rteston, Buzz e-sante
“Le développement de la culture de l’écran et la multiplication des accès à Internet par les ordinateurs, tablettes ou smartphones, bouleversent la relation du médecin avec ses patients.
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Keith W. Boone, Healthcare Standards
“Some of these decisions are made locally by the provider, based on their organizations policies and workflows. Others are negotiated with someone else. Some are made by the supplier. You cannot order something from a supplier that they don’t provide.
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Healthcare IT News
“A new center that aims to develop technologies that will help to improve the access and cost of healthcare delivery is being launched by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Rip Empson, TechCrunch
“According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. As this is the case, there are many of us in the U.S. — and across the globe — who have had heart disease or cardiac illnesses affect our lives in many unpleasant ways.
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Piette JD et al, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 40(6)
BACKGROUND
Although interactive voice response (IVR) calls can be an effective tool for chronic disease management, many regions of the world lack the infrastructure to provide these services. PURPOSE This study evaluated the feasibility and potential impact of an IVR program using a cloud-computing model to improve diabetes management in Honduras.
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Don, Left2MyOwnDevices
“A few weeks ago in my vidshow I commented on a Tweet that went by that essentially said why would you create an embedded device with a display when the user interface of choice is now the smartphone (or tablet)?
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Tom Lewis, iMedicalApps
“Statistics from the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet (link here) show that the prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. is 8.3% or 25.8 million people. In 2007, the total cost of diagnosed diabetes in the U.S. alone reached $174 billion. It is clear that diabetes is a major healthcare issue in modern medicine.
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3gdoctor, mHealth Insight
“I’ve just watched this interesting video of Lucien Engelen sharing his ideas at last months TEDxMaastricht and I can’t help think the problem is more fundamental than he suggests.
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Anthony Guerra, HealthSystemCIO
“A new report from the Institute of Medicine identifies the most important principles that should guide the establishment of a digital infrastructure “that will support a learning health system at the national level.”
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Kester Freeman, Action For Better Healthcare
“Healthcare technology is changing faster than many people can keep up with and these changes are impacting how doctors diagnose patients. Imagine your doctor being able to access the latest research on your condition at the bedside. Technology is allowing some doctors to make an initial diagnosis without being at the hospital.
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Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“Researchers and physicians at HealthPartners have developed a decision-support tool called the Diabetes Wizard, which the health plan says is the first application that uses electronic medical records (EMRs) to customize care for diabetic patients.
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Thomas Beale, Woland's Cat
“The current situation in IT is that the two key activities of the respective groups – ‘information modelling’ and ‘fact description’ – share key essentials, yet hardly intersect in software engineering or philosophy education, textbooks or in practical ways.
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Michael Ono, ABC News
“It sounds like something out of science fiction — doctors using a cache of prisoner health records to produce medical breakthroughs for the betterment of society.
But it’s not.
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Marisa Plumb, IEEE Spectrum
“According to doctors at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, intensive care units backed up by off-site doctors and nurses, who could remotely monitor critically ill patients and direct the ICU’s on-site staff, had fewer patient deaths and shorter ICU stays.
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LiveScience, MNN
“Still think cellphones are bad for your health? In the poorest regions of the world they have the potential of saving millions of lives, a fact that far outweighs the miniscule, if any, risk of developing brain cancer.
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Juzang I et al, J Telemed Telecare, 17(3)
We explored the feasibility of engaging young black men in a 12-week text messaging programme about HIV prevention. There were two non-randomized groups of 30 young men each. The participants were aged 16-20 years, self-identifying as black or African-American, sexually active, who owned a mobile phone and lived in Philadelphia. They received three text messages per week for 12 weeks. People in the intervention group received text messages about HIV prevention, while those in the control group received text messages about nutrition.
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Rotheram-Borus M-J et al, Trials, 12
BACKGROUND
Pregnant women living with HIV (WLH) face daily challenges maintaining their own and their babies’ health and mental health. Standard Prevention of Maternal to Child Transmission (PMTCT) programs are not designed to address these challenges.
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Michael, Mobile Marketing Watch
“It’s an mHealth development that worrying parents everywhere will welcome with open arms.
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Dan Bowman, FierceMobileHealthcare
“By now you’ve no doubt read about the Ford Motor Company’s intriguing move into the world of mobile healthcare.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“Just 10% of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center patients use the site’s personal health record (PHR) system, CIO Dr. John Halamka reported recently in a presentation on personalized medicine at Bio-IT World.
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