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Telemedicine standards tabled for later date
Date: Jun 08, 2010
It’s official: This past year's back-and-forth between CMS and The Joint Commission over whether or not CMS requirements for telehealth put an excessive burden on hospitals has led to a formal postponement of the accrediting body’s plan to implement CMS telemedicine standards for hospitals.
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mHealth in action
Date: Jun 07, 2010
Recently Rwanda's President Paul Kagame made good on a promise and over 2,200 health workers received free phones in hopes of improving health services delivery.
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Hospitals finding more uses for RFID
Date: Jun 04, 2010
As real time locating systems become the norm in hospital settings, we're seeing slightly more interesting uses of the technology start to emerge. As I recently wrote, one hospital in New York is evaluating the use of a telemonitoring system that leverages RFID smart labels to keep an eye on medication adherence in discharged heart failure patients. Now, Princeton Baptist Medical Center (PBMC) in Birmingham, Ala., is involved in a pilot study testing the use of RFID technology to monitor compliance with hand washing guidelines.
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Phone factor SDK to streamline Android app development?
Date: Jun 03, 2010
Last year, a team of engineers in Oulu, Finland set out to create an open-source mobile device platform for the OEM/ODM market. Now, the company they formed--Aava Mobile--has rolled out Virta Android, a hardware-enhanced software developer kit (h-SDK) for Android developers who want to write apps for smartphones and tablets running the newest Intel Atom Z6xx Series processors. Given the sheer volume of mobile apps available for healthcare's Blackberry and iPhone users, the arrival of this h-SDK could be significant as competition among devices makers continues to grow.
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Software developer favors iPad for docs
Date: Jun 02, 2010
If you're among those uncertain as to the iPad's place in healthcare, there's a company in Illinois that's set on changing your mind. Empower Systems is bringing its Empower ED and Empower Hospital + Office offerings to the Apple iPad. Touted as "software built by doctors for doctors," the company's apps can now be seamlessly accessed on the iPad from any location sporting Wi-Fi or 3G connectivity.
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CompuMed's telemedicine tech to drive Visio's mobile health expansion
Date: Jun 01, 2010
Ohio's largest provider of mobile x-ray and cardiac testing services has incorporated CompuMed's CardioGram and OsteoGram systems as core components of the Visio Mobile Diagnostics suite of telemedicine and digital x-ray-based healthcare services. Visio has begun rolling out CompuMed's digital telemedicine technology to hospitals, occupational and home health clients, as well as long-term care facilities in mobile and rural markets across Ohio.
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Pervasive connectivity a boon to mHealth?
Date: May 28, 2010
Much of the buzz coming out of the Open Mobile Summit in London yesterday stemmed from comments made by the European president of chip manufacturer Qualcomm, who's convinced that all portable devices will be connected to the internet in the future, marking a new chapter in the growth of mobile internet.
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RTLS still the hot ticket for healthcare
Date: May 27, 2010
Hospitals continue flocking to real time locating systems in an effort to cut costs and improve efficiencies. Whether they're located in Sioux Falls, S,D., or Sao Paulo, Brazil, healthcare organizations are getting serious about leveraging their standard Wi-Fi networks to track and manage the location, condition and status of mobile assets and people.
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A smaller tablet for healthcare?
Date: May 26, 2010
Just when the results to the latest MHW poll question suggest that the iPad may eventually prove a game-changer in healthcare, along comes Dell with news of a forthcoming Android device, which the computer maker plans to market as a tablet featuring a five-inch screen.
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Have healthcare CIOs put the brakes mobility efforts?
Date: May 25, 2010
We've seen the data from Juniper Research and others claiming significant savings can be had from remote patient monitoring over cellular networks. We've even seen the documentation showing how the implementation of smartphones in healthcare can save money and help prevent staffing shortages. But despite the fact that within the next five years, mobile phones, sensor technology, portable medical devices, and wireless health applications are bound to play a larger role in connecting patients with their healthcare providers, many healthcare CIOs have put off plans to accommodate this surge.
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Recent Posts
RFID system finds support
Pittsburgh-based ClearCount Medical Solutions has capped its latest round of funding at $5 million, which should go a long way towards driving market penetration and R&D for the SmartSponge and SmartWand systems. These solutions for hospital patient safety applications use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology and chips embedded in sponges to enable surgeons and nurses to detect and count sponges during operations. Read More
Date: Sep 02, 2010
Sutter Health banks on mobile app
The second largest healthcare system in Northern California has tapped the iTriage mobile app in a move to keep local patients supplied with data about doctors and nearby hospitals. Sutter Health, which spans 24 hospitals and a network of 4,700 physicians, hopes its patients will turn to the free download to view information such as a doctor's board certification or practice specialty, hours and office addresses, languages spoken, medical training and degrees, affiliations and referral networks, whether he or she accepts new patients, and what health plans are accepted. Read More
Date: Sep 01, 2010
Marketing deal to extend AirStrip OB reach
A collaboration between Alere Health and mobile medical software developer AirStrip Technologies should go a long way towards extending the reach of AirStrip OB software. Beginning Sept. 1, the new marketing agreement calls for Alere, through its Women & Children's Health division, to begin offering AirStrip OB to its healthcare provider client base in the U.S. Read More
Date: Aug 31, 2010
The numbers favor 'mPHRs'
With 50 percent of consumers saying they want a personal monitoring device prompting them to make improvements in their health, could a marriage between mobile devices and personal health records completely change the way health care is delivered in the United States? It can and it will, according to a brief issued by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Read More
Date: Aug 30, 2010
Pittsburgh-based ClearCount Medical Solutions has capped its latest round of funding at $5 million, which should go a long way towards driving market penetration and R&D for the SmartSponge and SmartWand systems. These solutions for hospital patient safety applications use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology and chips embedded in sponges to enable surgeons and nurses to detect and count sponges during operations. Read More
Date: Sep 02, 2010
Sutter Health banks on mobile app
The second largest healthcare system in Northern California has tapped the iTriage mobile app in a move to keep local patients supplied with data about doctors and nearby hospitals. Sutter Health, which spans 24 hospitals and a network of 4,700 physicians, hopes its patients will turn to the free download to view information such as a doctor's board certification or practice specialty, hours and office addresses, languages spoken, medical training and degrees, affiliations and referral networks, whether he or she accepts new patients, and what health plans are accepted. Read More
Date: Sep 01, 2010
Marketing deal to extend AirStrip OB reach
A collaboration between Alere Health and mobile medical software developer AirStrip Technologies should go a long way towards extending the reach of AirStrip OB software. Beginning Sept. 1, the new marketing agreement calls for Alere, through its Women & Children's Health division, to begin offering AirStrip OB to its healthcare provider client base in the U.S. Read More
Date: Aug 31, 2010
The numbers favor 'mPHRs'
With 50 percent of consumers saying they want a personal monitoring device prompting them to make improvements in their health, could a marriage between mobile devices and personal health records completely change the way health care is delivered in the United States? It can and it will, according to a brief issued by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Read More
Date: Aug 30, 2010
