Posts Tagged ‘eHealth’
Healthcare Unbound
July 29, 2007
Medical Connectivity Consulting reports on this conference which was held in Cambridge, MA, last week. With a focus on Remote Patient Monitoring, eDisease Management and consumer health technologies. Sponsored by The Center for Business Innovation, the conference included some interesting presentations, such as, “Connected health implications for the patient-provider relationship”, “The Paradox of Self-Management” and “Personal health technologies for home health solutions.”
Vince Kuraitis said in his talk “If we had a platform like Google Health to plug into to support HU applications and products, this would hasten market development.”
Check out the end of the Agenda to see some of the up and coming companies in this space.
Unfortunately, the conference is going the traditional route of selling CDs of the program rather than offering them as free podcasts.
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Streamlined online medical records among proposals
July 27, 2007
Today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer focused on one of the recommendations of the Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors. Specifically, they note the recommendation to improve family and veteran access to online medical records and disability benefits. Touting C. Martin Harris, CIO of the Cleveland Clinic, the article notes:
“Using aspects of the Clinic model, the federal commission has recommended that the VA and the Pentagon create a Web
site called “My eBenefits” that would allow doctors and service members to access private medical information as the injured move from facility to facility to receive treatment.” The recommendation also includes better sharing of information between the military and Veteran’s Administration medical systems.
Let’s hope these are implemented in a timely manner to fix this shameful problem.
Share this:International eHealth websites
July 24, 2007
The term eHealth is used more commonly in Canada and the European Union than the U.S. Here are some helpful sites to get those perspectives.
- http://www.ehealthdirectory.eu
- http://www.ehealthnews.eu
- http://www.ehealthinitiative.org
- http://www.euro.who.int/telemed
- http://www.ehealthinnovation.org/splash/ehealthflash
In addition, the Wikipedia definition of eHealth is worth reviewing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EHealth
Share this:eHealth in Canada
July 12, 2007
In a Canadian publication, InterGovWorld.com, there is a length article discussion the state of eHealth in Canada. eHealth is defined in broad terms to include EMRs, electronic prescribing, etc. They note that one of the government’s key goals is the “Development of a network of interoperable EHR solutions across Canada.” The article is very upbeat about the state of eHealth without going into specifics but notes that there are variation in the provinces. They also cite Australia as leading them in eHealth.
Share this:Latin American Health Website
July 3, 2007
In a comment from Intramed, a Latin American medical website, Florencia Braga points out the lack of real international representation on the Google Health Advisory Group. As international as Google is, it is surprising. However, it may be that they can only address the US healthcare system now. Let’s hope they are open to expanding that advisory group in the future.
By the Way, Intramed has some real depth of content. It translates well from the Spanish using the Google Language tool for webpage translation.
Share this:NetWellness – a Ohio-based Health Information Destination
June 29, 2007
Netwellness is provides high-quality medical information vetted by university medical faculty including Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. In addition to having a reference library with links to Adam and ClinicalTrials.gov, there is an Ask the Expert feature which allows for asking questions but also posting previous questions. Not all areas are accepting new questions at once. Included are several links to resources I hadn’t seen before, such as, About Cancer Genes.
Worth some exploration.
Share this:New European eHealth Directory
June 20, 2007
The term eHealth is more commonly used in Europe than in the United States. Now there is a new ehealth directory for the EU which includes links to open source, news sources (including blogs), associations, government and research. Looks like it will grow as a resource. I hope that they will take advantage of US ehealth resources as well. Worth checking out from time-to-time.
Share this:My Post on Patient as Driver Cited on eHealth Smart Brief
June 13, 2007
In the eHealth Smart Brief newsletter, my June 6th quoted under the title of “Blog: Get consumers involved in the health care process.” The quote is: “Every health system and hospital will be following leads like this to survive in this more transparent health care market where cost and quality will drive business.”
Comments welcome. eHealth Smart Brief is a quality email newsletter. Worth the time.
Share this:eVisits on CBS News
May 2, 2007
Dr. Kellerman of the American Academy of Family Physicians was on CBS TV this morning discussing the pros and cons of evisits. In the video he discusses doing this in the context of an existing relationship with a physician and not with someone who you do not know and does not know you. He sees value in the future prospects for evisits but cautioned that they not be used for urgent or emergent uses. It is helpful for this information to reach the general public as it will inevitably come in the near future perhaps as a feature of teathered PHRs.
Share this:More on Google Health from Neil Versel
April 30, 2007
Neil starts off with an imaginative title, “Google then Gargle: American’s Sorry Performance on Personal Health Records could soon change. ” He reports on the slow adoption rate of PHRs but then cites the speculation that Google will soon get in the game. Adam Bosworth is appearing on more national stages talking about his passion for the Health URL (Neil refers us to Medcommons, a Web 2.0 PHR which is already doing this). He goes on to talk about Dossia which will aggregate claims and provider data plus have the ability to allow the patient to enter their own data. This model seems to be the most robust to gather the largest percentage of one’s scatter medical data. Will Google move in and provide a similar tool and beat Dossia and others to rolling out a real product? Could be since Google’s approach to everything being beta.
There is also an interview with Eric Schmidt on more general Google plans in the current issue of Wired magazine.
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