Quote Of The Year

Timeless Quotes - Sadly The Late Paul Shetler - "Its not Your Health Record it's a Government Record Of Your Health Information"

or

H. L. Mencken - "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Saturday, February 01, 2020

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 01 February, 2020.

Here are a few I came across last week.
Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.
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Key CES digital health and wellness tech trends to watch

Last week, more than 170,000 people attended CES 2020, the world’s gathering place for all things consumer technology. Digital Health editor-in-chief, Jon Hoeksma, reports on the key digital health and wellness trends which emerged from the week-long event.
14 January 2020.
The boundaries of digital health were decidedly blurred at CES 2020 in Las Vegas last week, with almost every technology category imaginable offering hyper-connected IoT sensors, devices and services promising to help improve some aspect of people’s health and wellness.
A diverse array of start-ups big and small, established big consumer brands such as Amazon and Apple, Proctor and Gamble and Johnson and Johnson, were demonstrating their parts of this digital health ‘eco-system of eco-systems’, the fastest growing segment of the giant tech show.
Amazon, for instance, has partnered with Mayo Clinic to include all its patient guide content on Alexa voice services. Facebook was also talking about its new preventative health tool, which prompts users to get health tests.
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Palliative shared record system adopted by 95% of Somerset GPs

NHS Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has reported that new way of creating and sharing end of life care plans has been adopted by nearly every GP practice in Somerset since being launched in April 2019.
Owen Hughes – 21 January, 2020
The Electronic Palliative and Care Co-ordination System (EPaCCS) provides a ‘single source of truth’ record for important end of life information for patients in Somerset.
Using a pre-defined workflow, EPaCCS enables GPs and other care professionals – including district nurses, out-of-hours services and palliative care professionals – to create plans in under a minute using pre-populated information from the patient’s GP record.
Once created, any care professional involved in the patient’s direct care can view and update the EPaCCS record.
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Majority of Diagnosed Cancer Patients are not Viewing Their EHR

Only 58 percent of recently diagnosed cancer patients are offered access to their online EHR.
January 24, 2020 - Patients who were recently diagnosed with cancer viewed their own EHR data at higher rates compared to those who were never diagnosed with cancer and those who are cancer survivors, but they still aren’t viewing their records at a very high rate, according to new data published by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
Roughly 40 percent of individuals will be diagnosed with cancer throughout their lives. With this diagnosis, patients are in constant contact with their health system, leading to an increase in health information consumption.
Using data from the National Cancer Institute’s Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), it’s clear that patients do not utilize these tools enough, regardless of a past or present cancer diagnosis. Specifically, the results show that patients with cancer are underutilizing their available online medical records and missing out on valuable information.