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Brian McGowan discusses his work on "Meaningful Use" of social media by physicians for CME. 
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Among the earliest hospitals to widely deploy deployment of wireless patient tracking, Albert Einstein Medical Center, in north Philadelphia, began installing its Real-Time Location Service system in 2003. Despite several missteps and setbacks in the last eight years (the hospital recently installed its fourth version of the technology), Albert Einstein has reaped undeniable benefits and clear investment returns while pioneering the application of wireless patient tracking.
Mobile Healthcare Today’s Onsite report on the AEMC wireless tracking system details the hospital’s experience, examines the challenges and obstacles the deployment has encountered and provides analysis and conclusions for ED physicians and hospital IT directors exploring similar roll-outs. The images in this gallery provide a look inside the Albert Einstein ED as the most recent version of the technology was being installed.
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It's not easy to create compelling healthcare social media content for hospital blogs. Read these five tips for growing traffic to hospital blogs.
The less-useful hospital blogs appear little more than an afterthought, marketing ploys with less-than-compelling content that are updated infrequently, attracting few readers and doing little to advance hospitals’ objectives.
To be clear, hospital blog posts that run into the millions of page views are rare and unlikely. But by setting your sights lower — say the thousands or tens of thousands — you can come up with a realistic plan for generating buzz around your hospital and traffic for its web properties. And the good news is that it gets easier over time
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Quantia has partnered with Diabetes Educator Gary Scheiner MS, CDE, to create an innovative mobile exercise application called DailyCoach™ on its QuantiaCare™ platform. DailyCoach, available on the iPhone, Android, smartphones, tablets and the Web, is a free app that provides coaching on simple and fun ways for patients to increase activity levels. The application was created in response to a 1,000-patient study, conducted with participating members on QuantiaCare, which found that half of the respondents felt that exercise and weight loss were the most difficult issues in managing diabetes.
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EHR provider Drchrono has unveiled an application, called OnPatient, that allows people to check in to doctors' offices on the Apple iPad.
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Up to now, the buzz around mobile health (mHealth) technology seems to have been about its potential to make health care cheaper and more efficient while perhaps improving outcomes.
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The National eHealth Innovation Series is excited to announce its inaugural event, New England Summit, will be held on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at the Conference Center at the state-of-the-art headquarters of the Massachusetts Medical Society...
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Will computers someday replace physicians as expert diagnosticians? According to some experts, the answer is yes—but that's not necessarily a bad thing for doctors.
“It may seem counterintuitive, but I envision these [computer] tools freeing us to spend more time with our patients,” said Herbert Chase, MD, professor of clinical medicine in biomedical informatics at Columbia University in New York City.
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![Medical Smartphones [part of HCPLive]: A mobile health app for Windows Phone 7: TrackMyShots | healthcare technology | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/96KId522r2tgN-KHsJll0Dl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
We don't seem to be seeing many mobile health or medical apps for the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 operating system. There are plenty of apps for iOS and Android. There are even medical apps for BlackBerry. For many years, I was a loyal Windows Mobile user. Now, I'm mainly using Android and iOS.
There's a new app called TrackMyShots. Developed by Linxter, Inc., a software development company in Cooper City, Florida, the app was created to help a family friend with multiple sclerosis, said company CEO and founder Jason Milgram.
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Innovation is a wonderful phenomenon. It leads to all sorts of astonishing products and services like the internet and the tablet PC. As big an impact these innovations have on our lives, it is in health care that innovation is of existential importance. To be blunt, innovation in health care matters because most of us will have to face a miserable disease at some point in our lives; and all of us will have to face death. If we continue to innovate, then one day in the future people may not need to undergo the distress of cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer’s. Perhaps we even await a future where we transcend the limitations of our physical bodies—as imagined by science fiction authors like Peter F Hamilton and predicted by futurists such as Ray Kurzweil. Today, however, we have to make do with our present health care system—and its challenges and limitations.
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Nurse navigators assist patients through the maze of cancer-treatment decisions and fears. Patient Judith Nakamura, of Albuquerque, gets help expediting an appointment to follow up on her cancer treatment.
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Marty Briggs, of Health Fusion has written an interesting article on the changing nature of healthcare that is being ushered in by the iPad.
In his most recent visit Marty found his physician using an Ipad and questioned him about it. It turns out, that for his physician, and presumably for others it was a technology that allowed him to to maintain eye contact, keeping what he called the “all-important doctor patient bond intact”, while letting his fingers handle the charting.
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Several advantages of EMR listed include:
Better medical security. Since data can be backed up and stored offsite, EMRs are less subject to potential physical damage, data loss and even forgery than paper records.
EMRs reduce patient wait times, as there’s no need to wait for charts to be pulled by a treating health care specialist.
Data stored in an EMR can be sent more easily than paper records. Digital records can be transferred faster in the case of emergencies, as well.
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Just three weeks after its iPad-native EHR made news for gaining ONC-ATCB-certification, drchrono has launched an iOS app to replace paper-based patient check-in.
Company execs say the OnPatient app can be downloaded to the iPad for free and integrated into a medical practice as a standalone application – the patient check-in software also integrates with with the drchrono's iPad EHR.
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A couple years ago, I was referred to a specialist by my family physician. When I visited the specialist, I noticed he was using an electronic health record (EHR) on a desktop computer in the examination room. Throughout the entire visit the specialist stared at the computer screen, not even glancing up when I inquired about my ailment.
On a follow-up visit to my family physician I told him about the impersonal experience and asked why he had yet to digitize his patient health records. He explained that he did not want to jeopardize the relationships he had worked so hard to build over the years and generations. My family doctor went on to explain how the lack of mobility, cumbersome nature and slow speeds of current EHR systems and computing hardware put a barrier between him and the patient. It was a barrier he was afraid would erode the doctor-patient relationship, making him just as impersonal as the specialist.
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Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs), or simply Body Area Networks (BANs), represent a tremendous emerging opportunity for mHealth and will be a great stimulant for entrepreneurship and sustainable business models in this nascent sector for at least the next decade. This is the first post in a series about the promise and opportunity of Body Area Networks and the innovations that will drive the emergence of this advanced segment of mHealth.
BANs, enabled by vast networks of non-invasive and unobtrusive wearable sensors and peripheral devices, are emerging to a marketplace finally mature enough to stimulate a vibrant consumer base. Consumer mobile technology is for the first time just as powerful if not more powerful than the mobile technology used in the enterprise.
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In the time of national crisis, it would have certainly been helpful for Japan to have a robust Healthcare IT network in place. A collaborative one where it is easy to share data, which is securely backed up redundantly in multiple locations that would leverage geographical diversity as a means of countering nature’s unpredictability: Geographical Division Multiplexing if you please;
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Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are changing healthcare among both large and small service providers. Recent studies have demonstrated the effects of EHRs/EMRs on financial and human resources, as well as overall patient care.
We’ve pulled together an interesting view on the current healthcare delivery system trends and the potential impact these technologies can have on revolutionizing care by freeing up resources to focus more on patients.
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At the University of Chicago Medical Center, the internal medicine residents frequently felt torn between their two responsibilities: unceasing patient needs and ongoing educational training requirements.
It's a common dilemma. But educational leaders at the Chicago facility found a way to help boost resident efficiency: tablet computers. In the fall of 2010, residency program leaders purchased 115 iPads, one for every internal medicine resident.
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The unexpected consequence was how much social media has changed my medical practice, and me.
Last summer, I joined millions of others in the deluge of social media. I committed one year of effort to see if social would enhance or distract from my pediatric practice.
That was my goal, just one year.
At that time, I wanted to dip my foot in the pool, and see if it made any ripples. The unexpected consequence was how much social media has changed my medical practice, and me. Ripples have returned as tidal waves.
My practice has seen tangible, real valuable benefits. I have been intellectually challenged, and have professionally grown.
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Verizon has announced the opening of an Application Innovation Center in San Francisco, joining a growing list of telecommunications companies offering a lab for mobile app developers to develop, refine and test their products.
Among the industries most affected by the mobile app explosion is healthcare. Estimates have placed the healthcare app market at more than 4,000 and growing – and it has attracted the attention of the Food and Drug Administration, which is seeking input on proposed guidelines to regulate certain apps.
Verizon, based in Basking Ridge, N.J., announced plans in 2009 to open a center in the Silicon Valley to collaborate with its LTE Innovation Center in Waltham, Mass. Construction was completed this summer, and the new center offers collaborative and private lab space, demonstration and seminar studios and office space for engineers and members of the company’s developer relations team.
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Software added to basic cellphones helped people with diabetes significantly reduce a key measure of blood sugar over a year, according to one of the largest clinical studies of medical uses for mobile-phone technology.
Mobile medical technology is a rapidly growing field. The Food and Drug Administration last month outlined how it planned to regulate it by focusing on mobile applications that could present a risk to patients if they don't work as intended. The technology used in the diabetes study was developed by WellDoc, a Baltimore-based firm and was cleared for use last year by the FDA. Sanofi-Aventis has developed a mobile diabetes management system under FDA review. Other companies including Medtronic Inc. and Johnson & Johnson's LifeScan unit are also developing mobile diabetes-management systems
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A medical centre in Cumbria has invested in an iPad for each of its GPs and plans to give them access to its patient records via the devices.
St Paul’s Medical Centre in Carlisle has bought each of its 11 GPs iPads and has been working with MedHand to transfer written text books into electronic formats so they can be read on them. GP-lead for the project, Dr Alan Edwards, said most GPs refer to the textbooks on a daily basis, and find it more convenient to use them on the Apple devices. Access to the books and other decision-making tools does not require an internet connection, so the GPs can access them easily when they are making house calls.
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Nuance Communications, Inc. today unveiled Dragon Medical Practice Edition, the latest addition to the Dragon Medical portfolio of medical speech recognition solutions. Dragon Medical solutions have been proven to support clinicians at healthcare organizations of all sizes in utilizing electronic health records (EHR) and accelerating Meaningful Use.
Like its predecessors, Dragon Medical Practice Edition will help clinicians and healthcare organizations to create medical notes directly into any EHR in real-time. With real-time, voice-driven clinical documentation clinicians are empowered to capture a more thorough patient story without sacrificing time. Dragon Medical Practice Edition yields a 15 percent improvement in accuracy over previous Dragon Medical releases and contains additional features that will be especially beneficial to physicians in small practices, which make up an estimated 40 percent of the total U.S. physician population.
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Speaking to a doctor via a webcam might sound like something out of The Jetsons, but it could be a reality sooner than you think. Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS, has called for doctors to offer remote consultations to patients via video link within the next year. But is this a service people want from their family doctor?
In order to find out more, YouGov polled over 2,000 people and found that almost 29 per cent in the UK would like to see GPs start offering remote consultations via video link in the next decade. Less than a third may not sound like much, but if you take into account how many millions of appointments NHS doctors conduct each year, there is clearly a huge demand from patients for ‘virtual’ consultations. Experts have also suggested that telemedicine could generate savings of £1bn a year for the NHS and a massive reduction in the number of hospital admissions.
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