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This year's ATA meeting will be our largest ever, with more attendees, more presentations and more exhibitors and exhibit space than ever before. If you use telecommunications solutions for health care, it's the single-most important event of the year, keeping you up to date with the latest developments in your field. Visit americantelemed.org for program and exhibiting information. More
Policymakers push for telehealth reimbursements
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Mobile health devices and applications hold great promise for improving the cost and quality of care, but an outmoded system of
reimbursement for physicians considering the technologies thwarts their adoption, both public and private health IT experts said. Consumers already use mobile applications for tracking their personal health, but it will take major changes in health care's financial system for physicians to include e-mail, texts and devices into patient care, according to a panel discussion May 5 sponsored by the Institute for e-Health Policy.
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Blumenthal urges panel to start on health reform's IT provisions
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Recently, National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal asked the Health IT Standards Committee to begin to develop standards for electronically enrolling people in health programs included under the federal health care reform law, Government Health IT reports. The reform law directs federal officials to streamline federal and state enrollment systems for people applying for government-run health
insurance benefits.
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Consumers to take health monitoring home
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By 2013, the shipments of home-use telehealth devices, such as digital blood-glucose meters and pulse oximeters, will top 2 million,
according to a new report from InMedica, the medical research division of IMS Research. As the use of telehealth grows, more people will have monitoring devices in their homes, the report asserts. Consumer telehealth will be an extension of the current home-use medical device market.
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Biden: Health IT savings will be bigger than projected
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When electronic health records are fully implemented in 2014, along with health
information exchanges and other technologies associated with health care delivery, the cost of health care will be significantly less than the Congressional Budget Office has calculated, Vice President Joe Biden said. "We believe there's a lot more savings in the health care bill that we passed. The CBO, they only count what they can feel and taste. They only count what's done before, and so we think there's a lot of additional savings to be had," Biden said.
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States want to share patient Rx use to curb abuse
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On his night shift in a busy emergency room, Dr. Jacob Khushigian inevitably finds a few patients more likely to be hunting for drugs than medical attention. The guy who claims he has severe abdominal pain doesn't grimace when sitting up. A woman who recently moved to the area fails to disclose she sees a doctor elsewhere. An ambulance patient complaining of a sore leg and back doesn't reveal she was turned away by another
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Study: Bar-code system lowers
medication errors
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Using a bar code on patient wristbands cut drug errors by more than half, researchers at one U.S. hospital reported on May 5. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found a bar-code system that matched patients with their medicines reduced the chance of getting the wrong drug by 57 percent. "Having this technology is a good thing," Dr. Eric Poon of Brigham and Women's said in a telephone interview. "Patients receive a
lot of medications when hospitalized. It's good to have the additional safety net."
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Health IT expansion to create 'tens of thousands' of jobs
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Government grants like the $220 million awarded recently to 15 Beacon Communities -- models for the use of health care information technology -- will create "tens of thousands" of new jobs in an up-and-coming sector, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Dr. David Blumenthal, the nation's health IT coordinator, and Jared Bernstein, chief economist to Vice President Joseph
Biden, joined Sebelius on May 4 for a conference call after the announcement naming the 15 Beacon Communities that would receive awards from the government program.
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What percentage of US adults use the Internet to find health care
treatment information?
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Fifty-five percent of consumers report using the Internet to find treatment information, according to a new Deloitte Center for Health Solutions survey. According to the survey, 53 percent of seniors, 55 percent of baby boomers, 57 percent of Generation X and 56 percent of Generation Y look up treatment information online.
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Prescription tattoos: Coming to a pharmacy near you
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Getting inked could save your life. Scientists from Microsoft and The Draper Laboratory are developing medical tattoos that would stop hackers from messing with pacemakers and drastically reduce the number of needle sticks needed to monitor glucose levels. Medical tattoos also could be adapted to monitor any number of other medically important molecules.
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Cochlear clinic: NBN to spur telemedicine
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The National Broadband Network will feature much richer telemedicine capabilities, allowing applications to be rolled out to "deliver good
quality care to people who could not get it without traveling to the city," according to the head of IT at a Cochlear implant clinic. Steve Pascoe, IT manager of the Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre, said that suggestions the higher bandwidth promised to the majority of Australia by the NBN was not yet needed were "short sighted" and that business and health could be the big winners from the new network.
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Telemedical system links Oklahoma City hospital to rural areas
The Oklahoman
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High-definition video screens and mobile cameras are making Matt Gard's recovery after a motorcycle accident much more convenient. Instead of traveling to Enid or Oklahoma City for doctor visits, the Fairview resident consults with specialists at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City via satellite technology and videoconferencing equipment. "I'm getting every bit of quality care here that I would in Enid,
but I'm in my own town," said Gard, a paraplegic.
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Telehealth takes off as evidence grows that it can improve care, save money
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The massive spending on health IT as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and general growth in EMR adoption is expected to provide a big boost to telehealth as well, InformationWeek reports. Both EMRs and PACS will help enhance videoconferencing between patients and medical specialists by providing the remote consultant
with more complete patient data, including imaging.
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M-health: Think of it as personal health reform
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Recently in mobile health news comes a punchy one-liner from an industry thought leader: M-health, think of it as "personal health reform." That's the MobiHealthNews quote of the week from health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. Manhattan Research also disclosed a new industry metric that's sure to be kicked around for the next year: 72 percent of U.S.
physicians currently use smartphones. That's up from 64 percent last year and 50 percent three years ago. Manhattan said the adoption rate still is set to hit 81 percent come 2012.
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