David Lee Scher, KevinMD
“The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on February 17, 2009.
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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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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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Emily Singer, Technology Review
“Hugo Campos is a man on a mission. He wants access to the data being collected inside his body by an implanted cardiac defibrillator. He believes that having this information could help him take control of his health—for example, by helping him figure out what triggers his frequent attacks of abnormal heart rhythms.
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“St. Jude Medical announced new features for its Merlin.net remote patient monitoring offering, Patient Care Network (PCN), including mobile alerts for physicians and improved data export to EHRs.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“McKinsey & Co. said in 2010 that the global market for mobile health was worth about $50 billion, with $20 billion of that in the U.S. alone. ABI Research estimated that sales of wearable wireless devices would top 100 million units per year by 2016. GigaOM cites those findings, but attempts to explain why.
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Paula Rooney, ZDNet
“Is there a killer in the software code running millions of medical devices? GNOME Executive Director Karen Sandler, formerly of the Software Freedom Law Center, has been fighting to get this software opened up for inspection and review since she received her own implanted defibrillator in 2008.
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Hal Amens, EHR Bloggers
“The news about the FDA and breast implants and surgical mesh provided the impetus for this post and it may even prove to be a useful part of the resolution of questions about their safety. At the same time, it provides a model for other devices where safety is an open issue and for new medications and medical procedures that need to be tracked over time to fully prove their effectiveness and safety.
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BBC News
“Researchers in Germany have developed a microchip sensor that can be implanted close to a tumour to monitor its growth.
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Larry Husten, CardioBrief
“Remote monitoring of ICDs can reduce inappropriate shocks, but the overall clinical benefit and cost effectiveness of the technology has not yet been demonstrated, according to two new studies presented in Paris at the European Society of Cardiology meeting.
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Isaac Leung, Electronics News
“Medical electronics smacks of the future but is not a new discipline. Electronic devices have been supporting the frail human body for over five decades since the first artificial cardiac pacemaker was implanted in 1958. But, since the turn of the century, medical technology has accelerated dramatically.
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Melanie Adams, Daily Echo
“Millions of pounds have been given to Southampton’s heart experts to launch the first major study in revolutionary technology that promises to change the way patients are treated.
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Ferris Jabr, New Scientist
“It looks like a tiny white breath mint. “With this, we are going to bring the laboratory into the patient,” says Michael Cima at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The little capsule is in fact an innovative tool in the battle against cancer that can track the growth of a tumour without repeated invasive procedures.
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Melissae Fellet, NewScientist
“Tiny implanted sensors can indicate the severity of a heart attack in a mouse, even days after the damage happened. Similar sensors could one day be used to monitor people at high risk of having a heart attack, researchers say.
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Jeff Byers, CMIO
“Results from a clinical trial have produced the first positive, randomized findings for an implantable hemodynamic monitoring device in patients with moderately symptomatic heart failure where the addition of information about pulmonary artery pressure to clinical signs and symptoms allowed for improved heart failure management and led to a reduction in heart failure (HF)-related hospitalizations, according to the CHAMPION study published online Feb. 10 in the Lancet.
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Mariette DiChristina, Scientific American
“The machine-human connection ran like a titanium thread through several of today’s TED MED sessions.”
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Martin Bryant, The Next Web
“This week we reported on a system that will allow body organs to send health updates to their owners’ mobile phones, which can then be forwarded to doctors via the Internet. The reaction from readers was a mixture of “Wow, that’s amazing!” and “That’s frightening”.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“One of the knocks against all this great, new home-monitoring technology is that there hasn’t been enough scientific evidence of back-end savings to justify the added up-front expense. Slowly, that’s changing.
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Emily Singer, Technology Review
“Researchers have successfully tested a fully implantable glucose-monitoring device in pigs for nearly two years, according to new research published today in Science Translational Medicine.
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medGadget
“The Software Freedom Law Center, an open source advocacy legal group, has issues a paper claiming that the closed nature of the software running most implantable devices is a health risk.
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