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We don't seem to be seeing many mobile health or medical apps for the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 operating system. There are plenty of apps for iOS and Android. There are even medical apps for BlackBerry. For many years, I was a loyal Windows Mobile user. Now, I'm mainly using Android and iOS. There's a new app called TrackMyShots. Developed by Linxter, Inc., a software development company in Cooper City, Florida, the app was created to help a family friend with multiple sclerosis, said company CEO and founder Jason Milgram.
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Innovation is a wonderful phenomenon. It leads to all sorts of astonishing products and services like the internet and the tablet PC. As big an impact these innovations have on our lives, it is in health care that innovation is of existential importance. To be blunt, innovation in health care matters because most of us will have to face a miserable disease at some point in our lives; and all of us will have to face death. If we continue to innovate, then one day in the future people may not need to undergo the distress of cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer’s. Perhaps we even await a future where we transcend the limitations of our physical bodies—as imagined by science fiction authors like Peter F Hamilton and predicted by futurists such as Ray Kurzweil. Today, however, we have to make do with our present health care system—and its challenges and limitations.
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Nurse navigators assist patients through the maze of cancer-treatment decisions and fears. Patient Judith Nakamura, of Albuquerque, gets help expediting an appointment to follow up on her cancer treatment.
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Marty Briggs, of Health Fusion has written an interesting article on the changing nature of healthcare that is being ushered in by the iPad.
He recounts a series of interactions with his own physician, one who had been hesitant to embrace the idea of Electronic Medical Records because he didn’t want a computer to get in the way of his dialog with the patient.
In his most recent visit Marty found his physician using an Ipad and questioned him about it. It turns out, that for his physician, and presumably for others it was a technology that allowed him to to maintain eye contact, keeping what he called the “all-important doctor patient bond intact”, while letting his fingers handle the charting.
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Several advantages of EMR listed include: Better medical security. Since data can be backed up and stored offsite, EMRs are less subject to potential physical damage, data loss and even forgery than paper records. EMRs reduce patient wait times, as there’s no need to wait for charts to be pulled by a treating health care specialist. Data stored in an EMR can be sent more easily than paper records. Digital records can be transferred faster in the case of emergencies, as well.
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Revenue cycle management, HIEs and Massachusetts are among the healthcare topics that every organization should have in mind for 2011 and beyond, according to HIMSS Analytics.
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it’s a common misconception that “e-patient” = anyone who googles (or bings, or webmd’s, or…). Wrong. E-patients are empowered, engaged, educated etc – not mindless, and not likely to freak out at the first thing they read. When you search for a restaurant or anything else, do you believe the first thing you read? e-Patients.net colleague Susannah Fox pointed out last year (sorry, no link handy) that when “Doc Tom” Ferguson first spotted e-patients in the ’90s, they were conspicuous because engaged patients were almost always online, and online people were almost always empowered and engaged. Today, not so much: her data show that almost everyone is online, empowered or not, and most people routinely look for health-related information – over 60%, the last I heard.
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Meet your doctor's new assistant. He listens well, asks a few questions and reads 100 million pages per second. Or at least that's the vision IBM has for Watson, its computer system that in February bested two human champions to win the "Jeopardy!" TV show -- a challenge that required encyclopedic knowledge and split-second answers. Medicine is one of the first practical applications IBM sees for Watson, named after IBM's first president, Thomas J. Watson Sr. So IBM's Watson experts recently met with the Twin Cities medical community to solicit their help in turning Watson into an expert physician's assistant.
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The stellar debut of the iPad as well as advancements in smart phones is driving innovation and emergence of mHealth (or mobile healthcare) (within the context of a hospital) as well as mobile health management (in the context of the patient/consumer) at a pace, that is simply unprecedented! A good lagging indicator is the emergence of venture capital funds like the ‘iFund initiative’ from Kleiner Perkins to monetize innovation centered around the Apple iPad, as only one example.
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To assist healthcare professionals in managing their patients' pain, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (JPI) today launched several new resources and tools on PrescribeResponsibly.com, an online program designed to support appropriate and responsible treatment of pain. Introduced in early 2010, PrescribeResponsibly.com and its many educational materials have been viewed by thousands of physicians and pharmacists, both via its website and at medical conferences.
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Health information stored or transmitted electronically can be encrypted, so that the data cannot be accessed if it falls into unauthorized hands, ensuring much greater security. Those developing eHealth solutions in this province have been urged to consider Privacy by Design at every step of the way - the practice of embedding privacy directly into the design specifications of various technologies and business practices.
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When Susan Barnard had a colonoscopy and was told a couple biopsies were being sent for testing, the worrying began. Thankfully relief came just two days later when her family doctor called to tell her the results all came back clear. “It certainly made my life a lot easier,” said the Hamilton woman. Her friend who had the colon cancer screening test around the same time waited six weeks before hearing from the specialist about the results. Barnard found out quickly thanks to ClinicalConnect, a secure online portal for health care providers to access a patient’s electronic health record.
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Consumers and consumer convenience are driving the ways in which healthcare companies will support patients’ needs, and it’s all around the technologies most of us use today.
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Software added to basic cellphones helped people with diabetes significantly reduce a key measure of blood sugar over a year, according to one of the largest clinical studies of medical uses for mobile-phone technology. Mobile medical technology is a rapidly growing field. The Food and Drug Administration last month outlined how it planned to regulate it by focusing on mobile applications that could present a risk to patients if they don't work as intended. The technology used in the diabetes study was developed by WellDoc, a Baltimore-based firm and was cleared for use last year by the FDA. Sanofi-Aventis has developed a mobile diabetes management system under FDA review. Other companies including Medtronic Inc. and Johnson & Johnson's LifeScan unit are also developing mobile diabetes-management systems
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A medical centre in Cumbria has invested in an iPad for each of its GPs and plans to give them access to its patient records via the devices. St Paul’s Medical Centre in Carlisle has bought each of its 11 GPs iPads and has been working with MedHand to transfer written text books into electronic formats so they can be read on them. GP-lead for the project, Dr Alan Edwards, said most GPs refer to the textbooks on a daily basis, and find it more convenient to use them on the Apple devices. Access to the books and other decision-making tools does not require an internet connection, so the GPs can access them easily when they are making house calls.
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Nuance Communications, Inc. today unveiled Dragon Medical Practice Edition, the latest addition to the Dragon Medical portfolio of medical speech recognition solutions. Dragon Medical solutions have been proven to support clinicians at healthcare organizations of all sizes in utilizing electronic health records (EHR) and accelerating Meaningful Use. Like its predecessors, Dragon Medical Practice Edition will help clinicians and healthcare organizations to create medical notes directly into any EHR in real-time. With real-time, voice-driven clinical documentation clinicians are empowered to capture a more thorough patient story without sacrificing time. Dragon Medical Practice Edition yields a 15 percent improvement in accuracy over previous Dragon Medical releases and contains additional features that will be especially beneficial to physicians in small practices, which make up an estimated 40 percent of the total U.S. physician population.
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Speaking to a doctor via a webcam might sound like something out of The Jetsons, but it could be a reality sooner than you think. Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS, has called for doctors to offer remote consultations to patients via video link within the next year. But is this a service people want from their family doctor? In order to find out more, YouGov polled over 2,000 people and found that almost 29 per cent in the UK would like to see GPs start offering remote consultations via video link in the next decade. Less than a third may not sound like much, but if you take into account how many millions of appointments NHS doctors conduct each year, there is clearly a huge demand from patients for ‘virtual’ consultations. Experts have also suggested that telemedicine could generate savings of £1bn a year for the NHS and a massive reduction in the number of hospital admissions.
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Patient care that is coordinated and effective demands a series of steps that start with putting the technical tools and practice procedures to work to enable the components of meaningful use and other milestones that will improve health care, according to Dr. John Blair, president of Taconic IPA, a large physician group in New York’s Hudson Valley.
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According to an August 3 report from Robert Tagalicod, the new director of CMS Office of e-Health Standards and Services nearly 77,000 eligible providers have registered for the Medicare Incentive Program. So far nearly 2,500 of those have successfully attested to meaningful use of EMR technology and have received incentive payments.
Additionally the report noted that over 77,000 providers have registered for the Incentive Program so far.
There is obvious progress being made in the roll-out of EMR technology, but what impact is this technology having on the quality of care? Are physicians benefiting from all the improvements that EMR software promises to deliver? Read more: http://emrdailynews.com/2011/08/16/2011-physician-survey-on-the-benefits-on-using-an-emr-system/#ixzz1VOBL1mwX
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The University of Iowa Children's Hospital is getting ready to launch a Facebook page that will monitor teenage and young adult kidney transplant patients in an effort to get them to take their medications on time. The hospital will use prescription information from its electronic health record (EHR) system to populate the site with the list of medicines each patient is taking, and how many times daily they should be taken.
The initiative, which is been developed by Dr. Patrick Brophy, director of the division of pediatric nephrology, dialysis, and transplantation, along with the hospital's technology department, was borne out of Brophy's frustration that many of his teenage kidney transplant patients were not taking their medications after surgery.
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With mobile apps, moms maintain role as “Chief Health Officer” As smartphone-toting moms become more familiar with their devices and application marketplaces, they are discovering and adopting new apps for both entertainment and utility. According to a study of moms who own a smartphone conducted by Mom Central Consulting, 51% percent have downloaded more than 16 apps to their smartphones as of March 2011.
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Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) has the potential to transform global healthcare systems ensuring safer and more effective treatments while increasing the productivity, profitability and efficiency of practices. IT companies have integrated path breaking medical research with ingenious information technology, giving us medical tools, data systems, applications and devices that can change the way healthcare is practiced. Not only has it enabled doctors to connect with patients and other doctors in different parts of the world, HIT makes it possible for them to access a global database of precious medical information.
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Taking control of your health -- from organizing medical records and lab results following doctor visits to logging efforts for dropping those few extra pounds -- one day might be as easy and intuitive as online banking. A groundbreaking project in northwest Georgia soon will encourage consumers to play a bigger role in their health care by creating electronic personal health records, uploading medical information and images into one easy-to-access location a button click away. Earlier this year, the Georgia Cancer Coalition and state Department of Community Health received a $1.7 million federal grant – one of 10 awarded nationwide – to create a patient-focused health information exchange in the Rome area.
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Use of electronic health record software is slowly but surely rising in physicians' offices across the U.S. In particular, more mid-sized and large practices are implementing EHR systems, according to a recent survey by healthcare marketing solutions firm SK&A.
Overall, adoption of such software is up nearly 2 percent since last October, with 40.4 percent of respondents indicating in July that they now are using an EHR. In October, that number was 38.7 percent.
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According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, 46% of adults cannot understand the Label on their prescription medications (see http://www.readfaster.com/education_stats.asp). The average reading level of adults in this country is commonly reported to be 8th grade.
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