David Scher, Healthcare Talent Transformation
“The healthcare IT (EHR and interoperability modules) and mobile health (or mHealth) industries are traveling on similar paths. They are both technologies in evolution that are sorely needed. EHRs have been mandated by health reform legislation.
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Nielsen
“Social media’s popularity continues to grow, connecting people with just about everything they watch and buy.
The latest Nielsen insights provide some answers on exactly how powerful this influence is on consumer behavior, both online and off.
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ePractice EU
“The University Hospital of Getafe, a city in the south of Madrid metropolitan area, is conducting a research project in which geriatrics patients actively participate by means of telemedicine tools.
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CMIO
“A new study—the first study to evaluate the relationship between meaningful use for computerized medication ordering and hospital mortality rates—released online by Health Affairs, examines the potential impact on Medicare and Medicaid patients of the Stage 1 meaningful use EHR requirements.
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Robert Charette, Risk Factor
“As I mentioned a few weeks ago, security questions have been raised about Australia’s proposed AU $466 million national electronic health record system.
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Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“As healthcare moves gradually from a fee-for-service to a pay-for performance model, it will be judged on how closely clinicians adhere to evidence-based guidelines. The best evidence comes from controlled clinical trials, but since so few treatment protocols are supported by these trials, the movers and shakers in clinical medicine are looking to fill the void by recruiting large groups of subjects willing to enroll in them. Not an easy task.
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John Pulley, NextGov
“IBM’s Watson supercomputer has a new job in health IT, a role likely to be considerably trickier than thrashing two previous Jeopardy! champions during a human vs computer showdown in February.
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Pete Wilton, Medical Xpress
“The kit, developed by Oxford University and South African researchers, enables people to record and analyze their own heart sounds using a mobile phone microphone.
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David Lee Scher, MedtechBusiness
“MHealth has been utilised in underdeveloped countries for many years, due to the inaccessibility of scarce healthcare resources as well as the widespread use of cell phones.
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Lee Gomes, Technology Review
“Excitement over the iPhone and its family of miracle devices is rubbing off on health care, with doctors, policy makers, and especially companies touting a mobile-inspired technology called remote health monitoring as the next big thing in medicine.
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Sue Dunlevy, The Australian
“Software under trial that warns pharmacists not to dispense addictive medication to drug addicts if they have been given such medication just days before could bring addictions under control if introduced.
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Barbara Toman, Discovery's Edge
“When President Barack Obama cites Mayo Clinic as a model healthcare provider, he praises its “smart” practices that offer patients the best possible care at below-normal cost. Mayo’s expertise in treating disease is well-known. But the presidential accolades underscore Mayo’s pioneer work in an emerging science of healthcare delivery.
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Dominic Mack, HealthFlock
“The New England Journal of Medicine released an article on September 1st which shows how the Electronic Health Record (EHR) can help improve the quality of care for Diabetic patients. This is huge! We know EHR is a good tool to reduce paper, organize files, give good clinical support, and exchange health information.
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
“This time last year—amidst all the hoopla surrounding the finalization of the Stage 1 meaningful use requirements—it appeared that the commercial insurance companies were ready to jump on the meaningful use bandwagon and follow the government’s lead.
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John Cushman, The Paper Chase
“As someone who gets to see the transition of the medical industry into the 21st century through EMR conversions, I get to thinking frequently about all the ways these conversions affect the rural healthcare community. Also, seeing how the communities they serve are impacted makes me think even more.
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Stephen Wilkins, Mind the Gap
“Turns out there is an unintended consequence of many of the current efforts to standardize the way doctor’s practice medicine. It is called de-skilling. De-skilling can occur when physicians and other providers try to adapt to standardized, new ways of doing things.
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RichardM, World of DTC Marketing
“There is a misconception within marketing that just because people are using a certain technology or going to a certain website that they want marketers to follow them there.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“An article in the September issue of policy journal Health Affairs looked at a CMS demonstration project involving care coordination with Robert Bosch Healthcare’s Health Buddy telehealth appliance.
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Emily Singer, Technology Review
“There aren’t too many doctors in the village of Hari Ke Kalan, in the Punjab region of northern India. But for $1, residents who bicycle to a new health clinic can get an appointment with a physician appearing on a large-screen television and beamed in over broadband Internet.
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The use of social media – Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, etc. – is a growing phenomenon that potentially impacts clinicians. The issues raised by social media are important to understand. We have created a curriculum for clinician education about these issues, which were recently presented to a conference of physicians. In view of the positive response, we have included that slide show for more general use.
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