Category: eHealth
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Happtique suspends mHealth app certification program
Only a week and a half after Happtique announced that it had certified 19 health and medical apps through its new Health App Certification Program (HACP), the company suspended the program after a… read more …read more
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Journal features abstracts, research from mHealth Summit
To coincide with last week’s mHealth Summit 2013, the Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine put together a special supplement edition featuring the latest abstracts and research from the 5th… read more …read more
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How drone use could transform healthcare
Drone use for commercial purposes has gotten much press of late due to Amazon announcing it intends to use drones to deliver packages to customers. This is a very intriguing and transformational idea with many intended and unintended consequences. read more …read more
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West Health, Vanderbilt team to study automated care
The West Health Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and West Corporation this week announced plans to collaborate on a five-year study for automating patient care outside of hospitals and doctors’ office. read more …read more
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mHealth13: FCC’s Clyburn calls spectrum the ‘lifeblood’ to mobile health
Speaking at the 2013 mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Federal Communications Committee Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn spoke to an audience about the prolific promise of mHealth–and what the FCC is doing to keep up its end of the bargain. read more …read more
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Inpatient CPOE, med reconciliation results disappointing
Computerizing prescription order entry and medication reconciliation doesn’t necessarily improve those processes as much as we’d like to think, according to two presentations at the midyear meeting of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. read more …read more
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ACP calls for national prescription drug-monitoring program
The American College of Physicians (ACP) is calling for a national prescription drug-monitoring program as one of 10 recommendations to help curb the growing problem of prescription drug abuse. The… read more …read more
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mHealth13: Technology knowledge key to telehealth deployment
Telehealth isn’t only about knowing the patient and the treatment–knowing the technology is equally important, Leigh Ann Chandler Poole, M.D., a nurse practitioner at the University of Alabama, said Tuesday at the 2013 mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C. read more …read more
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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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Your Brain on Exercise
It’s Christmas Eve, so I thought I’d keep it short and sweet. This is a cool tweet with a really interesting image of a brain scan while sitting and one while exercising. This is your brain on exercise: http://t.co/s7XEmS3O5a pic.twitter.com/EQHRzIehUM MT @FastCompany @briancragin #radiology #healthcare #HITsm — ● Dinesh Ramkrishna (@dineshrs) December 17, 2014 Pretty…