Tech Savvy Seniors and Slow Earthquakes
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Tech Savvy Seniors and Slow Earthquakes

From HIMSS

Data Provenance and Patient-Generated Health Data (PGHD)
This is an important piece on one of the challenges of incorporating PGHD into the EMR and other apps. Ensuring its reliability and security is key.

New Mobile Health Trends and their effect on HIEs, Part 1
From the HIMSS Blog, this posting looks at the mobile protocols and how they could enable data exchange while keeping patient data secure.

Blogs, Journals, White Papers

The Slow Earthquake in Medicine - Undiscovered Country Blog
This post begins with Eric Topol's new book but moves on to talk about data including one's genome. "Creating an effective system to receive, hold, analyze, and share terabytes of data across millions of people will require dismantling a mountain of regulations, reversing decades of medical culture, and building entirely new computer systems."

Releasing Test Results Directly to Patients: A Multisite Survey of Physician Perspectives
This journal article found that: "Physicians we surveyed generally favor direct notification of normal results but appear to have substantial concerns about direct notification of abnormal results."

Tech-Savvy Seniors Want Online Options to Access Care from Home
This Accenture survey found an interest in: Self-care: Wearables: Online Communities: Navigating Healthcare: Health Record Management. For this last one, they found that A quarter of seniors regularly use electronic health records for managing their health, such as accessing lab results (57 percent), and projections.

Text messaging connects people to healthier habits, researchers to urban subjects
This University of Michigan txt4health study demonstrates the effectiveness of this approach. Some results: "The majority of survey respondents also reported that text messages were easy to understand (100 percent), that the program made them knowledgeable of their risk for developing type 2 diabetes (88 percent) and more aware of their dietary and physical activity habits (89 percent)."

How A Group Of Lung Cancer Survivors Got Doctors To Listen
This NPR story shows how a group of patient advocates were able to influence physician protocols for treating their disease. A great example which is being repeated in other conditions as well.

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