December 11, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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The Health IT Policy Committee met for their monthly meeting this week in Washington and during an extensive review and update on projects and programs, ONC announced they were taking preliminary steps to establish a subcommittee on HIT and ACOs. The subcommittee would be charged with making recommendations to the HITPC on how health IT can support the business needs of accountable care models.
December 7, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In a recent webinar, an analyst for Frost & Sullivan talked about how thanks to a variety of factors, there has never been a better opportunity for mHealth applications to change the way chronic diseases are treated. After listening to this webinar, I can’t say I disagree.
December 4, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Congressman Mike Honda (D-Calif.) recently introduced possible legislation that would aim to remove barriers in wireless health and establish a mobile health (mHealth) framework program at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “to help mobile application developers build their devices in line with current privacy regulations.” The bill, H.R. 6626, The Healthcare Innovation and Marketplace Technologies Act (HIMTA), would also establish grants to help providers in retraining their employees into new positions that use health IT.
December 4, 2012 David Raths
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On Dec. 4, the team of researchers at IDC Health Insights unveiled their predictions about hot trends for 2013, many of which have implications for CIOs and CMIOs at hospitals and health systems.
December 3, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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According to a new study from the Menlo Park, Calif.-based research and advisory firm, Spyglass Consulting Group, 69 percent of nurses at hospitals say they are using their smartphones for personal and clinical communications on the job. The report, “Point of Care Computing for Nursing 2012,” looked at the insights of more than 100 nurses working in acute care environments and found that the devices are helping them “fill in critical communication gaps” that come from the technologies provided by hospital IT.
November 27, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In healthcare, there are many places where that saying applies. For instance, the journey of an engaged population begins with a single informed patient. But how do you get from the beginning to the end – or at least some semblance of engagement? NeHC has created a guide to do just that.
November 21, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Reed Smith, an independent strategic consultant for hospitals and founder of the start-up Social Health Institute, recently looked at how 13 different hospitals were using Facebook from May to August of this year. What he found was a gap between what actually gets patients engaged on the platform and what hospitals are doing currently. He spoke with HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna to talk about the results of the study.
November 12, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In this podcast, Carl Fleming, senior advisor at the consultancy firm, Impact Advisors talks with Associate Editor Gabriel Perna about the latest developments in tablets and how it could effect healthcare. Specifically, they talk how well equipped the latest tablets from Microsoft, the Surface, and Apple, the iPad Mini, are for a healthcare setting. Fleming likes Microsoft’s chances in healthcare because of its past success in enterprise, and the Surface’s key board, which he says, will be easy for physicians to take notes on.
October 29, 2012 David Raths
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The average 14-year-old boy spends 23 hours per week playing video games. Are there ways for healthcare providers to put that predilection to educational use?
October 4, 2012 Eric Mueller
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Consumers along with physicians and nurses now use devices for both personal and professional purposes. Clinicians are bringing their own mobile devices (BYODs) in droves to work to communicate with each other about patients, exchange data and access medical apps. With such fast-paced changes in the mobile medical world, the BYOD movement has raised serious privacy, security and liability risks for providers.
October 2, 2012
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According to Frost & Sullivan, a Mountain View, Calif.-based research firm, the mobile health (mHealth) industry has significant opportunity for growth thanks to the rise of personalized and preventative medicine, the rapid advancements in IT, and the “ubiquity of cellular phones and mobile-enabled monitoring technologies.”
September 26, 2012
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded Leap of Faith Technologies (Chicago) a $1,021,296 grant to further develop eMedonline, its software-as-service (SAS) mHealth platform for mobile medication therapy management (MTM) and care transition that improves medication adherence, monitors outcomes, and provides data mining opportunities for drug surveillance and research.
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