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Tag Archives: mobile health
Good Business Acumen for Healthcare IT
When one discusses business acumen, it is usually applied to individuals. What I plan to discuss is business acumen that hospital administrators should have when considering implementation of IT and mHealth technologies. It is well-known that one of the biggest … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, mHealth, mobile health, technology, wireless health
Tagged ACOs, EHR, EMR, government IT, hcsm, healthcare, healthcare reform, mHealth, mobile health, wireless health
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Do Physicians Love or Hate mHealth?
I have noticed some seemingly opposite interpretations (at first glance) about the enthusiasm for mHealth technologies by physicians. One article appearing in Informationweek.com on November 21st “Doctors Slow To Embrace Telemedicine, Cloud Computing”(http://www.informationweek.com/news/healthcare/mobile-wireless/231903483?queryText=nicole+lewis) . Another article appearing on November … Continue reading
How mHealth Will Succeed: Recommendations From the WHO
The strongly emerging sector of healthcare is quickly becoming a topic of national and international organizations. It is being examined from business, regulatory, and healthcare stakeholders. As with all new types of technologies that are being considered by payers, patients, … Continue reading
mHealth and Globalization of Healthcare
The term globalization loosely refers to the increasing unification of order. It has been traditionally applied to the economic sector. As the world is progressively intertwined from financial and cultural perspectives, it is not surprising that it is occurring in … Continue reading
Posted in healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, smartphone apps, technology, wireless health
Tagged EHR, EMR, globalization, government IT, healthcare IT, healthcare reform, mHealth, mobile health, S4PM, technology, wireless health
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mHealth: The True Patient Centered Medical Home?
The patient centered medical home (PCMH) has been defined as ‘an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth and adults. The PCMH is a health care setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, and their personal physicians, and … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, medical devices, mHealth, mobile health, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth
Tagged ACOs, EHR, EMR, hcsm, healthcare finance, healthcare IT, healthcare reform, HHS, mHealth, mobile health, patient centered medical home, S4PM, technology, wireless health
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What Does Ideal mHealth Look Like?
The ideal mHealth may many meanings from different perspectives. For the provider taking care of patients with multiple chronic diseases, it may be a platform that incorporates multiple system sensor and monitoring capabilities which transmit only actionable alerts, with minimal … Continue reading
mHealth and Child Abuse
There has not been a more horrific scandal in the world of sports that I can remember than the child abuse scandal (the mainstream media calls it a sex abuse scandal) surrounding The Pennsylvania State University. Let it be said … Continue reading
Posted in child abuse, education, emergency medicine, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, mHealth, mobile health, technology, wireless health
Tagged child abuse, EHR, EMR, law, medicine, mHealth, mobile health, nurses, S4PM, smartphone apps, technology, telehealth, wireless health
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Occupy Healthcare: a Lost Opportunity?
There has been enough publicity about the Occupy Wall Street movement that it is already part of the lexicon, and no longer makes daily headlines. Not hidden among the concerns of the country these days are healthcare, and to be … Continue reading
Posted in emergency medicine, healthcare economics, Healthcare IT, healthcare reform, mobile health, technology, wireless health
Tagged ACOs, EHR, emergency medicine, EMR, government IT, healthcare finance, healthcare reform, HHS, hospitals, Medicare, medicine, mHealth, mobile health, Occupy Healthcare, S4PM, technology
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mHealth and HealthcareIT: Who’s Your Healthcare Data’s Daddy?
Healtcare IT and wireless health technologies will be producing in the coming years an almost immeasurable amount of data derived from electronic health records (EHRs), smart phones, body sensors, and other ‘connected’ devices. The ownership of this type of data … Continue reading
mHealth and HIPAA
Wireless health technologies are proliferating into various transmission modalities and spectrum of wellness and healthcare. Safety and privacy of data is of paramount importance to providers and patients. HIPAA laws apply to some types of mHealth products and the implications … Continue reading
