Patient Centered IT

This is part 5 of the series on the Patient Centered Infrastructure. It documents knowledge management as a part of the Patient Centered Process: Profile(Data) Information Retrieval(Information) Knowledge Management(Knowledge) Education(Skills) Medical Services(Interaction) Summary for TLDRs; Patient knowledge is not only one collateral result from healthcare processes it is an important factor for most results and […]

In the preceding posts of this series we learned about the Patient Centered Infrastructure and all its constituents that ensure a seamless patient journey which always supports a precise picture of the individual health situation, collects all information about possible outcomes and helps to perform the necessary tasks in order to reach the personal health […]

This a very interesting post about some facts of the drivers of changing healthcare. The impact of information and communication is measurable. However the measurements are often related to coarse grained concepts like healthcare costs. Information in the role of a therapeutical intervention or in the role of a framework for a changing society needs […]

This blog is about Patient Centered Information Technology. It assumes that there is a true and realistic benefit for people using information technology for their healthcare compared to those that doesn’t. This may be hard to prove but with more and more people engaging in this and havin the possibility the culture of healthcare is […]

The following study contains some promising results http://www.jmir.org/2013/3/e65/ Patients with full EHR seem to be encouraged to particpate more in healthcare delivery. The EHR access triggers some behaviour to improve health literacy and active participation to cope with and handle zhe information contained in EHR. This is all in line with the concepts of the […]

It may be intuitive for some people for others not. The more you know the healthier you live. A study  investigating the influence of health literacy on the occurrence of hypoglycemic episodes in diabetic 2 patients reveals a significant relationship: http://xnet.kp.org/newscenter/pressreleases/nat/2010/051910diabetes.html The following quote depicts one main aspect of health illiteracy in this study Serious […]

In The Healthcare Blog DAVID C. KIBBE opens the case for widespread EHR adoption. http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/back-to-basics-toward-a-core-set-of-relevant-and-portable-personal-health-information.html This excellent claim receives my full support. Anyway David considers the difficulty to have medical data available everywhere … No, the reason why we as citizens lack routine access to even the most basic summary of our personal health information, […]

Our mind sits in an environment of intimidating complexity. Even if we learn about it every second of our life it’s just impossible to understand it completely. As a patient this huge discrepancy between the mere complexity of the human body and the poor knowledge we possess to handle it is the single most relevant […]