Well, that was fast…one of the major publications in the US hospital management field, Hospitals & Health Networks, puts an iPhone and a (unlabeled) bottled water on the (print) cover with the brash statement ‘Got kidney stones? There’s an app… Read moreDoctors and patients jumping on mHealth and changing healthcare as we know it?
This panel on mobile health at last week’s annual meeting of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) in Philadelphia included Mohit Kaushal, M.D., of the West Wireless Health Institute, Joseph Kim, M.D. of Medical Communications Media, Hemang Patel of Microsoft Corp., Healthcare and… Read more'Going mobile': the promise and the confusion
Tiptoeing out in this slow news week: Denver Health, Microsoft and EMC Corporation have announced the development of a Chronic Care Management text messaging platform for Denver Health patients. The first phase is bi-directional messaging through queries to patients on home blood… Read moreDenver Health, Microsoft develop diabetes text program
Holiday weeks like this give us time for a bit of catchup (not ketchup), and over at the California HealthCare Foundation’s website (via their iHealthBeat e-letter), Jane Sarasohn-Kahn’s excellent February report, ‘The Connected Patient’, is a must-read. It is an overview… Read moreReport: 'The Connected Patient'
We reported last week on American Well’s gold Edison Award for a ‘practice edition’ of its telemedicine platform. Online Care for Providers gives physicians the opportunity to set up their own online consults via video, phone or text chat. Each online visit… Read moreAmerican Well goes direct to physicians
Software engineering students at an Israeli university (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) have developed a helmet equipped with 14 EEG connect points that translate brain activity into keyboarding or mouse motion. In a demonstration of the system, a student created… Read moreYour new computer mouse may be your brain
