The engineer and the wireless athlete's foot detector
An inspired modern morality tale by Peter Kruger. Don’t miss it. Who cares?
An inspired modern morality tale by Peter Kruger. Don’t miss it. Who cares?
Smartphone penetration is the main driver for the growth of the mobile healthcare market and lack of standardization, regulation and market opacity are the main barriers according to independent developers of mobile healthcare applications. These are two findings from the… Read moreFree report: How The mHealth Market Will Change Within The Next 5 Years
Once again into the breach–patient health information (PHI) data breaches, that is. This estimated $6 billion albatross affects all aspects of eHealth, EHRs and data collected by remote monitoring–from contained and probably inadvertent (Geisinger, TA 4 Jan) to large dumps accessible by search engines (NY-Presbyterian, TA 29 Sept). Healthcare IT News’ feature article, distilling seven interviews including Larry Ponemon of the Ponemon Institute [TA 2 Dec], leads off with his statement: “Endemic failure to keep pace with best practices and advancing technology has resulted in antiquated data security, governance, policy plaguing in the healthcare industry.” If that is not bracing enough, read on for HITN’s predictions on the following healthcare information privacy trends for 2011.
The AT&T ForHealth portfolio has another major addition: remote monitoring developer MedApps. MedApps’ M2M data collection system (HealthPAL) will now use AT&T’s 3G network for uploading readings from a wide range of retail vital signs monitors to reporting on the HealthCOM portal. A major plus for MedApps is… Read moreAT&T adds MedApps to ForHealth (US)
In more AT&T ForHealth news, Vitality GlowCaps medication reminders with AT&T wireless are now available via Amazon at $10 per cap and $15 per month for the connectivity. Vitality has previously sold GlowCaps on Amazon [TA 29 June]. Want your very own… Read moreVitality GlowCaps with AT&T connectivity on Amazon
Broadband access provider ZyXEL Communications will now be providing connectivity for Entra Health Systems’ MyGlucoHealth, which claims to be the world’s first wireless glucose meter. MyGlucoHealth has been using Bluetooth connectivity via an enabled mobile phone for data collection and uploading to… Read moreZyXEL, MyGlucoHealth partner for diabetes monitoring