EurActiv.com
“New EU laws allowing patients to travel across borders for health care will be key for the development of e-health services in Europe, according to policymakers. However, incompatible IT systems remain a major obstacle to fulfilling that promise.
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Amy Erickson, Le Mars Daily Sentinel
“Mary Messerole checks her blood pressure, the amount of oxygen in her blood and her weight daily — from home.
The Le Mars woman is using a Well At Home Telemedicine monitor, provided by Floyd Valley Hospital’s (FVH) Home Healthcare Department.
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Grosshandler JA et al, Archives of Dermatology, 146(9)
Governmental incentives to stimulate the “meaningful use” of electronic medical records and future disincentives for Medicaid and Medicare provide an impetus for dermatologists to consider adding this technology to their clinical practice.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“One of the really interesting things that I’ve heard at the Mobile Health Expo has been the use of text messages to assist with patient compliance.
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Chad Hyett, KevinMD
“Cell phone adoption isn’t just a phenomenon in the developed world. Developing countries, such as China, India and Africa, are adopting mobile phones at a startling rate.
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Jha AK. JAMA, 304(15)
On July 13, 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services released the final criteria defining “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs). The aim behind these rules is to improve quality and efficiency of care by encouraging approximately 700 000 clinicians and 5000 acute care hospitals to use EHRs.
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Khan JY et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
In recent years interest in the application of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) for patient monitoring applications has grown significantly. A WBAN can be used to develop patient monitoring systems which offer flexibility to medical staff and mobility to patients. Patients monitoring could involve a range of activities including data collection from various body sensors for storage and diagnosis, transmitting data to remote medical databases, and controlling medical appliances, etc. Also, WBANs could operate in an interconnected mode to enable remote patient monitoring using telehealth/e-health applications.
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eHealthNews.eu
“Real-time data streaming via EMIS Web – the new system from leading GP software supplier EMIS – is one of the components that will deliver the Individual Health Record (IHR) service being introduced by NHS Wales.
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rteston, Buzz e-sante
“Selon le baromètre 2010 du Cessim sur l’utilisation professionnelle des supports numériques par le corps médical, les smartphones prennent une place grandissante chez les professionnels de santé.
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Chris Gibbons, Healthcare Disparities Solutions Blog
“As more and more care gets driven out of the hospital into homes and communities, in our efforts to reduce healthcare and insurance costs, healthcare outcomes will increasingly be impacted by factors in the homes and communities of the patients that historically have been ignored by the traditional healthcare system. As such home and community factors which impact the useability and accessibility of EHRs will need to be considered.
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare
“The much-feared digital divide now is being recognized as having racial and ethnic components that the government and health information technology vendors should address, according to the federal health IT czar.
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INRIA
“Les technologies de l’information et de la communication ont pris une place essentielle dans l’industrie de la santé. L’INRIA multiplie ses partenariats en bio-informatique et en imagerie médicale, disciplines dans lesquelles l’institut est à présent bien positionné depuis une dizaine d’années.
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Bob Violino, Government Health IT
“Two public-health-focused agencies, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have launched efforts to use the latest Internet-based technologies to disseminate information about issues such as health hazards and food safety.
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nhssm's posterous
“A few weeks ago on #nhssm @StGeorgesTrust told us about how the comms team had found a kidney patient on Twitter that was tweeting about their transplant and that after showing the Twitter feed to the consultant treating the kidney patient the consultant managed to help out with the patient’s diet.
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Oluwaseun Ayantokun, Nigerian Tribune
“Mobile communication experts and their counter parts from the health sector are set to converge on Accra, Ghana, in December to discuss appropriate and timely solutions to Africa’s pressing health problems through the use of mobile devices.
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Susannah Fox, Pew Internet
“The online health-information environment is going mobile. 17% of cell phone users have used their phone to look up health or medical information and 9% have software applications or “apps” on their phones that help them track or manage their health.”
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“According to the latest survey conducted by the Pew Internet Project, of the 85 percent of American adults who use a mobile phone today 17 percent have used their phone to look up health or medical information.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“I’ve been wondering for months when T-Mobile would join other major cellular carriers in embracing mobile healthcare. I learned today that it’s already happened.
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Scot M Silverstein, Health Care Renewal
“If this story had appeared about a health IT project in, say, 1983 or 1993, it would have been less so.
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Shawn Riley, HealthTechnica
“Long before sophisticated technology had infiltrated the health care industry, patients had to take a trip to doctors/physicians to seek medical care. People had to travel far and wide to access health services.
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