Mary Mosquera
With aides already in patients' homes frequently, the insurer is looking to make them a bigger part of the care team with mobile health devices in a new pilot program.
Sunday's day-long tutorial helped kick off the 2013 mHealth Summit and gave potential app developers a chance to go to school.
In an interview with Government Health IT's Mary Mosquera, the CEO of San Diego-based Humetrix explains how her company's mobile app enables consumers to easily download and exchange their medical information across different platforms from a number of mobile devices.
After piloting 50 provider healthcare networks in 38 states, the agency now intends to make the program permanent.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is engaging a California production company to create a video explaining the value of healthcare IT and consumer engagement with their providers.
The U.S. Surgeon general was one of two keynote speakers Tuesday at the mHealth Summit. The other, Verizon Wireless COO John Stratton, outlined an ambitious home health platform that the company will launch next year.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to offer its physicians commercial cloud-based software-as-a-service collaborative tools to improve communications while also reducing data breaches.Some physicians already use Web-based tools without approval, a situation that heightens the risk for sensitive data disclosure, VA officials have said.
Once it allows employees and clinicians in its hospitals to start using iPhones and iPads on the job on Oct. 1, the biggest issue for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is information security.Employees will be able to view sensitive data, but be unable to download and store information on a mobile device unless it meets security requirements. The viewer tool is a capability that VA has utilized for other devices, such as employees' home computers, said Roger Baker, VA CIO.
The National Cancer Institute and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT have launched an innovation competition to use public data to develop software applications that can potentially integrate with health IT platforms to help prevent and control cancer. Developers can vie for awards up to $20,000.
The Department of Veterans Affairs expects on Oct. 1 to let clinicians in its hospitals and other employees use mobile devices - likely Apple's iPhone among others - once they are verified as secure and that any personal information stored on them is encrypted.VA did not disclose which devices would get the go-ahead but will focus on a "particular set of very popular devices," said Roger Baker, VA CIO. The sole VA-approved mobile device currently is the BlackBerry smartphone, which VA acquired for its employees.