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The 2012 mHealth Summit will build on last year’s success by highlighting emerging best practices from mHealth implementations as well as the latest business, finance, policy and technical…

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Please find attached Edition Three of the Shorter Stays in Emergency Departmentts National Research Project Newsletter

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Haemophilia is a rare, yet widely dispersed condition, both in New Zealand [1] as well as other countries such as America. Due to the nature of this health issue, there are several challenges for the provision of healthcare services[1]. Over the last decade, there has been an increased development in health information technologies, one in particular is a simple, yet comprehensive internet based monitoring and communication…

My essay focuses on how CDSS can be highly useful in cancer care management by applying genetic algorithm – the ability to perform inference on known information based on prior experience or knowledge to make the right decision. This ability to infer likely diagnoses, expected treatment response, etc., (to be highly useful in cancer management especially in diagnostic interpretation, treatment planning and therapy recommendations) is what differentiates Algorithmic CDSS from the broader…

Clothes based sensors to monitor physiological parameters during daily activities.

I am interested in the various concepts involved in BioSensors. Flexible clothes chip could be used to monitor patients like Monitoring of diabetic patients, Monitoring elderly candidates etc.

BIOTEX EU-funded project that aimed to develop textile sensors to measure physiological parameters and the chemical composition of body fluids, with a particular interest in sweat.

Check this video…

Mobile Apps are great! The variety and the ideas. Everyone interested in technology either ask how these apps are created or thought about making their own apps or maybe someday make one.

If you open you're app store and type "health" you get a variety of things from drug monitors, quitting smoking, exercise apps (boxing, pilates, yoga, jogging etc), diet, pregnancy, fertility and the list just goes on.

What app did you like that is related to health and what did you like about…

Multidisciplinary meetings are held for most tumour streams in hospitals on a regular basis.  They are meetings that clinicians from the relevant disciplines attend: oncologists, surgeons, radiologists, etc.  Clinicians present their new cancer patients, and the meeting decides together what treatment is most appropriate for this patient.   After the meeting, the decision is discussed with the patient and referrals to the appropriate services (for chemotherapy, radiotherapy, etc) are…

I am in the process of evaluating the usability and feasibility of the INR ONLINE decision support system for anticoagulation management in primary care.

INR Online is an internet-based decision support system that assist general practitioners and pharmacists to make warfarin dose adjustment in community settings. It also provides an option for patients who prefers self-testing, such as patients living in a rural area who had to travel distance to get to a laboratory, or…

I am doing my assignment on telemonitoring of patients with chronic disease.

I thought it would be an important start to make sense of the jargon. I understand telehealth to be health care being delivered or monitored remotely and requires the patient and provider. By this definition, telehealth could simply be a patient consulting with their GP over the phone, an idea that seems convenient for rural and remote settings where getting to a doctor may prove…

Doing some research on new health information technologies, I came across a device called CarePal, CarePal is a remote vital signs measurement and monitoring system, it has not been launched yet in New Zealand market but is currently under trial by DHB's. 

Here is a link which shows CarePals features

http://www.unitedtelehealth.com/UTH-care-pal-features.aspx

For…

mHealth (mobile Health) has become a forth coming approach for health using mobile technologies such as cellular phones and computers. Factors such as the rapid advance in mobile technology and the increased coverage of countries around the global by mobile networks have become the driving force to its utilization. The concept of mHealth explains that the use of mobile and wireless technologies can be used to support the achievement of health objectives worldwide.

Health objectives…

Maternity Care for women in NZ is largely community based for pregnancy and postnatal care, with a short period of time in Secondary/Tertiary settings around the time of labour and birth.

The Maternity Record has traditionally been paper based, but with advances in IT, more midwives are using an Electronic Practice Management System which include electronic records. 

These records however are the midwives own records, and are different from the DHB Clinical Records used during…

In the chaotic universe of health informatics standards it is quite unusual for different standards developing organisations to talk to each other - which usually results in overlapping and non-compatible specifications. Following the recent trends in adoption of both openEHR for clinical modelling and using CDA and HL7 messaging by major national programmes we had chosen to employ this approach during writing of the Reference Architecture for Interoperability. Following on that I'm happy to…

I have done the valueexchange for the treatment or not.  Is this the dashboard that you refer to?

In connection to Chris Paton's post on NZ Shared Care pilot video, the National Shared Care Plan Programme (NSCP) was formed to initiate pilot projects which trial approaches to shared care to support long-term condition management. The healthAlliance, working with regional DHB and primary/community providers in the Northern Region is engaged by the National Health IT Board to manage the programme. The healthAlliance has contracted HSAG to implement its Collaborative Care Management System…

Following on from the successful NZ Telehealth symposium held on 22nd February, if you were unable to attend, or are interested in reviewing the speakers presentations, please click on the link below.

Presentations here

Sudan (IPHE) project, which is advancing the lives of girls & women worldwide, has been nominated for the Women Deliver 50! Help us win by voting today for No. 10 ONLY in the Educational Initiatives category! http://www.facebook.com/womendeliver?v=app_126231547426086

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for Stage 2 meaningful use was posted to the Office of the Federal Register today. The proposed rule outlines the next stage of meaningful use for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, which are administered by CMS:

http://www.ofr.gov/inspection.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

It didn't come without some…