Don Rosenthal, Thitse
“There are currently over 500,000 apps for the iPhone. Apple has written only a handful of those. How many would there be if Apple had to write a custom interface for every developer who wrote an app?
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Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider
“EMIS has re-launched its patient information website with a new look and plans for a a series of apps; including one that will let patients book an appointment from their smartphone.
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Apiscam
“Tras la guerra por la puesta en marcha de los sistemas de historia clínica electrónica, que ha motivado el lanzamiento masivo y descoordinado de proyectos por parte de todos los servicios de salud, y la tardía intervención del Ministerio de Sanidad con un proyecto de historia clínica nacional
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Beatriz Roselló, Diario Médico
“El médico de primaria se enfrenta con varias dificultades en la consulta, entre ellas, llegar a un diagnóstico en poco tiempo y no siempre con toda la información necesaria.
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rteston, Buzz e-sante
“BePATIENT se positionne comme une plateforme « eSanté » permettant d’accompagner, de former, d’animer, de fédérer et d’évaluer des communautés de patients volontaires, patients-experts et professionnels de santé, prioritairement dans le cadre des maladies chroniques et de leur prévention.
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Peter Murray, Singularity Hub
“What a great place that Singularity University is. Smart, motivated people coming together to make the world a better place through technology. This past summer a group of talented students put their heads together to tackle the Global Health grand challenge. What they came up with was a hardware platform built into a t-shirt for which developers might design sensory applications.
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e-Health-com News
“Für chronisch kranke Menschen kann das Leben vielfältige Herausforderungen bereithalten – ganz besonders dann, wenn die Patienten an so genannten „seltenen Erkrankungen“ leiden, über die oftmals sogar Fachleute nur wenig wissen.
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Dave Chase, Forbes
“In 2006, Microsoft acquired a health care computing system called Amalga, which aggregates health care data so doctors and hospitals can draw broader conclusions and patients can use it for better care.
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Tuijn CJ et al, PLoS ONE, 6(12)
Objective
To determine the feasibility of using mobile phones for capturing microscopy images and transferring these to a central database for assessment, feedback and educational purposes.
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Brita Van Fossen, Health IT Pulse
“In recent weeks, the idea of collaboration has been fresh on the minds of health care leaders. The accountable care organizations (ACO) model, recently discussed at length at the Partners Healthcare Connected Health Symposium 2011, endorses the idea of collaborative care and communication among primary care providers, emergency service providers and patients themselves.
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Julie M. McKinnon, Toledo Blade
“Ever wanted to look over your medical records or prescription history from home? Or wished you could shoot off an email at 2 a.m. with a question for your doctor that doesn’t need an immediate response? How about schedule an appointment by finding a free spot that will work into your week without making a telephone call during office hours?
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Darry Marengere Perspective
“Two platforms for eHealth or electronic health records (EHR) in Canada were announced today; their announcement coincided with the opening of the Health Achieve program in Toronto organized by the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA).
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Keith W. Boone, Healthcare Standards
“One of the challenges many face in their evaluation of Electronic Health Records is the treatment of an EHR as an application that provides all necessary functionality out of the box, rather than a platform that enables it.
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Soma Ghoshal, Health Market Innovations
“mHealth is a rapidly developing field, with new technologies, programs, organizations, and ideas emerging around the world every day. Challenges of reaching scale, interoperability and achieving efficient resource pooling have affected many in the field.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Since it’s founding five years ago Dossia has been able to entice only four companies more to join. Dossia is not exactly setting the world on fire and reeling in the multitude of large self-insured employers to its ranks, which is particularly disturbing in light of the fact that virtually all employers are struggling with reining in spiraling healthcare benefit costs.
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Jeff Livingston, KevinMD
“I commented on a blog post recently that cited a recent study called “Secure web messaging between patients and doctors: Not well received.” I was pleased to see that other professionals who left comments had the same reaction I did to the study: it is simply not accurate.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Following closely on the ill-fated demise of Google Health, fellow Personal Health Platform (PHP) provider Dossia announced last week a major upgrade of their platform with the release of Dossia Health Manager.
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Brian T. Horowitz, eWeek
“With Google Health about to shutter, nonprofit Dossia is taking a contrary position by launching the latest version of Dossia Health Manager, a consumer PHR (personal health record) platform offered by employers.
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Mónica Martín, ABC
“El proyecto «Gestión del conocimiento biomédico en la nube», presentado hoy en el Hospital Clínico San Carlos (HCSC), ha sido promovido por la empresa española Abadía, con la participación de dicho hospital y el respaldo de importantes compañías como Madrid Network, Banco Santander/Universia y NEC; además del aval de sociedades científicas, instituciones académicas y entidades sanitarias.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“This morning the US Food and Drug Administration offered up a set of draft guidelines for how it might regulate certain mobile medical apps. While this set of guidelines was years in the making, it became clear a few months ago that the FDA would publish draft guidelines around this time. The FDA is seeking comments on these guidelines between now and October 19.
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