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Despite the potential of mobile healthcare, experts say they worry about the added risks of security breaches, privacy violations and other concerns that come with the increasing use of mobile technology.
Mobile health is one of the more transformative developments in healthcare, according to Patricia Abbott, associate professor of nursing at the University of Michigan, School of Nursing, Division of Nursing Business and Health Systems. "The real winners will be the ones who grab on in the front end, and don't wait," she says.
The idea of unique patient identifiers is more than a mere concept extracted from the next dystopian novel. They could very well be reality in the not-so-distant future. The question remaining, however, is whether or not the benefits of such technology outweigh constitutional privacy and patient trust concerns. Naturally, depending on whom you ask, the answer varies considerably.
From year to year, one thing that is guaranteed to happen between HIMSS annual conferences is that the health IT landscape will change, usually in dramatic fashion.
You don't get the star power of a former U.S. president, the leader of one of the country's most respected hospitals, a world renowned cardiologist, the country's health IT chief, and two highly charged and high-powered political debaters, by leaving things to chance.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has begun listening sessions to identify and understand the experience and barriers of organizations as they prepare to scale up health information exchange.
The ONC and NIH are working the EU health agencies to develop international interoperability standards, with the goal of increasing patient access to personal health information globally.
El Camino Hospital plans to add a new data warehouse as part of its broader initiative to implement LEAN process management and enhance organization-wide business intelligence.
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) announced Thursday that it is conducting its latest online ICD-10 industry progress survey.
Standards group Health Level Seven International (HL7) has formed the Clinical Quality Information Work Group. HL7 plans to offer more education to providers and the new work group will offer leadership in the development of standards artifacts and educational content to all stakeholders involved in quality measurement efforts.