Healthcare is joining the network economy.
Let’s adapt strategy and business models for
success during the upcoming transformation.
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 — but [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
e-CareManagement News Archives (e-newsletter published between 1999 and 2006) Other Resources (articles, PowerPoint presentations, links) HIE, mobility, open platforms start to knock down ‘walled gardens’ of proprietary EMRs FierceEMR; October 21, 2010 Mobile health developers see bright future ahead HealthcareIT News; October 20, 2010 Unlikely Allies HealthLeaders; July 15, 2010 Remote monitoring: Out of [...]
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