Search Tag: patient data
2019 21 Jan
Key areas where Blockchain has the potential to spark a revolution & increase quality while decreasing healthcare cost. Blockchain is an exciting new technology that promises to address many problems that exist within the current framework in radiology. We discuss three key areas where Blockchain can potentially spark a revolution and increase...Read more
2018 20 Nov
The recent implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe was another step in the ongoing effort to prevent data breaches and protect your personal and patient information from sophisticated online attackers. Personal data has become a valuable commodity sought after by hackers as many large institutions have fallen prey...Read more
2018 07 Nov
Patient-driven data business, not data-driven patient business. Data-driven business models make up the medical and healthcare market in large parts, a trend reinforced by further technological developments and regulation. Care must be taken to avoid a situation where only a few players benefit. Who lives outside the GAMFANNAT economy...Read more
2018 31 Oct
The protection of patient data is of paramount importance to health systems. One way to achieve this is to have cybersecurity dashboards, which serve as tools to stop breaches before they happen and squash threats that manage to slip past their safeguards. While the components of a successful dashboard are largely dependent on the needs of...Read more
2018 22 Sep
Questions that need to be answered taking into account benefits for the patient. Academic rivalry is not in the patient’s interest, and as long as patients are not involved in healthcare and healthcare research on an equal basis there will be no solutions for the questions that need answering. Leó Szilárd wrote in 1948 The Mark Gable...Read more
2018 23 May
Where is eHealth in Ireland heading and where could it lead us? Examining the state of eHealth, its challenges and opportunities at the European Association of Hospital Managers congress in Dublin. With digital innovations dramatically transforming every layer of the healthcare landscape, intensive discussions are required to manage...Read more
2018 10 Apr
Facebook seems to be embroiled in yet another controversy. The social media giant has confirmed a news report about its negotiation with U.S. medical institutions to access patient data for a proposed research project, which Facebook now claims has been put on hold. The report, from CNBC, said Facebook planned to use “hashing" to match individuals...Read more
2018 20 Feb
How healthcare IT can impact business models. What is the potential for information technology to transform healthcare processes and where will the consumer stand? For more than eleven years, I have been active via the European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM) as a pro-bono member of the board of ENTSCHEIDERFABRIK. This is the incubator...Read more
2017 04 Oct
Protecting sensitive health data and patient records is a challenging task for infosec teams. In a large hospital, for example, multiple users have access to patient data in the electronic health records system (EHR). How do you tell if any of these users is accessing the system with some hidden agenda, such as trying to steal information? It's important...Read more
2016 25 Aug
What, in your view, are the greatest threats facing the healthcare sector in cybersecurity? First, the wrong executives such as Chief Financial Officers are in charge of IT and cybersecurity strategy in half US healthcare organisations. One third have no cybersecurity executive on staff. In too many organisations qualified cybersecurity...Read more
2016 25 Oct
The eHealth Forum is 1 event in 2 venues spanning the city of Athens: Venue 1: The Forum at the Megaron Athens International Conference Center where stakeholders with knowledge and expertise will come together; Venue 2: The Festival at Technopolis City of Athens is the 1st health technology event open to the public with...Read more
2015 06 Sep
Eighty-one percent of healthcare executives say their information technology has been compromised by cyberattacks during the past two years, according to a recent survey by KPMG. In addition, only half of those executives say they are ready to defend against future attacks. These attacks may put sensitive patient data at risk of exposure, the KPMG report...Read more
2015 10 Aug
An article published in Annals of Emergency Medicine offers guidance on maximising the value of health information exchange (HIE) in emergency departments. The report lists five primary and seven secondary recommendations made by an emergency physician-led workgroup to improve HIE in the emergency room. "HIE helps emergency physicians — who usually...Read more
2015 15 Jul
The European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) has said that the period until 2020 is critical for the development of mobile health. In the newly issued report on its annual ‘Thought Leadership Debate’ held in Riga during eHealth Week in May, EHTEL brought together key speakers on the issue of mHealth and integrated healthcare under the theme of...Read more
2015 14 Jun
With the easy availability of health apps, it has now become possible to monitor one’s steps, heart beat and sleep patterns. However, this information has not yet reached patient electronic health records. The commentary has been published in Cell Systems . Harvard researchers argue that these mobile devices could reshape the practice of...Read more
2014 10 Nov
Updated enterprise imaging XERO Viewer's new functionalities support the “continuum of care, anytime, anywhere” • Access the patients’ extensive imaging record in a single zero download application. • New functionalities support greater collaboration and clinical depth. • New patient-centric view. • ‘Full Fidelity View' enables physiRead more
2014 05 Aug
Health technology, which lets physicians access real-time data critical in making care decisions, can do a lot towards improving quality of care. As such, technology can be expensive for hospitals. This question then arises: Is it worth the cost? Generally, for health systems, getting doctors' support to cut costs is always a big challenge. "Traditionally...Read more
2014 18 Jul
Enterprise imaging solution, ICIS, will connect departments across the Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum, with expansion to the Amsterdam Academisch Medisch Centrum in the near future. VNA features a workflow engine and updated universal viewer that indexes medical images as part of the medical record. ICIS enterprise imaging solution...Read more
2014 11 Jul
Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), one of the leading paediatric hospitals in the US, has been included in the list of 'Most Wired' hospitals in the country. Being named on the list, released annually by Health & Health Networks magazine, is recognition of a health care organisation's investment in technology that supports patient safety and...Read more
2014 04 Jul
The Dutch healthcare group Zorggroep Leveste Middenveld, the result of the merger between Scheper Hospital Emmen and Bethesda Hospital Hoogeveen, has selected Sectra as their IT and medical technology partner. The long-term contract with Sectra’s includes a regional IT solution for managing medical images and patient information. The solution will...Read more
2014 01 Jul
Approximately three million patients are currently connected to their professional caregivers via devices that remotely monitor health data. By 2018, that figure is expected to increase nearly five-fold, to 19 million patients worldwide. The expansion of mobile health technology will also double its share of total revenues, from one fifth to 40 percent...Read more
2014 24 Jun
For half of UK patients with chronic medical conditions, the ability to access and control their health data online takes precedence over privacy risks associated with electronic health records. An Accenture Patient Engagement Survey conducted between 21 February and 16 March 2014 polled 519 healthy people and 500 individuals in the UK...Read more
2014 23 Jun
The European Commission has published a patient safety package detailing progress made in recent years and existing barriers yet to be overcome. The establishment of national programs for patient safety and the implementation of systems for reporting adverse events related to hospitalisation represent two of the most improved areas. Challenges remain...Read more
2014 17 Jun
When developers meet later this month at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, they can expect to hear more about the company’s plans to challenge Apple’s recently-released HealthKit framework with its new Google Fit. The health service will collect and combine data from electronic health devices and apps, positioning the company...Read more
2014 17 Jun
The interconnection of home- and hospital-based devices will allow medical caregivers to monitor elderly patients in their homes, reducing preventable hospitalisations, which stress senior patients and the facilities, which provide care to them. The “closed-loop healthcare” system being developed by researchers at the University of Missouri was presented...Read more
2014 17 Jun
Implementing electronic medical records (EMR) in a healthcare organisation is a major innovation, which does not always run smoothly. Although barriers to, and facilitators for, implementation have been researched, their relative importance to end-users has not been clearly understood. Recently published research in Implementation Science found that...Read more
2014 16 Jun
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has come to an agreement about its policy pertaining to the publication of clinical trial data, which will allow the agency to proactively share study results that are submitted with applications for marketing authorisation. The policy will enable academic and non-commercial researchers to download, save and print...Read more
2014 03 Jun
It came as no surprise when Apple announced their entry into the health information business at their Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), a major development of such nature had been expected for some time. Simply entitled ‘Health’, the innovative app works with the cloud-based health information platform ‘HealthKit’, offering a new kind...Read more
2014 03 Jun
Google Glass is not the only technology changing the view of people who embrace new developments in wireless wearables. Devices like Fitbit and Nike’s FuelBand allow users to track health and fitness data via online databases, making it possible to see how many calories have been burned during any given workout. People with chronic diseases like diabetes...Read more