Category: eHealth
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Tech helps hospital contain MERS virus
An Indiana hospital relied on best practices and technology to avoid spreading the deadly MERS virus while treating the first reported case in the United States. read more …read more
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Do patients with chronic diseases want telehealth solutions?
Several recent studies addressed the link between mobile health and individuals with chronic conditions, such as asthma, arthritis, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, depression, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, clinically diagnosed obesity, osteoporosis and stroke. read more …read more
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Interest in Wearable Health Tracking Devices to Spike
A new survey of consumers of mobile health and fitness apps indicates interest in wearable tracking devices will continue to spike over the next few years. A new survey of consumers of mobile health and fitness apps indicates interest in wearable tracking devices will continue to spike over the next few years. read more …read…
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Ex-HHS head Donna Shalala: Data sharing with payers requires trust
At a recent eMerge Americas digital business conference held in Miami Beach, Donna Shalala, former Clinton Administration secretary for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, spoke out on why healthcare providers are reluctant to share data with payers, InformationWeek reported. read more …read more
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Innovative products and services at conhIT 2014
BERLIN, DE – (HealthTech Wire / News) – Between 6-8 May, the heart of eHealth Europe is again beating in Berlin. The German healthcare IT industry association bvitg and HIMSS Europe are joining forces for three days. Bvitgs traditional German … …read more
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Asynchronous virtual patient visits streamline doc workflow
Asynchronous virtual visits by chronically ill patients significantly reduced encounter times for doctors, according to research published online this month in Telemedicine and e-Health. read more …read more
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Johns Hopkins gets NIH grant to innovate flu tracking
A new center geared toward improved and innovative flu tracking is the goal behind a grant awarded to researchers at Johns Hopkins University this week by the National Institutes of Health. read more …read more
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University of Mississippi Medical Center’s David Chou: Next-gen CIO must focus on innovation, influence
The healthcare chief information officer must add two more “I’s” to his or her title in today’s digital world: innovation and Influence, says David Chou, CIO of the University of Mississippi Medical Center. read more …read more
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AHIMA pushes advanced degrees for information pros
Adapt or disappear, the American Health Information Management Association warns as it presses its members to pursue advanced training with its Reality 2016 education initiative. read more …read more
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Mobile Health Apps Lack Behavior-Change Techniques
Behavior-change techniques are not well represented in the marketing materials for top-rated physical-activity apps, according to a team of Penn State researchers. They also found that two types of physical-activity apps are available on the market—those that focus on educating users on how to perform different exercises and those that focus on supporting users’ motivation…