Storing medical images in the cloud makes distribution faster for patients who want to share images with their physicians, regardless of where the physician is located, according to a preliminary report on the Radiological Society of North America's Image Share project presented April 30 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting in Vancouver.
As adoption rates rise, health IT makes protected health information (PHI) available to more organizations and entities, increasing the likelihood of data being improperly disclosed, lost or stolen. Despite the risks and costs of a potential data breach, many healthcare executives aren’t doing enough to support their organizations’ security efforts, but researchers from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) believe they’d do more if the far-reaching consequences of a breach were more clearly outlined.
LAS VEGAS—Image-enabled personal health records (PHRs), the cornerstone of an IHE-based image sharing network, have leveraged the cross-enterprise document sharing (XDS) profile to engage consumers, David S. Mendelson, MD, chief of clinical informatics at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, said during a Feb. 22 session at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. The PHR model mimics (and could augment) the CD-based image exchange model.
This session will present an IHE-based image sharing network that has adapted the XDS profile to engage consumers in image-enabled PHRs.
GE Healthcare has launched a new web-based patient portal, the Centricity Patient Online 13, which healthcare consumers can use to schedule appointments, pay bills, manage health information, send secure messages and receive reminders from providers.
My Medical Images, a newly-released DICOM viewer application (app) from Peridot Technologies, allows users to browse, load and share medical images from their Microsoft HealthVault accounts with friends, family or physicians.
Although 44.4 million adults make it a point to receive periodic health examinations each year, many of them may not be receiving the recommended screening tests and counseling services that could benefit their health, according to a study published January in the
American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Internet use among adults has skyrocketed over the past several years and the time may seem ripe for developing web-based tools to help patients manage their health, but research published online Jan. 4 by the
Journal of Health Communication suggested that such tools will receive underwhelming attention from patients.
Patients are demanding access to their health information now more than ever, but the healthcare industry has failed to produce products with a function that live up to consumers’ expectations–until now, according to the presenters of a Jan. 17 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) webinar. They believe that the Blue Button, an online tool that allows patients to easily access and download their health information, is different.
Although a proposed policy that would provide patients with the right to request and receive their test results directly from laboratories could empower them and reduce physicians’ workloads, it’s unclear what the specific effects of such a policy would be, according to Hardeep Singh, MD, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, in a recently published Journal of the American Medical Association commentary.
Patients demand their medical records to be guaranteed against data theft and snooping, according to a survey from healthcare privacy auditing supplier Fair Warning.
Future policy activities, such as requirement specifications for the latter stages of meaningful use, should be leveraged as an opportunity to encourage standardization of functionality and broad deployment of personal health records (PHRs), according to an article published online Sept. 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
RSNA Image Share, the RSNA network designed to provide patients with easy access and control of their medical images and reports, has entered into clinical practice. The network will facilitate access to imaging exams for patients and physicians with a goal of enabling better informed medical decisions through improved information sharing.
Google is dicontinuing its Google Health personal health record (PHR) service effective Jan. 1, 2012. Data will remain available for download through Jan. 1, 2013, said Aaron Brown, senior product manager of Google Health, in a blog posted June 24.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Just as PACS liberated studies from their confinement to hard film, so CDs and cloud computing are enabling image sharing across institutions, communities and beyond. But as the cloud buzz grows louder, a group of presenters at the 2011 meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) argued on Thursday that the technology may be green—and ultimately inferior to Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted an
en banc re-hearing to
McKesson Technologies v. Epic Systems to further address whether joint parties can act in concert to infringe upon multi-step patented methods. The case involves McKesson's Electronic Provider-Patient Interface technology and Epic’s MyChart software, both of which allow for electronic communication between patients and providers.
Healthcare organizations of all sizes are enlisting clinical decision support (CDS) systems to assist providers with decision making. However, to ensure proper utilization and improve the practice of evidence-based medicine, workflow integration at the point of care needs to improve.
Health Language International (HLI) is teaming with Dossia, a nonprofit health management system provider, to improve the user experience and utility of the Dossia personal health record for employees, retirees and their dependents.
