Katie Matlack, Healthcare IT News
“The iPad and the iPhone are a huge hit thanks to their ease of use, mobility and Internet connectivity. And of course the huge range of available apps has amazed all of us with just how many functions these devices can perform.
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David Lee Scher, The Digital Health Corner
“In an ongoing series, I have been touching on multiple issues involved in cardiac patients and the data derived from their implantable defibrillators and pacemakers, which is heretofore unavailable directly to them. I have not fully discussed the viewpoint of device companies for a few reasons. I wanted to explore the multiple aspects of the problem and give the patient’s view first.
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David Lee Scher, The Digital Health Corner
“There is a groundswell of discussion concerning patients demanding to have direct access to data derived from their implantable defibrillators and pacemakers. I have discussed in other articles why patients deserve their data and the benefits derived thereof.
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Thomas Goetz, Wired
“Medicine has certainly progressed in the past 50 years, but the day when tricorders diagnose every ailment instantly and treatments are tailored to our DNA seems as far off as ever. Eric Topol is trying to bridge that gap.
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Lisa M. Krieger, Mercury News
“Hugo Campos has a small computer buried in his chest to help keep him alive. But he has no idea what it says about his faulty heart.
All the raw data it collects, especially any erratic rhythms it controls with shocks, goes directly to the manufacturer. And some of it later gets sent to his doctor.
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Alexandra Albin, e-patients.net
“A conversation on the SPM listserve was started by Joleen Chambers, @JjrkCh, a patient advocate for patients with failed medical devices. Here’s her Failed Implant Device Blog.
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Paul Dixey and Sam Walmsley, pharmaphorum
“The main difference between how medicines and medical devices are regulated lies in how a product gets onto the market. In the UK all medicines are directly approved by the MHRA which issues a ‘marketing authorisation’, or licence. Medical devices however are approved by private sector organisations called ‘Notified bodies’.
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e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“We often say here “Gimme my damn data,” referring to our sentiment that data about our health is our data, about us, created for our well-being. And as the saying goes, “Nothing about me without me.”
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Eric Lai, Business2Community
“Doctors love their devices. 81% of physicians have smartphones. They also love their apps. 38% of them use medical apps daily. One-third use smartphones or tablets to access electronic medical records today, with another 20% expecting to start using them this year.
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3gdoctor, mHealth Insight
“With the ability patients now have to so easily provide feedback on their experiences to (interested!) medical service providers and the ability to reprogramme remote devices isn’t it time that we start saying something doesn’t pass the “mother test” unless the company behind it is prepared (as Telcare clearly are) to readily accept and proceed with development based on user experiences?
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Michelle McNickle, Healthcare IT News
“IT experts argue daily that more simple interfaces and paper-like workflows are the keys to the success of EHRs. And although that may be true, Shahid Shah, software analyst and author of the blog The Healthcare IT Guy, believes medical device data not only fills the void often found in these systems, but can also ensure their adoption in the months and years to come.
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John Pulley, NextGov
“Technology is increasingly a top management concern, and is no longer confined to clinical and technical decision making. Themes emerging on our 2012 list reflect ongoing impacts of health-care reform initiatives and new technology developments that emphasize patient-centered care,”
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Halamka JD. AHRQ, 2011
The Obama Administration is spending $27 billion dollars to accelerate the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) in pursuit of three policy goals: enhanced safety, improved quality, and increased efficiency. However, despite some evidence that electronic health records can achieve these goals, implementation can introduce new errors, new risks, and new challenges.
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Matt Richtel, The New York Times
“Hospitals and doctors’ offices, hoping to curb medical error, have invested heavily to put computers, smartphones and other devices into the hands of medical staff for instant access to patient data, drug information and case studies.
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Cameron Peebles, Digital Marketing Blog
“To develop appropriate policies, hospital leaders will need to determine how mobile devices will be used and what protections will be necessary. If hospitals allow employee-owned mobile devices, one concern is the possible transfer of hospital data to the employee’s home. If an employee plugs an iPod or iPad with hospital data into a personal computer, the system will synch and backup the data on the home computer, Mr. Williams says. One way to prevent sensitive information leaving the organization is to establish automatic controls over access to data.
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Darrell Etherington, GigaOm
“The iPad has been a success for Apple in business, apparently in spite of Apple’s lackadaisical approach to promoting its products directly to enterprise customers. But there’s a specific vertical market where the company is clearly making a concerted effort to promote professional adoption of the iPad: medicine.
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“Touchscreen devices will never catch up to the speed of typing on keyboards, but speech recognition technology can help such devices bridge that gap. That’s the mindset of Nuance’s Jonathon Dreyer, senior manager of mobile solutions marketing at the company’s healthcare division:
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Bob Morse, Times-Standard
“At long last, the health industry in slowly adopting technology on a large scale, moving to electronic documents, computer generated prescriptions, and information sharing. It’s been a rough road as standards and privacy issues have to be grappled with beyond the sheer technical problems. But the trade-offs in efficiency, accuracy and data gathering will be well worth the struggle. Mobile technology will play an increasing role in both institutional and personal health care advances.
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“I’ve written about the increasing trend to Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) to work and the accountability it brings to the CIO.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Clinicians are so in love with their mobile devices that these gadgets may soon become the preferred computing devices in healthcare, eventually replacing desktops, cart-bound workstations, and other traditional hardware. But that love affair comes at a price.
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