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.
December 3, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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According to a new survey from the analytics arm of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), HIMSS Analytics, roughly 66 percent of health IT leaders responding to a survey say mobile technology would substantially or dramatically change the future of patient care delivery. The survey, the 2nd Annual HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey, found that respondents believe mobile health (mHealth) will benefit patient care mostly in pharmacy management.
November 13, 2012 David Raths
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Mobile health solution helping identify community-wide asthma triggers that can be improved or eliminated
November 12, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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The Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Consumer Advisory Committee recently made recommendations to the government agency’s mobile health (mHealth) Task Force and the FCC itself to address the needs of underserved people and those with disabilities. The recommendations come a few months after the Task Force, a group of academic, industry, and government leaders focused on deploying mHealth, came out with several specific recommendations of their own to the FCC.
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.
November 8, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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According to Pew Internet Research, a project of the Washington D.C.-based non-profit organization Pew Research Center, one out of three (31 percent) cell phone owners have used their phone to look for health information. In the same survey two years ago, this number was only at 17 percent. Pew attributes this growth to the fact more people have bought smartphones over this two year period.
October 29, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Researchers from the University of Michigan Pediatric Trauma Program and its Michigan NeuroSport program have created a mobile phone app that aims to help concussion patients track their activities and symptoms. The app, called Return2Play, will allow athletes who suffer concussions to enter the date and details of their injury, and the it helps them track through recovery.
October 25, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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According to new research from the Orem, Utah-based research firm, KLAS, healthcare providers are increasingly adopting mobile devices to access patient information, even though they are expressing data security concerns. The research from KLAS, titled Mobile Applications: Can Enterprise Vendors Keep Up?, looked at various issues surrounding the mobile health (mHealth) trend in the industry, using the insights of more than 100 providers.
October 19, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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The World Health Organization (WHO) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are launching a global mobile health (mHealth) initiative, aimed at using text messaging and apps to combat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases.
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 27, 2012 Joe Marion
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There is a degree of complexity and issues facing healthcare providers as they wrestle with the changing regulatory environment. Both facilities and equipment providers are wrestling with moving off of Windows XP as support is quickly ending. It is more extensive than the operating system, as browser versions can be just as big a problem. It is sort of a catch 22 though. If IT vendors begin delivering applications that are supported on newer operating systems/browsers, but the facility’s update plans are not consistent, will the consequence be an inability to deploy technology necessary for ARRA/MU compliance?
