Bridging the health information gap with SMS
So, the federal government has kicked off a text messaging campaign aimed at arming expectant mothers with pregnancy related health information. If the news item got you thinking of creating bigger and better ways to leverage SMS technology in an effort to bridge the gap between medical experts and health information consumers, you’re probably onto something. Read More
Date: Feb 05, 2010  
Providers flocking to telehealth
In the wake of news that Boston’s MassGeneral Hospital for Children has implemented a new video program that puts doctors at the patient’s bedside 24/7—and another article showing how California has saved its taxpayers $13 million by using telemedicine to offset inmate transportation costs within the state’s prison system—Nashville, Tenn.-based SunCrest Healthcare has chosen Philips to supply telehealth monitors for its home care patients. Read More
Date: Feb 04, 2010  
RPM vendor hones MPoC sales strategy
One of the earlier developers of mobile point-of-care technologies is getting ready to swing for the fences. AirStrip Technologies, which has built a suite of products in various stages of development for mobile devices, just named a chief sales officer to drive its RPM business. Read More
Date: Feb 03, 2010  
Health IT: Standards, Social Media, Micro Screens
This post is an attempt to gather feedback in order to interact with and better inform our readers. First, some background: I became a blogger because I'm a buttinski. My schooling placed an emphasis on organizational communication and most of my day-to-day work has involved using Web-based tools to help firms with internal knowledge management challenges. This has produced an eye toward a systems view to problem solving--and an inkling that folks in certain sectors, for example, healthcare IT, were talking past one another as they were creating solutions. Read More
Date: Feb 02, 2010