Category: apps
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Survey: Doctors overwhelmingly favor mobile devices and apps for EHRs
In a national survey, primary care and internal medicine physicians indicated a strong preference for electronic health record (EHR) usability on their mobile devices, according to an announcement… read more …read more Source: Survey: Doctors overwhelmingly favor mobile devices and apps for EHRs
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Charity telemedicine initiative expands into India, the Philippines
An expansion of a telemedicine program run by the U.K.-based Swinfen Charitable Trust will help bring care to rural communities in India and the Philippines. The program will take advantage of technologies from Verizon, which will enable deployment on mobile devices. read more …read more Source: Charity telemedicine initiative expands into India, the Philippines
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Demand for Mobile EHR Apps Growing, Survey Indicates
There is a growing market for mobile device electronic health record (EHR) applications as physician users look to replace current ineffective systems, according to recent research from Black Book Rankings, a Clearwater, Fla.-based research firm. There is a growing market for mobile device electronic health record (EHR) applications as physician users look to replace current…
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Latest Black Book Research Shows Dramatic Increase in Interest of iPad and Mobile Applications to Access EHR Data
The latest research by Black Book Rankings has uncovered a significant increase in the desire for mobile device EHR application by nationally surveyed physicians. The Black Book user poll, which was conducted as a focused follow up to the sweeping 2013 electronic health record study, foretelling the “Year of the Big EHR Switch.” Nearly one…
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UCLA Children’s to Study Telehealth Use for Pediatric Behavioral Healthcare
The University of California at Los Angeles’ (UCLA) Mattel Children’s Hospital has been granted a $1.6 million research award to study how telemedicine can be used to deliver behavioral health services to pediatric patients in community primary care settings. The grant will go to the Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute at the hospital. The University…
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Mobile devices and apps getting popular with radiologists
Portable tablets and mobile apps are a growing trend in radiology, according to the 2013 Diagnostic Imaging Watch report released by Novation, an Irving, Tex.-based hospital and healthcare supply… read more …read more Source: Mobile devices and apps getting popular with radiologists
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Healthcare Information At Risk: The Consumerization Of Mobile Devices
The consumerization of mobile devices, also known as bring your own device (BYOD), is a major trend affecting healthcare.
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EHR Debates and The Growth of mHealth – Around Healthcare Scene
With the dissatisfaction that many have felt from EMR, providers and patients alike, outside healthcare companies are coming up with new ideas on how to help.
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Taking The Pulse Of Mobile Health
It’s no secret the healthcare industry is going digital. Electronic health records, health information exchanges, and Web-based patient portals are becoming ubiquitous features in nearly all clinical environments. But the fastest, most widely adopted digital push, according to healthcare industry experts, has undoubtedly been in mobile health.
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Telemedicine Coverage Dropped for Medicare Beneficiaries in 36 States and Territories
According to a press release from the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), Medicare beneficiaries in 97 counties, across 36 states and territories, will lose telemedicine benefits because of the updated federal delineations of Standards Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs). The SMSAs are federal urban/rural categorizations which, the ATA says, revokes the option for Medicare recipients to receive…