NOT science fiction.
A Bluetooth heart monitor could text your local hospital if you are about to have a heart attack, according to research published in Inderscience’s International Journal of Electronic Healthcare. The device measures electrical signals from the heart, analyses them to produce an electrocardiogram (ECG) and sends an alert together with the ECG by [...]
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Although a bit late, I’d like to share perspectives from the latest Healthcare Unbound conference. The conference took place in San Francisco on July 16 and 17 and attracted 400 attendees with a rich blend of business, information technology, and clinical backgrounds.
PowerPoint from Opening Keynote
Here’s a copy of the PowerPoint for my opening keynote presentation. My colleague and [...]
Dear readers,
Thanks for your interest and feedback on my recent posting Connecting the Dots…Google Health Promises to Create AND Dominate Next Generation PHRs.
Despite being over 3,500 words long, this essay has quickly become the #1 most widely read posting on my blog. It continues to generate several hundred views per day and has been linked to [...]
Google Health (GH) could be the event of the decade in advancing health care reform — not just healthcare information technology (HIT) reform, but health care system reform. GH promises simultaneously to create AND dominate the market for next generation personal health records (PHRs). There is nothing else in our solar system or in the [...]
The ever concise and articulate David Williams is hosting the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Check it out at his Health Business Blog.
From Christine Chen at the Foreign Policy Blog:
…a group of public health insurance officials in Osaka are trying a new way of combat in the battle of the bulge. Dieters can use their cell phones to take photos of meals they’re about to eat, and then send the photos to a health expert who can [...]
Last January I signed up at Revolution Health’s website to take a look at the types of personal health tools that the company was making available. Revolution Health Group is Steve Case’s “consumer-centric health company founded to transform how people improve their health by putting consumers at the center of the health system, with better choices, more convenience [...]
An article in Wireless Week announces the creation of a new species: a health care MVNO named LifeComm. LifeComm promises to move disease management, wellness, and fitness into new territories.
What is a MVNO?
More acronyms! What is a MVNO? A Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) is a mobile operator that does not own its own spectrum and usually does [...]
Over the years, there have been a number of meta-analyses examining hundreds of studies relating to effectiveness of RPM. The latest one of these is Systematic Review of Home Telemonitoring for Chronic Diseases: The Evidence Base, published in the May/June 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
My colleague Tim Gee, [...]
Now that Medicare’s future direction for chronic care management has become murky, I’ve started to pay more attention to the many other demonstration/pilot projects that Medicare has in the works relating to chronic care.
In April Medicare announced roll out of its DOQ-IT U (Doctor’s Office Quality — Information Technology University), as a part of the [...]
Technology adoption often takes longer than expected, and remote patient monitoring (RPM) is no exception. More specifically, I’m referring to multiparameter RPM of patient vital signs. There are currently over 25 companies with multiparameter RPM offerings, including Philips, Honeywell HomMed, Health Hero, ViTel Net, and many others.
I am a big believer in RPM technology — [...]
You MUST read Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar’s article “Quality, Cost and Connected Health” posted on The Health Care Blog.
Lessons learned include:
Feedback changes behavior
Adherence is a forgotten opportunity
Providers are ready to engage, but need to be led
Dr. Kvedar is Director of the Center for Connected Health at Partners Healthcare System in Boston. The Center for Connected [...]
I’m honored to have been invited to be a guest blogger at the World Health Care Blog, an innovative experiment by the World Health Care Congress. Today’s question is: Technology in Health Care: Villain or Hero?
Google gets it. Adam Bosworth, Google Vice President, ruminates over the question “How do you know you’re getting the best care possible?”
I give Adam a lot of credit for this posting:
He acknowledges that health care is really complicated
He understands the dangers — that providing less than perfect information has the possibility of [...]
Practice Fusion (PF) has announced a deal with Google to provide a free electronic health record (EHR) to physicians. The EHR will be supported by ad revenues from pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and others. Read more here.
What’s the connection to care management and chronic disease? EHRs and personal health records (PHRs) are wildcards [...]
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