Interesting article on the need to revise and upgrade ICUs – https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/07/hospital-icu-modernize/ with a focus on connecting systems that currently don’t talk to one another. Points out a lot of the flaws – too many alarms and alarm fatigue; too much data – hard to tease out what’s important in all of that information (about 2000 data points per patient per day); devices that can’t share information nor share information with an electronic record. Some insights into how to fix it – some simple apps and sensors, sharing of data (dependent on manufacturer’s building in interoperability), including the patient and family, using additional expertise via telemedicine connections.
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CHIMA calls for more health info management programs
This article relates to the previous one regarding the current demand of health informatics programs. We need to put more pressures on universities to adapt these market demands and educate students about their existence and necessities!
Are the Government’s “Meaningful Use” Standards Meaningful?
An interesting article from Forbes magazine talking about the US governments definitions of “meaningful use”
The author’s of the opinion that while the definition set out by the government may not be the greatest, the health IT field is still making large strides towards a digital healthcare world. He also points out that its not just the big guys like IBM and Cisco, several small companies have also been successful in both software development, implementation, and management of health information.
EHR Pilot Project in Nova Scotia
This article is pretty short but it has some interesting concepts that we have been discussing in our class, like challenges with security.
Doctors use Wikipedia too
Interesting article on the use of Wikipedia by MDs to search for health info.http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/
At least there is a group of physicians who is trying to make sure the content is accurate – see Wikiproject Medicine.
