Conclusion: Patients and health care providers identified information requirements at the bedside to promote self-care management of healthcare needs and an understanding of the hospital environment. Accurate, easily accessed information at the bedside is needed for providing safe patient-centered care. … Continued
Conclusions: Using context-sensitive mandatory fields in an anesthesia information management system was associated with high record completeness rate and data concordance. In addition, the system’s usability was rated as very good by its users. (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Highlights: ? Described environmental constraints on nurse managers’ ability to improve safety and quality outcomes through a Cognitive Work Analysis methodology. ? Highlighted nurse managers’ need for decision support tools that can help them plan innovations to improve outcomes in … Continued
Conclusions: Physicians predominantly utilized a single method of visit note documentation and were satisfied with their approach, but the approaches they chose varied. Demographic characteristics were associated with preferred documentation method. Further research should focus on why variation exists, and … Continued
Conclusion: Findings reinforced the significant roles of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, compatibility, and subjective norm in predicting the adoption intention of Infohealth among ageing women. More extensive statistical analysis is needed to discover more interesting findings while … Continued
Conclusions: The advantage of using an Internet service in opposition to a server-based infrastructure is that it does not require IT resources to set up the telemedicine centre. A doctor can configure and operate the centre with the same simplicity … Continued
MIE’S WebChart Receives CCHIT Certification – July 20, 2006 The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT(SM)) today announced that Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. is CCHIT Certified(SM) for its product, WebChart version 4.23, and meets CCHIT ambulatory electronic health record … Continued
Danish Cancer Patients to Receive State-of-the-Art Radiotherapy Treatments with New Varian Equipment at Three Hospitals – May 16, 2007 Cancer patients in Denmark will benefit from state-of-the-art radiotherapy treatments with the installation of new suites of treatment machines, software and … Continued
CompuMed, Inc., Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2007 Financial Results – May 15, 2007 CompuMed, Inc., a medical informatics company leading the development of advanced imaging technology for cost effective analysis and monitoring, today announced financial results for the second quarter … Continued
Pioneer in Disease Management Selects Medical Care Corporation’s Memory Assessment Technology – May 3, 2007 Medical Care Corporation’s memory assessment technology has been selected by Secured Independence, Inc., a leading provider of wellness and disease management solutions for the senior … Continued