Healthcare Reform news from FierceMobileHealthcare
NewsMobile apps on leading edge of 'potentially disruptive era'
Finally, a report on the mobile health industry that doesn't throw around pie-in-the-sky numbers and actually discusses healthcare and something close to the current reality. "We are currently in the Read more...
West Wireless CMO: 'We're not giving money away'
The $90 million investment by Gary and Mary West in the West Wireless Healthcare Institute may seem enticing to someone with a startup mobile or wireless healthcare company, but don't get the wrong Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Docs embracing smartphones to boost efficiency, survey says
Time-crunched physicians seem to be embracing smartphones to improve their efficiency, according to a survey from Knowledge Networks. The survey, involving nearly 11,000 healthcare professionals Read more...
Obituary: Dr. Robert Butler, pioneer in aging, pushed for home monitoring technology
Psychiatrist Dr. Robert Butler, who died July 4 at the age of 83, founded the National Institute on Aging, the Alzheimer's Association and the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry. He won a Read more...
ATA's Linkous warns of m-health 'hype cycle,' tempers talk of 'revolution'
Lest anyone think mobile healthcare will singlehandedly transform healthcare, American Telemedicine Association President Jonathan Linkous delivers a little reality check. "The wide-spread media Read more...
VA mobile gets boost from House panel, advances plans for patient Wi-Fi
Wireless and mobile technology represent "the new frontier in health innovations," as well as a great way of increasing access to care for millions of veterans, Rep. Michael F. Michaud (D-Maine) said Read more...
Leaders in San Diego m-health community discuss wireless innovation, roadblocks
Readers of FierceMobileHealthcare understand how wireless and mobile technologies have the potential to revolutionize healthcare. Now, the wider business community is starting to figure that out. "I Read more...
Cisco exec: Home monitoring needs standards, financial incentives
We report elsewhere in today's newsletter that the Continua Health Alliance is creating a library of source code to connect wireless medical devices with smartphones. Such developments are welcome in Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Telemed, remote monitoring, robotics and social media for health reform
In a commentary for Hospitals & Health Networks, Dr. Charles J. Shanley, associate CMO for Beaumont Hospitals in Michigan, and David Ellis, corporate director of planning and future studies at Read more...
Telehealth, m-health advocates call for major reimbursement changes
Dr. Mohit Kaushal, digital healthcare director of the Federal Communications Commission's Omnibus Broadband Initiative, is a big booster of mobile healthcare technologies. (What other government Read more...
| Press ReleasesPackard Children’s Hospital Hosts Healthcare Value NetworkHospital and national collaborative “redefining value for patients” PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- No one in America likes sitting in a waiting room, or waiting as a doctor or nurse steps out Read more >> MedeAnalytics' Ken Perez Sizes Up ACO "State of the Union" at Annual Accountable Care Organizations SummitTime to start ACO journey is now, but proceed with knowledge, he tells audienceEMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Ken Perez, MedeAnalytics' senior vice president of Read more >> Resurrection Health Care Achieves 94% Field Data Extraction with Brainware Distiller for InvoicesProvider Reduces Paper-Based Document Processing by 77%, Eliminates Long-Term Paper StorageASHBURN, Va., Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Brainware, Inc. is proud to report that Resurrection Health Read more >> Industry Veterans Launch Healthbox TechnologiesIT firm meets growing demand for custom healthcare solutions NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A team of industry veterans today announced the launch of Healthbox Technologies, which will provide Read more >> Quality Expert Blanton Godfrey Predicts "Big Winners and Losers" After Health ReformTells hospitals to take page from industrial engineering, plan workflowPITTSBURGH, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- International quality and productivity expert Blanton Godfrey, co-founder with Don Read more >> |
