Texting (or SMS) is not just for teens spraining their thumbs or advertising; it is increasingly being used for health messaging and communication in Third World countries. FrontlineSMS: Medic, a UK/US developer of free, open-source software for NGOs, is partnering with local clinics, MobilizeMRS for EMRs and Hope Phones
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Monthly Archives October 2009
Psychiatry and telemedicine
Psychiatry, to this reporter, was the least covered clinical area at the recent Connected Health Symposium, with only one panel on behavioral health mainly focused on online self-assessment. Yet this is an area where quality one-on-one connectedness makes critical differences. Here is
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Sensor remote monitoring and PERS integration
Telecare stand-alone technologies are starting to integrate, benefiting both new and old systems. WellAWARE (sensor-based senior wellness monitoring and trending) and AMAC (good ol’ PERS) recently announced a test of a true integrated system at an Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan residence in Minnesota. In an emergency indicated
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Connected Health Symposium–a view from the HealthBlawg
David Harlow’s expert perspective on many sessions at CHS. He attended many I did not cover, including the Nicholas Christakis keynote on social networking and health. All worth reading for his well-informed POV. Wrap-up, PHD Platforms, audio of the Thursday AM panel discussing The Innovator’s
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Text messaging pilot for high-risk pregnant women expanded
The Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare System, Boston, received a $25,000 grant from Verizon to expand a pilot program supporting care and education for high-risk pregnant women. Text messages are sent to at-risk women to encourage them to seek prenatal and
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Another take on Connected Health
Steve Brown, who moderated the Remote Monitoring in 2014 breakout at the Connected Health Symposium, uses the WiFi on Virgin Atlantic to comment on what connected health has become. In his view, it’s moving away from the imperative of controlling heavy spending on chronic
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NY connects health–someday soon
Despite the dysfunctional state of the Empire State (the area is home to your North America editor), some interesting and pricey developments: The NY eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) announced both a new executive director (David Whitlinger, ex Intel and Continua) plus $35
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RPM: No patient left behind
Half of respondents engaged in telehealth remotely monitor health conditions of certain patients, especially those with heart failure, according to a new study on telehealth and telemedicine by the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN). Summary results.
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Helping the old old benefit from the internet
Refreshingly positive article in the New York Times: Helping Grandpa Get His Tech On.
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5 new technologies that will change everything
3D TV, HTML5, video over Wi-Fi, superfast USB, and mobile “augmented reality” will emerge as breakthrough technologies in the next few years. Here’s a preview of what they do and how they work, by Glenn Fleishman in PC World. And
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