Mobile apps highlight possibilities, hurdles
Date: Feb 10, 2010
If clinician turnout at last week’s mHealth Networking Conference in D.C., is any indication of things to come, doctors and other healthcare providers will not only play a critical role in supporting consumer uptake of mobile health apps and wireless medical devices, but in helping to slow the proliferation of symptom-driven apps that are prone to misinterpretation by patients.
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RPM to streamline CHF program
Date: Feb 12, 2010
Dunmore, Pa.-based Traditional Home Health and Hospice is beefing up its Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patient management program with an in-home patient vital signs monitoring system. The agency, which provides home health and hospice services to patients, has implemented the Electronic House Call system from Berkeley Heights, N.J.-based ExpressMD Solutions.
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Bringing EMRs to the point of care
Date: Feb 11, 2010
With the average annual failure rates for non-ruggedized handheld computers hovering at 38 percent, it makes sense that a maker of ruggedized handheld devices would team up with a mobile clinical software developer and an end-to-end solutions Integration firm to provide healthcare professionals with access to electronic medical records anytime, anywhere.
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Mobility vendor dubs iPhone 'enterprise-ready'
Date: Feb 09, 2010
I’ve taken a fair amount of heat from health IT professionals over the years for including Apple’s line-up of mobile devices in a space largely devoted to enterprise mobility. Suffice it to say, most felt that since the Cupertino, Calif.-based maker of consumer devices didn’t have much of a stake in the healthcare enterprise, I should cut bait and move on. But, thanks mostly to physician preferences, Apple has in fact gained ground in healthcare. Now, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Agito Networks has come out with a major update to its product line—not only offering the ability to make calls over 3G, but including support for Apple’s iPhone and the ability to scale to up to 10,000 users.
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Beyond reporting: XBRL's role in healthcare
Date: Feb 08, 2010
One of the memes of medical banking is the role transparency can play to wring out the fraud in the healthcare system. One of the topics I've been monitoring has been the global adoption of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL--pronounced eks-Burl).
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Leveraging technologies to fight healthcare fraud, abuse
Date: Feb 15, 2010
The 800-pound gorilla in the room around healthcare reform is not the red herring of the privacy issues related to the mass adoption of electronic health records but rather America's momentum in the direction of the cashless society--the framework necessary to get optimal fraud prevention and prosecution impact out of the monitoring of healthcare payments.
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