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Mexico's Ministry of Health of Nuevo Leon has chosen the e-Screener Plus (eSP) by Dallas, Tex.-based OZ Systems to manage the state's newborn hearing and metabolic screening programs.Every Ministry of Health public hospital in Nuevo Leon will use the solution with the aim of improving follow-up care for more than 30,000 infants each year.
PORTLAND, ME - Once upon a time, the tools of medicine were pretty simple: tongue depressor, blood pressure cuff, stethoscope. Nowadays Try exergames and first-person simulators, "wiihabilitation" and multiplayer mHealth apps. For years, video games and virtual reality have been playing around the periphery of healthcare. Now, the market for healthcare gaming is starting to cohere into something more substantial, says Ben Sawyer, founder of Portland, Maine-based Games for Health.
As doctors increasingly adopt mobile devices, this much seems clear: At least for now, Apple is king. According to an April survey of U.S. physicians, sponsored by Aptilon Corporation, 61 percent of docs intend to own an iPhone by the end of 2011 - up sharply from 39 percent at the beginning of the year. Strikingly, that's more than double the iPhone's 24.7 percent adoption rate among American smartphone users at large.
Why did you start blogging and why do you think you have been so successfulI started blogging back in 2004. At that time there were less than 100 physicians blogs. I started blogging because I thought a blog was a great way to provide commentary from the physician perspective that is often lacking in news reporting today. It was after two or three years of constantly doing it that I realized it had become a powerful media to connect patients and doctors.
Physicians started to cautiously enter the social media space beginning around 2005 - most blogging anonymously - but today doctors are beginning to embrace the technology as a way to make a difference in patient education. Healthcare IT News spoke to six physicians who blog professionally and asked them questions on some hot topics around social media.
When it comes to using social media, fear of violating HIPAA rules is top of mind for physicians, but experts say if they can adhere to privacy regulations, the technology's benefits are far reaching. First, physicians should understand and know the rules concerning HIPAA, said Glen Gilmore, principal at Gilmore Business Network, a social media marketing firm, and an adjunct Instructor at Texas A&M University (NERRTC) and Rutgers University.
ALBUQUERQUE - The "HOPEmobile" is a 64-foot trailer outfitted with sophisticated telemedicine equipment that travels to underserved and remote areas of New Mexico, providing free, comprehensive health screenings for high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, pre-diabetes and other chronic conditions.