...Dubai which is only 1600 square miles in area. Having considered the details of the implementation the interest is partially explained by the fact that Hatta is an outpost separated from the rest of Dubai, 135 km (84 miles) from Rashid Hospital. However, the other two centres at which the RoboDoc devices have been installed, Al Bashar Health Centre (15 miles from Rashid Hospital) and Nad Al Hammar Health Centre (7 miles from Rashid) are so close it is surprising that telehealth would be considered a useful technology to implement. Nevertheless, the medical director of the Rashid Hospital Trauma Centre... Continue Reading
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From despair to hope? New study charts future of patient-generated data in care delivery
...A possible roadblock is the lack of interoperability of EHRs. Less than 10 years ago, the EHR was touted as The Solution to patient records and a repository of Everything. 51 percent indicate that interoperability is weak. One-third believe that ease of use and training for EHRs are also weak. Other findings indicated strong support for greater patient access to personal medical records (93 percent), fee/price information for comparison shopping (80 percent), and outcomes information listed by hospital (73 percent)–but not by doctor (55 percent). The full report is available for download at the NEJM Catalyst link here. Also Mobihealthnews.... Continue Reading
Tender up: NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG (UK) seeking telemedicine for care homes
...What for: A provider to deliver a 24/7, 365 day per year telemedicine-clinical support function to support care homes initially across Central London, West London, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hounslow and Ealing Clinical Commissioning Group (CWHHE CCGs) areas. This facility will be introduced to 43 residential and nursing homes across the geography covered by the CWHHE CCGs, with a phased implementation over the 3 years of the programme. If the service is successful, the CCGs reserve the right to extend the provision to include residential and nursing homes and patients and carers living outside care homes in the NHS Brent CCG,... Continue Reading
Iron Bow partners with Vivify Health for $258 million VA telehealth contract
...structured updating process: CPRS (computerized patient record systems), the VistA EHR and whatever replaces it (Epic is being trialed in Boise, Idaho–scroll down to ‘Big Decisions’ and Dr Shulkin). Founded in 2009, Vivify has compiled an impressive track record with CHRISTUS Health (TX), RWJ Health (NJ), Trinity Health (MI), Centura Health (CO) and other large systems plus home care. It has also been conservative in its venture funding, with $23.4 million to date and its last big round from LabCorp and others in 2014 (CrunchBase). Release. Hat tip to Vivify’s Bill Paschall via LinkedIn. P.S. Stay tuned for an announcement... Continue Reading
NY’s Northwell Health Home Care partners with HRS for telehealth tablets
...seems to be easily using and handling the touchscreen tablet. HRS tablets are video-enabled for consults and monitor vital signs, connecting via Bluetooth to devices: stethoscope (heart and lung), pulse oximeter , blood pressure, and weight scale. If one enjoys examples of pretzel logic, the release states that Northwell’s telehealth implementation is one of the first–of Bluetooth-enabled monitoring in NY State home care and the first on Long Island. (Cable-connected telehealth systems have been commonplace since 2003, including Northwell’s home care.) The HRS partnership follows on Northwell Ventures’ $1 million Series A investment in Virginia-based telemedicine provider Avizia. Innovate LI,... Continue Reading
VA awards over $1 billion in Home Telehealth contracts–at long last (updated)
...POLITICO, nomination approved by the Senate committee Tuesday, and easily confirmed Monday night 13 Feb), who has been highly engaged with HIT issues, including both the VistA EHR modernization/replacement and initiatives such as the recently unveiled Digital Health Platform [TTA 12 Jan]. VA requires a dedicated internal (or external) structure to service multiple delivery, security and implementation levels, down to the 21 areas called VISNs and individual facilities–and this is an understatement. It is no wonder that the new award winners already have multiple Federal contracts and ‘know the drill’. 1Vision, as a joint venture, is the smallest, but has... Continue Reading
AI as diagnostician in ophthalmology, dermatology. Faster adoption than IBM Watson?
...Someday’ article may be from mid-2015, but it’s only this week that Watson for Oncology has announced its first implementation in a regional medical center based in Jupiter, Florida. Watson for Oncology collaborates with Memorial Sloan-Kettering in NYC (MSK) (and was tested in other major academic centers). Currently it is limited to breast, lung, colorectal, cervical, ovarian and gastric cancers, with nine additional cancer types to be added this year. Mobihealthnews What may change the world of medicine could be AI systems using smaller, specific datasets, with Watson Health for the big and complex diagnoses needing features like natural-language processing.... Continue Reading
VA Digital Health Platform proof-of-concept unveiled; new VA head nominated
...The end outcome is to provide a unified view or dashboard that integrates data, implements a care plan, tracks clinical encounters, optimizes medications, responds to patient needs, and more. The prime contractor in DHP is Georgia Tech, which brought on board Apervita, Salesforce (workflow user engagement), and MuleSoft (API). Next steps are not disclosed. Mobihealthnews, Health Data Management One of the sparkplugs behind the DHP and also interoperability of DOD’s and VA’s badly outdated VISTA EHR is current VA Undersecretary for Health David Shulkin, MD. Today, at an eventful press conference, President-Elect Donald J. Trump nominated him for the VA... Continue Reading
21st Century Cures and Telehealth (US)
...to identify, by March next year, services for which payment is available through private health insurance plans but not under Medicare. MedPAC is then asked to recommend how to incorporate these into Medicare. These measures look to expanding the role of and accessibility to telehealth for Medicare beneficiaries. Further, a note entitled “Sense of Congress” states that “It is the sense of Congress that eligible originating sites should be expanded …”. However, unlike the key elements of the 21st Century Cures Act, such as biomedical research, no specific funding has been allocated for the implementation of any telehealth related recommendations.... Continue Reading
Patients as People: creating clinically relevant social insights (part II)
...level via micro-segmentation. Optimally, there will be personalization of information where personalization is possible and micro-segmentation profiles for when it is not. Also, we are not trying to give the doctor more data since we think that is a big part of the problem. “What about your lifestyle” matters which respect to you as a patient, and we at Aloha Health convert that data into insights. When the doctor pulls up an encounter, based on our models, the EHR is populated with the insights that are available about you and your conditions. As a workflow example, I pull up your... Continue Reading
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