June 17, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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California Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA) continues to advocate for health IT, as he reintroduced a bill that would aim to promote various technologies in the industry through marketplace incentives, grants, and increased workforce retraining.
June 14, 2013 John DeGaspari
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The challenge of interoperability will be an issue for hospital systems of all sizes for as long as clinicians find an increasing array of mobile devices at their disposal. San Francisco-based Dignity Health, formerly Catholic Healthcare West, with 39 hospitals and approximately 300 care centers in California, Arizona and Nevada, has stepped up to the challenge by implementing a mobility platform that integrates and presents data from disparate sources to physicians’ mobile devices.
June 13, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Two reports from AmericanEHR Partners— an online resource designed to aid the medical community with the selection and use of electronic health records— suggest that tablets are of greater use for clinical purposes than smartphones, based on a survey of nearly 1,400 physicians.
June 4, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Kaiser Permanente has announced the launch of its first application programming interface program, Interchange by Kaiser Permanente. The secure program enables easy collaboration between Kaiser Permanente and application developers to improve healthcare and health-related experiences in ways that never before have been possible, according to Kaiser officials.
May 30, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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There is a growing market for mobile device electronic health record (EHR) applications as physician users look to replace current ineffective systems, according to recent research from Black Book Rankings, a Clearwater, Fla.-based research firm.
May 23, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Healthcare organizations trying to reduce the rate of medical errors often overlook a common but important factor within their systems—communication between physicians, nurses, and clinical care staff. To help fix this issue that could end up being very costly—both financially and clinically—New York City-based Mount Sinai Medical Center has adopted an enterprise-grade care-coordination mobile app designed to improve communication between clinicians.
May 9, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The mHealth Alliance, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit organization, has announced a framework that aims to use mobile health (mHealth) technologies as a way to better understand better understand gender inequity in low-and-middle-income countries. The Gender Analytical Framework, as it is being called, aims to help people better understand the nuances of gender issues, as well as gaps related to gender.
May 9, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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The New York-based Mount Sinai Medical Center has adopted an enterprise-grade mobile care-coordination mobile app which employs a special HIPAA-secure group text messaging system that improves communication between team members who coordinate care of patients with complex medical conditions.
May 3, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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According to research from the New York City-based research firm, ABI Research, there is a rich market for medical body area network (MBAN) sensors, and by 2018, five million will be shipped globally. MBANs are low-power wideband networks consisting of multiple body-worn sensors that transmit a variety of data to a control device.
May 1, 2013 By Gabriel Pern
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently recognized the developers of an app that aims to help individuals manage their family’s health through customized prevention information for each family member. The app, created the San Carlos, Calif.-based app developer Lyfechannel, is called myfamily. It won the federal government’s healthfinder.gov “Mobile App Challenge,” which challenged developers to design a mobile app that made healthfinder.gov content customizable and easy for prevention care planning.
April 30, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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According to the results of a study from researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, sending a child with asthma a text message that prods them on their symptoms and help them better understand the condition can improve outcomes.
April 23, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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As the third anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster just recently passed, a new mobile health program is launching to help address the still lingering health issues for residents of parishes affected by the spill.
