This short news clip from CNN International brings home the story of counterfeit drugs in developing countries and the efforts to stop them. Interviews with Garba MacDonald of NAFDAC (Nigeria’s drug agency), Femi Soremekur of Biofem (distributor) demonstrating the Sproxil text… Read moreCNN International video on anti-drug counterfeiting in Nigeria
In less than two years Dale Potter, senior vice president and CIO at The Ottawa Hospital has weaned staff off compiling patient files by using paper printouts to accessing their records using iPads. How? See mHealth: What happened in IS?… Read moreHospital records: paper to electronic access in less than two years (Canada)
More analysis of the proposed ‘ACO Rule’ from CMS from Vince Kuraitis on his e-Care Management blog. His eight ‘first impressions’: 1. The bar has been set high…very high. (At least 50% of primary care physicians must be meaningful user… Read moreMore on ACOs and Medicare (US)
Effective home telehealth monitoring of lung disease–COPD and other chronic diseases–has been elusive. An Israeli company with a US office, Deep Breeze, has adapted its hospital-based vibration response imaging (VRI) technology, approved by the FDA in 2007, for home use. It… Read moreBreeze@home to monitor lung conditions
$20,000 is ‘microfinancing’ in contrast to the larger sums that ‘angels’ or VCs–or even the ‘FFF’ (friends, family and ‘fools’) typically invest, but the innovative idea of RockHealth is to build bridges between big-time healthcare providers and young entrepreneurs with hot connected health ideas. The founder,… Read moreIncubating healthcare IT startups
iRx Reminder is taking a different approach to most mhealth developers, aiming its app – at least initially – at researchers to conduct medication or behavioral intervention studies with chronic disease patients. Despite the company’s name, iRx Reminder’s technology does… Read moremHealth app developer iRx Reminder looks for foothold in research market
Three general items that may interest Telecare Aware readers: Overturning some preconceptions: Worried about old age? Good (Montreal Gazette) New research on risk of developing Alzheimer’s: New discovery in fight against Alzheimer’s (Wales Online) And if life becomes intolerable? Woman… Read moreOld age, dementia and euthanasia
A long, thoughtful post by Fariba Rahbary, a pharmacist, on the Center for Connected Health blog, on how healthcare technology unites and not separates us, will help us navigate an increasingly complex system, will make office visits more meaningful and efficient, help… Read moreWeekend reading: Technology as an enabler
With much detail, Stephanie Simon in The Wall Street Journal takes a look at ‘Medicine on the Move’. After an attention-getting but straw mannish start (how many physicians other than Dr. Eric Topol and who aren’t top cardiologists are going to tote about… Read moreDo we lose or gain in mobile medicine?
To judge from the blogs, press and within the industry, the Accountable Care Organization (ACO)–that loose term for a group of care providers folding in physician practices/groups, hospitals, home care providers and whatnot–is the Promised Land for eHealth and integrated… Read moreDishman's long riff on proposed ACO rules (US)
