Dr. Bonis, La pella de gofio del Doctor Bonis
“Asistimos en estos meses a una verdadera epidemia de redes sociales “de salud”. Quizá en paralelo a la proliferación de conferencias, cursos, talleres y jornadas sobre “Salud 2.0″ y otras hierbas.
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VenaPatient
“Cool medical technology demo, where the bluetooth-based Vena platform seemlessly connects an asthma inhaler to web-based applications. This will make the connected patient a reality!”
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Stacey Higginbotham, GigaCom
“Intel, GE and the Mayo Clinic today said they would conduct a year-long study to find out if remotely monitoring patients via gear made by the two companies and hooked up to a home broadband connection can keep them out of emergency rooms. The move ties in nicely with a chat I had yesterday with Dr. Mohit Kaushal, director of health care for the FCC’s Broadband Strategy Initiative, about encouraging broadband use in medical care.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“An online “idea campaign” has been launched to promote innovation in the pediatric medical device market, which experts say has a higher demand than supply.
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Joseph C. Kvedar, Healthcare IT News Blog
“Our Connected Cardiac Care program passed a big milestone recently. This program is designed to use remote monitoring technology (weight scale, blood pressure cuff, pulse oximeter and a table top computer) to deliver care to sick heart failure (CHF) patients in their home. The most exciting thing about it is that the technolgy becomes a teaching and adherence tool for the patients. They literally start to manage their own condition.
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Mark Williams, Technology Review
“Researchers at Medtronic are developing a prototype neural implant that uses light to alter the behavior of neurons in the brain. The device is based on the emerging science of optogenetic neuromodulation, in which specific brain cells are genetically engineered to respond to light.
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Mattias Ganslandt, TalkStandards
“In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Professor David Ingram of openEHR, one of the most innovative players in the eHealth field, outlines some of his expectations for the future of ICT in the health care sector. This transcript has been prepared from notes taken during a telephone interview on February 22nd.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMedNews
“Medical emergency applications for smartphones are finding their way into the marketplace for consumers.
A recent entrant is AED Nearby, an application to help users locate the nearest automated external defibrillator.
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PRWeb
“Bob Isherwood, Chief Creative Dude, Co-CEO and Founding Partner of i.e. healthcare, was a mHealth Alliance panelist on February 18, 2010 as part of the GSMA Mobile World Congress. www.mobileworldcongress.com Given Bob’s previous experience as Worldwide Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi, and having co-authored ‘World Changing Ideas’, Bob’s role on the ‘Revenue Streams for mHealth – Exploring the Future Economics of mHealth’ panel was to be the ‘voice of the consumer’.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for the “first elements of a tactical electronic patient record” with the vision of implementing a full EPR by 2014.
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Texas Medical Association (TMA) released the results of its EMR 2009 Report. Reflecting a national trend, the percentage of physicians in the state who report using an EHR has grown from 27 percent in 2005 to 33 percent in 2007 and now 43 percent in 2009.
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eHealthServer
“Governments around the world hope that eHealth can contribute to increased safety, choice and productivity in the health care sector. While this overriding hopes are common, the approaches to ehealth differ.
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Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz, Huffington Post Investigative Fund
“Concerned about potential safety risks in health information technology, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may be moving closer to regulating the systems for the first time.
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Mattias Ganslandt, TalkStandards
“In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Professor David Ingram of openEHR, one of the most innovative players in the eHealth field, outlines some of his expectations for the future of ICT in the health care sector.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“Mayo Clinic, GE Healthcare, and Intel have launched a new initiative to study the care and cost benefits of home-based health monitoring for elderly patients with chronic illnesses.
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Joan Delaney, Epoch Times
“Thanks to innovative technology, a new initiative to provide treatment for federal offenders with mental health issues will soon be implemented in federal prisons in Ontario.
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Kevin Fogarty, Computerworld
“Most CIOs have had to deal with rogue business units – parts of the organization that, for one reason or another, can stave off any attempt to modernize, standardize or stabilize its idiosyncratic IT systems, but still need solid data connections to the parent company.
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Duane F. Wisk, ModernHealthcare
“The electronic health-record process, including computerized physician order entry, is still slower than the pen.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Smartphones are so popular in medicine now that some health professionals “don’t know how colleagues manage without them,” C. Peter Waegemann, vice president of development for the Boston-based mHealth Initiative, tells Healthcare IT News.
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Peter Neupert and Alfred Spector, The Hill
“As described in a report from the Robert Wood Johnson’s Commission to Build a Healthier America, “For the first time in our history, the United States is raising a generation of children who may live sicker, shorter lives than their parents. We must act now to reverse this trend.”
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