Molly Merrill
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced new recommendations and initiatives on Monday to support health text messaging and mobile health (mHealth) programs.
First- and second-year students at Weill Cornell Medical College are being provided with new iPads, which will be synched with EMRs for training during their clerkships.The iPad 2 will serve to replace students' printed course notes and texts allowing them to download course materials, see video or hear audio recordings of lectures, submit electronic course evaluations, access their grades and collaborate with other students.
The American Medical Informatics Association argues that when it comes to oversight of clinical decision support systems, the most critical factor in determining the risk classification of different types of software is whether the CDS is mediated by a human being or not.Meryl Bloomrosen, AMIA's vice president for public policy and government relations, has offered those comments in response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) invitation to participate in a public workshop related to FDA's Draft Guidance on mobile medical applications
Health 2.0 and ONC on Monday launched competitions to develop new health IT apps aimed at easing the transition from hospital to home and reporting medical device adverse events.The competitions, which are now open for submissions, are part of the Investing in Innovation Initiative (i2) and are managed by Health 2.0 through its Health 2.0 Developer Challenge program.
The Mayo Clinic has created a Healthy Aging and Independent Living (HAIL) Lab, aiming to pilot new services and technologies from companies such as Best Buy, which was announced as the "founding consortium member" of the clinic on Monday.The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation is collaborating with Mayo Clinic's Robert and Arlene Kogod Center for Aging and the Charter House, a continuing care retirement community in Rochester, in creating the HAIL Lab to support "aging in place" - helping seniors remain at home, healthy and independent.
Seventy-five percent of individuals working at U.S. healthcare provider institutions use social media for professional purposes, according to a new survey.The Web-based survey was conducted between April and May of 2011 by Frost & Sullivan in conjunction with the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2). Key findings of the survey include:
The largest urban health simulation and training facility of its kind opened Tuesday at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital Center.The New York Simulation Center for Health Sciences was created by The City University of New York (CUNY) and NYU Langone Medical Center. The facility represents one of the more concrete steps public and private institutions have taken to improve the city's response to medical emergencies following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks or in the event of a natural disaster.
Mayo Clinic is piloting a telemedicine program that aims at filling gaps in concussion care for patients in rural Arizona.
A new Facebook application, developed in a Tel Aviv University (TAU) lab, is poised to serve as a better indicator of how infections spread among populations.
Social media and online networking could provide a novel way to recruit patients with rare diseases for clinical studies, according to a new study by the Mayo Clinic.The study demonstrates how tools such as these aided in the recruitment of patients with a rare heart condition called spontaneous coronary artery dissection, also known as SCAD.