Unified Group Services Selects Benefit Informatics for Online Benefit Management Solutions – October 9, 2006 Benefit Informatics Inc. announced a multi-year agreement to provide online benefit plan management technology to Unified Group Services, an Anderson, Indiana-based Third Party Administrator (TPA)..
Authors: Renard JM, Bourde A, Cuggia M, Garcelon N, Souf N, Darmoni S, Beuscart R, Brunetaud JM The ” Université Médicale Virtuelle Francophone” (UMVF) is a federation of French medical schools. Its main goal is to share the production and … Continued
Conclusions: When hospital clinical staff seek medication advice from other members of a ward it tends to be sought from those in their profession. However key individuals in the ward are relied upon for the provision of medication advice by … Continued
Highlights: ? Online informational needs of patients i.c. navigation and content should be met in a personalized way to avoid attrition and to encourage adherence. ? eHealth literacy scale (eHEALS) does not seem to cover all aspects of digital skills. … Continued
DISCUSSION: This work contributes valuable evidence about an often-neglected dimension in the evaluation of computer systems in hospitals, namely the pre-implementation concerns of staff. These pre-conceptions can have a significant effect on how technology is implemented and utilised. Acknowledging and … Continued
Conclusion: By using the five step openEHR data modelling approach, semantic interoperability, and a reduced need for repeated documentation of the same data can be realised. This is of major importance within the hospital as well as for trans-institutional data … Continued
In this report, we describe the implementation of CCOW for our three main clinical applications and compare this with the simultaneous development and implementation of a portal session manager for the same purpose. We found the portal session manager much … Continued
Conclusions: Electronic Health Record data may be effectively extracted from Entity-Attribute-Value based Electronic Health Record systems using the suggested approach. As a prerequisite for applying our approach, the internal data model of the Electronic Health Record system and the archetype … Continued
CONCLUSION: Handheld data collection is an appropriate, affordable and convenient technology for health data collection, in diverse settings. PMID: 19157967 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Abstract: Purpose: The present study evaluated whether an intervention using a short message service (SMS) by cellular phone and Internet would improve blood pressure, weight control, and serum lipids of obese patients with hypertension during 8 weeks.Methods: This is a … Continued