Fred Trotter, Forbes
“There are several potential “motivation hacks” that people regularly employ. The simplest of these is peer pressure. You could tell all of your co-workers every morning whether you kept your diet last night, for instance. Lots of research has shown that sort of thing is an effective motivator for change.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“The market for health and wellness has traditionally included over-the-counter medicines, gym memberships, and vitamins/minerals/supplements. In 2012, the boundaries of health/wellness are blurring beyond these line items toward preventive medical services and consumer electronics.
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Jeff Byers, HealthImaging
“Consumers are interested in communicating with their doctors via wireless devices, according to a study from Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
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Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“No matter how hard the Food and Drug Administration tries to find a middle ground between too much and too little regulation, it’s usually seen as the villain. When it implements strict rules on drug approval, for example, it’s condemned for slowing down the pipeline of lifesaving remedies. And when the agency loosens its grip, it’s blamed for deaths from unsafe drugs.
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Travis Good, KevinMD
“Social connectivity to engage patients has real the potential to impact health through improvements in lifestyle, the main driver of wellness. This is in increasingly shorter supply as we collectively increase pounds, cholesterol, and blood pressure readings.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“It seems like this topic keeps coming up in my online and social media reading. Basically, the discussion usually centers around the role the patient plays in healthcare. Many people like to discuss what has been called the ePatient. I instead want to talk about the motivations of patients and their ability to influence the healthcare system.
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Rob Sharp, The Independent
“Forget the bathroom scales. Those wishing to keep tabs on their health will soon be able to wear an “intelligent bracelet” to monitor their movement and food intake.
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John Sharp, HealthWorks Collective
“With thousands of smart phone apps related to health, few can doubt a continued growth in this market. After living with months of uncertainty about how the Food and Drug Administration might regulate these apps, a new announcement has provided a growth hormone for this sector (http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm263340.htm) .
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“According to the FDA’s mobile medical app draft regulatory guidelines, which it made public this morning, there are a handful of different types of health and medical apps that the agency specifically said would not be regulated under the proposed guidelines.
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matdx, reinventing healthcare
“Google just announced it will discontinue its personal health records service. The announcement mentions the Direct Project, which specifies standards for the exchange of health information.
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Healthcare IT News
“A new study from IBM shows that consumers have a growing appetite for health and wellness gadgets – representing a market opportunity for device manufacturers that has “barely been tapped.”
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Bitterman N. European Journal of Internal Medicine, 22(1)
Health care services are moving out to the community and into the home; e-health services, remote monitoring technology and self-management are replacing hospitalization and visits to medical clinics and custom-tailored medicines are making inroads into normative treatment. These developments have great implications for the scope and design of home health care equipment. The paper discusses the unique nature of home medical devices, from a human-environment-machine perspective, focusing on the nature of users, environment and tasks performed. We call for increased awareness and active continuous involvement of health care personnel together with bioengineers, human factors experts, architects, designers and end users–patients and caregivers–in defining the objectives of health care devices and services at home in terms of “all family” use, integrated into the overall surroundings (”smart home”), and as part of a collaborative patient-physician disease management team.
Healthcare IT News
“Aetna has announced a collaboration with Mindbloom, a Seattle-based social media company, that will offer plan members an enhanced version of Life Game, Mindbloom’s online social game for personal wellness.
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Ciara Byrne, Venture Beat
“Healthcare in the past effectively meant “sickcare” and revolved around physicians and hospitals. But mobile and sensor technologies have the potential to make healthcare a truly personalised and 24 hour affair. Think Scrubs meets the quantified self.
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Sara Disanto, research2guidance
“Interviews with mHealth app publishers indicate that making money with e.g. health tracking, fitness, compliancy and monitoring apps takes much more effort than most developers expected. Mobile health applications normally don’t show up in the top ranking lists in app stores.
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United Nations Foundation
Around the world, countless lives are lost due to insufficient access to quality health information. The availability of accurate, timely, and analyzed data is directly relevant to the quality of an individual’s health and the healthcare system in general, the delivery of individual care, and the understanding and management of overall health systems.
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MSN Health
“Multipurpose gadgets — from the dubious devices hawked on late-night television to reliable standbys like food processors — capture our fancy because they promise to save space, time, and money. The iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry are no exception.
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Unity Stoakes, Mashable
“Is your doctor easily accessible online, or does he or she believe that the Internet (Internet) isn’t a resource for accessing health information?
If it’s the latter, it may be time to find another doctor. With nearly 90% of online Americans searching the Internet for health resources, it’s likely you and your friends and family already use the Internet to research health issues.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Google Health has seemingly been stuck in neutral almost from the start. Despite the fanfare of Google’s Eric Schmidt speaking at the big industry confab, HIMSS a couple of years back, an initial beta release with healthcare partner Cleveland Clinic and a host of partners announced once the service was opened to the public in May 2008, Google Health just has not seemed to live up to its promise.
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Jen S McCabe, Health Management Rx
“Today you will notice something a bit different.
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