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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Kho ME et al, Journal of Critical Care, 2011
Background
Early rehabilitation in the intensive care unit (ICU) improves patients’ physical function. Despite reports of using commercially available interactive video game systems for rehabilitation, there are few data evaluating feasibility and safety as part of routine in-patient rehabilitation, particularly in the ICU.
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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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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“Physiotherapists from NHS Suffolk have created an online system to help them assess patients and increase the speed of their treatment.
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New Scientist
“When Ross Clark read in New Scientist (29 March 2008, p 26) that the US military considered the Nintendo Wiimote controller accurate enough to control bomb disposal robots, it set him thinking. Could the Wii’s skiing and snowboarding attachment, the balance board, help rehabilitate people who have had a stroke?
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Medicalfacts
“Op het FysioCongres 2009 is het Fysio-EPD, Incura genaamd geïntroduceerd. Onder die naam heeft de Winbase Groep op basis van het VitalHealth Platform een nieuw webbased EPD voor fysiotherapeuten ontwikkeld. Het programma omvat een compleet zorginhoudelijk patiëntendossier en is workflow-gestuurd, conform de eisen van het KNGF Fysio-EPD en voorbereid op het landelijk EPD.
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