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Mandl KD et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2012
Objective
The Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies (SMART) Platforms project seeks to develop a health information technology platform with substitutable applications (apps) constructed around core services. The authors believe this is a promising approach to driving down healthcare costs, supporting standards evolution, accommodating differences in care workflow, fostering competition in the market, and accelerating innovation.
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17 March 2012 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Electronic Health Records, Platform, United States
Stevenson D. electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 6(2)
When developing a “smart healthcare” application that takes the participants beyond their experience of the conventional analogue of that application, a challenge is to gather the requirements for the application and to map those requirements onto a successful design. Some requirements will come from the conventional way of delivering the healthcare service. Some will come from the domains of the technologies that have been used to create the smart healthcare application. Some requirements, however, particularly for point-of-care applications, will emerge from the interplay of the actual clinical situation and the novelty of the smart healthcare application.
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10 August 2011 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Australia, Design, Evaluation, Requirements, Telehealth, Trial
Breton ER et al, Translational Behavioral Medicine, 2011
Little is known about how much smartphone apps for weight control adhere to evidence-informed practices. The aim of this study was to review and summarize the content of available weight control apps. Information on content, user rating, and price was extracted from iTunes on September 25, 2009. Apps (n = 204) were coded for adherence to 13 evidence-informed practices for weight control. Latent class analysis was used to identify subgroups of apps based on endorsement practices.
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13 September 2011 |
Keyword(s): Applications, mHealth, Smart Phone, Weight Loss
Kamel Boulos MN et al, Biomedical Engineering Online, 10(1)
The latest generation of smartphones are increasingly viewed as handheld computers rather than as phones, due to their powerful on-board computing capability, capacious memories, large screens and open operating systems that encourage application development. This paper provides a brief state-of-the-art overview of health and healthcare smartphone apps (applications) on the market today, including emerging trends and market uptake. Platforms available today include Android, Apple iOS, RIM BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows (Windows Mobile 6.x and the emerging Windows Phone 7 platform). The paper covers apps targeting both laypersons/patients and healthcare professionals in various scenarios, e.g., health, fitness and lifestyle education and management apps; ambient assisted living apps; continuing professional education tools; and apps for public health surveillance.
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5 April 2011 |
Keyword(s): Applications, mHealth, participatory, Smart Phone, United States
Blackburn S et al, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2011
We conducted a systematic review of the applications and technical features of digital interactive television (DITV) in the health and social care fields. The Web of Knowledge and IEEE Xplore databases were searched for articles published between January 2000 and March 2010 which related to DITV systems facilitating the communication of information to/from an individual’s home with either a health or social care application. Out of 1679 articles retrieved, 42 met the inclusion criteria and were selected for review. An additional 20 articles were obtained from online grey literature sources. Twenty-five DITV systems operating in health and social care were identified, including seven commercial systems.
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11 March 2011 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Digital interactive television, Health Care, social care, Television
Lemoyne R et al, Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2010
Parkinson’s disease represents a chronic movement disorder, which is generally proportionally to age. The status of Parkinson’s disease is traditionally classified through ordinal scale strategies, such as the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale. However, the application of the ordinal scale strategy inherently requires highly specialized and limited medical resources for interpretation. An alternative strategy involves the implementation of an iPhone application that enables the device to serve as a functional wireless accelerometer system.
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2010 |
Keyword(s): Applications, mHealth, Parkinson´s Disease, Smart Phone, United States, Wireless
King D et al, BMJ, 341
The publication of Greenhalgh and colleagues’ evaluation of the HealthSpace platform coincided with the release of an iPhone app that we recently developed at Imperial Academic Health Science Centre. The Wellnote by Dr Darzi App (available free from iTunes) lets users record their medical details and medications and search for local NHS services via a smart phone—a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability and interactivity than a basic handset.
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20 December 2010 |
Keyword(s): Applications, mHealth, Patient Empowerment, Smart Phone, UK
Zayas-Cabán T, Dixon BE. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 19(Suppl 3)
Introduction
Consumer health IT applications have the potential to improve quality, safety and efficiency of consumers’ interactions with the healthcare system. Yet little attention has been paid to human factors and ergonomics in the design of consumer health IT, potentially limiting the ability of health IT to achieve these goals. This paper presents the results of an analysis of human factors and ergonomics issues encountered by five projects during the design and implementation of home-based consumer health IT applications.
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October 2010 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Digital Homecare, Effectiveness, Health Information Technology, Safety, United States
Cushman R et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 43(5 S1)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Project HealthDesign included funding of an ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) team, to serve in an advisory capacity to the nine design projects. In that capacity, the authors had the opportunity to analyze the personal health record (PHR) and personal health application (PHA) implementations for recurring themes. PHRs and PHAs invert the long-standing paradigm of health care institutions as the authoritative data-holders and data-processors in the system. With PHRs and PHAs, the individual is the center of his or her own health data universe, a position that brings new benefits but also entails new responsibilities for patients and other parties in the health information infrastructure.
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October 2010 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Electronic Health Records, Ethics, Legal, Personal Health Records, United States
Fonda SJ et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 43(5 S1)
Behaviors carried out by the person with diabetes (e.g., healthy eating, physical activity, judicious use of medication, glucose monitoring, coping and problem-solving, regular clinic visits, etc.) are of central importance in diabetes management. To assist with these behaviors, we developed a prototype PHA for diabetes self-management that was based on User-Centered Design principles and congruent with the anticipatory vision of Project Health Design (PHD). This article presents aspects of the prototype PHA’s functionality as conceived under PHD and describes modifications to the PHA now being undertaken under new sponsorship, in response to user feedback and timing tests we have performed.
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October 2010 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Diabetes, Electronic Health Records, Internet, Personal Health Records, Self Management, Telemedicine, User Centered Design
Karkalis GI, Koutsouris DD. Proceedings of ITAB 2006
As the application of information technology in healthcare is increasing and the volume of available health related information is rapidly growing, the importance of effective health information management is more and more recognized by healthcare professionals and providers. There also seems to be an evolvement towards a patient-centered model of healthcare provision which is reflected on the increasing demand for personalized applications facilitating communication between patients and healthcare professionals and for the establishment of community based health networks.
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2006 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Blog, Community Networks, Digital Homecare, e-Health, Electronic Health Records, Health Information Management, Health Information Technology, Internet, Patient Centric, Portal, Provider, Telemedicine, Web 2.0, Wiki
Lintonen TP et al, Health Education Research, 23(3)
eHealth, the use of information technology to improve or enable health and health care, has recently been high on the health care development agenda. Given the vivid interest in eHealth, little reference has been made to the use of these technologies in the promotion of health. The aim of this present study was to conduct a review on recent uses of information technology in health promotion through looking at research articles published in peer-reviewed journals. Fifteen relevant journals with issues published between 2003 and June 2005 yielded altogether 1352 articles, 56 of which contained content related to the use of information technology in the context of health promotion.
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13 February 2007 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Communication, e-Health, Health Behavior, Health Education, Health Information Technology, Health Promotion, Internet, Medical Informatics
Gentles SJ et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(2)
Background:
Pediatric patients with health conditions requiring follow-up typically depend on a caregiver to mediate at least part of the necessary two-way communication with health care providers on their behalf. Health information technology (HIT) and its subset, information communication technology (ICT), are increasingly being applied to facilitate communication between health care provider and caregiver in these situations. Awareness of the extent and nature of published research involving HIT interventions used in this way is currently lacking.
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18 June 2010 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Communication, Health Information Technology, Internet, Medical Informatics, Pediatrics, Physician-Patient Relations, Review
Halamka JD. Annals of Internal Medicine, 144(10)
Apreventable medical error caused my grandmother’s death. Her physician’s office was a sea of paper, without automated workflow tools, decision support, or electronic documentation.
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16 May 2006 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Biomedical Technology, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Prescribing, Health Information Technology, Medical Informatics, United States
Morris ME et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(2)
Background:
Emotional awareness and self-regulation are important skills for improving mental health and reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. Cognitive behavioral therapy can teach these skills but is not widely available.
Objective:
This exploratory study examined the potential of mobile phone technologies to broaden access to cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and to provide in-the-moment support.
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30 April 2010 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Cellular Phone, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Evaluation, Mental Health, mHealth, Psychotherapy, United States
Armstrong AW et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(4)
Objective:
Store-and-forward (S&F) teledermatology has been used to increase patient access to dermatologic care. A major challenge to implementing S&F teledermatology is selecting secure and cost-saving applications for data capture and transmission. Detailed analyses and comparison of the major S&F teledermatology applications do not exist in the current peer-reviewed literature. The objectives of this study were to identify, evaluate, and compare the major S&F teledermatology applications in the United States to help referral and consultant sites select applications responsive to their needs.
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3 May 2010 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Dermatology, Implementation, Teledermatology, Telehealth, Telemedicine, United States
Demiris G et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(4)
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the field of human factors (HFs) and its role in telehealth. We discuss HF concepts and methodologies that affect the design, implementation, and evaluation of telehealth applications and provide examples from numerous application areas that highlight the significance of HF principles and methodologies.
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26 April 2010 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Design, Evaluation, Human factor, Implementation, Telehealth, Telemedicine
De Leo G et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
Autism is a complex neurobiological disorder that is part of a group of disorders known as autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Today, one in 150 individuals is diagnosed with autism. Lack of social interaction and problems with communication are the main characteristics displayed by children with ASD. The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is a communication system where children exchange visual symbols as a form of communication. The visual symbols are laminated pictures stored in a binder.
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1 February 2010 |
Keyword(s): Applications, Autism, Children, Communication, Health Informatics, Mobile Technology, United States
Niès, Julie, and Sylvia Pelayo, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 79(4)
Companies developing and commercializing Healthcare IT applications may decide to involve the users in the software development lifecycle in order to better understand the users’ needs and to optimize their products. Unfortunately direct developers-users dialogues are not sufficient to ensure a proper understanding of the users’ needs. It is also necessary to involve human factors specialists to analyze the users’ expression of their needs and to properly formalize the requirements for design purposes. The objective of this paper is to present a case study reporting the collaborative work between HF experts and a company developing and commercializing a CPOE. This study shows how this collaboration helps resolve the limits of direct users involvement and usual problems pertaining to users’ needs description and understanding.
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5 August 2009 |
Keyword(s): Applications, CPOE, Health Information Technology, User Centered Design
Gumpper, Karl F., and William A. Zellmer, Health Affairs, 28, no. 4
The seven-country comparison of computerized prescriber-order entry (CPOE) implementation in hospitals by Jos Aarts and Ross Koppel (Mar/Apr 09) offers a platform for discussing information technology (IT) applications in hospital medication use. Data collected by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists further elucidate the status of CPOE in the United States.1
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Published:
1 July 2009 |
Keyword(s): Adoption, Applications, CPOE, Hospitals, Information Technology, Pharmacy Computer Systems, United States
