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Is HR holding back mHealth?
Date: May 24, 2010
I saw a job announcement this week from a supplier of revenue and payment cycle solutions requiring the desired M&A strategist to relocate to the city of the company's headquarters. I immediately thought, "Why?" I reviewed the duties, and they can be completed anywhere. It dawned upon me that mHealth will never advance beyond the vision of the HR department.
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Cell phones as medication sensors
Date: May 21, 2010
Nyack Hospital in New York is evaluating the use of a telemonitoring system called eMedoline, which leverages RFID smart labels to monitor medication adherence in discharged heart failure patients.
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RPM over cellular gains traction
Date: May 20, 2010
As I wrote back in March, it's a good time to be researching the mobile health IT space. But it's a particularly good time to be actively addressing chronic disease management with mobile point of care technologies, since most of the predictions made by early entrants to the field appear to be panning out.
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Consolidating devices in healthcare
Date: May 19, 2010
Healthcare organizations have been slowly but surely swapping their outdated pagers for smartphones in an effort to keep in step with increasingly mobile workforces. But if hospital CIOs aren’t yet enjoying the UC utopia promised by mHealth vendors and healthcare reformists alike, they may be drawing a step closer—at least if unified communications vendor Amcom has anything to say about it.
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Study, grants to push RPM uptake
Date: May 18, 2010
Sure, RPM technologies have been demonstrated effective in helping to manage chronic disease, post-acute care and monitoring the safety of older adults. But a new report issued by the Center for Technology and Aging claims the savings to be had from RPM's widespread implementation across the U.S. health care system could near $200 billion over the next 25 years.
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Tennessee flood brings mHealth insights
Date: May 17, 2010
While I strive to be data-driven in my blogging, I think being a participant in the Tennessee Floods of May, 2010 may have taken the testing of the eHealth paradigm a bit too far. The experience comes with priceless wisdom.
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Mobile PERS a sign of things to come?
Date: May 14, 2010
The upcoming roll-out of a mobile Personal Emergency Response Service (PERS) is being touted as a harbinger of major advancement in connected location-based services.
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Telehealth partnership aims to extend access to health info
Date: May 13, 2010
An expanded partnership effort between Brookfield, Wis.-based Honeywell HomMed and French mHealth solutions vendor eDevice could increase the benefits of telehealth monitoring for patients and healthcare providers by delivering greater access to health information utilizing existing network coverage at the patient's location.
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Canadian hospitals look to RTLS
Date: May 12, 2010
One of Canada's largest regional acute care hospitals is deploying RTLS technology to better manage emergency department real-time patient flow across two locations.
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Looking ahead to wireless RPM
Date: May 11, 2010
Wireless transmitters that send data from patients’ implanted cardiac devices to physicians are becoming more prevalent, even if the device makers seem set on keeping such transmissions within their own families of devices.
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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
