Commentary: EBM = Healthier Patients
These past few weeks the use of current evidence-based information regarding patient care has become a controversial topic. By definition, practitioners' use of EBM is necessary to provide optimal care. This fact has been demonstrated repeatedly with measurable clinical results. Recently, services offering well-maintained databases on PDAs and desktops have become especially popular with large, teaching hospitals - known for being the early adopters of most great medical advances. (mobihealthnews, of course, believes this information should be availabla at practitioners' fingertips via PDAs and mobile devices.)
A recent study by Bonis, Pickens, Rind, and Foster (2008) examined the health impacts of the use of a evidence-based clinical knowledge support system. They selected four outcomes well-established in the literature: complications, length of stay, mortality, and patient safety. While accounting for hospital characteristics, Bonis, et. al. found that subscribing hospitals had less complications, shorter lengths of stay, and fewer patients safety issues than hospitals without subscriptions. These results were statistically significant and persisted regardless of whether the use of the support system was considered dichotomously or continuously (hits per week on the support system website). Mortality rates did not differ.
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$100 iShoe due out next year
Remember the iShoe? Last summer a NASA intern and MIT graduate student invented an insole with sensors that monitored and transmitted information about a person's balance, which provided for an early warning system before someone falls. At the time iShoe was in a pilot phase with about 60 trial users, but now, according to OhioHealth, which is testing the technology, iShoe will commercially launch next year. Price tag? $100. Better yet, OhioHealth reports it should be covered by most insurance companies. Read on to find out how the iShoe could prevent broken hips for the elderly.
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Stanford Dr: Why I use Epocrates on iPhone
Here's a great video interview just published over at FastCompany.tv in which Stanford University Doctor Andrew Newman explains how and why he uses Epocrates' iPhone application in his practice. He calls it "transformative" and he also takes devices with the app loaded to emerging markets to train others how to use it in their practices. Click here for the video.
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AllScripps to enable remote practice mgmt
Edge Health, a start-up based in Richmond, British Columbia recently signed a multi-million dollar deal with AllScripps to embed the company's electronic health record (EHR) into its suite of software applications. Macnewsworld just found out the two companies are working on another mobile app: Remote Practice Management. Here's the background on EdgeHealth.
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Developing vs. developed markets
David Doherty over at the 3G Doctor blog has an extensive round-up on mHealth news, launches and product demos from the Mobile World Congress show that took place in Barcelona last month. Key finding: mHealth solutions for the developing markets dominated the event's mHealth buzz (probably because of the mHealth Alliance announcement), while developed market solutions took a backseat. Doherty had a number of other insights; read on.
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A "wireless bridge" for biometrics
"We wanted to make the fitness tracking experience cool, fun, simple and custom," Michael C. Williams, founder and CEO of iTMP Technology told Reuters in a recent interview. "We did it by leveraging the iPhone's technology." Read on for more about iTMP's SM Heart Link, which can collect data from wireless sensors like heart rate chest straps or cycling sensors on bikes and send them to an iPhone for display and tracking.
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Interview: A.D.A.M, from CD-ROM to iPhone
One of the key pillars of eHealth is online symptom databases and one of the earliest vendors to enter that space was A.D.A.M., which sold CD-ROMs during the dotCom days of yore. The company has recently white labeled their Symptom Navigator as an iPhone app that caregivers can re-brand and offer to their patients. Mobihealthnews caught up with A.D.A.M.'s Greg Juhn, SVP Product Strategy to discuss the company's journey from CD-ROMs to iPhones, PHRs and upcoming offerings from their mobile solutions group. Read the full interview with Greg Juhn.
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HealthVault highlights AllOne Mobile
Looks like Microsoft is finally gearing up to promote AllOne Mobile's platform, which makes the company's PHR HealthVault available on mobile phones. To date the companies have worked together to bring the PHR mobile, but Microsoft has done little to promote the partnership, assumedly because AllOne Mobile isn't going to be the only vendor to take HealthVault mobile. Read on for the announcement we found in the March edition of the HealthVault newsletter.
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An App Store for mHealth?
Apple's iTunes App Store for the iPhone isn't the only applications store for mobile devices these days: Google already has the Android Marketplace for phones running on its operating software and others are looking to launch stores: Nokia's Ovi Apps Store for Symbian, RIM's BlackBerry Apps Storefront, Microsoft SkyMarket for Windows Mobile, and Palm's webOS Software Store for its upcoming Pre smartphone. That's a good number of stores and a good number of fragmentation. One analyst group believes these stores are segmenting the industry along the wrong lines. Read on for the Shosteck Group's take on these myriad app stores.
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Video: Profile of an mHealth doctor
Here's a video from BNET.tv, that profiles a primary care physician who makes use of a mobile tablet and other health IT to enable better and more efficient care for his patients. Dr. John Selle in San Francisco says he can pull up lab results, x-rays and even quickly search the Internet should he need to find an answer to a question while in the examining room. Click here for the video.
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