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Dogged Optimism: Five Innovative Aspects of HITECH

If you’re a dog (an innovator), what’s there to smile about over HITECH?  Quite a bit.
In the first post of this series, I suggested that HITECH favors cats by about 60/40 and noted that the single most cat-like feature of HITECH is providing incentives for physicians and hospitals to acquire and implement EHRs  — [...]

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Data Incompatibility Remains A Barrier to Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Devices Reaching the Mainstream

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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Health Wonk Review at e-CareManagement

Welcome!
Since this is my first time hosting the Health Wonk Review, I really didn’t know what to expect.  I have to say that I’ve learned a lot while poring over the insight and wisdom of my fellow bloggers. Fortunately, this week’s entries fell into neat categories:

In-Store Clinics
Physicians
Problems — U.S. & World Health Systems
Solutions — U.S. & [...]

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Cardiac Monitoring System: “Go Directly to the Nearest Hospital, Do Not Pass Go, You Are Having a Heart Attack”

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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Mathematica Researchers Summarize Disappointing Results Across 4 Medicare DM Demonstrations

Presenting at the Annual Academy Health Research Meeting earlier this week, representatives from  Mathematica Research and CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services) presented findings across several Medicare disease management (DM) demonstration/pilot programs. 
Again, the findings show minimal evidence of success in any of the Medicare DM programs. Several of the slides from Randall Brown of Mathematica [...]

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Links: May 29, 2007

More information on LifeComm, the QUALCOMM sponsored health care MVNO

Qualcomm Announces Healthcare MVNO, Medical Connectivity Consulting blog; May 23, 2007

Qualcomm: Mobilizing healthcare through LifeComm, Fierce Wireless; May 23, 2007

What makes an MVNO stick?, Mobile Diner; May 22, 2007

New Emerging MVNO Business Model, TeleBusillis; May 22, 2007 

Qualcomm’s LifeComm Lifestyle, Maperture; May 21, 2007 

Qualcomm boosts efforts in [...]

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Evidence for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM): The Glass is More than Half Full

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, [...]

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Links: April 1, 2007

Telemedicine in the Ambulatory Setting: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges
First Consulting Group, March 2007
 
New Technologies For Chronic Disease Management And Control: A Systematic Review
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, March 2007
 
Systematic Review of the Chronic Care Model in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Prevention and Management
Archives of Internal Medicine; March 26, 2007
 
Case Management For Seniors Requires Heightened [...]

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Resources

e-CareManagement News
Archives (e-newsletter published between 1999 and 2006)
 
Other Resources (articles, PowerPoint presentations, links)
Remote monitoring: Out of sight, right in line
ACP Internist, March 2010
Health 2.0 Meets Government Stimulus
NetworkWorld; July 8, 2009
Stimulus: Is $19 Billion Right Rx for Health IT?
EE Times; February 20, 2009
New Frontiers in PHRs
Digital Healthcare and Productivity.com; September 23, 2008
Medical home leading [...]

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