02/01/2012
Fifty-nine percent of surveyed U.S. adults want to keep the federal health reform law's online, state-based health insurance exchanges, compared with 16% who want to repeal the provision of the law and 25% who are unsure, according to a new poll from Harris Interactive/HealthDay.
01/25/2012
Thirty-five percent of physicians whose practice installed electronic health records reported that the implementation process was very difficult, compared with 54% who said it was somewhat difficult and 12% who said it was not difficult, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
01/18/2012
Forty-two percent of online adults agree that pharmaceutical companies should take part in consumer-focused online health communities, compared with 39% who have no opinion on the issue and 19% who disagree that pharmaceutical companies should be involved in such arenas, according to a Manhattan Research survey.
01/11/2012
Sixty-two percent of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center primary care physicians, 58% of Geisinger Health System PCPs and 36% of Harborview Medical Center PCPs participating in a program that gives patients electronic access to doctor notes believe it would help their practice deliver safer care, according to a new survey published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
12/21/2011
Two-thirds of users of the Department of Veterans Affairs' My HealtheVet personal health record system said they would share all components of their PHR with their spouse or partner, while 73% said they would share their medication list, according to an Annals of Internal Medicine study.
12/14/2011
Among health IT professionals whose organizations have implemented a mobile technology policy, 90% say their organization's policy covers smartphones and 87% say the policy covers laptops, according to a survey from mHIMSS, a mobile health initiative under the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
12/07/2011
Nearly 57% of U.S. office-based physicians used any type of electronic health record system in 2011, compared with about 51% who used EHR systems in 2010, about 48% who used EHR systems in 2009 and 42% who used EHR systems in 2008, according to a CDC National Center for Health Statistics data brief.
11/30/2011
About 33% of surveyed U.S. adults went online to seek health information in 2010, compared with about 31% who did so in 2007 and about 16% who did so in 2001, according to a new survey from the Center for Studying Health System Change.
11/23/2011
Among 48 surveyed community pharmacies, 15 estimated that they receive less than 5% of prescriptions electronically, while 11 estimated that they receive between 6% and 14% of prescriptions electronically and eight estimated that they receive between 15% and 24% of prescriptions electronically, according to a Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association study.
11/16/2011
In a ranking of customer satisfaction based on a 100-point scale, private-sector health information websites scored a 79, public-sector health information websites scored a 78 and health insurance websites scored a 51, according to a study conducted by customer experience analytics firm ForeSee.
11/09/2011
Thirty-three percent of individuals who have downloaded an application to track or manage their health live in urban communities, 29% live in suburban neighborhoods and 20% live in rural areas, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
11/02/2011
About 68% of nurses use Facebook, about 44% use YouTube, about 37% use LinkedIn and nearly 11% use Twitter, according to a survey conducted by Springer Publishing Company. The survey also found that more than 46% of respondents have not downloaded or installed any nursing or medical applications.
10/26/2011
Twenty-five percent of surveyed CIOs believe their organization can qualify for funding under Stage 2 of the meaningful use incentive program if the planned start date is delayed, while 32% said they expect their organization to achieve Stage 2 objectives with or without a delay, according to a College of Healthcare Information Management Executives survey.
10/19/2011
Fifty-six million U.S. adults have accessed their medical data on an electronic health record system maintained by their physician, while 41 million are interested in doing so, a Manhattan Research survey finds. According to the survey, 140 million adults are not interested in accessing health care records from a physician-maintained EHR system.
10/12/2011
Among diabetes-related social media websites that let allow industry advertising, two-thirds featured ads from diabetes device manufacturers and half featured information from pharmaceutical manufacturers, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.