A few low-cost services have launched on the Web attempting to provide some elements of basic health-care consultations cheaper, faster and easier.
Two such companies are American Well Inc. and SwiftMD Inc. The former launched in Hawaii while the latter is providing service in New York and New Jersey.
Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at the Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey, tested the phones of doctors and nurses in hospital operating rooms and intensive care units, and found that almost 95% were contaminated with bacteria of different types,
Preferred Health Technology Inc. (PHT), a provider of electronic payment and transaction-processing services for the health care industry, and Visa Inc., the world’s largest retail payments network, today announced an alliance making Visa the preferred payment brand for PHT’s A-Claim medical payment solution for physicians, hospitals and other health care providers.
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To complement its process improvement work, Virginia Mason Medical Center has selected Versus Technology, Inc.’s hybrid infrared (IR) and RFID real-time locating system (RTLS), Enterprise VISion: Clinic, to optimize patient flow, staff working environment and overall efficiencies at the Virginia Mason Kirkland clinic in
In response to the President signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 into law today, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) predicts the inclusion of $19.2 billion for health IT will have important economic benefits and result in improved patient care. HIMSS, representing more than 20,000 individual members - of which 73 percent work in provider settings - and 350 corporate members, believes the health IT funding is essential if we are to meet President Obama’s goal of computerized health records for all Americans by 2014.
See source article.One of the last and liveliest sessions at TEPR+ last week was a presentation and Q&A with Don Witters from the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health. Witters repeated multiple times that he attended the show in order to begin a dialog with the mHealth industry to establish clear pathways and regulations that ensure wireless quality of service, coexistence with other medical systems, data integrity, security and electromagnetic compatibility. Witters said his goal was safe, secure and reliable deployments of wireless technology in healthcare.
Increasingly, many older people who live alone are not truly alone. They are being watched by a flurry of new technologies designed to enable them to live independently and avoid expensive trips to the emergency room or nursing homes.
VIENNA, Va., Feb 10, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — MobileAccess, a global provider of enterprise wireless solutions, today announced the strongest growth in company history, with revenues in 2008 increasing more than 55 percent.
As part of the company’s entry into new markets, MobileAccess today unveils the Encover product line, a new brand for its flagship Universal Wireless Network product line. Encover is a comprehensive portfolio of interior coverage solutions that provides enterprises with adaptable architecture, empowering them to keep pace with future wireless innovations. The Encover product portfolio equips both new-build as well as existing state-of-the-art buildings, airports, hospitals, luxury resorts and casinos, and skyscrapers, with a future-ready, intelligent wireless infrastructure that supports current WLAN, cellular applications and wireless requirements, such as WiMAX and 3G technologies and beyond.
Nurses spend just three percent of the average shift in patients’ rooms and 81 percent at nursing stations, according to a 2008 study from Spyglass Consulting Group. Renee McLeod, director of the Office of Transformational Technologies and Organizations at the Arizona State University College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation, says much of the role smart phones play in nursing education going forward will be aimed at reversing that trend.
