May 18, 2012
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski, recently joined healthcare IT vendors GE Healthcare (Chalfont, St. Giles, U.K.) and Philips Healthcare (Andover, Mass.) to unveil a proposal that would allow for allow greater use of spectrum for Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) devices. These devices can be used for technologies like wireless patient monitoring, which allow healthcare providers to check on a patient outside a hospital setting.
May 17, 2012 Susan Heichert, Mary Bear-Dukes, and Dawn Mitchell
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Some hospitals and health systems are looking to extend their own EMR solutions to independent hospitals and clinics. The practice became possible with the relaxation of anti-kickback statutes in 2006, but the sense of urgency has heightened in today’s environment. In fact, some organizations are even implementing new EMR solutions internally while extending the same solution to private practices simultaneously.
May 15, 2012
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A new report from healthcare market and advisory firm Manhattan Research indicates physicians’ device and digital media adoption is increasing at a much faster than anticipated rate, especially when it comes to tablets. The study surveyed 3,015 U.S. practicing physicians online in Q1 2012 across more than 25 specialties and found physician tablet adoption for professional purposes almost doubled since 2011, reaching 62 percent in 2012.
May 7, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In this podcast, Healthcare Informatics Assistant Editor Gabriel Perna talks with Deloitte’s senior advisor for healthcare transformation and technology, Harry Greenspun, M.D. on the subject of mobile health (mHealth) and patient engagement. Dr. Greenspun talked about how these two issues interconnect, how mHealth must evolve to properly engage patients, and how payment reimbursements play into everything.
May 2, 2012
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A new report from the Cambridge, Mass.-based research and consulting firm, Fuld & Company, has concluded that those looking to gain share in the growing mobile health (mHealth) market will have to find partners to cater to the affluent Baby Boomer generation and their caregivers.
April 23, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Last week, HCI Assistant Editor Gabriel Perna spoke with Deloitte’s senior advisor for healthcare transformation and technology, Harry Greenspun, M.D., to talk about the opportunities and challenges in mobile health (mHealth), and where the industry is headed. Part two of this interview series covers other opportunities in mHealth, including the appealing area of remote patient monitoring. Greenspun also discusses some of the difficulties that will lie ahead for mHealth developers and stakeholders.
April 16, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In a two-part interview series, Deloitte’s senior advisor for health care transformation and technology, Harry Greenspun, M.D., talks about the opportunities and challenges in mHealth, and where the industry is headed. Part 1 of the interview covers healthcare’s general mobile appeal, the possibilities and problems with 4G, and where regulatory factors play in.
April 5, 2012
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Allscripts, the Chicago-based EHR software provider, has introduced an application that will bring its EHR to the iPad. The app, Allscripts Wand, will aim to help physicians review charts quickly before entering the exam room, input real-time information like vitals and medications from the exam room, and access EHR information after hours.
March 29, 2012
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A web-based application that helps users create personal heart health profiles named THUMPr won the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) “One in a Million Hearts Challenge.” The winner was announced by Farzad Mostashari, M.D, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Conference in Chicago.
March 22, 2012
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A new study from research firm Deloitte (New York, N.Y.) indicates that approximately 78 percent of mobile industry executives say that healthcare is the greatest opportunity for the mobile industry in terms of 4G services. This represents more than any other industry, with the retail and financial industries coming in behind healthcare.
March 20, 2012
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued a challenge to developers to design web-based applications that use Twitter to track health trends in real time. The hope is health officials will use knowledge of these trends to figure out emerging health issues and a warning of public health emergencies in a community.
March 19, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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At the Mobile Devices Roundtable last Friday, a common theme emerged from the discussion that security policies haven’t quite caught up to technology. The gathering of public and industry leaders was sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), to foster conversation around securing and protecting health information while using mobile devices.
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