CMIO Magazine’s May cover story is all about telehealth and telemedicine (slightly muddled together) in places like Alaska, Maine, with Texas-based Christus Health with hospitals in six states plus Mexico and a physician group in Maryland which became the first National… Read moreCMIO: Telehealth gets connected (US)
A Kaiser Permanente study in Colorado with hypertensive patients, using home monitoring and reporting versus a control group with doctor office visits, were50 percent more likely to have their blood pressure controlled to healthy levels compared to the control group after… Read moreKaiser study finds 50% improvement in healthy hypertension control
Every year worldwide, 500,000 women die owing to complications from childbirth. Of these, 10% are in Nigeria. A Californian health sciences student, Evelyn Castle, is doing something about it through an initiative called e-Health Nigeria and an ‘Instant EMR’ she… Read moree-Health Nigeria and the 'instant EMR'
Over at his blog, Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet has a wonderful acronym for the feelings stirred by FDA’s recent blanket declaration that health IT (HIT) software is a medical device and under regulation: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. (Just what we… Read moreFDA and digital health = FUD?
The Telecare Services Association (TSA) has announced that it has appointed Trevor Single as its new chief executive. Trevor will take up his post in mid-June. Press release with some bio. (PDF)
In last night’s ’60 Minutes’ (US-CBS) profile piece on Marty Cooper, the developer of the Motorola DynaTAC ‘brick’ cell phone while he was their corporate director, R&D 37 years ago, reporter Morley Safer segues gracefully into where cell phone technology… Read moremHealth featured on '60 Minutes' (US)
