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FCC awards $145M for telehealth networks Federal Computer Week Share     The Federal Communications Commission is giving $145 million to 16 telehealth projects that will link hundreds of hospitals with broadband networks in 17 states. The FCC is expanding its Rural Health Care Pilot Program, started in 2007. Telemedicine and telehealth represent the use of telecommunications technologies and computers to enable delivery of health care to remote locations. The pilot program also intends for the telehealth networks to support data transmission for electronic health records. More
E-prescribing surges in 2009, but still needs help Government Health IT Share
By all measurable criteria, e-prescribing surged in 2009 because of government incentives and adoption of the technology by large organizations, but there's still plenty of work left to do if that momentum is to be maintained. An annual survey of the market by Surescripts, which operates the nation's largest e-prescribing network, showed the number of providers using e-prescribing doubled to 156,000 by the end of the year, against only 74,000 at the end of 2008. More Warning: ISPs are moving toward a metered Internet The Huffington Post Share
What if you paid for your Internet access as if it were a utility bill? This is what Randall Stephenson, AT&T Chairman and Chief Executive Officer has confirmed. Stephenson made this comment March 2 during his keynote webcast at the Morgan Stanley Conference. A metered Internet would mean that we are billed depending on our usage. As broadband applications, like digital television, telegaming, telemedicine and e-learning become more ubiquitous, you will spend more time online. The best method by which the ISPs can maximize their profit is by metering your connection to the Internet. More Canadian hospital launches telestroke program Northern News Share
After four years of work, the Temiskaming Hospital has launched its new telestroke program to assess and treat people who are experiencing an acute ischemic stroke. When the person arrives at the hospital with signs of a stroke a physician can assess the patient in the emergency room prior to the CT scan and having laboratory work done. The physician will then contact the on-call neurologist via a live two-way video feed. More
People still trust their doctors rather than the Internet HealthDay News Share
The Internet has made vast amounts of health information available to the general public, but all that virtual "noise" has made people more likely than ever to trust their doctor with medical decisions, a new survey finds. "As the environment gets noisier, the more you need the physician to help you decipher that noise," explained Bradford W. Hesse, one of three researchers from the U.S. National Cancer Institute who produced the survey. More FCC finds broadband gap creates meaningful use crisis Government Health IT Share
Many health care providers in the U.S. lack sufficient broadband Internet connections to meet health IT meaningful use criteria, according to the Federal Communications Commission, which is proposing new funding and regulations to help close the gap. As many as 3,600 small practices lack even basic broadband services, an FCC survey discovered. Many thousands of other locations face price disparities of as much as $45,000 a year for the same services, and that is often much larger in rural areas. More Foundation grants $2.4M to mobile health projects MobiHealthNews Share
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Project HealthDesign team has awarded $2.4 million to five research teams that each aim to determine how patient-recorded observations of daily living can be captured and included into clinical care. RWJF notes that most of the programs make use of smartphones and wireless sensors to gather and capture ODLs, including diet, exercise, sleep patterns, medication adherence and pain. More
Wireless makes mark in health care Wireless Week Share
It wasn't just the keynote address by Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse that highlighted the growing role of wireless technology in health care at this year's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference. It was the proliferation of booths and seminars covering all aspects of the integration of mobile technology and medicine that really set this week's show apart. In his opening remarks, HIMSS Chairman Barry Chaiken said the U.S. health care industry is in desperate need of technological reform. More Arizona professor awarded research grant to study telehealth EVLiving Share
The National Institute of Health's National Institute of Nursing Research has awarded veteran nurse and Arizona State University Assistant Professor Dr. Kimberly Shea a $385,000 research grant to study telemonitoring patients in conjunction with Arizona-based Banner Home Care. Shea will work with Banner to measure self-care behavioral outcomes based on the feedback patients receive from nurses during their daily telemonitoring sessions. More DVE brings 3-D look to meeting system PCWorld Share
A telepresence system that uses a transparent screen can make meeting participants appear as if they are in the same room, without the need for 3-D glasses, vendor Digital Video Enterprises says. "There are some applications where eye contact is really important," said Wainhouse Research analyst Andrew Davis. Examples include telepsychiatry for soldiers in war zones and kiosks where consumers can discuss mortgages with a loan officer. More Dell, AMA partner on health care IT platform eWeek Share
Dell and the American Medical Association are teaming up to create a platform designed to make it easier for physicians and other health care providers to adopt and deploy IT that will make them more efficient and help drive down costs. The platform is being beta tested and will be launched later in 2010. More Ocean cable connects Hawaii, Tahiti Pacific Business News Share
The first Polynesian submarine cable linking the United States and Tahiti landed on the Big Island of Hawaii on March 1. The cable between French Polynesia and the Big Island is 3,107 miles with the highest depth at 19,500 feet and will allow economic exchange with high speed Internet connectivity between the countries. "The possibilities for scientific research, distance learning, cultural exchange and telemedicine are among the opportunities for this region as a result of this historic landing," said Edouard Fritch, vice president of the government of French Polynesia. More |
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