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Obama Administration to award nearly $1B in health IT grants iHealthBeat Share     The Obama Administration announced Feb. 12 plans to award nearly $1 billion in grants to help states and health care providers implement health IT systems, Healthcare IT News reports. Funding for the awards comes from last year's federal economic stimulus package. The grants aim to extend health IT access to more than 100,000 hospitals and primary care physicians by 2014, administration officials said. More
Upcoming ATA Videocast - Emerging mHealth Markets: The World of Health and Medical Apps American Telemedicine Association Share
Smartphones have emerged as a powerful new media for delivering healthcare information and services. Providers and patients alike are using their phones to monitor vital signs, treat chronic conditions, and manage health data. Join Jonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association and Brian Dolan, Editor of MobiHealthNews, for a discussion on the role of smart phone applications in healthcare. Brian will unveil preliminary findings from the latest MobiHealthNews research report on the current and future market for smartphone telehealth apps. More The connected object: A new era for mobility Financial Times Share
There are more than 4.5 billion wireless connections around the world -- and rising. By 2017 mobile connections will outnumber people on the planet. Logic might suggest we are approaching saturation point, but the reality is that we are only at the beginning of a new world in which the "connected object" will come to the fore. What is a connected object? More
University of California-Irving opens new telemedicine training facility Healthcare IT News Share
Physicians at the University of California-Irvine School of Medicine will begin to move into a new $40.5 million medical education building this week. The new building includes a telemedicine training center, which officials say will help prepare their doctors for health care in the digital age. The new facility also will house a medical training program designed to provide the growing Latino population with greater access to health care through telemedicine. More Telemedicine system expected to relieve shortage of eye doctors Tech-On! Share
Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the University of Yamanashi and the Information Technology Center of the University of Tokyo conducted a field test of an ophthalmology telemedicine system developed by the University of Yamanashi. Researchers used the "Eye-view Robo," a slit-lamp microscope that can be remotely controlled used as a diagnostic device for examining a patient's eye by using a slit light. More
Cardiologist: Leave telemedicine equipment in Haiti mobihealthnews Share
The devastating earthquake in Haiti earlier this year has spurred a number of telemedicine and wireless health companies to commit their services and donate equipment to the relief efforts in the country. We previously reported on a consortium of remote monitoring companies, including MedApps, AWS, Nonin, Digicel and A&D Medical, that has agreed to jointly donate equipment and infrastructure. The group's "telehealth ecosystem" is planned to launch after rescue and recovery efforts end and longterm relief operations begin. More Telemedicine makes advances in central Ohio health care WBNS-10TV Share
Experts say that in five years, big changes will come to medical care in Columbus and across central Ohio. OhioHealth has taken the lead in using computers in medicine, 10TV's Andrea Cambern reported. If a heart patient shows up at Dublin Methodist Hospital, which does not have a cardiac unit, a nurse can seek expert help instantly through a mobile computer hookup. More New data: 40 percent in U.S. lack home broadband The Associated Press Share
Roughly 40 percent of Americans do not have high-speed Internet access at home, according to new Commerce Department figures that underscore the challenges facing policymakers who are trying to bring affordable broadband connections to everyone. The Obama Administration and Congress have identified universal broadband as a key to driving economic development, producing jobs and bringing educational opportunities and cutting-edge medicine to all corners of the country. More |
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