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• Internet use
• Broadband plan
• Home telemonitoring
• Patient consent
• Remote monitoring
Key Topic Updates

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APRIL 15, 2010
Those with chronic disease less likely to use Internet, according to report
Patients with chronic disease may use the Internet less than other patients and also may remain more strongly connected to physicians and other offline sources of medical assistance, including friends, family, and books, compared with other patients. More...
FCC broadband plan includes recommendations for healthcare
The United States ranks in the bottom half among comparable countries in almost every metric used to measure the adoption of health information technology (IT), according to the National Broadband Plan recently delivered to Congress by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). More...
Home telemonitoring benefits patients with diabetes
Home telemonitoring plus active medication management by a nurse practitioner resulted in greater reductions in HbA1C than did a monthly care coordination telephone call in patients with type 2 diabetes in a study reported in the March issue of Diabetes Care. More...
ONC releases new white paper on patient consent
A new white paper released by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology highlights five options and recommends additional research in relation to consumer consent possibilities for electronic health information exchange. More...
Remote monitoring helpful in decision-making for cardiac patients
Remote monitoring reduced the median time to clinical decision compared with standard in-office follow-up for patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, according to results of the prospective Clinical Evaluation of Remote Notification to Reduce Time to Clinical Decision trial recently released during the American College of Cardiology annual meeting. More...

Key Topic Updates  
Modern Medicine Blog
Going Full Blown EHR Sorta Sucks
Your Practice: A New Revenue Stream
Communicating Test Results (Swimming in the Quality Chasm)
Join the conversation at memag.com/blogs
Internet
E-prescribing now used by 25 percent of office-based prescribers
Initiative aims to ease sharing of health history
Internet helpful in management of chronic illness, study finds
Dermatologists, oncologists most likely to communicate online with patients
Health Law
FDA information systems, Sentinel Initiative seek more timely drug safety information
What the HITECH Act means for you
Locking down privacy
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality seeks data defining quality children’s healthcare
Mobile devices
Project to test smartphone, sensor ability to assist with treatment
Viewpoint: Now there’s an “app” for everything
One in five physicians likely to purchase iPad within year
Mobile technology should enhance work of human providers

 
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