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PATIENT ENGAGEMENT
CLINICAL INFORMATICS AND HIT
COMPLEXITY AND WEB
HEALTHCARE AND E-HEALTH POLICY
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PATIENT ENGAGEMENT
Information Therapy Blog by Josh Seidman
Center for Information Therapy
We (and many others) think the Center for Information Therapy and their President, Dr. Seidman, is one of the most important thought and advocacy leaders in the field of engagement through prescribed healthcare information.
Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
Founded by one of the luminaries behind practice variation and shared decision making, John Wennberg, this non-profit group pioneered the field of "informed medical decision making" (we like their definition... Informed Medical Decisions = Medical Evidence + Patient Perspective) – why its important, implications and applications, and tools for implementing it (like their Shared Decision-Making® programs).
Institute for Healthcare Communication
Founded in 1987 and formerly named "The Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication," this organization has been researching effective clinician-patient communication techniques and hosting CME approved workshops for decades. We think their "4Es model," representing the core communication skills of engage, empathize, educate and enlist, is an excellent tool for framing patient engagement.
Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine
This University of Michigan group is intriguing to us because of both the topics they study and the multidisciplinary, scientific approach they employ. They draw from and conduct behavioral science research to understand how cognitive and emotional factors influence the way people make healthcare decisions.
CLINICAL INFORMATICS AND HIT
Clinical Informatics Wiki
An excellent "primer" on the fundamentals of e-health applications for core clinical processes, including EMRs, CPOE, Clinical Decision Support (CDS), Personal Health Records (PHRs).
American Medical Informatics Association
AMIA is the leading professional, scientific organization and journal (JAMIA) in the field of medical informatics. This burgeoning, young field of medical informatics is one of the hearts of cognitive digital technologies. As AMIA describes, medical informatics "has to do with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care."
University of Chicago's Cognitive Technologies Laboratory
This research lab has the most sophisticated, deep and advanced understanding of the design of healthcare information technology systems as related to human factors, patient safety and cognitive function research we've ever encountered. There's a wealth of fascinating work here – for example, explanations for EMRs' relatively slow adoption rate and common "implementation failures," lessons to be learned from the aviation industry regarding human factors and design of automation systems.
UMDNJ Informatics Institute
This department is conducting research in clinical informatics and decision sciences. We think the area of decision sciences is interesting and of growing importance, given its role in health economic assessments. Too, the cross-disciplinary scientific approach, including psychology, economics, statistics, mathematical modeling and computer science, appeals to our IC Sciences' views.
The Informatics Review
A good resource for news, articles and links related to medical informatics created by one of the "thought leaders" in the field, Dean Sittig.
HIMSS' Health Care IT Activity Dashboard
This site is intriguing on a couple of levels – first, at a "meta level," it's a great example of how to engage a viewer with graphics and interactivity; second, it summarizes important information regarding state-by-state activity in HIT, including AHRQ HIT Grants, DOQ-IT, MHS, RHIOs, Health Information Exchanges, Bridges to Excellence and Private HIT Projects.
COMPLEXITY AND WEB
Complexity Digest
"Successfully networking the complexity community" since 1999, this site is run by Dean LeBaron with backing from the prestigious, hub of complexity sciences, the Santa Fe Institute. A number of wide-ranging discussion forums, content and collaborative activities spanning the application of complexity science.
Plexus Institute - applying complexity science to healthcare
The Institute's site is, simply put, a "must-peruse" for anyone even vaguely curious about complexity science and how it might relate to healthcare.
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
"How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?"- The Center brings together MIT Faculty to research how communication technologies can be brought to bear in answering this question.
Semantic Web for Healthcare and Life Sciences Group
We're staying close to progress toward the so-called "Semantic Web" or Web 3.0. What's a Semantic Web – it builds upon the current Web with a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Application areas important to healthcare and our informed clinical care strategy include data integration, whereby data in various locations and various formats can be integrated in one, seamless application; and intelligent software agents that facilitate knowledge sharing and exchange.
HEALTHCARE AND E-HEALTH POLICY
National Quality Forum
A not-for-profit collaboration between private and public entities founded in 1998, the NQF was "created to develop and implement a national strategy for healthcare quality measurement and reporting." They are currently in the eye of the pay-for-performance movement as the endorser of quality measurement standards.
Health Affairs’ Blog
Created by the leading healthcare policy journal, this Blog is an outstanding vehicle for staying abreast of the most contentious issues and provocative ideas being considered in the realm of healthcare spending, quality, access, insurance and reimbursement reform.
California Healthcare Foundation
This independent philanthropy commissions research and publishes reports regarding healthcare quality, consumer healthcare and performance transparency, as well as a variety of other topics. Their reports are quite well done and freely available on the site.
Markle Foundation
The Foundation is playing a critical role in accelerating initiatives related to information and communication technology solutions that improve healthcare, particularly by benefiting the patient. One of their innovative projects in this regard is "Connecting for Health," which is tackling the tough issues of interoperability and sharing electronic health data.
Center for Studying Health System Change
The Center is a nonpartisan policy research organization staffed by nationally recognized health economics scholars "committed to chronicling trends in the health care system and drawing implications that are devoid of bias." Their research employs rigorous surveys of consumers, physicians and employers, and serves to inform public debate amongst policymakers and private industry.
MGH Institute for Health Policy
Founded in 1998 by the Partners Healthcare System and the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Institute conducts research on a variety of policy and health system design topics, as well as providing decision support and analytic services to Partners healthcare stakeholders. We think this organization is well worth following, and their Director, David Blumenthal, a policy scholar and strategist of the highest rank.
E-health Initiative
As a member of this independent, non-profit organization, we clearly believe in their mission ("to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology") and approach (engaging multiple and very diverse stakeholders — from hospitals to consumers to employers to healthcare information technology organizations — to execute initiatives that leverage information technology for improving healthcare quality, safety and efficiency).
Related News
Decoding Your Health
NYT series on patients’ researching health info.
Never Events and Liability
Study shows never events frequently tied to liability claims.
E-Referrals
Web-based referral programs improve the process.
Patient-Physician Relations
38% consumers trust online info over doctors opinion.
Patient Supported Research
New trend of patients driving search for new drugs.
Participatory Medicine
New model of patient centeredness meets e-patients and accountability.
New PHR Framework
Momentum for Markle’s Connecting for Health PHR standards.
Patient Communications
HHS hospital data show improvement needed.
Seniors and HIT
Over 65 yos willing to use HIT with doctor, at home.
Medicare
Final rule on Medicare e-prescribing standards.
Cardiologist Variability
Study calculating inter-cardiologist PCI performance.
PHRs
New approaches to PHRs are arriving.
Post MI Adherence
Patient communication shows 17% increase in beta-blocker use.
Online Consults
CIGNA goes national with reimbursement for online consults.
Computing Clouds
Business Week story on what's beyond the web - computing clouds.
Clinical Informatics
Automated acquisition of disease-drug knowledge.
The Year in Biotech
MIT TR on stem cells, personal genome.
Secondary Data
AMGA's Anceta national, clinical data warehouse collaborative.
Cardiovascular Network
Health plans form CVRN and receive $7.5M funding.
Health Literacy
Medscape article on health literacy in clinical practice.
EHRs
Recent Harris/WSJ poll - public says benefits outweigh risks of EHRs.
Virtual Visits
Growing popularity of web-based clinical visits.
New Delivery Model
NCQA and societies' plan for differential payment for patient-centered care practices.
CMS and Hospital Pay
Value-based purchasing proposal by CMS to Congress may have significant reimbursement impact on DRGs.
Medicare and Complications
New Medicare rule - no reimbursement for preventable complications (NEJM).
IC Sciences Touches Vascular Patients
The NorthPoint Domain unit of IC Sciences partners with the Society of Vascular Surgery to provide on-line educational information for patients and families.
Healthcare Virtual Reality
Market research shows healthcare VR at double-digital growth rates.
Patient Centered Medical Home
Health plan and physician initiative testing new reimbursement structure.
Microsoft PHR
Microsoft launches personal portal “Health Vault.”
EMR Pushback
Article covering physicians' skepticism regarding benefits of EMRs.
Science of Spread
Paper describing how innovations in care become the norm. (California HealthCare Foundation, September 2007)
Real-World Data for Reimbursement
ISPOR Task Force report - coverage and reimbursement decisions based on real-world findings.
Physician Finances
News story on primary care physicians' charging administrative fees to patients.
Medicare Inpatient Final Rule
HFMA's summary on DRG revisions for FY08.
Personalized Diagnostics
Celera acquires Berkeley HeartLab, provider of personalized cardiovascular services.
HHS on Personalized Medicine
HHS plan for creating more customized treatments through use of genetics and health IT. Link to News Brief
Link to HHS report
E-Health Community
Mass High Tech story on IC Sciences and other Boston e-health companies.
Internet Interventions
Endovascular Today article on digital patient engagement instruments for advancing care in evolving medical marketplace.
EHRs and Quality
Study finds that EHRs were not associated with better quality ambulatory care. (Arch Int Med, July 9, 2007)
Next Generation PHRs
Google Health and next generation PHRs.
Pay for Performance
Hospitals acute MI P4P program showed no significant quality or outcome improvement (JAMA).
Innovation in Care Delivery
AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange: A new program for sharing innovations in care delivery.
HIT Legislation
New House bill to create Health IT trusts.
Internet Interventions
Today in Cardiology story on value of internet interventions.
Medical Malpractice
Washington State legislation declares shared decision making a stronger legal defense standard.
Medicare Initiatives
Medicare Profiling Clinicians on Resource Efficiency.
Healthcare Policy Leaders
Video session of HBS Professor Michael Porter's keynote at 4th Annual World Health Care Congress.
Retail Medicine
Health Affairs Blog debate on convenience clinics for consumers, dubbed "McClinics".
Telemedicine
FCG paper on emerging opportunities for ambulatory providers to offer telemedicine consults.
Informatics Innovation
Paper on dynamic, adaptive, personalized care plans.
Collective Intelligence
Article about NIH's new Cardiovascular Research Grid.
Semantic Web
Overview article on upcoming advances adding intelligence to the Web.
On E-health 1.0
HIT implementation failures case studies (Silverstein).
On Quality Sciences
Paper on clinical quality, complex systems and machine learning.
On Complexity Sciences
BMJ paper illustrates application of complexity science principles in clinical settings.
Healthcare Policy
AHRQ's Clancy Keynote Address on HHS and Executive initiatives.
Value-Driven Healthcare
Leavitt says majority of U.S. market now supporting value-driven initiative.
Health Literacy
Recent Joint Commission report on low health literacy and potential solutions.
Informed Clinician
Geisinger's Clinical Decision Intelligence System - informatics-driven personalized care.
PATIENT ENGAGEMENT
CLINICAL INFORMATICS AND HIT
COMPLEXITY AND WEB
HEALTHCARE AND E-HEALTH POLICY
Related News
RELATED NEWS ARTICLES
Recommended Links
PATIENT ENGAGEMENT
Information Therapy Blog by Josh Seidman
Center for Information Therapy
We (and many others) think the Center for Information Therapy and their President, Dr. Seidman, is one of the most important thought and advocacy leaders in the field of engagement through prescribed healthcare information.
Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
Founded by one of the luminaries behind practice variation and shared decision making, John Wennberg, this non-profit group pioneered the field of "informed medical decision making" (we like their definition... Informed Medical Decisions = Medical Evidence + Patient Perspective) – why its important, implications and applications, and tools for implementing it (like their Shared Decision-Making® programs).
Institute for Healthcare Communication
Founded in 1987 and formerly named "The Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication," this organization has been researching effective clinician-patient communication techniques and hosting CME approved workshops for decades. We think their "4Es model," representing the core communication skills of engage, empathize, educate and enlist, is an excellent tool for framing patient engagement.
Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine
This University of Michigan group is intriguing to us because of both the topics they study and the multidisciplinary, scientific approach they employ. They draw from and conduct behavioral science research to understand how cognitive and emotional factors influence the way people make healthcare decisions.
CLINICAL INFORMATICS AND HIT
Clinical Informatics Wiki
An excellent "primer" on the fundamentals of e-health applications for core clinical processes, including EMRs, CPOE, Clinical Decision Support (CDS), Personal Health Records (PHRs).
American Medical Informatics Association
AMIA is the leading professional, scientific organization and journal (JAMIA) in the field of medical informatics. This burgeoning, young field of medical informatics is one of the hearts of cognitive digital technologies. As AMIA describes, medical informatics "has to do with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care."
University of Chicago's Cognitive Technologies Laboratory
This research lab has the most sophisticated, deep and advanced understanding of the design of healthcare information technology systems as related to human factors, patient safety and cognitive function research we've ever encountered. There's a wealth of fascinating work here – for example, explanations for EMRs' relatively slow adoption rate and common "implementation failures," lessons to be learned from the aviation industry regarding human factors and design of automation systems.
UMDNJ Informatics Institute
This department is conducting research in clinical informatics and decision sciences. We think the area of decision sciences is interesting and of growing importance, given its role in health economic assessments. Too, the cross-disciplinary scientific approach, including psychology, economics, statistics, mathematical modeling and computer science, appeals to our IC Sciences' views.
The Informatics Review
A good resource for news, articles and links related to medical informatics created by one of the "thought leaders" in the field, Dean Sittig.
HIMSS' Health Care IT Activity Dashboard
This site is intriguing on a couple of levels – first, at a "meta level," it's a great example of how to engage a viewer with graphics and interactivity; second, it summarizes important information regarding state-by-state activity in HIT, including AHRQ HIT Grants, DOQ-IT, MHS, RHIOs, Health Information Exchanges, Bridges to Excellence and Private HIT Projects.
COMPLEXITY AND WEB
Complexity Digest
"Successfully networking the complexity community" since 1999, this site is run by Dean LeBaron with backing from the prestigious, hub of complexity sciences, the Santa Fe Institute. A number of wide-ranging discussion forums, content and collaborative activities spanning the application of complexity science.
Plexus Institute - applying complexity science to healthcare
The Institute's site is, simply put, a "must-peruse" for anyone even vaguely curious about complexity science and how it might relate to healthcare.
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
"How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?"- The Center brings together MIT Faculty to research how communication technologies can be brought to bear in answering this question.
Semantic Web for Healthcare and Life Sciences Group
We're staying close to progress toward the so-called "Semantic Web" or Web 3.0. What's a Semantic Web – it builds upon the current Web with a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Application areas important to healthcare and our informed clinical care strategy include data integration, whereby data in various locations and various formats can be integrated in one, seamless application; and intelligent software agents that facilitate knowledge sharing and exchange.
HEALTHCARE AND E-HEALTH POLICY
National Quality Forum
A not-for-profit collaboration between private and public entities founded in 1998, the NQF was "created to develop and implement a national strategy for healthcare quality measurement and reporting." They are currently in the eye of the pay-for-performance movement as the endorser of quality measurement standards.
Health Affairs’ Blog
Created by the leading healthcare policy journal, this Blog is an outstanding vehicle for staying abreast of the most contentious issues and provocative ideas being considered in the realm of healthcare spending, quality, access, insurance and reimbursement reform.
California Healthcare Foundation
This independent philanthropy commissions research and publishes reports regarding healthcare quality, consumer healthcare and performance transparency, as well as a variety of other topics. Their reports are quite well done and freely available on the site.
Markle Foundation
The Foundation is playing a critical role in accelerating initiatives related to information and communication technology solutions that improve healthcare, particularly by benefiting the patient. One of their innovative projects in this regard is "Connecting for Health," which is tackling the tough issues of interoperability and sharing electronic health data.
Center for Studying Health System Change
The Center is a nonpartisan policy research organization staffed by nationally recognized health economics scholars "committed to chronicling trends in the health care system and drawing implications that are devoid of bias." Their research employs rigorous surveys of consumers, physicians and employers, and serves to inform public debate amongst policymakers and private industry.
MGH Institute for Health Policy
Founded in 1998 by the Partners Healthcare System and the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Institute conducts research on a variety of policy and health system design topics, as well as providing decision support and analytic services to Partners healthcare stakeholders. We think this organization is well worth following, and their Director, David Blumenthal, a policy scholar and strategist of the highest rank.
E-health Initiative
As a member of this independent, non-profit organization, we clearly believe in their mission ("to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology") and approach (engaging multiple and very diverse stakeholders — from hospitals to consumers to employers to healthcare information technology organizations — to execute initiatives that leverage information technology for improving healthcare quality, safety and efficiency).
Related News
Decoding Your Health
NYT series on patients’ researching health info.
Never Events and Liability
Study shows never events frequently tied to liability claims.
E-Referrals
Web-based referral programs improve the process.
Patient-Physician Relations
38% consumers trust online info over doctors opinion.
Patient Supported Research
New trend of patients driving search for new drugs.
Participatory Medicine
New model of patient centeredness meets e-patients and accountability.
New PHR Framework
Momentum for Markle’s Connecting for Health PHR standards.
Patient Communications
HHS hospital data show improvement needed.
Seniors and HIT
Over 65 yos willing to use HIT with doctor, at home.
Medicare
Final rule on Medicare e-prescribing standards.
Cardiologist Variability
Study calculating inter-cardiologist PCI performance.
PHRs
New approaches to PHRs are arriving.
Post MI Adherence
Patient communication shows 17% increase in beta-blocker use.
Online Consults
CIGNA goes national with reimbursement for online consults.
Computing Clouds
Business Week story on what's beyond the web - computing clouds.
Clinical Informatics
Automated acquisition of disease-drug knowledge.
The Year in Biotech
MIT TR on stem cells, personal genome.
Secondary Data
AMGA's Anceta national, clinical data warehouse collaborative.
Cardiovascular Network
Health plans form CVRN and receive $7.5M funding.
Health Literacy
Medscape article on health literacy in clinical practice.
EHRs
Recent Harris/WSJ poll - public says benefits outweigh risks of EHRs.
Virtual Visits
Growing popularity of web-based clinical visits.
New Delivery Model
NCQA and societies' plan for differential payment for patient-centered care practices.
CMS and Hospital Pay
Value-based purchasing proposal by CMS to Congress may have significant reimbursement impact on DRGs.
Medicare and Complications
New Medicare rule - no reimbursement for preventable complications (NEJM).
IC Sciences Touches Vascular Patients
The NorthPoint Domain unit of IC Sciences partners with the Society of Vascular Surgery to provide on-line educational information for patients and families.
Healthcare Virtual Reality
Market research shows healthcare VR at double-digital growth rates.
Patient Centered Medical Home
Health plan and physician initiative testing new reimbursement structure.
Microsoft PHR
Microsoft launches personal portal “Health Vault.”
EMR Pushback
Article covering physicians' skepticism regarding benefits of EMRs.
Science of Spread
Paper describing how innovations in care become the norm. (California HealthCare Foundation, September 2007)
Real-World Data for Reimbursement
ISPOR Task Force report - coverage and reimbursement decisions based on real-world findings.
Physician Finances
News story on primary care physicians' charging administrative fees to patients.
Medicare Inpatient Final Rule
HFMA's summary on DRG revisions for FY08.
Personalized Diagnostics
Celera acquires Berkeley HeartLab, provider of personalized cardiovascular services.
HHS on Personalized Medicine
HHS plan for creating more customized treatments through use of genetics and health IT. Link to News Brief
Link to HHS report
E-Health Community
Mass High Tech story on IC Sciences and other Boston e-health companies.
Internet Interventions
Endovascular Today article on digital patient engagement instruments for advancing care in evolving medical marketplace.
EHRs and Quality
Study finds that EHRs were not associated with better quality ambulatory care. (Arch Int Med, July 9, 2007)
Next Generation PHRs
Google Health and next generation PHRs.
Pay for Performance
Hospitals acute MI P4P program showed no significant quality or outcome improvement (JAMA).
Innovation in Care Delivery
AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange: A new program for sharing innovations in care delivery.
HIT Legislation
New House bill to create Health IT trusts.
Internet Interventions
Today in Cardiology story on value of internet interventions.
Medical Malpractice
Washington State legislation declares shared decision making a stronger legal defense standard.
Medicare Initiatives
Medicare Profiling Clinicians on Resource Efficiency.
Healthcare Policy Leaders
Video session of HBS Professor Michael Porter's keynote at 4th Annual World Health Care Congress.
Retail Medicine
Health Affairs Blog debate on convenience clinics for consumers, dubbed "McClinics".
Telemedicine
FCG paper on emerging opportunities for ambulatory providers to offer telemedicine consults.
Informatics Innovation
Paper on dynamic, adaptive, personalized care plans.
Collective Intelligence
Article about NIH's new Cardiovascular Research Grid.
Semantic Web
Overview article on upcoming advances adding intelligence to the Web.
On E-health 1.0
HIT implementation failures case studies (Silverstein).
On Quality Sciences
Paper on clinical quality, complex systems and machine learning.
On Complexity Sciences
BMJ paper illustrates application of complexity science principles in clinical settings.
Healthcare Policy
AHRQ's Clancy Keynote Address on HHS and Executive initiatives.
Value-Driven Healthcare
Leavitt says majority of U.S. market now supporting value-driven initiative.
Health Literacy
Recent Joint Commission report on low health literacy and potential solutions.
Informed Clinician
Geisinger's Clinical Decision Intelligence System - informatics-driven personalized care.
