Here are some great articles from mobilehealthnews.com on the uptake of mobile health solutions, particularly using the iphone: Roche decides it’s time to enter mHealth. Roche Diagnostics inked a deal with Glucose Buddy iPhone app developer Healthagen, because Roche believes that the time to get into the wireless health market is now. While the company’s [...]
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From Yahoo News: There’s no single right answer for everyone yet patients often are ill-equipped to weigh increasingly complex medical options. Now there’s a small but growing movement to get unbiased reports of the pros and cons of different tests and treatments into patients’ hands before they fall back on, “Doc, just tell me what [...]
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A continuing medical education website has been launched that provides free virtual access to educational conferences and meetings. Medical Update contains video and power point slides from events from around the country. The site has been live since October, and currently includes presentations from local and international clinicians covering a variety of topics including eating disorders, cardiology [...]
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This blog has often remarked that much of the healthcare system is either too distracted, poorly planned or too old-school to evaluate and implement digital solutions for practice and hospital management software. The US government is trying to overcome this with incentives. Starting in 2011, physicians who show that they are “meaningfully” using health IT would [...]
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