MedTech-IQ Featured in Businessweek/ComputerWorld ... "E-health & Web 2.0: The doctor will tweet you now"

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Colleagues,

MedTech-IQ was recently featured in an article written by Lucas Mearian for ComputerWorld, and picked up by BusinessWeek, on the emergence of Health 2.0 applications.  See excerpts from the article below ...

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P.S. Also featured in the article are quotes from MedTech-IQ member, Neal Neuberger, and reference to Dr. Bertalan Mesko's excellent Webicina, Medical Web 2.0 Guidance Collection.
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... When Janel Wood's 9-year-old son recently began experiencing migraines, the working mother decided to try a new company health care program that allowed her to communicate with a doctor through videoconferencing, voice over IP, and instant messaging...

... Neal Neuberger, executive director of the Institute for e-Health Policy, said physicians connecting with patients via social networking sites is a fast-growing trend. A plethora of applications have also cropped up for devices such as the iPhone that allow patients to communicate with physicians or find medical services in their area. "There are literally hundreds of them," he said...

... Another force behind doctors' adoption of Web 2.0 tools is that EMR providers are beginning to insert texting and videoconferencing tools right into their software, according to Conrad Clyburn, founding partner of MedTechIQ, an international content aggregation and physician collaboration Web site...

... "The task is so big that we're going to have to start using these tools to solve the problems" associated with rolling out complex new health information technologies, said Neuberger, who is also chairman of the American Telemedicine Association's policy committee...

... Clyburn said that about 45 vendors now offer blog or microblog sites dealing with physician issues, some of the most pressing of which are the implementation of EHRs. Among the more popular sites are Sermo.com and Webicina.com...

... The reason those sites are so popular is that most doctors tasked with rolling out EMR technology run small practices and have little experience with such implementations and have little or no IT staff, he said...

... As a result, smaller practices are leaning toward SaaS models for EMRs, such as Practice Fusion, which is a free offering, and NoMoreClipboard. Both, Clyburn said, are "quite easy to use."..

... "This is going to be a very interesting space in the next couple of years," he said. "One of the trends we're going to see is a gravitation toward the low-cost solutions -- and I think that low-cost solution will be [a] software-as-a-service subscription model. Those lend themselves very nicely to online interactivity and patient engagement through messaging and the things we've become accustomed to in the cloud."...

Read on at:

ComputerWorld

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/347337/e-health_web_2_0_doc...

BusinessWeek

http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-05-20/e-health-and-web-2-0-the...

Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian
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[CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight]

Colleagues,

This article was also published in Bloomberg Business Week, http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-05-20/e-health-and-web-2-0-the....

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