Happtique halts mobile health app certification. (Reprinted with permission from Smart Phone Healthcare. To see the original, visit here.) We’ve written a number of articles over the years about Happtique. Much like I railed against the meaningless CCHIT certification, I felt that Happtique was the same as CCHIT but for mobile health. I was partially comforted by the criteria that came out because they were so general and broad. They were still meaningless, but I felt they could have been much worse. Either way, I don’t think a certification has any value when it comes to mHealth.
They don’t know how or can’t measure the right things. As this tweet mentions, Happtique has halted their app certification after a developer revealed a number of major security holes in two of the Happtique certified apps. The blog posts on the developer site are well worth the read. Of course all this reminds me of all the HIPAA breaches we hear about where a laptop wasn’t encrypted. Hopefully a number of good things will come out of this situation. Happtique halts app certification on data security concerns. Announces Funding for First Comparative Effectiveness Research Projects.
Contact: Erica Fischer, GolinHarris (202-585-2608 or efischer@golinharris.com) Projects Part of National Research Agenda to Help Patients Make Better-Informed Health Decisions Washington, D.C. (December 18, 2012) – The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today approved 25 awards, totaling $40.7 million over three years, to fund patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research projects under the first four areas of its National Priorities for Research and Research Agenda. “Today marks a major milestone in our work as we build a portfolio of comparative clinical effectiveness research that will provide patients and those who care for them with the information they need to make better-informed choices about the health care decisions they face,” said PCORI Executive Director Joe Selby, MD, MPH.
“These research projects reflect PCORI’s patient-centered research agenda, emphasizing the inclusion of patients and caregivers at all stages of the research.” FINAL-PFA-Communication-and-Dissemination-v3. National-Priorities-and-Research-Agenda-2012-05-21-FINAL. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Seeks Input on Draft Methodology Report. Report Proposes Standards to Guide Conduct of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 23, 2012) – The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced the start of a public comment period for its landmark draft Methodology Report, which proposes standards for the conduct of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR). Feedback received during the 54-day comment period, which ends at 11:59 p.m. ET Friday, September 14, will be analyzed for potential incorporation into a revised version of the report that is to be considered for adoption by the PCORI Board of Governors at its November 2012 public meeting in Boston.
The report, which identifies 60 standards for PCOR, was produced by PCORI’s 17-member Methodology Committee, a panel of top research methodology experts appointed by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. About PCORI The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is an independent, non-profit organization authorized by Congress. Carey%20FRN%208-11%20(2) Codian MCU - login: Health Informatics Seminar - March 14, 2012 — Duke Health Informatics. Archived Presentation Abstract Many challenges exist with health information exchange as the result of a legacy of information silos controlled by healthcare organizations. The current health information system interoperability effort promoted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is to develop a standardized electronic health record integrated with a complex federated network, while insisting that all users “speak” the same complicated language (HL7 V3, SNOMED, ICD-10, etc.).
In December of 2010 the President’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology recommended a Universal Exchange Language (UEL) as a novel, more powerful method for health information exchange that could provide a better environment for public health, health services, clinical and biomedical research. Biosketch Dr. MethodologyCommitteeReport7.18.2011. The Future of Medicine: Megatrends in Medicine - by Dr. Stephen C. Schimpff, MD. Learning What Works: Infrastructure Required for Comparative Effectiveness Research - Workshop Summary. Report Note: Workshop Summaries contain the opinion of the presenters, but do NOT reflect the conclusions of the IOM. Learn more about the differences between Workshop Summaries and Consensus Reports. Evidence is the cornerstone of a high-performing healthcare system. It is essential for patients and clinicians to know which treatments work best for whom if they are to make informed, collaborative care decisions.
Despite this need, only a small fraction of health-related expenditures in the U.S. have been devoted to comparative effectiveness research. As part of its Learning Health System series of workshops, the IOM’s Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care hosted a workshop to discuss capacity priorities to build the evidence base necessary for care that is more effective and delivers higher value for patients. MMS: Error. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Names Beal Chief Operating Officer. Recognized Expert in Care Quality Joins PCORI Leadership Team WASHINGTON, D.C.
(October 17, 2011) – The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) announced today the appointment of Dr. Anne C. Beal, M.D., M.P.H., as its first chief operating officer. PCORI was created by Congress as an independent, non-profit research organization to help patients and those who care for them make informed health decisions. “Dr. Beal is a pediatrician and public health specialist, who has been committed throughout her career to research and the use of research to improve healthcare delivery, particularly for society’s most vulnerable. She joins PCORI from the Aetna Foundation, the independent charitable and philanthropic arm of Aetna Inc. “My life’s work has focused on providing patients with high-quality care through improved healthcare services and delivery systems,” Beal said. Wiki.siframework. The wiki page will be used to facilitate the creation of the abstract model and discussions surrounding the abstract model which will aid in the development and recommendation of standards and specifications that will be used by Query Health.The Abstract Model was approved by the Technical WG Call for Consensus of the Abstract Model (Round 2) which ended on 10/12/2011 11:59 pm PT The Query Health Abstract Model attempts to define the logical concepts, terms and actors involved in Query Health transactions.
The purpose of the Abstract Model is to provide the Query Health Initiative with a common terminology for communication within and across the work groups. In addition the Abstract Model will serve as the conceptual model that will be used to further elaborate and recommend Query Health standards, services and components.Query Network: The Query Network represents a community of participants that agree to interact with each other. Members Developing and Refining the Artifact. Proposed database could boost comparative effectiveness research.
Comparative effectiveness research (CER), which generated a lot of heat during the healthcare reform debate, has taken its first step forward with the publication in the Federal Register of a proposal to create a multi-payer claims database to analyze the comparative effects of different kinds of medical treatments. This research has ignited controversy because its results--while they cannot be utilized directly in Medicare coverage decisions--may affect practice patterns and what private insurers will pay for in the future. According to the proposal by the Department of Health and Human Services, "The project represents a private/public partnership with the goal of consolidating access to longitudinal data on health services financed by both public and private payers to help facilitate CER. " Only claims data from government and private payers will be included in the database at the outset.
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