Consumer-centric healthcare pleases all
by Karen Katz, Esq.
Dir. Business Dev., Health, Medtech and e-Health at Mintz Levin |
 The MIT Bio-Innovations Conference on Saturday, set the stage for a dynamic, engaging conversation centered on delivering quality healthcare, swiftly and efficiently with its panel discussion entitled “Choice & Change: Innovations in Consumer Centric Healthcare”. Moderated by Daria Niewenhous, a healthcare attorney with Mintz Levin, the panel tackled questions ranging from measuring quality to providing a profitable return to investors.
Better Doctor/Patient Engagement
“Being a patient sucks. And being a doctor sucks, too,” said Nat Findlay, CEO of Hello Health/Myca. Findlay’s company has set out to create an entirely novel treatment paradigm that is more service oriented. The result is the Myca platform. The Myca platform works somewhat like Facebook. Doctors “friend” their patients and for a subscription fee, patients have unlimited text, email and video chat access with their doctors. Face to face visits may be at the patient’s home or in the clinic and are paid by the patient directly on a per visit basis. Findlay noted that it’s not just about throwing technology at doctors. His company strives to provide a new business model, complete with “elegant organization” that permits doctors to organize their patients, treatments and, ultimately, lifestyle more effectively.
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The real top ten iPhone medical apps
There's been a flurry of "Top Ten (free) Medical iPhone Apps" lists gracing the homepages of a number of health blogs and publications this week. Because of the iTunes' AppStore's popularity, trying to pin down the Top Ten Free Apps in a given category is like trying to shoot a moving target. If you believe recent studies, chances are anyone who downloaded one of these apps last week won't be using it for much longer. But for the sake of at least timely reporting: Here are the real top ten iPhone medical apps.
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Report: 95% phones at hospitals have staph
According to a new study from Turkish researchers, doctors and nurses' mobile phones could act as a reservoir for tough-to-kill "superbug" bacteria like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The report, penned by Faculty of Medicine at the Ondokuz Mayis University, found that 95 percent of the phones tested were contaminated with bacteria like MRSA, which can cause serious staph infection. Only 10 percent of the staff cleaned their phones regularly, the report found. For more from the study and to see how device makers are trying to solve this issue read on.
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Health Affairs: Mobiles could be key to PHRs
The most recent Health Affairs journal just went to print and one paper in the journal discusses the barriers toward personal health record (PHR) adoptions and potential solutions to some of the barriers. Not surprisingly, one potential solution suggested is accessing PHRs via mobile phone; read on.
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GE’s wireless sensors for premies
Few would disagree that in the coming years biometric sensors and biosensors combined with body area networks will create a host of new applications and services that will lead to more effective remote monitoring. Those sensors aren't for everyone, however. Premature infants, for example, have very sensitive, fragile skin, which makes attaching sensors a painful experience. But GE Global Research has a potential solution. Read about their wireless sensor that can monitor a patient's breathing and heart rate without physically touching the skin, which they adapted from a common GE sensor used for home security.
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Trend: mHealth for marginalized pops
Dr. Phillip Olla penned a rather comprehensive trend piece on the "M-health phenomenon" over at the MOCOM 2009 site. Olla lays out his definition of mobile health and also builds the case for why mHealth has serious potential to help improve healthcare for marginalized populations the world over. The author also mentions his upcoming book: Mobile Health Solutions for Biomedical Applications, which I'll be sure to review soon. Read on for an excerpt from Olla's lengthy piece.
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Simple is better for iPhone Dr. apps
Dr. Matthew Decaro's free iPhone app for doctors proves that there are any number of small inefficiencies in a typical doctor's day that could be improved by simple mobile applications. Decaro's app, called ABG, analyzes blood gas levels in a matter of seconds, saving doctors a few minutes per calculation. Doctors without the application typically look up numbers on arterial blood extractions in a computer-based index, copy them down (on paper sometimes) and make calculations. Read on for Decaro's take on how Apps like ABG will prevent doctors from acting on incorrect assumptions, especially in the ER and ICU.
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EBM: Evidence-based mHealth
Despite technology's promise and anecdotal evidence pointing to its potential, mHealth has not seen many rigorous evaluations that have measured its ability to affect clinical outcomes. Process outcomes are clear: mHealth can save time and money, increase the number of reported health events, increase the number of patients enrolled and so forth. But can mHealth help save lives, too by reducing mortality and morbidity rates and cumulative disease incidence? The team over at FrontlineSMS is working toward an answer and they are talking with a number of major healthcare delivery and surveillance organizations in Bangladesh to find a partner for their investigation. Read on for more about FrontlineSMS' undertaking.
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