Today’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has a fairly long article, by their standards, (section D, pg 1) on the use of cellphone text messaging to deliver health related information. Unfortunately, the article tries to cover too much ground going from texting for sex education info for teens in California to reminders for an appointment at [...]
Posts Tagged ‘telehealth’
Coming to a Cell Near You – TxtMed
Posted in PHR, Security, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged AT&T, cellphone, healthcare delivery, PHR, Sprint, telehealth, Verizon on November 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Update on the GE-Boston Scientific Partnership
Posted in EMR, HL 7, telehealth, tagged Boston Scientific, EMR, GE, healthcare, HL7, telehealth on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Recently wrote a brief post on the GE-Boston Scientific partnership, but left a few questions unanswered awaiting a reply from one of the companies. Received an email today that helps clarify the partnership. First-off, it is an exclusive partnership between these two companies. No need to despair, however, as the exclusive clause is for a [...]
GE and Boston Scientific Push Telehealth Envelop
Posted in EMR, Microsoft, telehealth, tagged Boston Scientific, EMR, GE, healthcare, telehealth on November 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Mid last week, GE and Boston Scientific made an interesting announcement wherein Boston Scientific’s patient monitoring platform, LATITUDE will be able to automatically update a patient’s Centricity-based electronic medical record (EMR). Currently, cardiologists use LATITUDE to remotely monitor a patient’s defibulator implant, but this data is collected and stored separately, outside of a patient’s core [...]
Is there a Doctor Online?
Posted in telehealth, tagged healthcare, telehealth on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On a bike ride recently, a good friend of mine, who is a practicing physician got to talking about delivering care via telephone or email. While he sees great value and utility in using such tools he does not has the vast majority of payers do not reimburse for such services. Looks like that may [...]
Telehealth Data Points
Posted in policy, telehealth, telemedicine, VEBA, tagged Chrysler, Ford, GM, telehealth, UAW, VEBA on November 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In the post Telehealth Goes to Washington, I referenced the recently released AdvaMed report. Well, to save you some time, here are some data points abstracted from that report. Among benefits cited in the report: * A study of diabetics discharged from the hospital showed per-patient costs of those who received remote monitoring was nearly [...]
Telehealth Goes to Washington
Posted in policy, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged healthcare, Medicare, policy, telehealth on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
At the recently held Connected for Health symposium, which I reported on previously, a widely held belief among participants was that telehealth would not see substantial growth until the largest potential market, seniors, start receiving Medicare benefits that covered telehealth programs. Coming close on the heels of this conference is a report released this week [...]
Quick Snippets from Connected for Health
Posted in EMR, Google, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged EMR, Google, health, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Big draw of over 750 attendees. Good representation of the industry, with primary focus on telehealth, thus plenty of representatives from this sector including in no particular order, Cisco, Sharp, Panasonic, Medtronic, Philips, Honeywell, you get the idea. Of course, loads of others surrounding this space such as VC firms, financial analysts, law firms, consultants, [...]
Next Week: Connected Health Symposium
Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHR, telemedicine, tagged Google, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, telemedicine on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On Monday and Tuesday of next week, I’ll be at the 2007 Symposium, Building the Connected Health Economy, which has quite an impressive line-up of presenters and round-tables that touch upon a variety of topics related to healthcare technology. Particular emphasis is on telemedicine – not all that surprising as the organizers are also key [...]
Digging Into Microsoft’s HealthVault: Part Two (b) – The Experience
Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, Privacy, Security, tagged EHR, EMR, IT, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, telehealth on October 15, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Have you ever come home from a strenuous work-out famished and can find nothing in the cupboards or the refrigerator to satisfy your cravings? If so, then you have some idea of what I experienced on HealthVault. Getting into HealthVault was a work-out. It all began with the need to establish a Microsoft Windows Live [...]
Digging Into Microsoft’s HealthVault: Part Two (a) – The Platform
Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, tagged EHR, EMR, IT, Microsoft, PHR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, telehealth on October 12, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I came into this review with very high hopes, hopes that Microsoft, with its vast resources and market clout, would make a major splash in the rapidly evolving consumer health IT (HIT) market. I was thinking BIG. Big grand schemes, a monster of a Personal Health Record (PHR) solution that would provide all a consumer [...]
