Health Information - Science topic

Thia was very bad and shoukd not happen. Stigmas shall be avoided at all costs:

Protecting sensitive maternal health information in a baby's record is crucial to ensure privacy and confidentiality. Here are some methods and best practices:

By following these practices, healthcare providers can better protect sensitive maternal health information while ensuring that the baby's health needs are met.

Thank you, Copernicus can bring nice "natural environment" variables to the analysis.

Vidyanand Malik

Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia have a higher risk of developing dementia than those with other types of pneumonia.

Thanks!

I recommend you to look at the EU project VISCERAL, on the web: "visceral.eu".

You will see a model where the processing travels, not the data.

That's efficient and practical, because health dat is very sensitive.

Prof,

I am equally interested in the work.

Many business companies in internet marketing collect and analyze comments, posts, entries, etc. from social media portals.

It is also done by some financial institutions, banks acquiring additional information about potential borrowers and insurance companies against possible conclusion of insurance contract. Commercially operating companies and financial institutions operate in this area on the border of the law on the protection of personal data.

Until this type of acquisition of information about potential customers is legally regulated, then commercially operating companies and financial institutions will conduct such activity. In addition, the issue of the security of this type of data about users of social media portals is of particular importance, as there have been effective cybercriminal attacks that resulted in the theft of personal data of users of social media portals.

I invite you to the discussion

The problems of the analysis of information contained on social media portals for marketing purposes are described in the publication:

I invite you to discussion and cooperation. Greetings

Any luck in finding quantitative research based on CMIS?

RockHealth puts out reports, but not formal studies, that may have what you are looking for. 

Jennifer,

I looked at Facebook communication and showed that those commenting about Ebola and general health promotion topics on the same Facebook page overlap only for 11%. I did not do a content analysis of the actual comments but still have the data. If you're interested in a joint study, please let me know!

Yulia

Thank you Sanden for taking the time to submit a contribution.

Perhaps clarification is needed about this issue that concerns me i.e. the use by nurses of what are called predictive assessments in which the goal is to PREVENT a fall falling by working though a format that ascribes a risk / probability value that is typically identified as a patient as being at low, medium or high risk of falling.

There are many straightforward hazard elimination and passive impact provision measures that will mitigate harm to patients from the falls; an outcome that cannot be achieved by the use of predictive assessments.  

These references, one of many credible sources, provide good background about the issue concerning predictive falls assessment tools:

It is not possible to use probability for single event management i.e. in this case preventing a fall by predicting who will fall and when. However and in spite of the obvious uselessness of predictive falls assessment tools, nurses across the UK and Ireland spend vast amounts of their time off-the-floor away from patients completing predict assessments.

The obvious risk statement and associated real-time helpful interventions are ignored:

Absolutely. In ICU there are times you only have 10 minutes to bond with the family before you ask them to consider donating their loved ones body parts. Where I worked in ICU/CCU/Trauma, the nurses were given the directive from the physicians to engage the family for donation and/or explain the breadth of a situation to a family. It is the most important service a nurse provides at the bedside in ICU. Honesty tempered with compassion allows the family to make an educated and least emotional decision regarding their loved one.

Check out the Medical Library Association at http://www.mlanet.org. 

Lubetkin EI, Zabor EC, Isaac K, Brennessel D, Kemeny MM, Hay JL. Health literacy, information seeking, and trust in information in Haitians. Am J Health Behav. 2015;39(3):441-50. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4496799/pdf/nihms704709.pdf

Diviani N, van den Putte B, Giani S, van Weert JC. Low health literacy and evaluation of online health information: a systematic review of the literature. J Med Internet Res. 2015;17(5):e112. http://www.jmir.org/article/viewFile/jmir_v17i5e112/2

Perumal SS, Prasad S, Surapaneni KM, Joshi A. Health information-seeking behavior among hypothyroid patients at Saveetha Medical College and Hospital. Ethiop J Health Sci. 2015;25(2):147-54. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4478266/pdf/EJHS2502-0147.pdf

van der Heide I, Uiters E, Jantine Schuit A, Rademakers J, Fransen M. Health literacy and informed decision making regarding colorectal cancer screening: a systematic review. Eur J Public Health. 2015;25(4):575-82. http://nvl002.nivel.nl/postprint/PPpp5451.pdf

von Wagner C1, Semmler C, Good A, Wardle J. Health literacy and self-efficacy for participating in colorectal cancer screening: The role of information processing. Patient Educ Couns. 2009;75(3):352-7. http://www.pec-journal.com/article/S0738-3991%2809%2900139-6/abstract

Thanks for your response. I had read the Text4baby paper but  it didn't really identify if the information provided was actually evidence based, mediated by health professionals and  how pregnant women actually benefited.

There are so many people on the internet so willing to give advice to pregnant women, when this is precisely the time that women need to be extremely discerning in accepting the information they obtain.

I don't understand your question. Please clarify your question and provide as much information as possible. That will improve the likelihood that you will get helpful responses.

This is an interesting conversation about health literacy. I personally feel much of the responsibility for educating patients falls on the health care providers. There are many excellent tools to raise awareness of the issues and I though I would share a few here. Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company, has been a huge advocate for Clear Health Communication for years and I applaud their efforts. They have a new tool, A Health Literacy Assessment Tool for Patient Care and Research called the Newest Vital Sign (NVS) available in English & Spanish. It helps providers assess what the patient knows, and then using some of their clear health communication skills (in the link provided) we as health professionals can work to better communicate and get feedback on what the patient understands about their illness and any treatment options we are recommending.

The American Medical Association has a really powerful video on health literacy in America. Watch it to really see what we are missing by not looking for health literacy, it's been around for a while, but wow. (Every time I watch it I am moved by the impact of health literacy on patients.) We should never assume anything, plain language is important and it is not the patient's responsibility to tell us they "don't get it", because they will not. Providers need to think about this issue and I am glad it is being discussed here. There are great resources out there.

Dear, I must know which software and hospital information sstem and which minimum data set are you using?

I know that if your have good software and good telecommunication system, you can use for monitoring.

each software has its special function.

I think that your question is not clear and your question is general.

all the best.

Dear Tania,

Thank you for the question. My interest in this area stems from working within the NHS in UK when the National Project for IT was rolled out. I then had the privilege to further train in Health Informatics with the CHIME unit at University College London.

There has been much literature in this area. However, it has remain elusive to show conclusively that the application of Health Informatics can positively impact both the delivery and experience of health care in the front lines.

My personal view is that we have now reached a point of convergence of hardware, software and affordable wireless networking capabilities worldwide that allows Health Informatics to play a significant role in national health care systems.

However, whether this will be of benefit and to who remains to be determined. Too often, the clinicians in the front lines are not involved enough. This leads to the development of "systems" without the direct input and/or feedback from the end users. The outcome is often not satisfactory when this happens (e.g. Choose and Book Project)

On the other hand, it is difficult to engage the front-line clinicians, who may see the huge costs involved in national IT projects (11 Billion Pounds for NPfIT from 2002 to 2011: National Audit Office, 11th May 2011) as an unjustified source of drain on an already rapidly diminishing pool of funding for healthcare.

Also, there is a need to be clear on the purpose of implementing IT in healthcare. Health Informatics can improve the delivery of care. However, it cannot lead to better outcomes if the process of care is not already in place, or if the clinical input has not been able to achieve it's clinical targets in the first instance.

For example, The Whole System Demonstrator study showed that Telehealth may reduce hospital admission and mortality rates in a select group of patients and General Practitioners over a 12 moth period. However, the mechanism for this was unclear in the original paper (BMJ 2012;344:e3874). It is thought that the implementation of Telehealth in itself may have influenced the process of care among the study population, which would have had an important impact on the outcome of the study.

There is much work to be done (i.e. Knowledge Management at the Point of Care, Clinical Informatics, How to Prevent Failure in Health Informatics Systems, etc).

For the "Paradigm Shift" to occur, more of us in the front line needs to be involved at all stages of the development and implementation of Health Informatics Systems.

I share with you the results of an on-going online survey on the relationship between Clinicians and Health Informatics that I am conducting. The survey and the whole website is meant as an Open Source project. Feel free to use the data. Hope it may be of some use to you.

The links are:

The survey can be accessed here:

The public reports can be found here:

We have modified the survey form to include all non-medical clinical staff based on feedback tonight, so the results will be reset tonight.

Thank you.

Hi Mohammad,

Interesting question - but i think that health information seeking will have little direct short-medium term impact on health literacy. I think that the converse is more likely where health literacy impacts on health information seeking. To what extent is the question and leads us to the chasm of what's being done to address poor health literacy across the globe.

As a matter of data metrics, information quality has many dimensions--you can decide which ones are most relevant to your research questions. This is a good comprehensive list with descriptions:

To operationalize these, you probably need to go to a small panel of experts, obtain their ratings, and establish inter-rater reliability for the different types of information collected, the dimensions of quality you want to measure, and the social media platforms from which they are obtained.

I'm not sure about definitions for credibility and trustworthiness from the point of view of Information Systems studies, but you could simply create some items, pilot them, see if they work well, and create the instrument yourself. If you come up with some good antecedents of credibility and trustworthiness on social media, those would be strong research contributions.

You could bleed the oyster first. Plate the hemolymph or save for testing, then use the tissues for condition. Several papers have methods for bleeding them. It usually involves notching the shell, inserting a syringe into a sinus in the body, and withdrawing up to a ml of hemolymph. I haven't done it in several years, but search on terms "oyster hemolymph" and pick a few papers for their methods.

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...is this helpful for you at all?

I think you need to look at 'evidence-based medical librarianship or information science). There is also the ' Health Information and Libraries Journal'

I suggest that you can basedf your approach in ISO / TC215 Health Informatics Security Standards. There is a lot of requeriments that you can based and extend your project.