The ability to send a simple text message is more or less taken for granted in many parts of the world. But not all of them.
An extended session at this year's mHealth Summit aims to bridge that gap between those who can and those who can't.
Titled “A Trifecta for mHealth Implementation – Tools for mHealth Programs Focusing on Low- and Middle-Income Countries,” the session will run from 2:30-6 p...
The words “wearable technology” have a real futuristic ring. But tell us again: When were eyeglasses invented? Wearable technology sounds futuristic only until you realize how long we’ve been doing it.
On Monday, December 9, during a session titled “Connected Care Any-Wear” at the HIMSS Media mHealth Summit, attendees will get a chance to hear from Olof Schybergson, founder and CEO of Fjord, a...
Mobile technology is natural fit for nurses who travel to patients. And according to Steven Landers, MD, CEO of the New Jersey-based Visiting Nurse Association Health Group, mHealth options fit right into the group’s ongoing efforts “to make sure that best information is at the fingertips of the nurses.”
During the "Using Mobile Anytime, Anywhere" session at the HIMSS Media mHealth...
"Location, location, location" is a phrase long associated with real estate, but in recent years it's also played a role in attempts by healthcare professionals to track disease.
Now some health IT experts are adding location information – where patients have lived – into their EHRs.
"There's a huge body of health information that's been generated at high levels, particularly at the state and...
Telemedicine may be changing the way healthcare is delivered around the world, but it’s identical to every other economic sector in one critical respect: Without investment, companies don’t get very far.
Partly in recognition of that fact – and partly because the telemedicine sector has evolved beyond the point where some healthcare stakeholders are tempted to consider it just a novelty – the...
There’s no shortage of attention being paid to mHealth technologies in this country and other parts of the industrialized world.
But there’s an argument to be made that mHealth’s most dramatic impact may come in developing countries where technologies that westerners often take for granted have long been scarce.
Two final-day keynoters at last week's 2012 mHealth Summit highlighted just how...
When it comes to judging an event’s success, it’s almost impossible to argue with the numbers. So by just about any standard, the 2012 mHealth Summit was a smash.
According to show director Rich Scarfo, the summit, which took place Dec. 3-5 at Washington, D.C.’s Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, attracted 4,055 registrants, “a significant increase over last year’s 3,250. They...
Since the passage of the HITECH Act as part of the 2009 stimulus package, federal policymakers have focused primarily on the myriad programs designed to move healthcare providers into the digital future.
But recently, and especially with the release of Meaningful Use Stage 2, that attention has expanded to include ways of getting patients to plug in. That effort was the focus of an ONC Town Hall...
Are doctors an endangered species?
Probably not, but at the 2012 mHealth Summit's Tuesday morning Super Session, two presenters offered visions of a future of healthcare that, at the very least, might make some doctors nervous.
In “Pushing the Limits of Mobile Health – Can We Have Health & Healthcare Without Doctors?” Vinod Khosla, founder and CEO of Sun Microsystems, and Joseph Kvedar, MD,...
New mHealth technology is continuing to spread across the healthcare sector, and it’s going to change dramatically the way healthcare services are delivered in the future.
That was the core takeaway from an early session at the 2012 mHealth Summit that unpacked the findings of the HIMSS 2012 Mobile Technology Survey. Co-sponsored by HIMSS and Qualcomm Life, the survey collected responses from 180...
