Health Informatics 7430

This is an interesting statement and Apple, I think, needs to be commended for raising the bar on issues of addressing privacy concerns as it has so much access to data. https://images.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Overview.pdf

https://www.healthdatamanagement.com/list/12-top-hit-trends-from-himss18 I found this information quite helpful as I think about future strategic planning as it relates to IT. Greg R

IHI or the Institute for Health Care Improvement, the brain child of Don Berwick (remember the triple aim from Brian's class!) has partnered with edx.org to offer free online courses you can audit or even get a certificate for a modest price on some of the topics that can complement our MHI/MHA experience. There are also courses in different languages and different disciplines, not just medicine and health care.

From Clinical Guideline to Order Set to Patient Harm: JAMA published a case and editorial regarding the well-intentioned but flawed application of clinical guidelines to order sets and the perverse incentives that can lead to patient harm. Here is the reference: JAMA. 2018;319(12):1207-1208. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.1666 In this particular case a patient was treated for an MI with a coronary artery stent and developed a complete heart block after the procedure. Medications that were not indicated to treat this complication were in the order set and the physician, when interviewed about his choice of medications, chose a beta-blocker (contraindicated based on robust data of use after a STEMI) that lead to worsening of the patient. He stated that he chose this medication as per the alert in the CDS that this was a "quality metric". I think it is interesting that providers are swayed against their better judgement to choose a medication from a set of orders that was incomp...

Can our VA help us with Telehealth? Yes they can..... VA Telehealth Services uses health informatics, disease management and telehealth technologies to target care and case management to improve access to care, improving the health of veterans.  Telehealth changes the location where health care services are routinely provided. The value VA derives from telehealth is not in implementing telehealth technologies alone, but how VA uses health informatics, disease management and telehealth technologies to target care/case management thereby facilitating access to care and improving the health of veterans. Technology Newsletters Videos Technology New technologies such as telehealth help improve health care services. For technology to work it must work for the people it is meant to help - patients and the professionals providing care. Telehealth in VA helps ensure veteran patients get the right care in the right place at the right time and aims to make the home in...

I have just recently begun studying this web site:  https://www.amia.org/about-amia/mission-and-history Others may find it helpful. AMIA aims to lead the way in transforming health care through trusted science, education, and the practice of informatics. AMIA connects a broad community of professionals and students interested in informatics. AMIA is the bridge for knowledge and collaboration across a continuum, from basic and applied research to the consumer and public health arenas. AMIA actively supports five domains: Translational Bioinformatics Clinical Research Informatics Clinical Informatics Consumer Health Informatics Public Health Informatics They show strong support for collaboration across regions and networks. AMIA Supports Goals of ONC Trusted Exchange Framework, New Data Policy Wednesday, February 21, 2018 Informatics Professionals See Potential for New Paradigm for Our National Health IT Infrastructure (BETHESDA, MD) – In a pa...