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ATA 2010 Educational Final Program now available
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The Educational Final Program for the ATA 2010 Annual Meeting and Exposition is now available on the ATA website. Check out all of the concurrent presentations, Industry Executive Roundtables,
posters, plenary sessions, pre-meeting certificate courses and speakers featured at ATA 2010 in San Antonio. This year's meeting will be our largest ever, with more attendees, more presentations and more exhibitors and exhibit space than ever before! More
Study: E-visits produce similar outcomes to office appointments for acne care
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We've been fans of the concept of the e-visit for a long time. And although some of the concerns from the medical establishment are warranted -- it's tough to know the nuances of a case without a pre-existing relationship with a patient, physicians aren't often reimbursed for their time, there isn't enough scientific evidence to show
e-visits are effective -- much of the negativity likely was because of simple reluctance to change.
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Reform mandates
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A section in the health reform law mandates development of interoperable and secure standards and protocols to facilitate electronic enrollment of individuals in federal and state health and human services programs. The federal government may require that states, as a condition of receiving grant funds authorized in the law, incorporate these standards in their health information technology investments.
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Senate Aging panel examines new role of telehealth tools
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Last month, the Senate Special Committee on Aging examined how the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan could help promote telehealth technologies that allow health care providers to remotely monitor and consult with patients, Healthcare IT News reports. During the hearing, committee members demonstrated the use of some new telehealth tools and emphasized the need for broadband
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Telemedicine searches for strategy, adoption
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If the adoption of telemedicine at hospitals and other medical facilities is to take flight, service providers, technology vendors, and health care payers and providers must collaborate to build a cohesive strategy that involves a mature reimbursement model. These are the findings of a soon-to-be-released IDC report, the first in a series four, titled "Describing the Telemedicine Landscape in the United
States."
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Florida center pilots mobile blood pressure monitoring
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University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has teamed up with Ideal Life to pilot a wireless remote monitoring system that aims to help users better manage their high blood pressure. The Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement will direct the program, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Aging. Here's how Ideal Life's wireless
BP Manager device works, according to the company.
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CDC official: Government must embrace social media to inform populace
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Ordinary citizens have flocked to social media by the millions. If government wants to get its messages out and truly engage the citizenry, agencies need to embrace the same tools,
according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention marketing specialist. "That is where the commercial entities are; that is where we have to be to as government," said Janice Nall, director of the Division of eHealth Marketing at the CDC's National Center for Health Marketing.
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North Korea launches telemedicine network with WHO help
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North Korea formally launched a medical videoconference network April 27 aimed at giving
smaller, rural hospitals access to specialists in the capital, Pyongyang, with the help of the World Health Organization. WHO has been providing cameras, computers and other equipment to North Korea to help the reclusive, impoverished country connect a main hospital in Pyongyang with medical facilities in 10 provinces. The system is designed to allow doctors to talk to each other to provide additional services to rural patients.
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Bill Boyne: Telemedicine can make big advances in health
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We live in an era of dramatic advances in health care. First, President Obama and others
succeeded in passing a national health care reform bill that will make health care available to millions of people for the first time and will provide improved health care for millions of others. Now, telemedicine -- the next great reform -- is beginning to be available and has the potential of making major advances in health care for everyone in the country.
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Medical edge: Telemedicine robots
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 Imagine that suddenly your left arm feels numb. It could be a stroke, so you need to get to the hospital fast. But what if your hospital doesn't have a stroke specialist or that doctor is out of town? Doctors at the Mayo Clinic are using a telemedicine robot that allows them to be face to face with patients who are miles
away. These technologies give patients and doctors access to experts even though they're miles apart.
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Telehealth links doctors to remote patients in need
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New telehealth initiatives across the country are starting to address critical shortages of many medical specialists, helping provide care to patients who previously didn't have
access. Widespread adoption of e-health records is expected to boost telehealth adoption even further. That's because in addition to videoconferencing capabilities that let clinicians remotely communicate with each other and patients, digitized health records will provide remote specialists with more complete information about those patients.
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Why Oprah's app is
important for m-health
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Oprah Winfrey recently announced the launch of Oprah Mobile, a smartphone app that includes content from the talkshow host's TV and radio shows, O Magazine and affiliated websites. Oprah Mobile is a $1.99 app that offers "helpful advice" on a variety of topics including "spirit, health, beauty, cooking" and more. As Jason Ankeny writes over at FierceMobileContent, the importance of Oprah Mobile could be tremendous.
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