This Week's Healthcare Online News
Health Data Management
Giving Patients a Role in Data Exchange
July,10,2013
by+ Joseph Goedert
The pilot, being done under the umbrella of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, is designed to add transparency to the process of exchanging patient data. Providers have repositories within their electronic health records systems that can include signed patient consent directives for the use of their information, and the directives can be reviewed to determine what information to send. But these are closed information systems and patients usually do not know who has requested their information, what was sent and what was seen.
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Fierce Health IT
Study: Research methods for home telemonitoring lack quality
July,24,2013
by:+Susan B. Hall
Despite the promise of remote patient monitoring to cut healthcare costs and improve patient care, the research methods behind those claims are called into question in a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research this week.
The researchers looked at systematic reviews and meta-analyses of home telemonitoring of patients with chronic conditions between 1966 and 2012. They focused on 24 reviews, nine of which were meta-analyses. Most such studies over the years deal with remote monitoring for patients with chronic heart failure, but in recent years, monitoring has grown more prevalent for other conditions, as well, such as diabetes, hypertension and asthma
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Med City News
Funny or Die plans to find the humor in Obamacare to reach young, healthy Americans
July,23,2013
By:+Rampton, Roberta
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What's so funny about President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law?
A website known for viral comedy videos popular with Americans under 30 - Funny or Die - has a few ideas and is enlisting celebrities to make something that catches the attention of a key demographic the White House needs to sign up for Obamacare.
"I think you can kind of have fun with some of the misinformation that's out there," said Mike Farah, president of production for Funny or Die.
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Physicians Practice
What May be to Blame When Medical Practice Staff Lacks Initiative
July,24,2013
by:+Carol Stryker
Physicians often complain that staff shows no initiative and is operationally passive: "They won't do anything without specific instructions, every time." Office productivity and morale benefit from understanding a likely cause of this behavior that many physicians encounter.
Learned helplessness occurs when a person repeatedly encounters a negative event he can neither influence nor avoid. He will eventually learn that he is powerless in the situation and stop wasting energy trying to avoid the discomfort. Passivity is the conditioned response.
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