Connecting Communities is a website/organisation in the UK to promote discussion of the concerns about introducing technology of all sorts, but predominantly so far, telehealth and telecare into everyday practice. It has light-touch sponsorship from Bosch Healthcare. The videos in the following link show snippets from a recent discussion held in Leeds that was chaired by David Brindle, Public Services Editor, The Guardian. If nothing else, the principal 11-minute video is worth watching. Connecting Communities/Communities for Life.... Continue Reading
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Management, direction changes at app certifier Happtique
...headed by the highly regarded David Lee Scher, MD; this Editor learned around that time that he was likely to depart with the project’s conclusion. Happtique now appears to be a division, not a independent subsidiary, of GNYHA Ventures. Their head Lee Perlman is now Happtique’s new CEO. Corey Ackerman, a GNYHA veteran, remains as President and COO. Other executives on their roster are all from GNYHA/GNYHA Ventures. Happtique under Chodor had also established, in addition to certification, a pioneering ‘mRx’ app ‘prescription’ program for physicians [TTA 18 Sept 12] and was planning to use the app certification plus prescribing... Continue Reading
Apps that put you on the couch
...its current client base is international and has 165 therapists worldwide. (International visits are an interesting loophole in practice.) Breakthrough is only for California residents at present, but plans to expand to Texas and other states. Patients again connect with a network of certified mental health professionals and conduct appointments via chat, email, phone or HIPAA-compliant video. Unlike the others, it has gained insurance coverage for its therapists’ services, shows real-time therapist availability and plans to enable on-demand, off-hour services. Web therapy: 4 startups overcoming mental health taboos with technology (GigaOm) Hat tip to David E. Albert, M.D. of AliveCor.... Continue Reading
The etiquette guide to Google Glass
David Doherty Hi Donna, "Please help the Eye see that GG is not all bad!" I'm of the feeling that Silicon Valley has created something here that's so easy to use and useful that its primary market outside of the various RoboCriminal/RoboCop roles will be serving patients with disabilities: http://mhealthinsight.com/2013/05/04/with-google-glasses-has-silicon-valley-created-something-so-useful-and-easy-to-use-that-its-primary-market-will-be-serving-health-needs/... Continue Reading
Microgripping and touching robots
Need that tissue sample, doctor? You may be laying aside your scalpel and forceps for a swarm of microgripping robots that you place and retrieve. David H. Gracias, PhD. and his Johns Hopkins team has developed star-shaped nickel metal discs of only 300 micrometers in size which snip bits of tissue. Using a magnetic catheter, the microgrippers are then gathered and removed–hopefully. Gizmag; study in Gastroenterology. Last week, the TakkTile, this week, piezotronic transistors. Thousands of them arrayed, and designed to give robots–and touchscreens–that extra and almost human edge in touch sensitivity. The transistors in thin, flat material can sense... Continue Reading
Healthcare tech investment gone wobbly?
Earlier this month, this Editor riffed on David Shaywitz’s Forbes article lamenting the paucity of life sciences VCs setting their sights and putting their money on the line for digital health. While David Doherty of mHealthInsight differed, pointing out his 16 billionaires making big bets in health tech, VC action in ‘hot’ digital health is underperforming. The ironically-named MoneyTree 2013 First Quarter report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), tracks media, software, clean tech, biotech and medical devices. And the ‘Tree’ is not exactly ‘shaking’: For all surveyed VC investment, 1st Quarter 2013 declined 12 percent... Continue Reading
Four reasons doctors worry about social media
David Shaywitz, in Forbes, synthesises his observations of doctors’ concerns about doctors and patients’ use of the internet and social media in particular. He focuses not just on the usual worries but puts them into a broader social and professional context. “Predictably, medicine seems to be reacting to change the way it often does…by issuing well-intentioned (albeit largely unreadable) guidelines”. However, he ends on a positive note: “Rather than isolating doctors, the new technology promises to be fundamentally enabling…The result: a new sense of connection and meaning. Medicine could be fun again.” Four Reasons Doctors Worry About Social Media –... Continue Reading
Healthcare BYOD unleashed, and the consequences
...Android tablets and the like which are also often left unsecured. According to FierceMobileHealthcare, which referenced a late 2012 Amcom Software study, “more than 65 percent of responding healthcare facilities do not have a documented mobility strategy in place. What’s more, 37 percent of the survey’s respondents do not have plans to implement such a strategy in their organizations.” It makes one long for the days of IT department-issued cranky CrackBerries. BYOD Insights 2013: A Cisco Partner Network Study Hat tip to David Albert, MD of AliveCor @DrDave01 for the link via Twitter. Is there a BYOD backlash? Ken Congdon... Continue Reading
Health tech grows…but where are the investors?
David Doherty Hi Donna, "David Doherty’s identified 16 billionaires investing in health tech" More specifically than "Health Tech" all of these Billionaires are investing in mHealth eg. Ted Turner http://www.bnettv.com/bnettv-exclusive-interview-visionary-ted-turner/ Donna Cusano David Shaywitz is concentrating on VCs who've been in the biotech space. My first thought here was 'once burned, twice shy.' The second is time frame mismatch--VCs operate on an 18-24 month time frame from entry to exit, and whether mHealth or not (e.g. EHRs, home based telehealth or telecare) companies in this field need a longer horizon to evolve and integrate. I've seen too many instances of... Continue Reading
Medicare to cut back rural telemedicine (US)
...follow up. Work with seniors groups and senior centers–and the VA. Run the numbers and tweak appropriately. Americans have a government which squanders money (do not get this Editor, or The Gimlet Eye, started). With all the money being thrown at ‘pioneer ACOs’ and various awards programs, CMS can find some loose change under the couch! Hat tip to reader Ellen Fink-Samnick, MSW and her ‘Ethical Lens’ LinkedIn group joining the blast furnace. Related: For those who want to dive deeper into rural vs. urban readmission rates (pretty much a draw), David Lee Scher, MD cites the following: from the... Continue Reading
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