Ageism in healthcare technology: the older patients' aspirations for improved online accessibility.

Objective: To identify concerns, barriers and facilitators impacting the use of patient portals by older patients as well as desired features in future updates.

Materials And Methods: This is a cross-sectional study consisting of 2 focus group discussions culminating in an anonymous survey administered to women who were 65 years and older receiving urogynecologic care in Northwest Ohio.

Results: Of the 205 women surveyed (91% response rate), providers and healthcare systems play the primary 2 roles (73% and 69%, respectively) in facilitating patients' use of patient portal systems and telehealth applications.

An Exploratory Study Demonstrating the Health Information Management Profession as a STEM Discipline.

It is time to make the case for health information management (HIM) to be included in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. A careful review of the HIM competencies approved by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) illustrates the role of HIM professionals in informatics, data analytics, and data use. More precisely, the competency subdomains clearly align with content in the STEM disciplines of science, math, and technology, and the individual competencies or tasks in each subdomain solidify the assertion that HIM should be considered part of the STEM disciplines.

An overview of two open interactive computing environments useful for data science education.

Objective: To discuss and illustrate the utility of two open collaborative data science platforms, and how they would benefit data science and informatics education.

Methods And Materials: The features of two online data science platforms are outlined. Both are useful for new data projects and both are integrated with common programming languages used for data analysis.

Chronic Rhinitis Is a High-Risk Comorbidity for 30-Day Hospital Readmission of Patients with Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Background: Early hospital readmissions for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), measured as hospital readmission within 30 days from the last discharge, is a major economic burden to our health care system. The association of this measure with comorbid chronic rhinitis (CR) has not been investigated before despite significant clinical association between CR and asthma or COPD.

Objective: To investigate the association of CR with the risk of asthma or COPD-related early hospital readmission rates.