Category: eHealth
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23andMe founder: Health industry incentivizes illness
The founder of controversial personal genomics company 23andMe admitted recently that when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered her company to stop genetic testing last November, it “significantly slowed up” new customers. read more …read more
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Bosch Healthcare selects Brain Resource’s MyBrainSolutions for use in telehealth solution
Brain Resource has announced today that Robert Bosch Healthcare Systems, Inc. (headquarters in Palo Alto, California, USA), the market leader in evidence-based telehealth solutions, has added MyBrainSolutions to their newly launched Health Buddy Web solution for the monitoring, education, and management of people living with chronic conditions. …read more
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Mobile video pilot aims to reduce ambulance, hospital admission costs
A Michigan healthcare services provider is prepping a mobile video-based health assessment program involving advanced paramedic care in a quest to reduce patient emergency room visits and hospital admissions while also saving on ambulance response costs. read more …read more
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Researchers: It’s time to advance mobility into PHRs
By Judy Mottl New research on improving healthcare in emergency and disaster situations recommends the federal government take the lead in mobilizing personal health record systems to improve… read more …read more
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‘Playbook’ aims to bring public health, primary care together via HIT
Doctors from Duke University, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the de Beaumont Foundation this week launched the “Practical Playbook,” an initiative that aims to bring public health, primary care coordination and population health together through the use of health IT. read more …read more
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Hospital to test Google Glass for real-time ER care
Rhode Island Hospital in Providence appears poised to become the first hospital in the nation to test Google Glass for real-time emergency room care. read more …read more
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Vets need more education to maximize secure messaging use
Veterans enjoy using the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs My HealtheVet patient portal, but could use more education and skill-building to fully take advantage of it, according to a small study published Thursday in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. read more …read more
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How to measure the value of health IT
There’s been a whole lot of capital invested in health information technology these past few years. And some people – especially those who are in charge of spending more of it – want to know whether it’s money well spent. read more …read more
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U.K. healthcare data set uploaded to Google servers
The National Health Service’s (U.K.) hospital patient database was handed over to management consultants who then uploaded it to Google servers based outside of England, The Guardian reported this week. read more …read more
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Practical Playbook Merges Public Health/Primary Care Using Health IT
Marrying public health and primary care coordination to improve population health using Health IT sounds like a no-brainer. It sounds easy, right? Maybe not, but a new initiative is bringing these three elements together in a bid to improve health, healthcare and control costs. Doctors from Duke University, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…