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For sticking it to fraudulent pharmaceutical sellers. Sproxil has developed a game-changing approach to help eliminate the fake drugs that kill more than 700,000 people around the world each year. When patients receive their medications, they simply scratch off a sticker label to reveal a code, then text it to Sproxil, which verifies its authenticity. Last year, the company crossed the 2-million-use threshold and launched a partnership with IBM to analyze customer data so they could discern drug-counterfeiting patterns. Sproxil has since expanded to several other fields in need of product verification, from agricultural goods to auto parts.For
When influenza hit early and hard in the United States this year, it quietly claimed an unacknowledged victim: one of the cutting-edge techniques being used to monitor the outbreak. A comparison with traditional surveillance data showed that Google Flu Trends, which estimates prevalence from flu-related Internet searches, had drastically overestimated peak flu levels. The glitch is no more than a temporary setback for a promising strategy, experts say, and Google is sure to refine its algorithms. But as flu-tracking techniques based on mining of web data and on social media proliferate, the episode is a reminder that they will complement, but
Recent reports have shown that the number of physicians who have adopted electronic health records has doubled since 2008. Though the potential for this technology to improve care is great, EHRs could be the source of a communication breakdown between patients and physicians.
When physicians who are used to carrying paper charts start using tablets or desktop computers in the exam room, its going to be disruptive, said Larry Garber, MD, an internist and medical director of informatics at the Reliant Medical Group in Worcester, Mass. How a physician manages this disruption can absolutely make or break the relationship between
The electronic medical record (EMR) is here to stay. Its adoption was initially slow, but over the past decade those hospitals that do not already have it are making plans for implementing it. On the whole this represents progress: the EMR has the ability to greatly improve patient care. Physicians, as well as all other caregivers, no longer have to puzzle over barely legible handwritten notes or flip through pages and pages of a patient’s paper chart to find important information.With the EMR, it is easy to see what medications a patient is taking, when they were started, and when they were stopped. Physicians can easily find key vital signs
Dr. Sheila Gamache, left, shows patient Tom Kolby a video of his procedure that opened a clogged artery near his heart, performed on him the day, before on a computer monitor in his room at the Indiana Heart Hospital in Indianapolis, Friday, July 17, 2004. The hospital is one of the few nationwide that has traded scattered medical charts, file folders, x-rays and other patient records for a unified electronic records system accessible with a few keystrokes from anywhere in the hospital.The shift to electronic medical records is improving quality of care but also raising some costs. A look at the positive and negative consequences of digital health
Even though the number of practices adopting electronic health record systems is on the rise, the number of practices offering patients the ability to view, print or download their records from an online patient portal has remained consistently low.But soon, physicians planning to collect incentive pay for the second stage of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services meaningful use bonus plans not only have to implement the technology, but also ensure at least 5% of their patients use it.The rule, some medical organizations say, will force physicians to decide if the incentive money is enough of a return on what could be a very costly investment.
What follows is a special article written by e-Patient Dave deBronkart. I’m glad to share Dave’s thinking in this space and to welcome him to our upcoming St. Luke’s Health System Summit as a featured speaker.It’s a time of great challenge for everyone in medicine, and challenges bring chances to excel in new ways. The rules are changing. Here’s why I think the change is real and how we can retool for the future ahead.I preface my remarks by saying I’m alive because of the best of medicine. Diagnosed incidentally in 2007 with stage IV renal cell carcinoma, I confronted my mortality, and placed myself in the hands of the best clinicians I could
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