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- eHealth: overtaken by the iPad?
- by Charles Wright. eHealth Central, March 1, 2012. "To what extent has the mobile technology revolution overtaken national ehealth strategies? That's the question I imagine the industry worldwide will be asking if they read a report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Will Falk, who wrote one of Canada Health Infoway’s first business plans, makes the riveting claim in the article that the evolution of technology has made Canada's ehealth strategy all but completely obsolete..."
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- Making the Case for Connected Health
- Accenture study explores the future of integrated healthcare delivery. Accenture, January 30, 2012. "... Accenture’s Connected Health study combines deep research—interviews with more than 160 healthcare leaders, a survey among more than 3,700 doctors and clinicians, case studies, literature reviews and more—to provide a broad analysis of how health systems can accelerate progress and gain tangible benefits from their connected health initiatives. Accenture’s research shows that these countries all have a vision for connected health—though each is unique—and highlights the similarities and differences in their responses to the growing health crisis. To improve quality and access while trying to control costs, they are all moving, to some degree, toward integrated healthcare..."
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- Case Study: Mayo Clinic Supports Patients Via Social Media
- Posted By: Stephanie Reese. eMarketer, Posted: September 27, 2011. "To enhance its growing social media presence, nonprofit medical practice and research group Mayo Clinic established a Center for Social Media in July 2010. Since launching the division, Mayo Clinic has bolstered its activity on social networks and blogs. With carefully crafted social media guidelines and an expanded team, the organization has both empowered employees to get involved in the social space and provided patients and healthcare researchers with a robust destination for information and support..."
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- Would you trust your health to your iPhone?
- by Charles Wright. eHealth Central, July 27, 2011. "Yesterday's piece in Australian Doctor on the proposal by US authorities to regulate mobile medical apps 'amid an exploding number of new programs and platforms' juxtaposes nicely with a report on the latest piece of iPhone wizardry: a smartphone add-on that may end the days of finger-pricking for glucose readings..."
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- mHealth - New horizons for health through mobile technologies - in pdf format (3402kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Based on the findings of the second global survey on eHealth. Global Observatory for eHealth series - Volume 3. World Health Organization, June 2011. "... The use of mobile and wireless technologies to support the achievement of health objectives (mHealth) has the potential to transform the face of health service delivery across the globe. A powerful combination of factors is driving this change. These include rapid advances in mobile technologies and applications, a rise in new opportunities for the integration of mobile health into existing eHealth services, and the continued growth in coverage of mobile cellular networks... For the first time the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) has sought to determine the status of mHealth in Member States; its 2009 global survey contained a section specifically devoted to mHealth. Completed by 114 Member States, the survey documented for analysis four aspects of mHealth: adoption of initiatives, types of initiatives, status of evaluation, and barriers to implementation. Fourteen categories of mHealth services were surveyed: health call centres, emergency toll-free telephone services, managing emergencies and disasters, mobile telemedicine, appointment reminders, community mobilization and health promotion, treatment compliance, mobile patient records, information access, patient monitoring, health surveys and data collection, surveillance, health awareness raising, and decision support systems..."
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- Mobile health technologies go global
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, June 7, 2011. "Government use of mobile health technologies is experiencing a rush of activity with 83 percent of the countries in the World Health Organization offering at least one type of mHealth service, according to a survey from the organization. Of the 112 governments surveyed on mobile health in 2009, the most recent survey available, there were 100 governments that reported offering at least one application of mobile health, or mHealth..."
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- Clinton starts global maternal health program via mobile devices
- Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action aims to sign up women for health info, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, May 3, 2011. "The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has started its first mobile application development partnership aimed at delivering free health care information and tips to pregnant women and mothers around the world via cell phone..."
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- Does ehealth hold the secret to sustainable healthcare?
- By Jeremy Bonfini, Executive Vice President for Global Services, HIMSS. eGov Monitor, Tuesday, 3 May, 2011. "Ahead of eHealth Week 2011, Jeremy Bonfini from HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society), looks at how health IT needs to change to ensure sustainable health care systems. Health information technology has been traditionally seen as something to help improve hospital management, saving costs and improving efficiency. Now we are seeing hospitals move beyond the technologies that impact care within their facilities towards a more networked virtual health IT enterprise..."
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- Healthcare Unwired - in pdf format (1536kb)
- Health Research Institute, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, September 2010. "Mobile technologies hold great promise for keeping people healthy, managing diseases, and lowering healthcare costs. For years, telehealth has provided clinical services for individuals who lacked physical access: farmers in remote communities, soldiers near the battlefield, inmates in prison. Now, these technologies have demonstrated the ability to benefit almost any individual. Mobile devices are the most personal technology that consumers own. They enable consumers to establish personal preferences for sharing and communicating. They can enable health and wellness to be delivered through mass personalization. Unfortunately, the payment wires are crossed. Providers get paid based on volume of services delivered, and mobile health has been shown to reduce the need for hospital admissions and physician office visits. Why would providers adopt technologies that gouge their incomes? An industry that is paid based on volume will not adopt technologies that reduce volume. However, new payment models enveloped in the new health reform law set up a framework to pay providers based on outcome, not volume. In this environment, mobile health could provide needed connections: for patients who delay care because they’re too busy to wait in a doctor’s office; for physicians who don’t have enough time to spend with patients; for device companies that want to monitor the performance of their devices; for pharmaceutical companies that want to ensure patients are taking the medicines they need; for hospitals that don’t have the capital to build more beds..."
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- Growth in Mobile Health Search
- by Dean Stephens. Search Engine Watch, April 17, 2011. "... With more health-focused organizations offering apps and mobile-optimized information the choices for consumers are abundant. Most online health media companies have entered the market by offering downloadable apps..."
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- Cancer 2.0
- by Susannah Fox. Pew Internet & American Life Project, December 13, 2010. "Broadband and mobile internet access is spreading to more Americans, making them more likely to access health information whenever and wherever they need it. The always-on, always-with-you internet enhances people's online experience and creates a positive feedback loop, reinforcing their interest in using the internet to gather and share information. Given the evidence that people are ready, willing, and able to engage in online discussions about cancer prevention and treatment, what steps are being taken to ensure that the U.S. (and the world) does not miss this latest opportunity for education and discovery?.."
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- Social Media Cuts Healthcare Costs
- Health 2.0 initiatives reduce medical expenses while improving the quality of care, finds Healthcare Performance Management Institute study, By Nicole Lewis, Information Week, October 27, 2010. "Social media initiatives that help physicians, patients, and the medical research community share patient information will drive down healthcare-related costs while improving the quality of care, a report concludes. The report, "Healthcare Performance Management in the Era of 'Twitter,'" was published this week by the Healthcare Performance Management Institute..."
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- Healthcare Performance Management in the Era of 'Twitter' - in pdf format (211kb)
- Harnessing the Social Networking Phenomenon, by Lane F. Cooper and Susan Aluise. Healthcare Performance Institute, October 2010. "At a time when health plan costs for employers and their employees are spiraling out of control, companies have a new secret weapon at their disposal: healthcare performance management (HPM). By freeing health data from silos and fostering sharing and collaboration across platforms and among patients and healthcare entities, it is easier to achieve the full promise of Health 2.0 initiatives: lower costs and better patient outcomes. One key area of innovation in the healthcare arena is the advent of social media, which is fast becoming a tool for connecting healthcare consumers and providers. Such online collaborations are at the core of Health 2.0 strategies and are radically transforming the way patients, providers and researchers approach healthcare in everything from wellness programs to chronic disease management. In this report, we will examine how social media and other Health 2.0 initia-tives are transforming the healthcare marketplace and how organizations can leverage the power of HPM technology to connect plan sponsors, members and the provider community in a cost-efficient interactive healthcare system that promotes better health for employees..."
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- 3 Mobile Healthcare Apps that Leverage the Cloud
- By Alex Williams. Read Write Web, November 30, 2010. "The mobile healthcare market is finally starting to show significant growth. The number of apps has increased more than 150% on Android and 140% on the Blackberry in the past year. According to Mobile Health News, more than 4,200 healthcare apps are on the Apple platform and Android users have access to about 500. By 2015, more than 500,000 people are expected to be using healthcare smartphone applications..."
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- Number of smartphone health apps up 78 percent
- by Brian Dolan. Mobile Health News, Thursday - November 4, 2010. "... As our new research report – 'The Fastest Growing and Most Successful Health & Medical Apps' – explains, most mobile health apps available today do not help you track or manage your health. Most only provide reference information about health issues..."
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