The Continua Health Alliance is doing a good job in getting remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices to become plug-n-play — where devices and peripherals from different manufacturers complying with Continua Guidelines will be able to talk to one another.
Continua’s work-to-date is a necessary, but not yet sufficient effort to make RPM devices mainstream.
Knocking down the [...]
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Older Americans 2008: Key Indicators of Well-Being, AgingStats.gov, Federal Agency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics
Healthy@Home, commissioned by AARP and the Blue Shield of California Foundation
State of Technology in Aging Services, Center for Aging Services Technology (CAST)
These reports are succinctly profiled with links to the full studies at Profiles of older health care consumers: living longer, longing for technology on [...]
Sometimes the serendipity of airplane readings provides for insightful connections. I thought I’d share one from this week’s travels.
The aha of “hospital as mainframe” came from reading Eric Dishman’s epilogue in Dr. Mike Magee’s excellent recent book, Home-Centered Health Care:
As with mainframe computers only a couple of decades ago, today we have to make a pilgrimage to [...]
My colleague Tim Gee and I are guest bloggers on the Get-Connected Forum at the Center for Connected Health. We speculate on:
What Will Microsoft’s HealthVault Mean to the Telehealth Community?
Our bottom line: HealthVault overall is a positive for telehealth industry growth and scale, even though it will speed the inevitable commoditization of remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices.
Would you like to have the experience of being parachuted into a deep forest with no map of where you are or clues about how to get out? If so, I suggest that you go directly to Microsoft’s new PHR at www.healthvault.com and just TRY to figure out where you are or where you’re headed.
Initial [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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