Amy Jussel, Shaping Youth
“As we observe October as health month in multiple media iterations of kids’ mental and physical well-being, it’s fitting that I’ve been away covering the excitement at Health2.0 this week. What’s it all about?
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ScienceDaily
‘Stroke rehabilitation technology which patients can operate in their own homes while playing computer games, is being developed by academics at the University of Southampton.
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Brendon Nafziger, DotMedNews
“Use of electronic health records by physicians could result in modest gains in patient care, according to a paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on October 6.
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Silja Chouquet, Whydotpharma
‘Today, I was looking for information for my Dad who is a type 2 diabetic. I was interested to see, if a certain type of insulin could control his diabetes better. Naturally, I went online and typed the product in question into Google.
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iHealthBeat
“In an iHealthBeat Special Video Report, experts at the Health 2.0 Conference discussed the growing field of health 2.0.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Another Health 2.0 Conference has come to pass and with broken wrist limiting typing fluidity, going to keep this synopsis short and sweet.
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EMR, EMR Software, Electronicmedicalrecord's
“A new electronic tool that will put family medical history at doctors’ fingertips – alerting them to a patient’s increased risk for birth defects or pregnancy complications – will be developed through a three-year cooperative agreement with a $1.2 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, Genetic Services Branch.
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“In a recent survey, health care executives predicted that the secondary use of data which is captured during the care process will soon prove useful in improving the quality of care and public health, reducing costs, and getting drugs to market faster.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“MDLiveCare, which offers consumers on-demand teleconsultations with contracted, board-certified physicians and mental health therapists, will enable data from the sessions to be embedded in personal health records from Google Health.
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Jason Goldberg, Cataract Outsourcing
‘The Obama Administration is helping to fuel renewed interest in telehealth by actively touting it as a tool to expand access and lower costs. Bi-partisan legislators are also doing their part by addressing obstacles to widespread adoption, such as easing restrictions on funding for telehealth programs in rural areas.
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theMobileHealthCrowd
“A new US study released at International CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2009 by CTIA-The Wireless Association in conjunction with Harris Interactive, finds that almost eight in ten Americans (78%) expressed interest in mHealth (or mobile health) solutions and more than one in ten (15%) said they were extremely/very interested in learning more about it.
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Enda Madden, Web 2 Ireland
‘Enterprise Ireland recently facilitated a discussion between a number of Irish Health Technology companies, Patient Interest groups and State Bodies North and South to look at forming a Connected Health Group.
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Lucien Engelen, Zorg 2.0
“Vandaag nam ik deel aan een “Microsoft Roundtable met Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer”. Onderwerp : zorg. Met een man of zeven bespraken we met Ballmer en een deel van zijn staf de uitdagingen die de zorg zich gesteld ziet. Hij was in Nederland voor de launch van aantal nieuwe producten en om een tour langs o.a. studenten te maken. Daarnaast wilde hij met “de Zorg” in gesprek.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“ePrescribing seems like the in vogue thing to do these days. It’s part of the proposed meaningful use matrix and so no doubt we’re going to hear a lot more about it (and we should). However, ePrescribing isn’t without its challenges.
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Jason Bhan, Ozmosis
‘Three CEO’s and a President offered interesting perspectives on where they felt Health 2.0 was heading. Alexandra Drane, President of Eliza, made a fascinating point about how most of the data out there is not very useful until it is cleaned with some high touch effort. Eliza actually contacts patients to confirm and clean up data – she mentioned that 20% of the people who were reported to have diabetes, didn’t have diabetes – all you have to do is ask!
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Darrell M. West, Brookings
“Health care today is dominated by physicians, hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies, and government agencies. Patients seek to navigate their health care by moving across a variety of providers, ordering prescription drugs from pharmacies, and seeking reimbursement from either public or private insurance plans.
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Victor Emeruwa, AfricaNews
“Healthcare delivery through telecommunications is taking shape in Nigeria. Dialing 191 on MTN Nigeria network introduces a customer to a “tele-doctor” who offers medical help through the phone.
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CIOL
“The Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, opened on Wednesday its telemedicine and tele-education programme, “Pan African e-Network for Telemedicine”. It is an initiative by the Government of India to provide the facility to 53 nations of the African Union.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“Westborough, Mass.-based eClinicalWorks Inc. has integrated into its electronic health records and personal health records software patient educational materials from Healthwise Inc., Boise, Idaho.
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Dom Nicastro, HealthLeaders Media
‘Though many popular Web sites have strong privacy practices in place, there is still no better time to analyze where, when, how, and if your personal health information (PHI) is circulating through these types of Web sites.
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