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2012 – Year for mHealth?
I received several items in my email regarding different organizations’ proclamations for 2012. Most of them predict that 2012 will be the year for mHealth to ‘break-out.’ Here are 5 examples: HIMSS...
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mHealth update – Sept 2012
Since my last blog post here at Medical Connectivity there have been some mHealth updates that may be of interest to the blog readers. USA and FCC Just this week the FCC released its task force...
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mHealth – How Much Does it Cost and is it Clinically Effective?
I wrote in the beginning of 2012 that perhaps that year was the year for mHealth to ‘breakout. ‘ I cited several proclamations and organizational activities to support that claim. mHealth and the use...
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Connectivity Standards Adoption Over Time
I was listening today to the CE-IT Webinar on CE and HIT from the 2014 AAMI conference in Philadelphia. Much of the session reviewed what has happened over the last five years and it got me thinking...
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Challenges Using Patient Generated Data for Patient Care
When I do presentations on the use of standards, I invariably have a slide which defines interoperability as “the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special...
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Major EU Remote Monitoring Pilot Results
This post looks at some lessons learned from remote monitoring projects in Europe. This and subsequent posts are based on my last eight years of supporting these projects combined with some thoughts...
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Case Study: Sensor Selection for Remote Monitoring
In a previous blog post, I highlighted general principles for implementing and scaling systems to support remote monitoring of chronic conditions, namely congestive heart failure (CHF), Diabetes...
View ArticleFrom Pilot to Policy: Lessons from e-Health Deployed at Scale
As mentioned in previous posts, the United4Health project was intended to test the deployment at scale of mobile health solutions and to integrate those telehealth services as part of the standard of...
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FHIR in Action – How Well Does It Work?
Two years ago, I was at eHealth week in Athens, Greece, and stumbled upon several other Americans who represented the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) touting Fast Healthcare Interoperability...
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DocBox Introduces New Open Clinical Decision Support Platform
While reading a couple of articles in the healthcare IT industry, several statements stood out as they highlighted some of the issues with EHRs, the data they collect, and how useful that data is to...
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Usability Heuristic Test of Mobile Fitness Application
I just finished a master’s in healthcare informatics and through that process learned quite a few things. I am planning a series of blog posts (three or four) that highlight several of the papers I...
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Update: Integration/interfacing of Medical Devices to an Electronic Health...
Overview of Medical Device Integration Task I provided an overview of integrating medical device systems and information into an EHR in a paper I wrote in 2008. The figure below provides a graphical...
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Proof of Concept: Medical Device Directory for Integration Services
This post details the medical device directory I built demonstrating the concept of a knowledge base and expert system that would assist a healthcare organization in their medical device integration...
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Data Driven Predictive Medical Devices: An Interview
In 1987, James Gleick wrote the book Chaos which was a layman’s description of different instances where chaotic behavior was displayed in systems. In one of the last chapters titled Inner Rhythms, he...
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Major EU Remote Monitoring Pilot Results
This post looks at some lessons learned from remote monitoring projects in Europe. This and subsequent posts are based on my last eight years of supporting these projects combined with some thoughts...
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Case Study: Sensor Selection for Remote Monitoring
In a previous blog post, I highlighted general principles for implementing and scaling systems to support remote monitoring of chronic conditions, namely congestive heart failure (CHF), Diabetes...
View ArticleFrom Pilot to Policy: Lessons from e-Health Deployed at Scale
As mentioned in previous posts, the United4Health project was intended to test the deployment at scale of mobile health solutions and to integrate those telehealth services as part of the standard of...
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FHIR in Action – How Well Does It Work?
Two years ago, I was at eHealth week in Athens, Greece, and stumbled upon several other Americans who represented the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) touting Fast Healthcare Interoperability...
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DocBox Introduces New Open Clinical Decision Support Platform
While reading a couple of articles in the healthcare IT industry, several statements stood out as they highlighted some of the issues with EHRs, the data they collect, and how useful that data is to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Usability Heuristic Test of Mobile Fitness Application
I just finished a master’s in healthcare informatics and through that process learned quite a few things. I am planning a series of blog posts (three or four) that highlight several of the papers I...
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