Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“Would the adoption of electronic health records be more widespread if users saw the systems more as decision support tools, similar to GPS systems? According to Quadramed CMO and VP Joe Bormel, writing in Healthcare Informatics, it’s all a matter of expectations.
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Joseph Kim, Medical Smartphones
“Do you ever stop to think about how much information your smartphone has about you? Let’s suppose that you perform frequent searches for “HIV” and “AIDS” on your mobile device.
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Alida Budding - Hennink, Medicalfacts
“Vilans, kenniscentrum voor langdurende zorg, test de komende maanden het gebruik van een GPS-chip voor het terugvinden van mensen met dementie. Dit sluit aan bij de wensen van Alzheimer Nederland en het Landelijk bureau vermiste personen.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“ReadWriteWeb has a worthwhile feature on the potential for location-based services in healthcare: How might services enabled by GPS, like FourSquare and other future services, impact consumer health and healthcare providers’ data set?
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“Medium and high-risk psychiatric patients at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust are being tagged with satellite tracking devices.
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Greg Bartlett, Medical Smartphones
“A few years ago, a Fire-Rescue Department paramedic in San Diego developed a simple smartphone application called TapChart that replaced the bubble-field data forms completed by first responders after an incident.
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Greg Bartlett, Medical Smartphones
“Regardless of advances in communications and GPS tracking technology, we’re still a long way off from seeing widespread practical implementation of telemedicine. Yet for some patients in certain areas of the globe, remote monitoring is the only viable solution. For those with unique problems, doctors and tech experts are crafting some very unique solutions.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Europe
“Telefónica has developed a home monitoring system that can collect five different vital signs, detects falls and transmit data to a caretaker centre to be assessed by doctors.
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HealthTech Wire
“Continuous monitoring, round the clock emergency services, personalized care and easy-to-use technology: these are the hallmarks of the Caalyx solution. In the wake of a successful development phase, two follow-up projects have now begun to drive the technology another step closer towards a marketable product.
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Brian Dolan, Mobihealthnews
“What role can mobile phones play in saving lives during a swine flu outbreak? Three companies in the mHealth industry have spoken out this week about the opportunity mobiles could play in mitigating the risk of a pandemic disease like swine flu.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“I wrote dismissively of the work of Dr. Clayton Christensen in February.
His new book, The Innovator’s Prescription, dismissed the medical home concept in just a few sentences, noting it doesn’t match well with current business models.
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The Telegraph
“Dr Rupert McShane is running a two-year trial at the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust which has become the first in the country to fit dementia patients with the pocket GPS devices.
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Karla Islas Pieck, Diario Médico
“El Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, de Badalona, y el Hospital Montepríncipe, de Madrid, han implantado una nueva técnica para realizar la fijación vertebral de forma mínimamente invasiva con ayuda de un navegador que ofrece imágenes en tiempo real dentro del quirófano y permite alcanzar un 98 por ciento de éxito en este tipo de intervenciones.
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e-Health Europe
“Aerotel Medical Systems, a specialist in mobile and home-based telemedicine and telecare solutions, has partnered with GEBOA SA, to launch Aerotel’s GeoSKeeper GPS personal location system in Switzerland.
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