Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“Overweight people who make use of web-based virtual coaches show more commitment to improving their health than those who don’t, according to a new study by the Center for Connected Health and Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Eric Wicklund, mHIMSS
“One of the critical challenges to the successful adoption of patient-centered healthcare is ensuring that the patient adheres to his or her medication requirements. This means taking the right mediation in the right dose at the right time, with the right outcomes.
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Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare
“As fast as the tidal wave of mHealth innovations is rising, so too are the complaints about its potential ill effects. Security breaches, distracted doctors, patients gaining access to information they can’t understand … critics’ voices are getting louder on a host of fronts.
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Derek Spalding, timescolonist.com
“Michelle Ferguson tried to avoid it, but the rapid onslaught of nausea took its toll on her body when she suddenly vomited in the back seat of a school bus last weekend.
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John DeGaspari, Healthcare Informatics
“The wide availability of smart phones and the ever-growing number of apps (many of them free) that are accompanying them, has certainly put more tools for self-improvement than ever in the hands of everyday users. I believe that this is one area that this is having a profound impact is in healthcare.
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Daniela Hirschfeld, SciDev Net
“The informal information source, Twitter, was yielding data that would have been a quicker way of detecting and tracking the deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti than traditional methods, according to a study.
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“A small FDA survey of nine hospitals found that the most popular use cases for RFID (radio frequency identification) technology are infusion pumps, portable monitors, wheelchairs, beds, and ventilators. Eight of the nine hospitals surveyed use RFID or RTLS (real time location services) technologies.
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Cory Schultz, iMedicalApps
“AT&T is typically recognized as a company that provides mobile phones, broadband, and other cloud based services to the general public.
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“Electronic health record vendor Meditech and real-time location system (RTLS) vendor Awarepoint have collaborated on a product that integrates RTLS with EHRs to help hospitals run their emergency departments.
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Emily P. Walker, MedPage Today
“State health departments have made steady progress in implementing electronic systems to track and share data on the prevalence of diseases, but states use varying tracking systems that may not work together as well as they should, according to a report from the CDC.
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Sarah Kessler, Mashable
“When the first cases of swine flu were detected in the spring of 2009, Twitter helped to inflame the panic that spread well ahead of the disease. The idea that anything useful could be mined from the flood of tweets reacting to the nascent threat was widely dismissed.
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Frank Irving, EHRWatch
“Thanks to new PC-based software, patients living with cancer can track, organize document, monitor and share information associated with their illness, treatment and recovery.
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Jordan Calmes, NPR
“Twitter may turn out to be a great tool for tracking epidemics and how people deal with them.
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Hal Amens, EHR Bloggers
“Cloud-based, integrated electronic health records (EHR or EMR) systems provide a new paradigm for the collection and use of data for long term research about drugs and devices after FDA approval — commonly referred to as Phase IV testing.
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Haydn Bush, H&HN Daily
“Would you let a doctor have access to data about the frequency of your teenager’s text messages and phone calls if it allowed him to potentially predict negative health events?
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Rosie Lombardi, Technology for Doctors Online
“Twitter allows millions of social media fans to comment in 140 characters or less on just about anything: an actor’s outlandish behavior, an earthquake’s tragic toll or the great taste of a grilled cheese sandwich. But by sifting through this busy flood of banter, is it possible to also track important public health trends? Two Johns Hopkins University computer scientists would respond with a one-word tweet: “Yes!”
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Sue Dunlevy, The Australian
“IT cuts admissions to intensive care units by half, reduces patient deaths and the time spent in hospital. But no Australian hospital will adopt an electronic patient tracking system developed here. Instead, it is being sold overseas.
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Laurie Orlov, Aging In Place Technology Watch
“Evolving technology for an aging population – is evolving. Most who are in and around the tech and aging market would agree that this market is s-l-o-w-l-y emerging, offering up fairly complex tech, equally complex sales channel structures, and a pricing model that begs for (but doesn’t get) insurance reimbursement. Research centers (like Stanford’s or the MIT AgeLab) and consortia like LeadingAge contemplate the tech futures of helpful robotics, smart homes, devices to shore up memory loss, and cars that could take the worry out of whether we can see, hear, or hold a wheel well enough to drive, never mind remember where we are going.
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chiscosayans, doctordoctores
“Investigadores de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) participan en el desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías con redes inalámbricas de sensores que permiten el despliegue de servicios de eSalud para incrementar el bienestar e independencia de personas ancianas y enfermas.
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Johanna Weidner, The Record
“Ensuring children get the right vaccinations at the right time can be confusing and frustrating for parents.
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