Category: apps
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Leveraging Mobile To Bring Caregivers Back To The Patient Bedside
By Mike Lanciloti, VP, product management, Spectralink On any given day, nurses are caregivers, psychiatrists, comforters, teachers, and friends. In fact, the critically important role nurses play in the patient recovery process is difficult to define – and hard to imagine doing without. It is one of the hardest jobs in the world. And it’s…
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Unleashing The Value Of Virtual Care: Hurdling Telehealth’s Three Biggest Obstacles
By Bill Fera, MD A shortage of physicians and expanded patient base are contributing to a telehealth surge, but three obstacles threaten to inhibitt the full value these services and technologies offer. Telehealth services and technologies continue to gain ground. According to the American Telemedicine Association, more than half of all hospitals use some form…
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Spreading Holiday Cheer Via a Telehealth Buddy System
0 During this holiday season, I wanted to write a blog that at least had some spirit, cheer, and positive vibes. I found that opportunity though a Massachusetts-based provider organization that is working on managing mental illnesses and chronic diseases with a Health Buddy Telehealth System. During this holiday season, I wanted to write a…
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Telehealth helps OhioHealth reach remote stroke patients
For stroke victims, early treatment is paramount, but often care is hard to find for those living in rural and remote areas–but healthcare organizations are using telemedicine to change that. read more …read more
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$8.6 Million in Telehealth Grants: ONC and USDA Celebrate National Rural Health Day
More than $20 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grants were announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack November 20, 2014 to support projects all across the country. Specifically, USDA Rural Development awarded 65 grants across 34 states to improve health care and educational services in rural communities.…
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Research Report: Accelerating Adoption of Monitoring, In Vitro Diagnostic Devices, Will Expand mHealth
The accelerating adoption of vital-signs monitoring and in vitro diagnostic devices will cause the mHealth market to grow eight-fold from $5.1 billion in 2013 to $41.8 billion in 2023, according to a new report from the Boston-based Lux Research Inc. The accelerating adoption of vital-signs monitoring and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) devices will help to…
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Study: Tele-ICU tools worth the investment for hospitals
Despite the high cost of implementing telemedicine technology in intensive care units, hospitals could benefit more from such tools both financially and in terms of the quality of care delivered, according to research recently published online in the journal Telemedicine and e-Health. …read more
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JAMA paper: mHealth apps need more review, assessment
The proliferation and increasing use of mobile healthcare apps requires an unbiased review and certification process, argues a paper published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical… …read more
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Study: More training needed to get elderly using mHealth tools
Weak computer skills, poorly designed user interfaces and the lack of a compelling reason to use mHealth tools are prime reasons the elderly are not embracing mobile healthcare technologies, reveals… …read more
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Don’t count Microsoft out of mobile health
Just when you thought Microsoft was out of the mHealth game, the software giant recently announced its Bing Health & Fitness Windows Phone app. Launched as a beta version through the Windows… …read more