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Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)
“In God We Trust” is NOT an Option for Your PHR: 5 Responses to the Google Health Trust Issue
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 by over a dozen other bloggers and news sources.
Reader comments center around two primary themes:
1) Should I trust Google Health’s (GH’s) next generation personal health record (PHR) with my […]
Connecting the Dots…Google Health Promises to Create AND Dominate Next Generation PHRs
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 entire universe like it.
While Google has not “officially” announced the details of GH, they’ve left a lot of clues. In this essay I’m going to […]
Latest Edition of the Health Wonk Review at the Health Business Blog
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.
Guaranteed Weight Loss :) The Cell Phone Diet
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 then evaluate the meal for calorie count and nutrition.
The only drawback is that it can take three days for the results to get back.
Whew! Revolution Health Has Figured Out That I’m Not Pregnant.
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 and more control.”
“My revolution” is my personal home page on the site…it’s kind of like MySpace for health care. “Postings from my […]
Disease Management Going Mobile & Retail: QUALCOMM’s Health Care MVNO
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 not have its own network infrastructure. Instead, MVNOs have business arrangements with traditional mobile operators to buy minutes of use (MOU) for sale to their […]
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, respected fellow blogger and world renowned connectologist, summarizes this latest study under the headline “Impact of Remote Monitoring Still Inconclusive”.
Tim, I’m concerned that folks might draw […]
Physician EHR Implementation Is Doggone Difficult
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 Physician Focused Quality Initiative. DOQ-IT U is an interactive, Web-based tool designed to provide solo and small-to-medium sized physician practices with the education for successful […]
Five Lingering Questions Holding Back Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Adoption
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 — it WILL revolutionize delivery of health care.
However, I’m also a realist. Consider the following questions a collective “voice-of-the-customer” from my six years working in this […]
Straight Talk on Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring
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 Health is a leading provider focused organization promoting innovations in telehealth and remote patient monitoring technologies. Dr. Kvedar is an advisor to the e-CareManagement blog.
Joe, […]