Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“For a number of years now NASA Ames scientist Jing Li has been hard at work developing what Gizmodo recently called the “greatest phone accessory of all time.” The tech publication had an exclusive look Li’s gadget, a postage-sized chip with 32 nanosensor bars, each made up of a different nano-structure material that can respond to different chemicals in different ways.
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Spring Wise
“It wasn’t long ago that we covered MobiUS’s use of smartphone technology to provide portable ultrasound imaging, and recently we came across a related innovation.
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Nrip Nihalani, HealthWorks Collective
“By providing the latest evidence based medicine updates at the point-of-care, Smartphones are proving to be a very important tool for improving quality of healthcare.
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Ralf-Gordon Jahns and Grace Gair, research2guidance
“The smartphone application market for mobile healthcare will reach US$ 1.3 billion in 2012 – up from US$ 718 million in 2011. Despite this substantial growth, the mHealth market is still in an embryonic state – especially in comparison to the US$ 6 trillion of the overall global healthcare market.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Last week we noted that Massachusetts General Hospital had tapped Voalte to distribute iPhones to its nurses. This week the New York Times also published a feature on how smartphones have become increasingly essential tools for students at nursing schools. The Times discussed the trend with a handful of professors and students at nursing schools across the country.
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Reuters
“Tired of long waits at the hospital for medical tests? If Korean researchers have their way, your smartphone could one day eliminate that — and perhaps even tell you that you have cancer.
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Won BY, Park HG. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 51(3)
Touchscreen testing: A biomolecular detection platform is presented that utilizes a capacitive touchscreen to measure DNA concentration.
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Kaiser Permanente
“Kaiser Permanente already has the largest electronic medical record system in the world. Today, the health care organization announced that 9 million Kaiser Permanente patients now can easily access their own medical information anywhere in the world on mobile devices through a mobile-optimized website.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Kaiser Permanente announced today that its nearly 9 million patients can now securely access their electronic medical records (EMRs) from a new, free mobile app on their Android devices or from other mobile devices via a mobile-optimized site.
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Anne Zieger, Hospital EMR and EHR
“To date, few hospital IT administrators have whole hog into supporting Apple devices, though many facilities are testing them out. Most testers have found that neither the smartphone nor the tablet work well as clinical data entry devices, and some have actually ended i-whatever pilots when doctors refused to use them.
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Peter Rinck, AuntMinnieEurope
“A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column about LBMs (little black machines). The article had so many clicks that I wondered what attracted such a wide audience to read it. There was no outcry; people seem to know and accept that the ever-sprawling use of mobile phones in front of others can be ill-mannered and antisocial.
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Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare
“A new study by more than a half-dozen major universities around the world has confirmed that at least two conditions, apnea and pneumothorax, can be identified remotely using an iPhone with an ultrasound attachment.
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McBeth PB et al, The Journal of Trauma, 71(6)
BACKGROUND:
Apnea (APN) and pneumothorax (PTX) are common immediately life-threatening conditions. Ultrasound is a portable tool that captures anatomy and physiology as digital information allowing it to be readily transferred by electronic means. Both APN and PTX are simply ruled out by visualizing respiratory motion at the visceral-parietal pleural interface known as lung sliding (LS), corroborated by either the M-mode or color-power Doppler depiction of LS. We thus assessed how economically and practically this information could be obtained remotely over a cellular network.
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Anja Stagge, Healthcare meets Social Media…
“Eine große Mehrheit der Unternehmen aus der Gesundheitswirtschaft sehen mhealth-Anwendungen als einen innovativen Weg Gesundheitsdienstleistungen anzubieten. Als Folge erhöhte sich der Smartphone-Applikation basiert mHealth Markt um den Faktor 7 bis US $ 718 Millionen im Jahr 2011 zu erreichen.
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John Tozzi, Bloomberg Businessweek
“In 2009, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave a dorm full of students smart phones and tracked where they went, whom they called and texted, and at what times they communicated.
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Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“A couple weeks ago, a certain editor proclaimed that personal health record (PHR) services ranked among the health IT trends not to watch in 2012, largely because patients seem reticent to use them.
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Peter Rinck, AuntMinnieEurope
“There are certain images we register unconsciously, with the precision of a camera, and they return into our minds every so often, quite clearly, almost as a déjà vu.
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Kevin B. O'Reilly, amednews
“Physicians are accustomed to dealing with interruptions of all kinds — nurses with questions, phone calls from the pharmacy, incoming test results. With recent surveys showing that more than 80% of doctors carry smartphones and about a third use iPads or other tablet computers, some doctors are raising concerns about the capacity of these always-with-you devices to cause new distractions that could hurt patients.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“The number of physicians using smartphones has reached a near-saturation point. Meanwhile, the number of data breaches is going up.
Coincidence? Leading experts think not.
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Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“At the close of the third annual mHealth Summit, held Dec. 5-7 in Washington, D.C., keynote speakers highlighted the vast impact mobile phones and other mobile devices are having — and will continue to have — on healthcare delivery in the United States and worldwide.
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