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- ItemEvidence-based retrieval in E-health.(2005-04-27) Patrick, Timothy B; Demiris, George; Folk, Lillian CIn this chapter we address the issue of standards for information retrieval to support decision making in e health Specifically we consider the issue of evidence based retrieval in the e health domains of the consumer healthcare practitioner healthcare researcher and genomics researcher We present the results of a preliminary study to assess the current state of evidence based retrieval in e health Within this study we reviewed articles in e health and telemedicine to determine the extent to which authors provide details of the information retrieval strategies used as well as evidence of the effectiveness of those strategies We also examined the extent to which the associated journals require authors of reviews to explicitly provide details of information retrieval strategies that they used as well as reporting any evidence for the effectiveness of those strategies
- ItemPhysician PDA use and the HIPAA Privacy Rule.(2004-01-19) Pancoast, Paul E; Patrick, Timothy B; Mitchell, Joyce APhysicians need better access to information when making patient care decisions Hospitals should allow electronic data transfers to physician PDAs to improve patient care and physicians must institute measures to secure the confidentiality of patient information on their PDAs By explicitly excluding copies from their designated record set hospitals need not maintain copies or track access of information on personally owned PDAs
- ItemPhysician PDA use and the HIPAA Privacy Rule.(2003-11-21) Pancoast, Paul E; Patrick, Timothy B; Mitchell, Joyce A
- ItemTo telemedically err is human.(2004-10-07) Demiris, George; Patrick, Timothy B; Mitchell, Joyce A; Waldren, Steven EAs telemedicine alters the process of health care and introduces new technology the extent to which it introduces new errors or allows for the occurrence of familiar errors needs to be examined TELEMEDICINE S IMPACT ON PATIENT SAFETY FEATURES OF TRADITIONAL CARE The accuracy of diagnostic decisions reached via telemedicine can be directly affected by the technology s limitations and the care providers lack of training Telemedicine could increase the risk of familiar types of patient provider communication failure and introduce the possibility of cumulative errors TELEMEDICINE S IMPACT ON NEW CARE FEATURES AND CONCEPTS Telemedical applications that use the Internet to enhance disease management and detection and monitoring of symptoms may place the privacy and confidentiality of individual health information at risk which imposes a possible barrier to communication In addition home care patients functional limitations need to be addressed by human factors engineering