Category: mHealth
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mHealth forecast wows audience
There it was – the clear-as-a-bell prediction about mobile health. Call it the “wow factor.” “I will predict 85 percent of healthcare will be done in the home in the next five or six years,” Andrew Watson, MD, told an audience here at an mHealth Summit breakfast meeting Dec. 9. You could hear the hushed…
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From the mHealth Summit 12/9/13
I’m at the mHealth Summit at the Gaylord National Resort and across the Potomac River from Washington, DC on the Maryland side. It’s a 2,000-room hotel surrounded by chain restaurants and stores in one of those destination developments aimed squarely at tourists who want to travel without being exposed to anything new, or heaven forbid,…
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mHealth, cloud computing to dominate healthcare in 2014
mHealth, cloud computing and the regulatory environments will be three hot topics in the global healthcare market in 2014 and beyond, according to results of a new survey announced by research firm… read more …read more
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mHealth Summit Europe: Berlin Summit will be the mHealth focal point for Europe
By HIMSS Europe (HealthTech Wire / Interview) – H. Stephen Lieber, President and CEO of HIMSS WorldWide, the enterprise arm of the HIMSS organisation, explains the aims of the new global push by HIMSS on mobile (m)Health – and how Europe is a key part of … …read more
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WiFi in hospitals: A moving target
Keeping both hospital guests and clinicians happy is not easy, especially when it comes to meeting their need for WiFi. And it’s not likely to get any easier. [See also: At VC forum, making money for mHealth] read more …read more
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Industry-First Exclusive: Cleveland Clinic Medical Informaticists Share their Perspectives on the mHealth Journey (Part Two)
On Nov. 18, Colin Konschak of Divurgent, a healthcare management consulting firm, and David Levin, M.D., CMIO of Cleveland Clinic, and William H. Morris, M.D., director of clinical informatics at Cleveland Clinic, announced the public of their new book, mHealth: Global Opportunities and Challenges. Drs. Levin and Morris spoke exclusive to HCI’s Mark Hagland prior…
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ITU, Bupa team up in global mHealth initiative
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, has signed a partnership agreement with healthcare company Bupa… read more …read more
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3 ways to make BYOD (fairly) easy
Sometimes, developing new policies comes down to putting a foundation under a process that’s already well under way, and perhaps in no sector of healthcare is this truer than in mobile health. After all, doctors and other caregivers are as curious about mobile communications technology as the next person, but unlike many other people when…
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EHRs at risk of becoming irrelevant
With mHealth becoming the norm instead of the exception, a panel at Partners HealthCare’s 10th Annual Connected Health Symposium last week concluded that EHR vendors will have to find a way to modify their products to focus on data that the patient and his or her care team want, or they’ll become obsolete. Important information…
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Beacon mHealth pilots show promise in combating type 2 diabetes
Early findings from three U.S. communities that received federal funding through the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program suggest a “promising impact of mHealth on behavior… read more Source: Beacon mHealth pilots show promise in combating type 2 diabetes