As reported in the Pugent Sound Business Journal, in a recent study by the MWW Group .... almost 80 % of people who use the internet to “connect with others” trust peer-created…
mation for you ....... Find below links to an excellent set of of presentations from the U.S. Agency for Health Research & Quality (AHRQ) on 3 hot topics in today's Health Information Technology (HIT) landscape ... 1. Building HIEs (Health Information Exchanges); 2. Encouraging Patient Empowerment with PHR (Personal Health Records); and, 3) How to reduce Re-Admissions after Hospital Discharges ... All issues related to poorly coordinated healthcare, and how HIT can help bridge the dis-connects ...... Thanx to Mike Squires, of the e-Healthcare
Marketing blog and the Healthcare
IT World Linkedin Group for the links ...ENJOY!CC------------------------------------------------------PDFs of Three Webinars Produced by AHRQ and Released on Web June 18, 2010 These are all large files and take time to open.
Building and Maintaining a Sustainable Health Information Exchange: Experience from Diverse Care Settings: [PDF-1.49MB] May 14, 2010
The Vanderbilt HIE Experience in Memphis Mark Frisse, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Health Information Exchange in Small Primary Care Practices: Someone Needs Needs to Say “Do It” Patricia Fontaine, University of Minnesota
Delaware Health Information Network: Better Communicaation for Better Healthcare Gina Perez, Advances in Management
A National Web Conference on Patient Empowerment: Leveraging Health IT for Patient Empowerment [PDF-3.73MB] April 8, 2010
Leveraging Health Information Technology for Patient Empowerment Christine A. Sinsky, Medical Associates Clinic and Health Plans
A Personalized Portal to Promote Patient-Centered Prevntive Care Alex Krist, Virginia Commonwealth University
e-Coaching: Interactive Voice Response (IVR)-Enhanced Care Transition Support for Complex Patients Christine S. Ritchie, University of Alabama at Birmington
A National Web Conference on Transitions in Care [PDF-1.07MB] February 24, 2010
Transitional Care and Rehospitalization: Information Technology Stephen Jencks, Independent Consultant In Health Care Safety
Project RED: The ReEngineed Discharge Brian Jack, Boston University School of Medicine
Transitions in Care Terry Field, University of Massachusetts Medical School
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e video, audio and text). Those services meet the uses of everyday life for deaf, blind or medically monitoring people. More precisely today it is to provide :
- phone for the deaf (video relay service)
- remote visual help for reading or moving in an urban environnement for the blind
- caring for someone remotely (social ties and tracking medical data)
We advocate the need for interoperability, ie to implement industry standards in order to connect to our platform devices from other suppliers (medical sensors, video phone, ...) and so that users can choose the most appropriate devices. We have, in particular, incorporate Web 2.0 technologies.…
icted or blocked while at work?
* Is the use of social media in the workplace inhibited or frowned upon?
If you answered yes, then your organization is one of the majority of firms with over 100 employees that have yet to embrace the use of social media in the workplace for the average worker...
... However, there are a growing number of firms such as IBM, Toshiba, and Cerner Corporation that are becoming über-connected workplaces. Using social media tools such as wikis, blogs, microblogs and corporate social networks, they are connecting employees globally, and are fostering mass collaboration...
... these companies are seeing improvements in communication, cross-functional collaboration and creative approaches to problem solving. More companies are discovering that an über-connected workplace is not just about implementing a new set of tools — it is also about embracing a cultural shift to create an open environment where employees are encouraged to share, innovate and collaborate virtually...
... Recent research provides evidence that there are business benefits to becoming an über-connected organization:
* Access to social media improves productivity ... People who surf the Internet ...at work — within a reasonable limit of less than 20% of their total time in the office — are more productive by about 9% than those who don't .
* Millennials will seek jobs that encourage the use of social media. Those born between 1977 and 1997 — the ones you need to hire to replace the retiring boomers — are networked 24/7 and expect the company to accommodate pervasive connectivity ... they prefer to communicate via instant messaging, text messaging, Facebook and RSS feeds...
* Companies that provide access to social media create a more engaged workforce ... In 2009, Cerner implemented uCern, a corporate social network ... uCern has demonstrated significant business benefits to Cerner such as allowing employees to have increased access to experts across the globe, reducing the cycle time from discovery of new products to launch of new products, and increasing employee engagement and satisfaction in the workplace...
... these changes will only continue to accelerate as we move toward 2020 ...
The authors:
Jeanne C Meister is an internationally recognized workplace-learning consultant ...
Karie Willyerd is the Chief Learning Officer of Sun Microsystems...
Read on at: http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/11/the_uberconnected_organization.html?cm_re=homepage-061609-_-body-middle-tert-_-voices
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As noted in SmartBrief on Social Media & IT Jungle ... IBM is rolling out a social-networking site aimed at accelerating tech collaborations and facilitating sales among…
As reported in Government Computer News ... Social networking tools must be a core part of national defense, harnessing the power of communities of interest to collaborate and…
In the continuing quest to bring you the 3C's of "Content, Community & Collaboration", we thought this a good time to summarize the U.S. "Stimulus" package Blog…
t the records on a national health exchange platform, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker said ...
... President Barack Obama officially announced the lifetime record program in April to develop a comprehensive digital medical record for every military service member. The record will contain information from both Defense Department health services and VA health services...
... Baker said the interoperability work is finished and described it as the first of three phases for the lifetime virtual record project. “Phase One is done,” Baker said. “We have the best interoperability between two health systems in the country.”...
... In the second phase, DOD and VA health records for about 15 million people will be made available for secure exchange with public and private organizations, including health care providers and insurers through the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), Baker said...
... Moving the data to the NHIN is significant because it allows for exchange of medical information with private hospitals and doctors ...
... The third and final phase for the system will be developing protocols to securely provide the DOD-VA patient's medical information at the point of care,...
... Baker revealed that he has started an in-house blog on a social media Web site available only to VA employees. The Web site has several wikis, including one that is generating ideas for improving customer service and benefits management. So far, about 7,000 users have generated 6,000 comments and 3,000 ideas for improvements, which are being evaluated by VA executives...
... Asked about cloud computing, Baker said he is a big supporter of the technology and will move VA programs to the cloud, but he is still examining when and which programs, and considering the privacy aspects...
Read on at: http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/10/08/Roger-Baker-First-phase-of-lifetime-medical-record-is-finished.aspx?Page=2
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