Edward Marx, Advance
“One of my favorite preteen games was Connect Four, the vertical checkers game. The objective is to be the first to connect four of your checkers in a row. I often played it with my children when they were young, and inevitably one of them would bump the catcher base prematurely and send all the checkers rolling onto the table and floor. But, oh, the fun we had playing.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Open standards and interoperability are key to mobile health offerings scaling in developing markets, Ericsson’s head of sustainability and corporate responsibility Elaine Weidman told the Financial Times in a recent interview.
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Deborah C. Peel, Wall Street Journal
“I learned about the lack of health privacy when I hung out my shingle as a psychiatrist. Patients asked if I could keep their records private if they paid for care themselves. They had lost jobs or reputations because what they said in the doctor’s office didn’t always stay in the doctor’s office. That was 35 years ago, in the age of paper. In today’s digital world the problem has only grown worse.
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McGrail, Kimberlyn et al, CMAJ, 2010
Canada has invested $1.6 billion — and counting — in federal funds to develop integrated electronic health records that will, among other things, help provide seamless and timely care to a growing population with complex needs. So what have we received for that massive investment?
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Camille Tuutti, ExecutiveGov
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is planning on conducting a nationwide survey of public opinion about electronic health information exchange and the privacy and security of personal data that is shared.
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Steve Beller, Curing Healthcare
“I responded by saying that, to me, “repository” simply means “storehouse” (a place where data are stored). When a repository has constraints that prevent the data it contains from being shared with other repositories, then each of those repositories is a silo with respect to the other repositories.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“While President Obama Tuesday signed the healthcare reform bill into law, other segments of the federal government are in the midst of decision-making that could also influence a proliferation of new healthcare services.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“For the past two decades or so, a mantra in the IT industry has been the 3 C’s: computer, consumer, communications.
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EMR Daily News
“VitalHealth Software (www.vitalhealthsoftware.com) has entered into collaboration with Mayo Clinic to develop a next-generation Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed to support the workflow of primary care physicians.
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John Zarocostas, BMJ
“The telemedicine sector is expected to grow by an average of 10% a year across Europe to 2020, or double the rise in total healthcare spending, a report has predicted. Chronic illnesses such as heart complaints, asthma, and diabetes are particularly appropriate for telemedicine, it says.
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Uwe Perlitz, Deutsche Bank Research
ICT plays a supporting role in an increasing number of industry and service sectors as well as in the household segment. This is mainly because it yields efficiency benefits (not only lower transaction costs and time savings, for example, but also greater convenience) for both companies and their clients.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Mobile healthcare was a $1.5 billion industry in the U.S. last year, but the market is expected to triple in five years, reaching $4.6 billion by 2014, according to a new report.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“While the Apple iPhone was first targeted at the general consumer, Apple has been taking the necessary steps to bring this device into the enterprise, directly competing with RIM’s Blackberry. Unseating the Blackberry in many sectors, such as finance, may be near impossible but healthcare is another story.
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Paul Roemer, HealthsystemCIO.com
“Is there a best EHR system? Perhaps Cerner, Epic, GE, or McKesson? For those who have followed my writing, you’re probably thinking my answer is “None of the above.” I’ll do one better, and I write this with the utmost sincerity—it does not really matter which vendor you select. As the EHR vendors reading this pull themselves off the floor, permit me to explain why.
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King, Marcus et al, Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2010
Purpose.
Loss of hand function as a result of upper limb paresis after a stroke leads to reduced independence. Robotic-assisted therapy with virtual reality leads to improvements in motor function, but there is a need to improve the cost-benefit ratio of these therapies. This case series study investigated augmented reality computer games which provided a rewarded, goal-directed task to upper limb rehabilitation via a gravity supported reaching task.
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ScienceBlog
“Obtaining therapy via teleconference is just as effective as face-to-face sessions, according to a new research by Stéphane Guay, a psychiatry professor at the Université de Montréal.
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John Farrell, Healthcare IT News
“Telehealth has been claiming its rightful place in the headlines over the past couple months, with news of regional funding for telehealth networks and the arrival of new telemedicine technologies becoming an almost daily occurrence.
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Mario Gibbels, ICTzorg
“De Eerste Kamerleden hadden maandagavond 22 maart opnieuw de kans om hun vragen over het landelijk EPD voor te leggen aan een select gezelschap van deskundigen.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMedNews
“A new product aims to improve quality of care by pulling real-time patient information and using it to prompt best-practice suggestions, alerts or other treatment protocols.
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Joseph Kim, Medical Smartphones
“Touch Diagnostics (TouchDx) the leading developer of mHealth solutions for the iPhone, announced the introduction of TremorTracer. TremorTracer provides physicians a unique and revolutionary tremor assessment with which to identify, record, and monitor longitudinal change in writing skills for patients with fine motor function deficits, due to tremor.
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