peteryellowlees

I am currently teaching an online course for the certificate program in health informatics at UC Davis. The course is called "The internet and the future of patient care". One of the assignments that all students have to do is set up a blog and during the course make a number of posts. Here are the first group of blogs set up by my students, in no particular order. They have started commenting on topics and clearly have a very wide range of interests. Enjoy.! Mark Eliason http://meli... Read Full Story

Online healthcare is becoming more accepted by both patients and doctors, and is, I believe, at a tipping point in 2010. By 2015 online communication between patients and doctors and the routine use of multimedia information will be the norm. Patients will still be seen in person but our improved capacity to communicate electronically is, as Clayton Christensen has put it, a "disruptive innovation" that will revolutionize healthcare delivery. Providers will be routinely using these new... Read Full Story

Dear Students - here is a list of url's taken from Gregs document (thanks indeed Greg) that you can use to quickly access all the class blogs that have currently been set up: 1. Arlette - http://healthinformaticsarogers.blogspot.com/ 2. Art - http://nursemanalac.blogspot.com/ 3. Bill - http://daldocw.blogspot.com/ 4. Deborah - http://nursingscienceandtechnology.blogspot.com/ 5. Eric - http://drericwang.blogspot.com/ 6. Joseph - http://josephobaiza.blogspot.com/ 7. Kathy M - http://mac94588... Read Full Story

There is a lot of confusion about what exactly is health informatics - let me try and explain in a simplistic manner. At the most basic level it is the discipline that creates a bridge between the clinical domains of knowledge and the domain of information technology. It is sometimes hard to give a simple definition, but the American Medical Informatics Association has described it as follows: " An emerging interdisciplinary and diverse field that: combines health sciences (such as medicine... Read Full Story

Now that health reform is with us I thought it was worthwhile trying to summarize what I understand to be the truth about what it will mean. There are a number of pros and cons, and some areas that seem to be of equivocal benefit, depending on our personal views, so here is a brief summary........... The positive aspects: 95% of legal US citizens will have health insurance, compared to 83% now - an increase of 32 million people Insurers cannot stop paying for people who are sick, even if they... Read Full Story

I am currently reading the book "Macrowikinomics" by Don Tapscott and include a quote from it below for interest and to stimulate some discussion about the relevance of these ideas in healthcare............. "In our previous book, Wikinomics (Portfolio 2006), we called this new force "mass collaboration" and argued that it was reaching a tipping point where social networking was becoming a new mode of social production that would forever change the way products and services are designed... Read Full Story

The following press release was published by UC Davis on August 5th 2010 A new study by researchers at the UC Davis School of Medicine has found that psychiatrists can accurately assess a patient's mental health by viewing videotaped interviews that are sent to them for consultation and treatment recommendations. The approach, called asynchronous telepsychiatry, uses store-and-forward technology, in which medical information is retrieved, stored and transmitted for later review using e-mail... Read Full Story

$19.2 billion in Recovery Act funding has been designated to modernize the health care system by promoting and expanding the adoption of health information technology, but what is going to happen? Like it or not, all health professionals will be significantly impacted by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or HITECH, and we will all have to change the way we work. A carrot and stick approach has been taken with HITECH, with incentive payments for... Read Full Story

Here are the URL's for most of the current blogs developed in my class, in no particular order, on "the internet and the future of healthcare" being run this semester through UC Davis Extension. Do follow these blogs over the next ten weeks as you see these excellent students progress in their course. Bobbie Strouse - http://bobbiesehealth.blogspot.com/ Juby Jacob - http://informaticians.blogspot.com/ Steven Wood - http://stevesehealth.blogspot.com/ Gelin Ordona - http://goehealth.blogspot... Read Full Story

There is considerable research being undertaken on new ways of communicating. And I don't just mean communicating with each other as we talk, sing, shout or cry. I mean ways of communicating with other objects, such as cars, computers and other electronic devices. I also mean communicating with people who are in other parts of the world, and who we may or may not know. And I also mean communicating with animals, with people who are deaf and blind, or who are profoundly physically or mentally... Read Full Story