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ICT standardization and eHealth – a TalkStandards.com forum event
I was recently made aware of an interesting website called Talkstandards. Talkstandards has a stated goal to be “an active online community where developers, researchers, policymakers and other interested parties can share ideas and collaborate on the global standards system”. What is most interesting is that will be hosting a live, online forum event titled…
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Has ehealth become toxic?
A recent article titled “The chopping block: Which way Infoway?” makes me wonder if the term ehealth has become toxic in Canada. First, a little bit of context. The National Post has been publishing a series of articles/comments on potential things to cut in order to bring (federal) government spending under control. Canada Health Infoway…
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Health Affairs issue on “E-Health in the Developing World”
The current issue of Health Affairs (February 2010, Vol. 29, No. 2) is focused on ehealth with a tag-line of “E-Health in the Developing World”. I just stumbled onto this issue so I haven’t had a chance to read it yet. There are a number of articles grouped into some interesting categories including: Policies and…
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Chronic conditions account for growth in health care spending
A recent article published in Health Affairs titled “Chronic conditions account for rise in Medicare spending from 1987 to 2006” points to the changing nature of health care in developed countries. What is particularly scary is the disjoint between what (North American) systems are designed to deliver versus what the needs are. While some may…
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Will consumers pay for health content?
A Nielsen report titled “Changing Models: A global perspective on paying for content online” found that consumers are likely to pay for some types of content. The graph from Nielsen’s report summarizes the findings: What about health information/content? I would guess that respondents would indicate “would consider paying” very positively. Conducting a “willingness to pay”…
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Quick thought – is health care getting too big?
A post on Roger Martin’s blog at Harvard Business Review titled “The Inauthentic Communities of the Modern Executive” has me wondering if health care has gotten “too big”. In the post, Martin describes senior management has become separated from its customers due to the sheer size and growth of the corporation. No longer having that…
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Google as ISP – potential ideas for health care innovation?
Google just announced that it will be developing an experimental fibre network. According to the announcement, these are the plans: planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access…
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eHealth in the peer-reviewed literature…
Much to my surprise, two leading health care journals have articles on ehealth. The first is JAMA (vol 303, no 5, pp 391-470; February 3, 2010), which rarely publishes on the topic of ehealth. Safe electronic health record use requires comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework (link to abstract). Electronic health records in the age of…
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