Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“While laptop and notebook PCs are commonplace in the medical community, the next wave of mobile adoption is well under way as providers turn to tablets, smartphones and applications to increase productivity and improve patient care, according to CompTIA’s Third Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities study.
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Lisa Phifer, SearchHealthIT
“Mobility can improve the quality and cost of health care, from care-giver access to electronic health record (EHR) systems to more accurate order fulfillment and asset tracking. But it is imperative that health care organizations safeguard mobile devices and the sensitive regulated data they may carry. Here we explore mobile security best practices for the smartphones and tablets used by health care professionals.
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Claire Swedberg, RFID Journal
“At Barnes-Jewish Hospital, located in St. Louis, Mo., researchers are testing a ZigBee-based RFID sensor system that tracks patients’ vital signs. The solution provides hospital employees with data regarding the vital signs of patients moving about the facility, using a sensor attached to the finger, and a transmitter worn around the neck.
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Howard Larkin, H&HN Magazine
“Got kidney stones? There’s an app for that—and for just about every other clinical and administrative function. As mobile applications reshape health care, hospitals will be pressed to keep up.
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John Farrell, The Mobility Blog
“If the upside of mHealth is mobility, then the downside would have to be security. Smaller, more plentiful devices ultimately spell greater risk and, while we’re not about to ditch our mobiles, there are some basic considerations healthcare professionals should weigh heavily in the weeks leading up to adoption.
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EurActiv.com
“New EU laws allowing patients to travel across borders for health care will be key for the development of e-health services in Europe, according to policymakers. However, incompatible IT systems remain a major obstacle to fulfilling that promise.
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Ronan McGreevy, Irish Times
“The Nintendo Wii console has proved to be as efficient as conventional physiotherapy in helping elderly patients deal with severe mobility problems.
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Cora Sharma, Chilmark Research
“John mentioned in an earlier post, “Is the mHealth hype justified?” how the word ‘mHealth’ has acquired a broad, unwieldy set of definitions. The mHealth term is now practically useless (except as a buzzword).
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Ideaworks
“Researchers at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, have created a hi-tech robotic wheelchair that can be controlled with the power of thought. Well, not quite – the chair actually works by sharing control between a users’s brain and artificial intelligence. The scientists hope that their development will eventually give paralysed patients greater mobility.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The federal government’s stimulus investment in healthcare IT is not a panacea, primarily because during the last decade the healthcare industry failed to invest in technology innovation. For that reason, it will take two to three years for the healthcare industry to catch up to other industries such as retail and banking, a new report concludes.
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Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“Healthcare IT workers are among the biggest users of smart phones and other mobile technology, but addressing the security needs of such devices remains a critical concern, according to a survey released today.
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ZAMP Bionews
“Innovative smart sensing devices promise to boost mobility and quality of life for the elderly, reduce healthcare costs and even give sports people an edge through more effective training.
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Process & Control Today
“Mobility scooters could be fitted with tracking technology to help older and vulnerable people leave their homes without fear of getting lost.
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Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American
“Engineers can build autonomous vehicles capable of cruising city streets without the aid of a human driver, as demonstrated two years ago in the DARPA Urban Challenge.
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“Enterprise mobility has emerged as a top strategic initiative among leading health care organizations. The ability of a health care organization to connect the right information with the right caregiver regardless of location or circumstance, enterprise mobility has the potential to increase patient safety and caregiver efficiency. To benchmark the current state of adoption, Motorola’s Enterprise Mobility business conducted independent research among a representative sample of various decision-makers, the chief purchasers of mobility solutions and mobile workers within the health care industry.”
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Jeff Schou, HHNMostWired, 4 June 2008
“One of the big promises of health IT is that it will help improve health care by capturing vast amounts of data about treatments, procedures and payments.
Using electronic health record systems, registries, and other health IT systems, clinical data will be crunched to find how one treatment protocol performed against another. This data will also be used to make the case for re-orienting health care payment incentives toward preventive or chronic care and away from the acute care side of the ledger.”
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Paul McCloskey, Government Health IT, 11 March 2008
“A Turkish research consortium is developing a road map for e-health interoperability that would eventually link up the health information systems of EU Member States in a seamless web.
Researchers at the Software Research and Development Centre, based in the Middle East Technical University (METU), have found that Europeans are more mobile than ever before, but although European health services have introduced sophisticated electronic information management systems, they are often designed to work on a local level and are often not interoperable.”
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e-Health Europe, 11 February 2008
“Europeans are becoming more mobile and healthcare systems have to keep up. A research consortium is seeking to chart a road map for e-health interoperability that would eventually hook up the health information systems of Member States in a seamless web.
Europeans are more mobile than ever before, moving not only around their own countries, but also across a largely borderless EU, in pursuit of leisure, education, career advancement or cultural enrichment. In addition, healthcare has changed significantly, with fewer people sticking to the same doctor, more patients visiting different specialists, health workers moving around more, as well as the emergence of e-health technologies which allow remote treatment and consultations.”
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Science Centric, 7 January 2008
