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FDA's Bakul Patel took the stage at the WLSA Wireless Convergence Summit 2013 using an iRobot RP-VITA to speak with the audience on the status of FDA's mobile health application regulations. 
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This second edition of Health at a Glance: Europe presents a set of key indicators of health status, determinants of health, health care resources and activities, quality of care, health expenditure and financing in 35 European countries, including the 27 European Union member states, 5 candidate countries and 3 EFTA countries. The selection of indicators is based largely on the European Community Health Indicators (ECHI) shortlist, a set of indicators that has been developed to guide the reporting of health statistics in the European Union. It is complemented by additional indicators on health expenditure and quality of care, building on the OECD expertise in these areas. Each indicator is presented in a user-friendly format, consisting of charts illustrating variations across countries and over time, a brief descriptive analysis highlighting the major findings conveyed by the data, and a methodological box on the definition of the indicator and any limitations in data comparability.
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This four-minute video clip is from BBC Four's programme, The Joy of Stats. In this clip, Hans Rosling plots life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, to show how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.
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We’ve all heard that U.S. healthcare services cost more and deliver less “value for the money” than European systems—i.e., less mortality benefits for the amount of money spent.
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Draws on the RCGP Social Media Highway Code, the IMO Position Paper on Social Media and the Nursing and Midwifery Code to the Use of Social Networking Sites. Via Marie Ennis-O'Connor
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Hospitals and health systems need metrics to determine their progress in moving toward a pay-for-performance model.
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Is tackling in-work poverty the key for anti-poverty initiatives?
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The 2009 Digital Britain Report described data as ‘an innovation currency’ and ‘the lifeblood of the knowledge economy.’ We are now in 2013 and while Via Ivan Begtin
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Concerns over digital privacy, especially of medical records, have never been higher. Yet startup PatientsLikeMe says there's much to be gained from the crowdsourcing of ailments -- and treatments.
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Entrepreneurs are now going well beyond building mobile-friendly versions of their websites to create apps that actually add to their bottom line -- but doing it well is easier said ... Via eMedToday
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Mobile apps represent an exciting new frontier in patient care. The industry, however, is largely unregulated. But that's about to change. Via Nikos Papaioannou
eMedToday's curator insight,
May 31, 2013 8:26 PM
Key points:
"While final guidelines and determinations remain to be seen, the FDA has offered the following: Lifestyle apps, such as pedometers, will not be regulated.Similarly, apps that serve as personal or electronic health record systems will also avoid regulation.Mobile app developers will not need to seek federal re-evaluation for minor changes.There are no plans at this time to tax apps under the Affordable Care Act."
Relatris's curator insight,
June 2, 2013 8:12 AM
Looking at the alarming numbers of apps that do NOT provide correct results (e.g. opiod converting apps as showed earlier on this site or around 50% OF ONCOLOGY APPS (see our next entry)) it is highly important that there is some control. We can see multiple attemps starting right now, including one of the FDA. Unfortunately, in all the information we could found, the main issue seems to be privacy and which which apps will NOT be regulated.
Fortunately, there are some other initiatives like the Happtique Health App Certification Program:
Apps that meet all of the Technical Standards will then be evaluated for the Content Standards, which will be conducted under the auspices of internationally recognized third party organizations, such as the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and CGFNS International, and performed by clinical specialists selected based on the mobile app’s specific subject matter. Happtique will continue to expand its HACP Content Review Partners and is currently in discussions with a number of organizations with various areas of clinical expertise. http://www.happtique.com/app-certification/ We will introduce more of these control processes and other criticism of the use of medical apps here on this site in the next days.
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Health Care Costs from Birth to Death examines the impact of age and gender on pre-retiree, retiree, Medicare, and disease health costs. Executive S...
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Celebrity statistician says data can help challenge common myths about the world, particularly on population, fertility and development. Claire Provost meets him
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140 Health Care Uses for Twitter: Suggested Uses for Microsharing in the 21st Century
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Pubblicato il 15° rapporto Espad-Italia del Cnr di Pisa. Sono ormai circa 550mila i giovani studenti consumatori di cannabis. Ma preoccupa l'incremento, anche se modesto, degli oppiacei. Ne fa uso l'1,3% degli studenti.
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Giuseppe Fattori's insight:
Emilia Romagna: la Regione con la percentuale maggiore di ex-fumatori
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The internet has changed nearly every walk of life. Eight out of ten people now book their holidays online and 40 per cent of internet users access online banking once a week. Social media is now a worldwide phenomenon with over a billion people regularly using Facebook, while Twitter has over 500 million registered users,
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More than simply an IT catchphrase, "big data" in health care will lead doctors to become more accountable for positive patient outcomes, an EMC executive said. Big data is going through a transformation, and health care IT will be a major beneficiary of its analytics capabilities, according to an executive at EMC, a major provider of cloud computing, data backup and big data infrastructure. The health care industry can use big data analytics to better detect diseases and aid medical research. "There's a fair amount of hype in big data in general," Dave Dimond, chief strategist for industry solutions at EMC, told eWEEK. "In health care it's coming together." Although the concept of big data may not have been as well-understood a year ago, rather than just being aligned with research, it's getting more focused, said Dimond.
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