...million from its institutional shareholder group led by Charterhouse Capital Partners (‘Charterhouse’), to strengthen its financial position and support the implementation of the Group’s growth strategy. Support: The investment underlines the shareholders’ support for the strategy being developed by the Group’s new management team, which is the result of a detailed review of the Group’s operations and markets. The Board of Tunstall has confidence that the actions being taken will drive significant further profitable growth. We note that 2014 results, closing 30 September 2014, will not be available until 30 June 2015 (CompanyCheck). We also appreciate the disruptive effects of... Continue Reading
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Smartphones, wearables are the future says NHS England
...Bruce explains: “To ensure continued progress, we have brought together a TECS Implementation Group consisting of experts and leaders from across these sectors whose remit is to support the strategic development and delivery of the proposals within the Improvement Plan. In addition, we have formed the TECS Executive Steering Group which meets regularly to provide clinical, technological and strategic leadership for the programme at a director level in NHS England.” This all sounds like a lot of bureaucracy and a drawn out attempt to rescue what remains of the 3ML programme. I started thinking of the Titanic and deck chairs.... Continue Reading
EHRs *do* take more time! (JAMA)
If your doctor or nurse is frustrated by their EHR, it’s not because they are a technophobe or klutzy on the keyboard. According to a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine (8 Sept), internal medicine physicians reported a loss of time of 48 minutes daily due to EHR use. 411 internal medicine attending physicians and trainees who worked in an ambulatory practice and used an EHR system responded to a 19-question survey in December 2012 by the American College of Physicians. The trainees reported a lower time loss–18 minutes. No conclusion is reached for this difference. Other findings indicated... Continue Reading
Is digital health neglecting The Big Preventable–medical errors?
...for health IT. We can only hope.” (This Editor will also add the endless iterations of analytics tools.) But wasn’t this the promise (oh, the hype!) behind EHRs? Except that EHRs aren’t decision support tools…they are documentation (and defensive) tools, and can be the source of their own errors when records don’t agree. Medical error isn’t sexy or great cocktail (drinks) party chatter. It’s difficult in a lot of different ways, including acknowledging that hospitals, doctors, nurses and allied clinicians make mistakes because they are human. Preventing those mistakes is tough work. (And some want to leave it to megadata... Continue Reading
Electronic Alerts in EHRs Reduce Urinary Tract Infections (Study – US)
...kidney damage. The most effective way to reduce the incidence of UTIs (apart from not having a catheter fitted in the first place) is by removing the catheter as soon as it is no longer needed. Unfortunately, all too often this does not happen. That’s why the findings from this new study from the University of Pennsylvania are significant. Results showed that automated alerts in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) reduced urinary tract infections in hospital patients with urinary catheters. The EHR alert system worked by prompting physicians to specify the reason for inserting the patient’s catheter. On the basis of... Continue Reading
All that Quantified Self data? Drowning doctors don’t want to see it.
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/reduce-documentation1.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]Our long-time readers will remember Questions # 3, 4 and 5 of The Five Big Questions (FBQ*). They have not lost their salience as doctors are rejecting the not-terribly-accurate ‘telehealth’ data [TTA 10 May] generated by popular fitness trackers such as Fitbit, Misfit Shine and Jawbone. We do note that Apple’s Health/HealthKit has trotted out alliances with Mayo Clinic and Epic Systems (EHR) on apps and integrating data into an PHR [TTA 3 June], as well as Samsung’s SAMI [2 June] funding a University of California (UCSF) research center and (of course) Google. But this article confirms... Continue Reading
Cerner acquires Siemens HIT business
...it would have fallen to them anyway is a question), gained more of an international foothold plus an inside track to customers eager to move to newer technology. For Siemens, it appears they unloaded a business purchased at too high a price (acquired in 2000 for $2.1 billion!) which increasingly didn’t fit in their plan and was pancake-flat. FierceEMR closes their article on this with an interesting point about the controversial US Department of Defense EHR replacement (presumably to replace AHLTA, TTA 28 Feb): Cerner is teaming with Leidos and Accenture, Epic has teamed up with IBM. Also Neil Versel... Continue Reading
Is this the last time the flat earth society will be celebrating? (UK WSD)
...that transforms the support arrangement in a family and therefore enables a lawyer wife to go back to work, stop receiving benefits, pay more taxes and spend more money locally could be captured by a standard RCT, yet that transformation is regularly the reality of well-installed telecare, time after time. As many academics have privately agreed with me that for the above reasons such papers serve only to strengthen the faith of flat earthers and tell us nothing useful about technology implementation eight years on, I had hoped when I read the full paper to find that they did indeed... Continue Reading
Tunstall launches Advisory Service for ‘telehealthcare’
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Tunstall-Bsp63SfCYAETk3Q.jpg” thumb_width=”170″ /]Tunstall Healthcare UK last week announced the addition of an advisory service to help commissioners (CCGs, borough councils) and providers better understand, design, deliver and deploy what they’ve coined ‘telehealthcare’, which is plain ol’ telehealth to The Rest of Us. The Advisory Service will be managed by a team of specialists with clinical, technology, training, implementation and business intelligence expertise. The illustration to the left indicates their ‘swirl of disciplines.’ An interesting quote from the release: “According to NHS England, nearly a third of patients aged 75 or over have two or more long-term conditions; the overall... Continue Reading
Ka-ching! Mid-year digital health funding hits $2.3 B: Rock Health
...horizon are there. Last year’s disproportion in seed/Series A accelerates, and the ‘down the line’ weakness continues with proportionally fewer companies reaching B, C and D rounds. Crowdfunding has also lost its luster–50 percent off with Indiegogo dominating–but its blowout with Healbe GoBe [TTA 26 June, CEWeek] accounted for 41 percent of total crowdfunding dollars; MedStartr stayed in the game at a distant second. IPOs haven’t been great, the ‘digital health index’ is an underperform yet funders are still itchy to cash out multi-round companies like Practice Fusion (EHR/billing), Proteus and ZocDoc via IPO. VentureBeat. Rock Health report on Slideshare.... Continue Reading
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