PRNewswire
“The American Telemedicine Association projects an exponential growth in the adoption of telemedicine and mHealth technologies as a record number of consumers are entering fee-capped managed care insurance plans.
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Olga Khazan, The Washington Post
“Dr. Eric Topol is a cardiologist who doesn’t use a stethoscope. As a keynote speaker at a mobile-health convention near Washington, Topol took the stage Monday and performed an echocardiogram on himself using an iPhone. He later reached under his shirt and gave himself an ultrasound using a hand-held device called a Vscan and some hotel-room lotion (he forgot his ultrasound gel).
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Rachel Fields, Becker's ASC Review
“Healthcare facilities are right to be concerned about the path to ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation: Healthcare experts emphasize that providers have a lot of work to do to meet documentation requirements, adapt their software to the new codes and prepare for decreased billing productivity.
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Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“Using remote monitoring technology to keep tabs on patients’ blood sugar and cardiopulmonary disease can reduce the risk of patient mortality by up to 45%, according to a U.K. Department of Health study.
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Tom Darr, DOTmed News
“Currently, more than two-thirds of doctors have smart phones, the use of tablet PCs is growing, and billions of dollars are now being invested in health IT systems, including electronic health records. While the growing use of health IT promises productivity gains and greater coordination of health care to patients, the ability to more easily share health information carries some risks.
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Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC
Due to family circumstances there will be no or hardly any updates to the ICMCC News Page on Thursday 8 December.
Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“Who’s more important to the advancement of mHealth – the physician or the patient?
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Luke Gale, CMIO
“Prescriptions handwritten by 78 providers’ offices over the course of approximately one year contained more than two errors per prescription written, an error rate that researchers believe could be significantly lowered through the use of e-prescribing systems, which automatically resolve instances of illegibility; a rate that could be further improved through the use of systems with clinical decision support (CDS).
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TNO
“Opdrachtgever en financier is het ministerie van VWS. Hoewel het twee jaar durende project pas in maart 2012 formeel wordt opgeleverd, spreekt VWS nu al van een succes. ‘E-cardiocare is een perfect voorbeeld hoe eHealth is toe te passen, waarbij alle betrokkenen, de patiënt, de verzekeraar en de zorgverlener profiteren’, zegt Stefan Ottenheijm, van het programmabureau innovatie & ICT van het ministerie.
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Mark Say, Guardian Professional
“The roll out of telehealth technology, which the government said will support 3 million people with long term health conditions over the next five years, will be funded as part of the government’s life sciences strategy.
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Matthew Rutter and Joe Stringer, Public Finance
“We welcome the Department of Health’s promise to ‘rapidly accelerate the use of assistive technologies in the NHS, aiming to improve at least three million lives over the next five years.’ This was made in its report Innovation Health and Wealth, Accelerating Adoption and Diffusion in the NHS.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“One key reason why encryption isn’t more widely used in healthcare is that some information technology specialists have outdated perceptions about the technology, contends security expert Melodi Mosely Gates.
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Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is going Hollywood, or at least contracting a California production company, to create a video to explain to the public the value of health IT and how individuals can engage with their providers.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“One of the really interesting companies that I’ve seen at both the Digital Health Conference in NYC and now at the mHealth Summit in DC is a company called Force Therapeutics. This company is part of the Startup Health crew of companies and have a pretty interesting product for ensuring patient compliance using a really cool mobile and web based app.
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Michael West, Happy EMR Doctor
“Looks like the Department of Health and Human Services is lowering the bar after shooting themselves in the foot by setting unrealistic expectations for doctors to go digital. In HHS says looser rules for health records will spur job creation, the government will push back the standards that need to be demonstrated by doctors who implement meaningful use of electronic medical records to 2014.
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Business Wire
“Today WellDoc will announce results showing that type 2 diabetes patients who used the WellDoc DiabetesManager(R) in a demonstration project significantly reduced their need for hospital stays and emergency room (ER) visits.
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Gienna Shaw, FierceMobileHealthcare
“What a difference a year makes. At last year’s mHealth summit, sessions focused on the potential of mobile healthcare to improve access and quality, while participants debated whether or not there was enough evidence to support the hypothesis that it would. Now, with thousands of health apps in development, in pilots, or already on the market, the focus has shifted to getting doctors and patients to use–and keep using–the apps.
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Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, CNET
“In a recent small trial, 30 patients with type 2 diabetes spent 12 months using a smartphone app that provided real-time feedback on their blood-sugar levels, prompted them when to eat or take other action, and sent digital logbooks of their readings back to their doctors.
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Laura Montini, Health 2.0 News
“Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius addressed the mHeath Summit Monday telling an audience of mobile operators, device and technology vendors and entrepreneurs that the Obama administration can help them accelerate the adoption of their health technologies, just like it helped electronic health record vendors.
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James Brown, Pulse
“Deaths can be almost halved among patients with long-term conditions by the NHS using telehealth devices that track a patient’s vital signs from home, according to the results of a Department of Health pilot study.
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