective way to deal
with medical services between the countries globally. Also, the study shows how
the graph of availability and adoption of these information exchange and use of
technology has evolved throughout these years.
3. Dimensions of overall score:
The whole survey was conducted to analyze the data, about how well the
eHealth systematics, like use of electronic storage of individual
patients data, use of computers during consulting patient, decision support
from other care providers, prescription to pharmacy and many other
functionalities have grown to analyze the comparability among the different
countries that shows the progress of eHealth system, in changing trends of
future medical system.
Third
Blog
Importance of collaboration of health
information and bioinformatics
Bio informatics involves variety of skills for the processing, storage,
analysis and modeling of many types of biological data requires an
understanding of complex biological systems and their quantitative data. Thus
with the advancement with the technology it has opened doors to support the
automation of modern instruments that holds huge amount of biomedical data.
These not only assist clinicians for better patient care but also, overcome the
hurdles consisting of other associated demands like analyzing of data, societal
and ethical issues and other cost effective and improved management of health
information.
Relation of Bioinformatics and
Health Communication
Altman (2001) defines bioinformatics as “the study of how information
is represented and transmitted in biological systems, starting at the molecular
level”. And according to the Witte and associates (1996), health communication
is defined as “the exchange, transmission, perception, and/or internalization
of health-related information, within varying social and physical environments,
regarding factors that influence health and/or health-related behaviors”. This
highlights health communication that represents multidisciplinary side of
communication that involves different levels of analysis. However, both
bioinformatics and health communication are works parallel in where,
bioinformatics targets on its core biomedical research, through the technological
channels, clinical, public health whereas health communication have relatively
more focus on two way interaction with in-person communication, non-internet
based mass-media that identifies with the direct interest of the population.
Access to Healthcare
The most challenging aspect of healthcare is to get access of the health
care services, and with digital and electronic media it has become easy to face
such challenges especially for the uninsured and other population. Moreover, access
to health services encompasses four components: coverage, services, timeliness,
and workforce. Therefore, better interactive information application program
should be
provided in public places, including
schools that give consumer-patients with access to health information,
diagnoses, and treatments. Also, more focus should to design a universal model
that could meet the needs of low literacy and incomes, and who are unable to
access broadband networks.
Fourth
blog
Emerging Issues for our Hyperconnected
World
Realizing that with the fast growing internet usage and its applications
specially with technologies like sensor, nano or payment arrangements in the
market gives out an exponential growth of stored as well as transmitted
data that has strength of expanding with the use of networks. Here is, the
research consultancy IDC considered that, in 2010, the amount of data
transmitted around the world exceeded 1 zettabyte for the first time, while
estimating that the size of the digital universe now doubles every two years.
Hence there is an increasing and significant new investments are needed in many
forms of information infrastructure. There are also issues that lies at role of
regulators that calls for improving and updating infrastructure, content and
many telecommunication regulators with different approached by national
governments. With the explosive growth in growth forecast for connected
devices, numbering and addressing issues has become a major concern in
providing all these network-enabled devices with their own addresses. Hence
there are significant issues that are surrounded for getting access and use of
digital management under eHealth systematics.
Setting collaborative principles for
all the operating systematics:
To come up with a broader way to approach different issues, steps should be
taken that allow operators to manage traffic with high levels of transparency
toward customers, this will require operators to provide a high-quality
best-effort service with minimal speeds, allow operators to provide
differentiated services to edge players that share the same physical
infrastructure. Again, with the high demand, operators will need to price
services flexibly to achieve the levels of cash flow that will allow them to
make the infrastructure investments. Also, with the given need for increased
massive expansion of the Internet, regulators should consider implementing
approaches that lower the cost of inputs controlled by government policies,
such as the cost of spectrum and rights of way.
Transformative effect of mobile
broadband
To improve the reach, productivity, and outcomes within the healthcare
sector, the combination of highly personalized and pervasive experience that
enables individual with mobile smartphones and other always-on,
always-connected devices could be used for a transformative way to bring more
easily, quickly, and cost-effectively bring about the benefits associated with
access to comprehensive healthcare services to their citizen.
