In a study reported by The Lancet, Kenyan health workers’ adherence to malaria treatment guidelines was improved by sending them a series of text messages. The effect of mobile phone text-message reminders on Kenyan health workers’ adherence to malaria treatment… Read moreMalaria treatment improved with text messaging (Kenya)
For your summer reading, Dr. Joseph Kvedar of Boston’s Center for Connected Health discusses how remote monitoring not only provides the physiologic data for proactive care and provides a basis for patient education–but also, in increasing the contact between a… Read moreConnected health and the doctor-patient relationship
Doctors in US insurance giant Aetna’s network in Florida can now access exclusive features on their mobile devices. Through NaviNet Mobile Connect (NaviNet is a patient information management network used by many insurers), in-network physicians can access ‘Care Considerations’, patient information… Read moreAetna goes mobile for Florida doctors (US)
When last we heard from AliveCor back in June [TA 28 June] they were demonstrating some new advances to their smartphone based ECG system. They’ve caught up with The Wall Street Journal to do a bit of horn-blowing–and the interviewer… Read moreAliveCor demos their ECG app for The Wall Street Journal
If you’ve been on holiday (vacation to us Yanks), and (deservedly) staying as far away from any and all news sources, here’s a brief rundown on the bombshells that have blasted MobileLand and longer term, healthcare users: Google bought Motorola… Read moreLast week, stocks; this week, mobile
A possible breakthrough in the detection of ‘pulselessness’–otherwise known as sudden cardiac arrest–is a wristwatch type device presently in trial. In most patients participating in the phase I trial of Emergency Medical Technologies’ ‘Wriskwatch’, it correctly signaled artificially induced pulselessness,… Read more'Wriskwatch' may predict cardiac arrest
Catching up with another chapter in a very long story….opening with the reported clinical trial of the mCare mobile phone app designed to support soldiers recovering from traumatic brain injuries (TBI). It has been in pilot since 2009, when the… Read moreDOD in full clinical trial of Diversinet mCare app for TBI soldiers (US)
Lifecomm, the joint mobile PERS venture shared by Hughes Telematics, Qualcomm and AMAC (American Medical Alert Company), which is expected to be in market late 2011 [TA 19 May] , has published a whitepaper by their VP of Business Development Richard… Read moreLifecomm MPERS white paper
Add the recent reported explosion of Android malware to the ongoing debate of iPad vs. Android–2 1/2 times greater than only six months ago, affecting a million users in the first half of 2011. What does this mean for hospital… Read moreBeware hospital CIOs, of Android malware explosion
A recent report from UnitedHealthGroup, Modernizing Rural Health Care, confirms the obvious–that there are fewer doctors, especially specialist, per capita in rural areas of the US versus urban–and the gap is expected to increase due to growing shifting of patients… Read moreRural healthcare lagging without telemedicine (US)
