7- DATA, DATA,& MORE DATA IN HEALTHCARE by PHARMAGEEK

From HIMSS, by John Sharp:

Blogs, Journals, News, White Papers To help small practices, vendors need to think like patients

A report on a series of presentations on patient engagement at HIMSS15. The presentations included statistics on patients strong preferences to be notified by texting of appointments and other reminders and their desire to be equal partners in healthcare decision making

Telemedicine market to soar past $30B
An increasing aged population and healthcare costs are propelling the market growth.

Why what works for Uber may not work for medical apps

While many innovators and futurist like to see Silicon Valley startups with high valuations as a model for healthcare. This excellent piece points out the weakness of this argument - healthcare is based on a social contract, the risk of losing everything (not an option in healthcare),  unnecessarily galvanizing the opposition, misreading the law,  Uber’s strategy hasn’t even worked in the transportation industry yet (they now have 70 lawyers).

Patients and Families as Partners

Amer Haider of the startup Doctella shares his experience with his father’s hospitalization and the frustration of trying to obtain personal health information. Amer is an advocate of involving patients in patient safety through the use of checklist, but this hospital frustrated his attempts to get involved in a family member’s care.

My Medical Records | How To Get Them

From the Louisiana Health Quality Forum which is promoting getting one's health data - how and what to get - directly to patients. An important direct to consumer approach which should be copied by other states.

Will Personal Health Information Exchanges (PHIE) Lead the Consumer Medical Record Revolution and Bridge the Gap Between PHRs and EHRs?

This strong argument for patient access to medical records proposes an approach from a Frost and Sullivan white paper on using PHIEs rather than HIEs to get patients their data. Quotes leaders in the field including David Kibbe..

Sharing Your Fitness Tracker Data? ‘Pace’ Yourself

This article discusses the potential uses of fitness tracking devices in research. Runkeeper meets researcher.

Social Media Use in Chronic Disease: A Systematic Review and Novel Taxonomy

From the American Journal of Medicine, this literature review showed that "48% of studies indicating benefit, 45% neutral or undefined, and 7% suggesting harm. Using social media to provide social, emotional, or experiential support in chronic disease, especially with Facebook and blogs, appears most likely to improve patient care."

5 Things You Should Know About Your Electronic Medical Records

From the Cleveland Clinic blog, a good basic primer for patients on their portal.  The author, Steven Nissen, MD, warns that it may include medical jargon you may not understand but it will keep you well informed about your health numbers and your doctor's recommendations (assuming your portal has Open Notes).

The 2015 #HIT99 Results Are In..

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Via rob halkes

After decades as a technological laggard, medicine has entered its data age. Mobile technologies, sensors, genome sequencing, and advances in analytic software now make it possible to capture vast amounts of information about our individual makeup and the environment around us. The sum of this information could transform medicine, turning a field aimed at treating the average patient into one that’s customized to each person while shifting more control and responsibility from doctors to patients.

 

The question is: can big data make health care better?

 

“There is a lot of data being gathered. That’s not enough,” says Ed Martin, interim director of the Information Services Unit at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. “It’s really about coming up with applications that make data actionable.”

 

The business opportunity in making sense of that data—potentially $300 billion to $450 billion a year, according to consultants McKinsey & Company—is driving well-established companies like Apple, Qualcomm, and IBM to invest in technologies from data-capturing smartphone apps to billion-dollar analytical systems. It’s feeding the rising enthusiasm for startups as well.

 

Venture capital firms like Greylock Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, as well as the corporate venture funds of Google, Samsung, Merck, and others, have invested more than $3 billion in health-care information technology since the beginning of 2013—a rapid acceleration from previous years, according to data from Mercom Capital Group. 

  more at http://www.technologyreview.com/news/529011/can-technology-fix-medicine/ ;

Via nrip, Paris Healthcare Week