Health Information Exchange networks (HIEs) aim to be the glue that binds electronic medical records and other health information repositories and sources (including mHealth) together — and there’s a substantial amount of stimulus money being thrown at HIEs to drive…
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Project HealthDesign team has awarded a total of $2.4 million to five research teams that each aim to determine how patient-recorded observations of daily living (ODLs) can be captured and included into clinical care.…
“There is a growing awareness of the opportunity that mobile has for healthcare,” Dr. John Mattison, assistant medical director and chief medical information officer (CMIO), Kaiser Permanente Southern California told MobiHealthNews in an interview at HIMSS 2010 in Atlanta last…
Verizon Wireless looks to enable point of care apps for mobile: “To give patients the best care possible, healthcare organizations must run efficiently, and real-time wireless communication is a powerful tool for meeting that challenge,” John Maschenic, director of healthcare…
By Bradley Merrill Thompson, Partner, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. “Under the Federal, Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, HIT software is a medical device.” That’s according to Dr. Jeff Shuren, the new director of the Device Center within FDA. Yikes.…
By Laurie Orlov, Aging In Place Technology Watch Apocalypse and opportunity — the bet is that we’re not going to age well. Our favorite gloom-and-doom source, CNBC, has offered up today’s Doomsday Boomer Prediction. Those boomers are going to be…
Last week at the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, on the one-year anniversary of the formation of the mHealth Alliance, Orange Healthcare announced that it had joined the mHealth Alliance. Orange plans to leverage the Alliance’s resources and partners…
Dr. Ted Eytan, the Medical Director for Delivery Systems Operations Improvement for the Permanente Federation, has penned an important post that offers up six distinctions between mobile health and eHealth — Eytan emphasized that these are not reasons that mHealth…
Intent is the new demographic – What the Mobile Web Means for Health: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn highlights how people use the mobile web and how that translates into action for the health world. [healthpopuli.com]
Behavioral Economics and Public Health at TED 2010:…
According to a recent survey conducted by Accenture and sponsored by the GSM Association, consumers are not only interested in embedded devices and services, like connected health services, but many believe that using them would enrich their lives. Their research…
