Fortunately not paywalled on the Wall Street Journal‘s site is The Future of Health Care: Hacking, Hospitals, Technology and More, a view of Healthcare and Us out to about 2030. Most of these ten short essays give cause for optimism, except for that first one–hacking. If you thought PHI breaches were bad, DNA hacking will make that look benign. ‘The Experts’ include Robert Wachter, MD [TTA 16 April, author of ‘The Overdose’], Dr John Sotos who was medical adviser on ‘House’, David Blumenthal of the Commonwealth Fund, Marc Agronin of Miami Jewish Health System and Dr Drew Harris of Thomas... Continue Reading
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Nurses, China, ageing, longevity, TV, mobile data, Magna Carta, even logarithms – something for everyone!
...at the top of King John’s priorities when he heard of the Barons’ threats in 1215: on June 13th, this editor will be rowing down the Thames from Hurley to Windsor, en route to Runneymede in the six-oared Lady Mayoress Shallop, in the river pageant that is part of the 800th Celebration of the Magna Carta he signed. However others will be attempting to beat the world record of the greatest number of people building Android apps at the same time. There’s still space if readers want to get involved, in centres right a cross the country. It can only... Continue Reading
Home telehealth now focused on the ‘superusers’ of healthcare
...500: 27% reduction in cost of care 32% reduction in acute and long term care costs 45% reduction in hospitalizations The article in Forbes is a bit breathless in profiling the program and the ‘superusers’ of healthcare (with a windy but false analogy from John Sculley) but provides a level of detail in the program that most articles do not. One wonders how Philips makes money on supplying what is at least $2,500 worth of kit, with peripherals that must all be Bluetooth LE. It’s also not stated, but the TeleICU and TeleAcute programs also appear to be Philips’. Video... Continue Reading
HIMSS’ last full day highlights company partnerships
...atrial fibrillation. “In particular, the sensitivity was consistently high, which would ensure a high true-positive rate of identification.” and that it should be an option for early identification of patients with unknown AF. Interoperability now is a whole lot more significant beyond us gearheads, because the CEO of mega-insurer Humana said so–but the article concentrates (as presumably his remarks) on ‘value-based’ and ‘outcome-based’ payments. Somehow, interoperability would create an New Jerusalem of efficient, cost-effective healthcare. Does the logic follow? Healthcare Informatics A look at the real hard slog on EHR interoperability was delivered by Dr John Halamka, who’s not even... Continue Reading
Sweat analyzing sensor patch flies high at USAF Research Lab
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/USAF-sweat-sensor.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]Call them ‘sticky sensors’, biosensor tattoos or as you like, but there’s been a lot of research happening in the past three years around gathering biometrics from skin contact. Whether it’s the John Rogers ‘skunk works’ at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign measuring ECG, EEG and cardiovascular conditions; University of California-San Diego’s lactate and blood glucose monitoring; MC10’s Biostamp for infant temperature, head impacts and neurological disorders plus NewDealDesign‘s multi-purpose implants, skin is in. Though the Apple Watch was flummoxed (for now) by biometrics due to hairy arms and sweat [TTA 18 Feb], these sensors thrive on... Continue Reading
State telemedicine legislation update (US)
...House Energy and Commerce Committee), which Harper leads, has been incorporated into the 21st Century Cures Bill, a draft of which was released in January 2015. As the accompanying discussion document states the output of the working group “will set the stage for new technologies to play a greater role in the delivery of quality health care services to Medicare beneficiaries. This team effort involved input from Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R – PA) and full committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D -NJ) in addition to Reps. Gregg Harper (R – MS), Bill Johnson (R – OH), Greg Walden... Continue Reading
AstraZeneca awards over $200k for heart failure telehealth
AstraZeneca Healthcare Foundation, the charitable arm of the UK based pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, has awarded $205,564 to HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Illinois to support their Tele-Heart Pathway programme. [grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/HSHS.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]The programme provides interventions to heart failure patients in their homes to support health management. With telemedicine and telehealth technology doctors monitor symptoms and help avoid complications at home after surgery, according to the hospital. “We have seen a rapid evolution in the last few years of new devices and new ways of communicating with our patients,” said Mark Stampehl, MD and Medical Director of the heart failure... Continue Reading
An alert watch for older adults that responds to voice commands
...of a geographic area, guidance home, activity tracking (and lack thereof), medication reminders (which use the watch screen and a discreet vibrate setting) and med tracking/updating. Very impressive and revolutionary if the production version looks like and does what is promised. They rebranded this year from the more pedestrian name LifeAssist; unfortunately this Editor missed them at mHealth Summit. Currently listed on Kickstarter with a goal of $100,000 by 25 March and a target production date of early 2016. Hat tip to John Nosta (@JohnNosta), David Albert, MD (@DrDave01, AliveCor) and Gregg Masters (@2HealthGuru) via Twitter. Also listing on CrunchBase.... Continue Reading
Integrating spiritual care into healthcare: conference (US)
2015 Caring for the Human Spirit, 20-22 April, Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando Florida The Health Care Chaplaincy Network (HCCN), which we’ve recently profiled in ‘Chaplain Care for Veterans’, has been integrating online and tele-consultative (email, phone and video chat) resources into spiritual and mental health care in chaplaincy service. This year’s conference highlights include a workshop on TeleChaplaincy: The Online Practice of Professional Chaplaincy. Featured speakers are primarily from the US, but include The Rev. John Swinton, University of Aberdeen, King’s College School of Divinity. Conference registration is also available for a real-time webcast of all sessions and workshops.... Continue Reading
Is how we are treating patients for chronic diseases (and pre-diseases) all wrong?
...reduce–the burden? We return to the originator of this minimally disruptive approach to care, Victor Montori MD, an endocrinologist at Mayo Clinic, via a MedCityNews article by cardiologist John Mandrola MD and this video from a primary care conference, the NAPCRG annual meeting in New York. (At 45 minutes, you’ll want to save it for later). http://youtu.be/cHSWDMH2rfc Key points: Pills, procedures and quality guidelines are not working for the patient–or the physician/clinician. The latter are acutely aware that they are being too aggressive; a survey of 627 primary care clinicians indicated that 50 percent of their patients get too much... Continue Reading
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