Molly Merrill
The iPhone 4S will be available on October 14, and one expert says Apple's new release "certainly boosts its suitability for healthcare applications." But one team of UC Davis researchers didn't need an upgrade to transform their iPhones into medical-quality imaging and chemical detection devices.
Four out of five practicing physicians use smartphones, computer tablets, various mobile devices and numerous apps in their medical practice, according to a new report from Jackson & Coker."Tech-savvy physicians, especially recent graduates, increasingly rely on digital and Internet-based tools to communicate with patients and improve the medical outcomes of the care they provide," said Sandra Garrett, president of Jackson & Coker.
Telestroke technology, which links remote community hospitals with stroke neurologists in large centers, can provide the same level of care as having all parties in the same room, according to a new study.The report was presented Oct. 4 at the Canadian Stroke Congress.It found that rural patients examined with the aid of telestroke technoloy received an important stroke drug, tPA, at the same rate as patients treated in specialized urban centers, says Thomas Jeerakathil, a neurologist at the University of Alberta Hospital.
A new study finds that physicians believe that preventing diagnostic errors can be aided using technology like decision support and artificial intelligence, but they will never replace the physician's role in diagnosis. The 6,400-clinician study was conducted by QuantiaMD, which touts itself as the largest mobile and online physician community. Key findings of the study include:
Two surgeons from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are touting the benefits of social media to their colleagues as a way to disseminate accurate information to their trainees and patients.
Rock Health, a seed accelerator for Web and mobile health applications, is now accepting applications for the second class of start-ups in its digital health program.
There is great variability in the standards used to ensure social media sites provide effective information and good answers to health questions, according to a new survey that examined diabetes-related sites.The survey was conducted by Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital and CVS Caremark, and was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Practice Fusion debuted a prototype Tuesday of its native iOS mobile application for the iPhone at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco.Practice Fusion currently has iPhone and Android applications in private beta testing. Company officials say the app marks another step in the company's aggressive mobile strategy.
Online community support holds great promise for creating healthy habits, according to a new study of a mobile health application geared toward helping people quit smoking. The study results were released by the University of Southern California's Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM) and the USC Center for Body Computing (CBC).
University of Utah engineers, who have built wireless networks that "see" through walls, now are aiming the technology at a new goal: noninvasively measuring the breathing of surgery patients, adults with sleep apnea and babies at risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).