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Thu 11th April 2013
US - Like Australia, USA policymakers are hungry for health care data to help inform their decisions. What types of data are they interested in, and how would they make it available? This report published by CHCF reports the findings from its 2011 Free the Data initiative and identifies 3 key areas to improve collection and access to US state health care data: providing resources to improve access; advocacy for legal changes; and communicating innovations in data collection and dissemination.
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Wed 27th February 2013
US – Rachel Dornhelm, iHealthBeat, February 2013. Experts discuss how IT vendors could better tailor EHR systems to medical specialists, a group who typically lag behind in electronic health record adoption. More
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Wed 27th February 2013
GLOBAL – David Eddy et al, Health Affairs, November 2012. Describes a new measure of quality called the Global Outcomes Score (GO Score), which represents the proportion of adverse outcomes expected to be prevented in a population under current levels of care compared to a target level of care, such as 100 percent performance on certain clinical guidelines. More
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Wed 27th February 2013
US – Andrew Broderick et al, The Commonwealth Fund, January 2013. Examines how three organisations successfully implemented telehealth programs which reduced costs and improved clinical outcomes. More
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Wed 27th February 2013
AU – Gregor Kennedy et al, Ascilite 2012 Future Challenges Sustainable Futures Conference, November 2012. This paper presents an investigation of how the digital data records of students‘ interactions within an immersive 3D environment can be mined, modeled and analysed in real-time, to provide formative feedback to students as they complete simulated surgical tasks. More
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Wed 13th February 2013
AU –Menzies Centre for Health Policy, November 2012. Provides key findings about the views held by Australians on their own health, on the Australian health care system and on aged-care services. The 2012 survey is the third biennial national survey conducted by the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Nous Group. More
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Resource: Scotland's Knowledge Network: translating knowledge into action to improve quality of care
Wed 13th February 2013
UK – Ann Wales et al, NHS Education for Scotland, November 2012. The Knowledge Network is Scotland's online knowledge service for health and social care. It is designed to support practitioners to apply knowledge in frontline delivery of care, helping to translate knowledge into better health-care outcomes through safe, effective, person-centred care. More
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Wed 13th February 2013
US – Healthcare Information and Management Systems, December 2012. Key survey results include: Maturity of Mobile Technology Environment, Integration of Mobile Devices and Electronic Medical Records, and Impact of Federal Initiatives on Mobile Technology Policy. More
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Study: What It will take to achieve the as-yet-unfulfilled promises of health information technology
Wed 13th February 2013
US – Arthur Kellerman et al, Health Affairs, January 2013. The disappointing performance of health IT to date can be largely attributed to several factors: sluggish adoption of health IT systems, coupled with the choice of systems that are neither interoperable nor easy to use; and the failure of health care providers and institutions to reengineer care processes to reap the full benefits of health IT. More
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Wed 30th January 2013
AU – Reports on changes to the GP workforce and the patients they treat is based on information from nearly one million actual patient encounters collected from 9,800 doctors. More
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