Healthcare Education & Technology

This presentation explores 5 future trends, personal learning environments and challenges that coming along with them.

Via ZaidLearn

Researchers from the University of Southern California recently found that social networks can stimulate changes in the health behavior of individuals.

 

Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are just a few of the social media networks that have become popular in the past few years. Social media networks allow individuals to share photos, stories, video, and other forms of communication with friends and family. Investigators have studied how social media has become integrated in people’s daily lives. In particular, researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) recently found that social networks can stimulate changes in the health behavior of individuals.

 

With the project, the team of public health researchers was inspired to study the “science” behind social influence. They believe that an understanding of online and face-to-face interactions can improve disease prevention and help promote public health issues. The researchers concluded that it is necessary to understand a group’s social structure and social dynamics to understand the factors that influence a group member’s decision making.

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Via nrip

While many people feel the move to mobile health may be simply a fad, I believe it will become the new normal in healthcare. Here’s why:

 

#1 Hospitals are all about motion

Have you ever been to a hospital where everyone and everything wasn’t in constant motion? Patients, clinicians and equipment; everything is always on the move and in a hurry! But for the past few decades, we have designed technologies that require the user to sit and type at a workstation. At rest is not the natural state of a hospital. It also radically alters the natural workflows of everyone who must use these tethered systems. Mobile Health is the natural solution to this problem. It allows clinicians, clerks, maintenance, housekeeping and everyone else to stay on the move and still leverage all the benefits of technology.

 

#2 Physicians and nurses are in short supply

So is their time. It’s important to ensure that their time and efforts are maximized. Giving them the tools they need to care for more patients and provide better quality care is the key. Why is this important? Retention. While these have always been stressful occupations, the past several years have placed a greater and greater burden on fewer and fewer people in these roles. Making their workday more satisfying and less stressful benefits everyone.

 

#3 Patient engagement

The opportunities presented with mobile Health to innovate and re-imagine patient engagement not only between clinician and patient but also between the patient and their own health data is unprecedented. Home care, remote patient monitoring, adherence, tele-medicine, PHRs, prescribed apps, the list of opportunities is endless.

 

#4 Time

Untethering nurses from the nursing station allows them to spend more time providing quality and personal care at the bedside. Delivering results directly to clinicians via mobile devices may save critical time delays for providing a diagnosis to save a life. Mobile Health when implemented correctly should provide a return on time that can be invested in care. Speeding up technology allows clinicians to slow down, think, communicate and engage more often and more effectively.

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Creating Effective Collaborative Learning Groups in an Online Environment...

Via Shawn Read

Robin Good: Mendeley is a cross-platform research tool, which can help you tap into a vast online library of over 30 academic paper databases, while helping you "curate" your own library of references, bibliographies and reference documents.

 

From the official site: Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research available.

 

Key features:

 

-> Generate citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, and LaTeX.

-> Open PDFs and capture your thoughts through sticky notes and highlights.

-> Import and organize PDFs from your computer, EndNote™, Papers or Zotero.

-> Collaborate with colleagues and securely share your papers, notes and annotations.

-> Access your papers on the web, iPhone or iPad.

-> Discover papers, people and public groups.

 

Compare with other research tools: http://www.mendeley.com/compare-mendeley/

Download: http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/ (available for Mac, PC, Linux and iOS)

 

Video tutorials: http://www.mendeley.com/videos-tutorials/

Find out more: http://www.mendeley.com

Via Robin Good, Giuseppe Mauriello, RIVKI GADOT

The incorporation of patient pictures within a computerized order entry verification process is an effective strategy for reducing the risk that erroneous placement of orders in a patient’s EMR will result in unintended care being provided to an incorrect patient.

 

We describe several changes to the EMR/provider interface and ordering workflow that were implemented as one part of a hospital-wide quality improvement effort to improve patient identification and verification practices. We measured the impact by comparing the number of reported incidents of care being provided to any patient other than for whom it was intended before the intervention, and directly after the intervention.

 

Via nrip

Using both patient-centered care principles and health information technology improves care, according to the bulk of evidence published during the last 14 years.

 

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Evidence-Based Practice Center reviewed 327 published articles examining results of health IT tools used in implementing patient-centered care. The studies looked at health outcomes for patients with a range of health conditions, including diabetes, heart disease, depression and cancer. The review was limited to research published in 1998 or later.

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