Shorts: Blankenhorn, Halamanka, CHIP talk mHealth

By: Brian Dolan | Jun 19, 2009        

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Will smartphones make us healthier?

ZDNet Healthcare’s Dana Blankenhorn argues that smartphones will make us healthier: “We are still at the start of the evolution but it’s time to ask the question. Will smartphones help make us healthier? Right now the fitness-obsessed and hypochondriac are getting some serious help. Many doctors have a new toy. But is anything really happening? I argue that it is. As smartphones become a platform as important as desktops they change the way we live in subtle ways.” More

Halamanka: mHealth is cool, finally

Dr. John Halamanka dubs mHealth as the “Cool Technology of the Week” as part of a weekly feature he pens at his Life as a Healthcare CIO blog: “The iPhone is quickly turning into a major resource for accessing mobile health applications. Although I find the iPhone a challenging device for data entry, it’s a great device for data viewing. Realtime viewing of waveform, imaging and text data via a handheld mobile device. That’s cool!” More

CHIP: Make healthcare system more like an iPhone platform

Boston’s Children’s Hospital’s Informatics Program published a group of principles to guide the creation of a new health information infrastructure for the U.S. The piece was a follow-up on an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine in March. The latest article argued for the development of a platform model, very much like Apple iPhone’s setup, to encourage the development of “substitutable” health care applications. More (via Chilmark Research)

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  • SAK

    Mr. Blankenhorn,

    I did read a few of your articles today. Some are not bad, however, I would think that incongruous would describe our differences in ideology and communication. While we may not have a rapport, I think it reasonably important to challenge your claims concerning health and smartphones. This travesty makes yesterdays SteveJobs die/lie expression pale by comparison.

    http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/06/19/why-brain-surgeons-are-avoiding-cell-phones.aspx

    I was in LA Fitness the other day talking health stuff with a cardiologist. He responded that the big thing in medical thinking these days was the concern over radiation from the environment.

    Many things in life are two-edged swords, as with advancing technologies. China’s recent growth
    in economy has brought with it a massive increase in birth defects…for instance.