lth & Fitness or Medical categories now contain more
than 6,000 apps for iPhones. As of January 2010, there were more than 1,700 medical applications; all together, they've been downloaded by more than 1 million users...... Among these, there are hundreds of applications that reference virtually
every major pharmaceutical brand name, offering services from basic prescribing data to "cost-saving" generic or over-the-counteralternative options. These have been developed by medical publishers, pharmacies, payers, hospitals, advocacy groups, alternative health promoters, health care professionals, litigators, government agencies and others. Virtually every therapeutic area is already represented with growing offerings for disease management...
... New mobile phone applications in areas like disease management, medication tracking, drug recalls, health cost and record management are
being released daily. With the recent addition of Google to the smart phone market, you can bet that new Android platform health applications will start rolling out at a faster pace in 2010...
... According a study released by Manhattan Research, more than half of U.S. physicians reported that they owned a PDA or smart phone in 2008 ... According to Skyscape research, 80 percent of physicians say they are more likely to base a clinical decision on information they access via a Smartphone versus information they've read in a journal...
Examples of branded iPhone apps include:
Read on at: http://www.v-fluence.com/blog/459/healthcare-apps-exploding-in-mobile-are-you-ready…
the Gates Foundation topic is to fund innovative cell phone-based
applications that support their existing global health priorities: HIV,
malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhea, family health, vaccine
preventable diseases and other neglected diseases. They are
looking for novel cell phone-based application that support vaccine,
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Applications for Priority Global Health Conditions”
David Doherty, Head of Business Development at 3G Doctor
Options being considered will include: * Novel cell phone-based solutions for support of effective vaccinations
(vaccine delivery, vaccine tracking, data collection, etc);
* Cell phone applications to support front-line health care workers;
* Cell phone-based diagnostic applications (combination hardware,
wetware and software);
* Cell phone based algorithms and clinical decision support systems for
Global Health applications;
* Cell-phone based biometrics for unique patient identification;
* Data collection and patient case management application (voiceprompts,
instructions, voice-recognition inputs).
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Center (TATRC) held their annual Army Telemedicine Partnership Meeting. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Mobile Health (mHealth): The Use of Cell Phones for Healthcare." The event explored the use of cell phones as tools for public health outreach medical surveillance and research, remote medical diagnostics, training and education. Fifteen distinguished speakers from the military, government, academia and the private sector shared their perspectives in this new and exciting area of telemedicine.UC Davis Health System coordinated a Telemedicine 101 Certificate Course, providing a high level introduction to telemedicine and telehealth. This was our largest 101 course ever, with over 150 attendees!Several other organizations held pre-conference meetings. The Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) Rural Health Care Program, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) and Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) all met Saturday... The full ATA 2010 Meeting and Exposition begins today... The exhibit hall—the largest ever—opens at 5:30pm... With the implementation of the HITECH Act, Healthcare Reform legislation and the emergence of new technologies, this portends to be an high impact meeting ...You can follow the ATA 2010 on Twitter: @AmericanTelemed. The Twitter hash-tag for the meeting is #ATA2010. You can also network and share knowledge on the ATA 2010 on:Facebook, Linkedin, atawikiand, of courseMedTech-IQENJOY!CC …
e Association (ATA) meeting in May 2010. He has done an excellent job of surveying a critical mass of industry leaders, and has a representative academic sample as well.. Roger Shindell
MedTech-IQ believes we have entered into an unprecedented period of volatile change in the U.S. health information technology, telemedicine and mHealth markets. This is a good thing. The rules are changing dramatically as we speak, money is flowing from Washington, D.C. to State capitals where it is being executed against contracts for HIEs, (Health Information Exchanges), RECs (Regional Extension Centers), and Health Technology Training (more details on this in future MedTech-IQ postings), while the technology landscape is shifting rapidly. ... I love it! ... A message from Roger Shindell to all members of Telemedicine & eHealth on MedTech-IQ! Check out the interviews we conducted at the ATA Conventionin San Antonio: http://www.carosh.com/ata.htmlENJOY!CC
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ncidence of more than 150 million cases per year, pneumonia kills more children under five years of age than any other disease. Although more recent figures have shown improvements in estimates of deaths, the global burden of deaths due to pneumonia remains unchanged. The United Nations (UN) has established a goal to reduce the mortality rate of children under five by two-thirds as one of their eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to be completed by the year 2015.
RD-PATH is interested in studying the effects of vaccination by identifying and tracking patients suffering from pneumonia. To accomplish this goal, IRD-PATH plans to enroll 7,500 newborns in a pneumonia surveillance study. Karachi's health care system does not support patient identification and tracking, however, making patient tracking a difficult technical challenge for the study. Newborns are seen by different physicians in tens of clinics, and there is no location for medical records. In addition, since health centers (clinics and hospitals) are understaffed, physicians have to see a large number of patients in a short period of time (at the extreme, a physician may see one patient every two minutes) and may not have time to report every pneumonia case through some lengthy procedure. To facilitate pneumonia detection, IRD-PATH hopes to utilize radio frequency identification devices (RFID) and cellular phone technology to follow participants until they are 24 months old. The participants of the study will identify themselves by presenting an RFID tag when they visit a clinic. The physician will report a diagnosis of whether they have pneumonia by sending this data to a central server by cell phone. On receiving a positive diagnosis, a mobile care team will be dispatched to pick up the participant for further study.
Proposed Solution
IRD-PATH is already tracking patients, but as the work is heavily human-dependent, making the process inefficient and error-prone. The human-dependent solution requires one worker per clinic, making the study difficult to scale to the tens of clinics available to the study population. Furthermore, the manual tracking of such a large amount of patients introduces the risk of error. Thus our team proposes to create a fully electronic system to reduce the tracking system's current dependence on humans and expedite the overall surveillance process. We designed and built a cellular phone- and RFID-based patient presence alert system which identifies infants participating in the study. Patients enrolled in the study will wear an RFID bracelet, which the physician will scan with a cell phone during a medical encounter. Consequently, the study participant will be identified and the physician will be prompted to select the patient's pneumonia diagnosis on the cell phone. The selection of a positive diagnosis by the physician will then alert a specialized team to go to the patient's location for further study and treatment.…
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... take a look at our guide to off-the-shelf applications that could have you and your team diagnosing in the sub-arctic, sub-Saharan Africa or the middle of the Pacific with time and budget to spare…
1. Skype
The world’s most prolific video conferencing tool is the first software many turn to, whether you’re a parent chatting with your kid at college, or Oprah talking to a guest on national TV. But the tool has also long been used informally in the science and medical community for consultations and other interactions between colleagues.
2. Skype ER?
A new Skype Attendant test program promises to turn the seat-of-the-pants freeware into a serious (and possibly reliable) emergency tool for virtual access to doctors for patients in remote areas. Users on skypejournal.com surmise that the new service could provide:
* online medical support to remote users
* telemedicine support
* location-based telemedicine (depending on your local regulatory framework)
* emergency services
* medical records for consultants for patients using data mining
http://skypejournal.com/blog/archives/2006/03/skype_attendant.php
3. Webcam MD
This up-&-coming technology makes use of diagnostic handheld USB camera/light (think of that salt-shaker-like scanner Dr McCoy had in Star Trek) that patients run over the part of their body they need a doctor to look at. Though you need to actually have the device, the company claims the service will cut wait time to a fraction on both the doctor and patient side. Check out their demo video:
http://www.webcammd.com/
4. Robots lend a hand (or twelve) from afar
Surgery robots such as da Vinci can have as many hands as they need to and each hand can be specially outfitted to hold a specific surgical tool. The surgeon controlling these offspring of the robotic arm on the space shuttle can be in another room or another country.
http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/products/davinci_surgicalsystem/index.aspx
5. eTime’s home endoscope
Imagine patients hooking up their own USB-based endoscope and performing an examination for a doctor hundreds or thousands of miles away…The device could show doctors close-up views of possible skin cancer lesions, or – in a pitch – live scans of, um, anywhere else on their person a patient is willing to stick this handy device.
http://www.e-h-e.cn/en/index.asp
6. HD telepresence without a dedicated line
A quasi-competitor to Skype, Vidyo offers rock-solid HD video, with all the bells and whistles of high-end videoconferencing setups (ability to display multiple video windows, see and control information across networks, etc..) Though this one isn’t free, it’s one of the best bargains going for getting into serious medical video conferencing and telepresence.
http://www.vidyo.com
7. Linking different video sources together
The folks at Radvision have created a setup you can implement on your laptop and use from your office but still loop-in multiple people using multiple video sources.
http://www.radvision.com/Products/Video-Products/Desktop-Video-Communications/SCOPIA-Desktop-Video-Conferencing/default.htm
8. Telemedicine via cell phone
Brazilian and American researchers are developing a cheap, elegantly simple, telemedicine system using cell phone cameras to collect medical data from patients. The visual data would then be transmitted to experts offsite to diagnose urgent medical conditions. The application could be a breakthrough in parts of the world where cell phone penetration is greater than that of high-speed internet.
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=222&content_id=WPCP_008900&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=12dcad3b-fa63-40f2-aac2-daa00faa5123
9. Telepresence for heart monitoring
This Bluetooth monitor that measures electrical signals from your heart could text your local hospital if you are about to have a heart attack. The application produces an electrocardiogram and sends it (with an alert) via text message.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2007/07/18/27774.aspx
10. What will the future hold?
With the advent of 3G consumer networks and the next tier of the Internet, what is the next generation of mature aps for telemedicine? Take a look at this insightful glimpse into the future, from University of California, Davis.
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John | June 8, 2010 at 2:50 pm | Tags: Apple, mHealth, Android, iPhone 4, iOS4.0, clinical groupware | Categories: Google, consumer health | URL: http://wp.me/p6shx-EU
Yesterday, with much fanfare, Steve Jobs took the stage at Apple's annual developer conference and announced the pending release of the next iteration of the iPhone ...
... Job's presentation also highlighted a number of facts and figures worthy of quoting here as Chilmark Research sees Apple's portfolio increasingly being a leading indicator of future innovations and subsequent adoption in not only the consumer market, but the healthcare sector as well..
... iPad:Over 2M sold since its release 2 short months ago.8.5K native iPad apps now available. 35M apps downloaded => ~17 apps/iPad.5M books downloaded...
... Some analysts are now projecting that 8M iPads will be sold by end of 2010; would not be at all surprised if that number is exceeded ...
... Having spoken to a number of healthcare workers though, the utility of the iPad in the healthcare setting has yet to be determined as many still question the ruggedness and ability to disinfect an iPad. Really do not see this as a big hurdle to overcome as such has been the case for many previous computing platforms and the iPad comes in such a compelling form factor, it really is hard to resist for numerous applications including bedside patient education, that the healthcare sector will be an important market for the iPad.
... AppStore:Over 5B apps downloaded.A whooping 225K apps are now available.15K apps/wk are submitted to Apple for approval (95% are accepted within a week).Top 3 reasons for apps being rejected:
Does not function as advertised.
Uses private APIs.
App is buggy and crashes.
... The AppStore has created a completely new model for app development and delivery that has been highly successful for Apple in driving sales for its ever expanding portfolio of devices. Google is a distant second with the Android OS and the Android store of some 30K apps...
... In healthcare, with a few notable exceptions (e.g., ADAM, Epocrates, iTriage, LiveStrong, WebMD, etc.) most of the mHealth apps in the AppStore are pretty simplistic ...
... But what Chilmark is more interested in is seeing how the concept of an AppStore-like environment (platform) will allow for the development of a wide range of mix and match clinical apps, which some have begun referring to as "Clinical Groupware." Big question here though is how will meaningful use be achieved through use of a certified EHR if the certified EHR is actually a collection a disparate apps running on an iPhone or iPad?...
... The New iPhone:For healthcare, a couple of new features are notable (beyond multi-tasking which was announced earlier this year as part of new OS4.0).
New "retinal" display that Apple claims will provide unmatched resolution. This will be particularly valuable in reviewing images.
Video camera on both sides of iPhone combined with video conferencing app, FaceTime. This could be particularly useful for telehealth applications wherein a remote clinician (say a nurse) is providing at home care, notices a new rash on a patient and confers with doctor at clinic or hospital, in real-time on what appropriate action (bring them in, apply slave, order Rx) should be taken...
...Apple is clearly in the driver's seat today setting the standards and benchmarks by which others will follow. How these developments may impact the healthcare sector is something we will continue to monitor closely.
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e. This is the third recent blog from the "Healthcare IT Guy", Shahid Shah ... Here are Shahid's recent thoughts on "Selecting or Designing iPhone and Mobile Software for Physicians" ...
..... I get a lot of questions asking for advice on how to build mobile software and one of the most popular questions is about how and where to save data on a mobile device (because of HIPAA and privacy rules). I reached out to Adam Kenney, a software engineer pMDsoft who leads a team of developers focused on mobile charge capture. Adam and his team have been building medical apps for mobile platforms and his insights arise from direct experience managing the design, development, and support of native applications for the Palm, BlackBerry, and iPhone. Here’s what Adam wrote.
Any physician who spends time in the hospital setting understands the importance of “taking it with you”. Web-only software is great; but even now, when many hospital rooms have a terminal on hand, the overhead of logging in and logging off for each patient can be intolerable for busy physicians who are already spending too much time on administrativia.
This is where mobile software comes in. Doctors were among the first adopters of mobile devices such as Palms. With the rise of smartphones, and with government initiatives such as e-prescribing, mobile software is more appealing than ever. But it’s challenging to make software that fits the constraints of a mobile platform yet is fast, fun, and friendly to use; and only usability will allow you to save time and achieve 100% adoption within your organization.
One of the biggest factors in the usability of mobile software is how data gets onto and off of the device. Here are a few of the most common approaches that mobile software companies take, with the pros and cons:
Option 1: “What happens on the device stays on the device”
Option 2: “Your information is out there somewhere”
Option 3: “Your information is everywhere you are”
.... The important thing is to anticipate what it will really be like to use an application. Will it save time, or impose additional burdens on physicians? Will they love it, or want to throw their smartphones out the window? Taking the time to understand a solution well before you buy it can prevent headaches and remorse down the road.
Read the whole blog at: http://www.healthcareguy.com/index.php/archives/645
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... If you are interested in mHealth, you will find the following charts of interest ...
Key Facts Illuminated:* The average price for smartphones has fallen by 50% in 3 years* Smartphones approaching half of all handsets sold* U.S. smartphone penetration has doubled in two
years* Mobile data penetration passed 60% last year* AT&T launching more smartphones than other
carriers* Voice ARPU (average monthly revenue per
subscriber) shrinking, text and data growing* Text messaging explodes but reaching maturity* People who live in rural areas have fewer
options* 18-to-24 year olds have highest wireless penetration* Wireless-only households on the rise* BONUS MAP: Wireless penetration by state/region/areaSee the FCC charts at:http://www.businessinsider.com/25-charts-on-the-state-of-the-wireless-industry-2010-5#the-average-price-for-smartphones-has-fallen-by-50-in-3-years-1ENJOY!CC
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YOUR MEDICATION IS CALLING:
Proteus Biomedical's smart-pill sensor aims to monitor compliance with one's prescribed regimen for taking medication and track progress in treating ailments by relaying key information back after a pill is swallowed. COURTESY OF PROTEUS BIOMEDICAL
HEART SENSOR:
Corventis developed the Avivo water-resistant heart-monitoring device to communicate via wireless technology. The Avivo's Band-Aid-sized disposable sensor sends a steady stream of data on posture, activity, fluid status, and heart and respiratory rates to a receiver using Bluetooth technology. COURTESY OF CORVENTIS
... A new generation of medical devices using wireless communications, sophisticated software and data center-driven "cloud" computing promises to deliver health care in ways previously limited to the confines of fancy hospital rooms... ... These advances, ranging from edible sensors to cordless heart monitors to robotic arms that mirror a doctor's movements, presage sharp falls in cost just as consumers clamor for more affordable health care. Around-the-clock tracking through wireless sensors, advanced biochemistry and raw remote computing power to mine and match symptom data with likely causes could help doctors band together to make faster, more correct diagnoses, from wherever they are...
Examples include:
Smart pill... Proteus Biomedical ... meshes sensors ... into existing medicines to ensure safe digestion after swallowing ... Proteus says its edible sensor—embedded in a pill—would raise the cost of that pill just pennies more when produced in large volumes. The company is targeting medicines in the cardiovascular, diabetes, tuberculosis and psychiatric ailment areas.... The sensor aims to monitor compliance and track progress in treating ailments by relaying key information back after a pill is swallowed...
... Proteus's Raisin smart pill (actually as big as a grain of sand) is in late-stage development with backing from Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis and Minneapolis-based medical technology maker Medtronic, Inc. Novartis's research shows that drug compliance rates shot up to 80 percent (from 30 percent) within six months of patients ingesting the hybrid pil...
A heartbeat away ... San Jose-based Corventis has developed a water-resistant heart-monitoring device that communicates via wireless technology. The Avivo consists of a disposable sensor that adheres to the chest like a Band-Aid, as well as a cell phone–sized receiver. The sensor sends a steady stream of data on posture, activity, fluid status, and heart and respiratory rates to the receiver using Bluetooth technology. This information is then forwarded over cellular networks to servers at Corventis, where cardiographic technicians analyze algorithms and data. Reports are then posted on Corventis's secure Web site for caregivers or relayed to them via e-mail, fax or phone so they can react immediately to abnormal signals...Avivo is available in the U.S., Europe, India, the Middle East and Singapore. Hands-free surgeon... the Freehand laparoscopic camera controller made by U.K.-based Prosurgics Limited applies technology from industrial robots to minimally invasive operations including hysterectomies and removals of kidneys and gallbladders. The surgeon wears a sensor much like a climber's headlamp, and controls the robotic arm using head movements and a foot pedal ... Freehand, at about $20,000, costs a fraction of sophisticated robot surgeons including Intuitive Surgical's joystick-controlled da Vinci Surgical System robot, which debuted in 1999.
Read on at: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=patient-monitoring-tech…