Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg and former Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health from 2011 to 2014, said that, at the start of his term in Maryland, half or two-thirds of the hospitals were connected for data sharing, and the data would often only provide information for clinical lookups, such as whether the patient underwent a CT scan at another hospital.
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Text message reminders that were tailored or included a reminder doubled the chance that expectant and new mothers would receive an influenza vaccine in a new randomized trial of Text4baby, a texting service for new mothers, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. As a result of these findings, vaccination reminders will be incorporated into Text4baby going forward during flu...
Patients may start spending less time in the doctors office as electronic health records and patient-facing medical apps proliferate, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The study, which appears in the journal Health Affairs, looked at health informatics and health services research literature through June 2013 using Medline, the Cochrane Database and...
