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Dates: during 2009-2009
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...call up the medical records of each patient, including their prescription history and drug allergies. If a doctor prescribes a medication that may cause complications, the PDA's alarm goes off. In the hospital's department of acute medicine - where patients often arrive unconscious or disorientated - department head Klaus Phanareth's PDA prevents him from prescribing dangerous medications "on a weekly basis," he says. "There's no doubt that it saves lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Lessons from Europe | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...latest phase of the program focuses on telemedicine. In the past year, the health-care service has piloted two home-monitoring programs for patients with diabetes and those on blood-thinning medication - groups at high risk of emergency hospitalization. At Frederiksberg Hospital, Dr. Phanareth is running a ground-breaking study to test whether patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - responsible for 10% of all hospital admissions in Denmark - can be treated at home using telemedicine technology. "Sometimes, a lack of resistance is all you need for change to happen," Phanareth says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Lessons from Europe | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...call up the medical records of each patient, including their prescription history and drug allergies. If a doctor prescribes a medication that may cause complications, the computer's alarm goes off. In the hospital's department of acute medicine - where patients often arrive unconscious or disorientated - department head Klaus Phanareth's PDA prevents him from prescribing dangerous medications "on a weekly basis," he says. "There's no doubt that it saves lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Denmark's Electronic Health Records Program, a Lesson for the U.S. | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...Frederiksburg Hospital, Dr Phanareth and his PHD student Anders Kjaer are running the first randomized study ever made to show that patients with exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - the group responsible for 10% of all hospital admissions in the country - can be treated at home using telemedicine technology. In a bare office in the hospital, Dr Phanareth monitors patients via a pulse oximeter device and a spirometer device (for lung function) that are blue-tooth enabled and linked through a secure web connection to the hospital. Using videoconference technology, he can guide the patients on whether to administer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Denmark's Electronic Health Records Program, a Lesson for the U.S. | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

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