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Survey: mHealth not ready for primetime yet, but soon
Date: May 10, 2010
A broad mix of mobile healthcare stakeholders are set to converge on San Diego this week for a three-day conference on wireless health, just as a report assessing the state of the industry concludes that mHealth is still emerging and not yet ready for mainstream adoption.
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Familiar technology making a difference at the mobile POC
Date: May 07, 2010
Bar code systems have proven themselves highly useful and reliable over the past several years, but a study that just came out in the New England Journal of Medicine pinpoints just what a critical difference this technology can play at the mobile point of care.
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Tapping Ultra Wideband for wireless patient monitoring
Date: May 06, 2010
What do you get when you blend an aging population, a nursing shortage, a seemingly endless supply of taxpayer dollars, and an FCC plan that claims remote monitoring has the potential to save $200 billion over the next 15 to 25 years? A slew of “connected healthcare” companies eager to differentiate their offerings.
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Portuguese hospitals looks to RTLS
Date: May 05, 2010
Member hospitals of one of the largest private healthcare groups in Portugal are installing Ekahau's RTLS solution to enable mobile patients to call for a nurse and to provide emergency notification for staff members, among other purposes. Espirito Santo Saude (ESSAUDE), which consists of 15 healthcare units and two assisted living residences, expects the wireless RTLS offering to enhance safety and quality of care while boosting overall patient satisfaction levels.
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DEA rule change to boost e-prescribing adoption?
Date: May 04, 2010
Providers on the go will have one more reason to e-prescribe if a new DEA rule goes into effect on June 1, permitting the electronic prescribing of controlled substances. Some have contended that the agency’s standing requirement that providers maintain a separate paper-and-fax-based workflow to prescribe controlled substances posed an obstacle to the adoption of e-prescribing technologies.
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Location-based Healthcare
Date: May 03, 2010
With all the talk about the HP-Palm deal, and the announcement of further progress on IronRuby by Microsoft showcasing technology user TomTom, I thought it was interesting that Dell Wireless product marketing manager, Alan Sicher, made the point that location based services are not all about phones. While their laptop technology is apparently not intended as a Personal Navigation Device as is, it occurred to me that there may be some value (and danger) in marrying it with a heads up display a la Microvision for first responders and those volunteers who support them.
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Competition: good for smartphones, healthcare
Date: Apr 30, 2010
Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of Palm offers a great opportunity to speculate on what it will mean for mHealth. Although many were eyeing the mobile device maker as a potential takeover target, I’m not convinced many envisioned H-P taking the merger helm. Now that it has, expect RIM, Motorola, Nokia and even Apple to feel some competitive pressure—but just how much is a tough call.
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Making the most of patient data
Date: Apr 29, 2010
Everyone has a favorite patient data dumping story, whether it involves an actual breach or just some really bad decision making that led to files being compromised. But if all the media hoopla surrounding these cases hasn’t done diddly to improve security, at least it’s prompting some interesting new ways of managing patient data.
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Wireless VoIP for healthcare
Date: Apr 28, 2010
GE Healthcare is following up on its 2009 partnership with Intel by striking a deal with Ascom Wireless Solutions to implement a hospital system that would send alerts from patient-monitoring devices directly to a caregiver via paging or text messaging.
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Mobile health platform holds broad appeal
Date: Apr 27, 2010
Healthagen, the Lakewood, Colo.-based developer of the iTriage consumer healthcare platform, has inked a deal with Asklepios, the largest privately-held hospital system operating in Germany. Under terms of the deal, the two organizations will work to private label Healthagen’s content and decision support software while introducing Meine Klinik, a German language consumer-based medical technology.
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Recent Posts
RFID system finds support
Pittsburgh-based ClearCount Medical Solutions has capped its latest round of funding at $5 million, which should go a long way towards driving market penetration and R&D for the SmartSponge and SmartWand systems. These solutions for hospital patient safety applications use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology and chips embedded in sponges to enable surgeons and nurses to detect and count sponges during operations. Read More
Date: Sep 02, 2010
Sutter Health banks on mobile app
The second largest healthcare system in Northern California has tapped the iTriage mobile app in a move to keep local patients supplied with data about doctors and nearby hospitals. Sutter Health, which spans 24 hospitals and a network of 4,700 physicians, hopes its patients will turn to the free download to view information such as a doctor's board certification or practice specialty, hours and office addresses, languages spoken, medical training and degrees, affiliations and referral networks, whether he or she accepts new patients, and what health plans are accepted. Read More
Date: Sep 01, 2010
Marketing deal to extend AirStrip OB reach
A collaboration between Alere Health and mobile medical software developer AirStrip Technologies should go a long way towards extending the reach of AirStrip OB software. Beginning Sept. 1, the new marketing agreement calls for Alere, through its Women & Children's Health division, to begin offering AirStrip OB to its healthcare provider client base in the U.S. Read More
Date: Aug 31, 2010
The numbers favor 'mPHRs'
With 50 percent of consumers saying they want a personal monitoring device prompting them to make improvements in their health, could a marriage between mobile devices and personal health records completely change the way health care is delivered in the United States? It can and it will, according to a brief issued by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Read More
Date: Aug 30, 2010
Pittsburgh-based ClearCount Medical Solutions has capped its latest round of funding at $5 million, which should go a long way towards driving market penetration and R&D for the SmartSponge and SmartWand systems. These solutions for hospital patient safety applications use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology and chips embedded in sponges to enable surgeons and nurses to detect and count sponges during operations. Read More
Date: Sep 02, 2010
Sutter Health banks on mobile app
The second largest healthcare system in Northern California has tapped the iTriage mobile app in a move to keep local patients supplied with data about doctors and nearby hospitals. Sutter Health, which spans 24 hospitals and a network of 4,700 physicians, hopes its patients will turn to the free download to view information such as a doctor's board certification or practice specialty, hours and office addresses, languages spoken, medical training and degrees, affiliations and referral networks, whether he or she accepts new patients, and what health plans are accepted. Read More
Date: Sep 01, 2010
Marketing deal to extend AirStrip OB reach
A collaboration between Alere Health and mobile medical software developer AirStrip Technologies should go a long way towards extending the reach of AirStrip OB software. Beginning Sept. 1, the new marketing agreement calls for Alere, through its Women & Children's Health division, to begin offering AirStrip OB to its healthcare provider client base in the U.S. Read More
Date: Aug 31, 2010
The numbers favor 'mPHRs'
With 50 percent of consumers saying they want a personal monitoring device prompting them to make improvements in their health, could a marriage between mobile devices and personal health records completely change the way health care is delivered in the United States? It can and it will, according to a brief issued by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Read More
Date: Aug 30, 2010
