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NewsSPOTLIGHT: 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...
Senate panel explores home health monitoring technologies
Now we're getting somewhere. After a year of acrimonious debate, politically motivated distortions and gamesmanship in the name of passing "healthcare reform," some members of Congress finally turned... Read more...
West Wireless CEO says insurance reform is promising for mobile health
The new FCC National Broadband Plan that emphasizes healthcare and the just-enacted health insurance legislation (we're hesitant to call it "reform" if it doesn't address the misaligned incentives... Read more...
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