MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'instant messaging'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:41:52 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3567894&cid=t_209599_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhen-your-family-has-a-technology-gap%2F2010.05.15 Do you have a technology participation gap in your family? We do. In fact, most families do somewhere. For us, we have a few older relatives who firmly believe that technology is for “the younger generation.” What’s interesting is that some of these people are not that old — at least not “old” as I define it. One relative, for example, was a working woman in her younger days. Retired now, she never bought into any technology past the 1970s! Beyond the automobile, refrigerator, TV, radio, dishwasher, washer and drier, she has seen no need for anything else. Although  she has grudgingly begun to use email and the Web, she has deemed herself  ”old” and refused to use a cell phone or any other “high-tech device.” (more…) *This blog post was originall... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3567894 Sat, 15 May 2010 12:00:10 +0100 3567894 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3056737&cid=t_209599_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2009%2F11%2F30%2Fhit-projects-you-can-implement-today%2F Many people are sitting their on the proverbial fence waiting to see what’s going to happen with the HITECH act and meaningful use before they actually go and implement an EMR. Now, I’m not going to let those people off the hook from evaluating and selecting an EMR. That should be done anyway. However, lately I’ve been thinking that many of these clinics shouldn’t be waiting to implement technology in their offices. Sure, EMR is a game changer and a major change for any office and has tremendous upside (regardless of stimulus money). However, for those of you in the wait for HITECH act money camp, there are still a number of IT projects that you can implement today that will benefit you once you actually implement an EMR. Here’s just a few of them: Fax Server ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3056737 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:17:17 +0100 3056737 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2206726&cid=t_209599_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F02%2F23%2Fthe-psychology-of-twitter%2F Twitter is a social networking application that does only one thing — allows the mutual sharing of 140 character communications (called “tweets”). Why the 140 character limit? So you can send text updates from your cell phone as well as the net. If you haven’t used or even heard of Twitter, don’t worry, you’re not alone. As of now, only 11 percent of American Internet users have used something like Twitter (that number also includes people who simply update their status in Facebook, so we don’t know the true, lower number of Twitter-only users) (Lenhart & Fox, 2009). Twitter is a service used more widely the younger you are (up to 20 percent of those under 34 have used it or a status update service) (Lenhart & Fox, 2009). The best way to... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2206726 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:22:40 +0100 2206726 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2152810&cid=t_209599_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2009%2F02%2F02%2Fim-instant-messaging-emrehr-integration%2F Discussion - Assuming you’ve captured the patients image in your EMR for reference (and many do this), why not show the patient’s image in the IM message when someone mentions the patient.  How much would having the picture of the patient help if you received an IM message that said, “John Doe from last week has an abnormal lab.”  Most doctors are much better with faces than they are with names.  In the name of HIPAA, they probably should be.  Why not jog their memory of the patient by including a picture? Click To Save to Patient’s Chart - Some IM discussions might be worth saving in a patient’s chart.  Sure copy and paste works from other IM programs, but why not make it one click to save it to the patient chart.  Of course, I suggest making it a... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2152810 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:20:37 +0100 2152810 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2152811&cid=t_209599_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2009%2F02%2F01%2Fim-instant-messaging-and-emrehr%2F I’ve been participating in a really interesting discussion going on over on EMRUpdate. The discussion revolves around the integration of IM into an EMR or EHR and the role of IM in a clinical environment. One person suggested the use of a LAN only IM that he’s been using for a while. Looks like a pretty cool software and prevents your users from chatting it up with their best friend across town all day on work time. My biggest problem with the LAN only IM software is that it’s just one more program that you have to manage. This is why in our clinic we’ve been using MSN Messenger. This comes installed by default on Windows and so it seemed like a logical choice. It also had some good upload features that allowed us to add our long list of users to a new person with l... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2152811 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:19:07 +0100 2152811 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1918437&cid=t_209599_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F436389196%2F In this study, 72% of the students had a My Space account, 76% had a cell phone, and 68% had an IM address. Those who had a MySpace account had significantly lower grades than those without an account. The same was true for those that used IM, compared with those who did not. Cell phone use was also associated with lower grades and the effect was magnified if text messaging was used on cell phones. Not surprisingly, if these devices were used during homework, the grades were even lower than for students who used these technologies outside of homework. Almost half reported text messaging during class time, and their grades were lower than the students who only used IM outside of class. These are correlational data and do not prove that using these devices causes lower grades. But it is a go... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1918437 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:33:50 +0100 1918437