According to a survey conducted by GlobalSign, an IT security specialist, breaches that cost healthcare organizations as much as $100,000 per incident are happening every day in the US, despite the focus of healthcare organizations on regulatory compliance: 34% of respondents’… Read more$100K HIT data breaches daily: study
Hopefully none of our readers will have extra or skipped heartbeats this holiday weekend (US, UK), but Oregon-based cardiac device developer TZ Medical and German M2M developer Cinterion (formerly Siemens Wireless Modules) have a mobile device for that. Just announced is their new… Read moreMobile M2M for heart arrhythmia
The Washington Post takes a peek into Pandora’s Box…what FDA regulations can mean to companies innovating in the health IT field. There’s nowhere to hide, although many companies may qualify under the MDDS rules [TA 15 Feb] into Class I rather than the… Read moreFDA regulation–too slow for health IT?
A long, gushing piece in Singularity Hub about the Practice Fusion EHR (“What’s makes it different than [sic] its 300+ competitors? For starters, it’s web-based, 100% ad-supported, and absolutely free. It’s the fastest growing EHR community by a long shot,… Read moreWeb-based, 100% ad-supported, free EHR (US)
Two European telehealth studies, both with congestive heart failure patients presented results that were–how shall we say it–ambivalent about telehealth efficacy. The ‘Telemedicine to Improve Mortality in Heart Failure’ two-year study (TIM-HF) study from Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, used a RPM system that cost €16… Read moreTelehealth has benefits, but…but…but….
Assessment of the prospects for the adoption of telehealth by the NHS as a result of the pressures on NHS funding. NHS cuts driving healthcare opportunities in What Investment. This editor (Steve) wonders where the evidence for this upbeat assessment… Read moreNHS cuts driving healthcare opportunities
With the Alere Masterclass announcement, we have just posted the 601st item in the members only Telecare Aware In Review section since it was started in October. That’s 601 items that are easy to search, easy to print, easy to… Read more601
With telecare companies such as WellAWARE focusing on sleep quality issues via bed and activity sensors, and the Zeo system running direct response TV spots, another way of tracking sleep quality may be as close as a shirt. The Somnus Sleep Shirt designed by start-up Nyx Devices is… Read moreA nightshirt that measures sleep quality
Verizon steps into mobile health apps with PBM partnership. Partnering with its own pharmacy benefits manager (PBM), Medco, the smartphone app focuses on educating members on drug costs in a Medco plan and providing lower-cost alternatives, as well as the usual… Read moreTuesday 'short subjects'
Surprised? CPM Healthcare, a Wisconsin-based marketing agency that specializes in hospital and physician marketing, surveyed thousands of consumers and found what they really want in hospital apps is the most urgent: compliance-related apps such as med and appointment reminders and post-discharge… Read moreHospital apps: health info not that compelling
