Monthly Archives: July 2008

The ‘business viability’ of HIE/EHR?

Another viewpoint of the work around generic process models in healthcare is what value will it provide and to whom! “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”—Goethe The National Board of Health and Welfare in Sweden have formulated these bullets in the context of “Good care” inspired of the report from Institute of Medicine. • Goals: Safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, quality and equity • Three guiding strategies: …

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| Posted on by Krister Svanberg in Thoughts & Reports | Leave a comment

The dangers and benefits of RFID in healthcare

Known interference calls for caution when applying RFID in clinical care. Standards to indicate and overcome this interference could put the benefits of RFID in the spotlight.

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| Posted on by Robert Stegwee in Standards Tagged | | Leave a comment

Healthcare Transformation: A Mandate for Collaboration

The healthcare communities around the world are under significant pressures due to well documented challenges (i.e., aging populations and decreasing wellness; poor patient safety results; increasing patient/consumer expectations; spiraling healthcare costs; and poor integration of care. HIT for healthcare information sharing (e.g., HIE, EHR, PHR, EMR) is still an empty promise. In our entry for ‘Semantic Interoperability’ Robert Stegwee asks the question “if semantic interoperability is equally important to the healthcare professional, why is it …

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| Posted on by Gerry Yantis in Transforming Healthcare Tagged | | Leave a comment

Telehealth & Telecare on a “long term” road to mainstream adoption?

Over the last few weeks I’ve been talking to some of the bright young things from our graduate programme. They’re working on a challenge themed around healthcare transformation, and one of the common threads they’ve been picking up on (and rightly so) is around the value of “remote patient monitoring”. Falling under the “Telehealth” “Telecare” and “Assistive Technology” banners; it’s an area with a lot of interest, but with a few notable exceptions is still …

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| Posted on by Jason Crellin in Applying Technology | Leave a comment