Connection, collaboration key for device consumers, IBM study finds "Information seekers" intent on managing a chronic condition such as obesity or smoking constitute a burgeoning but barely tapped market opportunity for makers of health and wellness devices, an IBM study concluded. "Future of Connected Health Devices" surveyed more than 1,300 consumers using health and wellness devices, and found that consumers want the ability to connect with their caregivers, reduce office visits to their healthcare professionals, and collaborate online with peers who have similar issues and interests. Top factors in selecting devices: Ease of use, real-time information sharing, and cost; a price of 100 or less was a critical decision factor to a majority, the study found. Read the study International Space Station a laboratory for remote ultrasound techniques Researchers from NASA, the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit, MI), and Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering Group (Houston, TX) developed remote ultrasound techniques for use on the International Space Station (ISS). Crewmembers collected high-quality ultrasound images sent to the Mission Control Center for analysis. NSBRI funded the ground portion of the research, while NASA supported the flight portion. "These ultrasound exam techniques and atlas will be increasingly important as we venture farther and longer into space. Telemedicine using ultrasound will be an invaluable medical diagnostic tool," said former NASA Astronaut and ISS Expedition 10 Commander Dr. Leroy Chiao. Read about the remote ultrasound techniques AT&T, providers pilot medical imaging and information management service Baptist Health System (Birmingham, AL) and Henry Ford Health System (Detroit, MI) have signed agreements to pilot a new cloud computing-based AT&T Medical Imaging and Information Management service. The service is designed to quickly connect doctors to patients' medical images, regardless of which device originally took the image, allowing them to offer faster treatment. The service also helps healthcare providers store, access, view, and share patient medical images and information inside hospital systems, as well as outside with referring physicians and other authorized facilities, over highly secure network infrastructure. Read and watch more about AT&T ForHealth Public-private 'Beacon' campaigns use health IT vs. type 2 diabetes The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are working with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on a nationwide program to increase the use of health IT for diabetes prevention and management in 17 "beacon" communities with higher than average health IT adoption. Two beacon communities—Southeast Michigan (Detroit, MI) and Crescent City (New Orleans, LA)—will partner with mobile health (mHealth) platform provider Voxiva (Washington, DC) to launch new public health campaigns designed to help individuals assess their risk of type 2 diabetes, and provide them with health information and access to local health and wellness resources. Read about the Beacon Community program Pfizer selects Exco InTouch eDiary technologies for virtual trial Pfizer has selected the eDiary technologies of Exco InTouch (Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, UK) to record electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePRO) data for its virtual clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of Detrol LA (tolterodine tartrate), a treatment for overactive bladder (OAB) [News Alert, June 10]. Pfizer's Research on Electronic Monitoring of OAB Treatment Experience (REMOTE) is a pilot program that uses mobile phone and web-based technology to collect data. Some 600 patients from about 10 states will be enrolled. Multilingual medication instructions app wins SMART challenge Meducation SMART, a smartphone application developed by Polyglot Systems (Morrisville, NC), won the top $5,000 prize in the Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies (SMART) Platform Apps Challenge issued this spring by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. Meducation SMART provides multilingual, patient-friendly instructions for medications listed in a physician's electronic medical record or a patient's personally controlled health record. The app uses the SMART programming interface to obtain the medication list, then links out to a drug information database that helps generate simplified medication instructions for patients, available in a dozen languages. Read about the Meducation SMART app IVeH Foundation honored for telemedicine development in Balkans The not-for-profit International Virtual e-Hospital (IVeH) Foundation has won the Computerworld Honors Program's 21st Century Achievement Award in the Health Category for developing and implementing telemedicine in the Balkans and elsewhere. IVeH launched the program in Kosova and Albania, and is expanding the effort throughout the region using its "initiate-build-operate-transfer" (IBOT) model. IVeH President Rifat Latifi, M.D., accepted the award for the foundation during a June 20 ceremony in Washington, DC. The award recognizes organizations for innovative use of information technology to conduct research; develop new diagnostic or treatment methods and services; improve the safety and quality of patient care; or improve access to, or the affordability of, healthcare. Read a case study of the Balkan Telemedicine Program ATA launches mHealth, student member discussion groups The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) has launched discussion groups focused on mobile health (mHealth) and student members. The ATA Mobile Health Discussion Group, which is open to all ATA members, is designed to study and solve mHealth issues by bringing together providers, payors, consumers and industry. The mHealth group's initial chair is Sunil Hazaray, former president and CEO of Viterion TeleHealthcare. The ATA Student Discussion Group intends to raise student awareness, understanding, and applications of telemedicine in healthcare. Its initial chair is Patricia Schweickert, RN, MSN, FNP-C, student member representative on ATA's Board of Directors.
U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) has praised the Federal Communications Commission for maintaining funding for telehealth services at 235 rural hospitals nationwide. Funding was set to be cut off June 30…Dan Blake, former president of ArchiStrat Consulting (Batavia, IL), has been named chief development officer of mobile medical software app developer AirStrip Technologies (San Antonio, TX)…Brent Ferrin has been appointed to head the rollout of the ActiveHome Monitoring System of ActiveCare (Salt Lake City, UT)…Neil Desai, general manager, mobile health with Quest Diagnostics (Madison, NJ), announced that their newest version of Gazelle, a mobile health platform, is now compatible with the Android smartphone operating system…Luc Buydens, product line manager for non-contact thermometers at Melexis (Ieper, Belgium), announced the launch of the company's third generation of contactless MEMs infrared temperature sensors…Jonathan Kaplan, M.D., M.P.H., announced that the iPhone app BuildMyBod™ (Baton Rouge, LA) is going global with launches in England, Ireland, and Israel…Eric Wilson, President of Wilson Medical Software, has joined the software development team of PD-Rx Pharmaceuticals (Oklahoma City, OK), after acquiring from his company the Washington EMR, an electronic medical record…Richard F. Govatski, CEO of New Mexico Software, discussed telemedicine and the economy with New Mexico BusinessWeekly…Tom MacDougall, former VP of product technology at Ingenix, now OptumInsight (Eden Prairie, MN), has been named CTO of Curaspan Health Group (Newton, MA).
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