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In Haiti, practicing medicine from afar The New York Times Share     In the desperate days soon after the earthquake in Haiti last month, foreign medical volunteers relied on improvised, low-tech devices for consultations and coordination. But American doctors are switching to more sophisticated technology to help improve public health in Haiti, one of the world's poorest nations. "We are in this for the long haul," said Scott C. Simmons, whose title at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine is director of telehealth. At UM's 240-bed tent hospital near the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, doctors soon should be able to consult via satellite with specialists in Miami and other medical centers, Simmons said. More
FCC to promote mobile health apps in broadband plan Government Health IT Share
The Federal Communications Commission wants to foster the use of wireless devices and applications in health care as part of a national broadband plan the agency expects to release next month, according a senior FCC official. The FCC plan will describe "where government has a role to reduce some of the hurdles to these technologies both in connectivity and to promote innovation in applications," said Dr. Mohit Kaushal, digital healthcare director of the FCC's Omnibus Broadband Initiative. More Does mHealth need a doctor's prescription? mobihealthnews Share
It's a simple question: Do mobile health tools require a doctor's prescription? Or will the main driver for mHealth services bubble up from consumers and patients largely without care providers weighing in? Throughout the keynote sessions at the mHealth Initiative's event in Washington, D.C., the focus was squarely on care providers' adoption of mobile technologies, their integration to EMRs, and the opportunity that subsequently created for patients and consumers. More More than half of Americans use Internet for health Reuters Share
More than half of Americans looked up health information on the Internet last year, U.S. government researchers reported Feb. 2. But only 5 percent used e-mail to communicate with their doctors, the survey by the National Center for Health Statistics found. Researcher at the center used a survey of 7,192 adults ages 18 to 64 questioned between January and June 2009. More
Video program puts docs at bedside 24/7 at MassGeneral Health IT News Share
Patients being treated in the pediatric intensive care unit at MassGeneral Hospital for Children now have doctors virtually at their bedside 24/7 via a new home-to-hospital program. MassGeneral Hospital for Children and the Partners Center for Connected Health, both members of Partners HealthCare in Boston, joined forces to launched the new program. Six pediatric intensive care unit physicians from MGHfC now have videoconferencing units in their homes. More Aspen hospital taps stroke specialists via new telemedicine hookup The Aspen Times Share
It's about 160 miles from Denver to Aspen, but now a Denver neurologist can examine a possible stroke victim at Aspen Valley Hospital in the time it takes to boot up a laptop computer. The Aspen hospital's latest piece of diagnostic equipment isn't so much about high-tech gadgetry as it is people. The Colorado Digital Online Consultant is making its debut in the Aspen emergency department, bringing Denver specialists into the examining room via tiny, computer-mounted cameras. More
How to avoid FDA mHealth regulation mobihealthnews Share
Most people know the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion. Tax avoidance is the lawful planning of such things as charitable contributions to minimize taxes, while tax evasion is the unlawful and usually deceitful actions taken to hide income. In this article, I will share some tips for the avoidance of FDA regulation, not the evasion of FDA regulation. More Apple iPad poised for telemedicine, mobile health care Enterprise Mobile Today Share
Is Apple's handheld computer, the iPad, just what the doctor ordered for telehealth and telemedicine? It certainly looks that way, according to two mobile health care industry watchers. "While Apple CEO Steve Jobs... did not mention the health care vertical as a key market for the iPad: It looks to be just that. The iPad holds promise as a new point-of-care tool for health care workers and as a personal health device for patients," writes Brian Dolan, editor of MobiHealthNews.com. More ATA Telemedicine News Brief now available as iPhone app American Telemedicine Association Share
 ATA understands the need to deliver timely, relevant news to its members. In partnering with MultiBriefs to create the ATA Telemedicine News Brief, the association committed itself to delivering a resource that provides comprehensive news briefings of interesting stories important to telemedicine professionals on a weekly basis. That partnership now has expanded to provide another convenient avenue
to receive this information. ATA Telemedicine News Brief is now part of the new MultiBriefs App, available for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch in the App Store. Simply search "MultiBriefs" in the App Store and download the app free of charge. After the MultiBriefs App is downloaded, you can add the ATA Telemedicine News Brief feed from the "Healthcare and Medical" section. News is streamed into your iPhone or iPod Touch each week. And just like the e-mail news brief, you may share articles with
your colleagues via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. You can even bookmark certain articles as favorites to revisit at a later date. Feedback is appreciated and is important to the success of the app, so please rate it in the App Store.
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