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Telemedicine comes into its own
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Telemedicine may be coming into its own with a little help from Uncle Sam. The Obama administration recently awarded $795 million in grants and loans for 66 new broadband projects. Most of these
projects will involve using videoconferencing equipment to allow doctors to consult on medical procedures or examinations remotely. An Obama administration memo said the grants will "trigger the creation of innovative new businesses, provide cost-effective connections in rural areas, increase productivity, improve public safety and allow for the development of mobile telemedicine, telework, distance learning, and other new applications that will transform Americans' lives." More
Telemedicine trialed for obstetric consultations
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While some companies give birth to new ideas, like Apple releasing the iPad, the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Health Foundation has an idea that helps
women give birth. In January 2009, the nonprofit organization funded a $1.8 million, three-year pilot project to determine whether telemedicine technology could provide effective perinatal consulting services to women who have high-risk pregnancies and live in rural areas of eastern Tennessee.
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Study: Telecare management lowers pain, depression in cancer
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Cancer patients' ability to cope with pain and depression was improved through a program that included home-based automated symptom monitoring and telephone-based care management, a new study has
found. The study, called the Indiana Cancer Pain and Depression Trial, included patients in 16 community-based urban and rural cancer practices. Of the 405 patients, 131 had depression only, 96 had pain only, and 178 had both depression and pain.
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Study: Outcomes improved for patients who e-mail doctors
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Patients with diabetes or hypertension or both who communicated with their doctors via e-mail received better care and better health outcomes, new California research contends. The improvements as a result of the e-mail exchanges included such measures as blood sugar and blood pressure control, according to a report appearing in Health Affairs. The American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 has called for implementing "secure patient-physician messaging" as part of electronic health records by 2013.
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U.S. Army gives $700,000 to stem cell therapy research
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International biopharmaceutical company NeoStem announced July 12 it was awarded a $700,000 contract by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command to advance adult stem cell therapies in treating traumatic wounds. The contract was to evaluate the use of topically applied bone marrow-derived adult mesenchymal stem cells for rapid wound healing. Robin Smith,
board chairman and chief executive officer of NeoStem, said the company was thrilled to have the U.S. government's support to advance its technology and honored to become part of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center's regenerative medicine portfolio.
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From texting to apps, using cell phones for health
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What if my blood sugar's too high today? Is it time for my blood pressure pill? With nagging text messages or more customized two-way interactions, researchers are trying to harness the power of cell phones to help fight chronic diseases. "I call it medical minutes," says Dr. Richard Katz of George Washington University Hospital in the nation's capital. He's testing whether inner-city diabetics, an especially hard-to-treat
population, might better control their blood sugar — and thus save Medicaid dollars — by tracking their disease using Internet-connected cell phones, provided with reduced monthly rates as long as they regularly comply.
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Some doctors join Facebook, Twitter; others wary
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Go into any obstetrician/gynecologist's office and you're likely to see a large bulletin board covered with snapshots of babies. But the docs at one Irving, Texas, OB-GYN practice have taken that ubiquitous display of cute kids into the 21st century. Their patients can post photos on the MacArthur OB/GYN
Facebook page, where the doctors post news about their practice and the medical world at large. It has more than 600 fans.
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Obama bypasses Senate for new health program chief
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President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate on July 7 and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and patient care specialist, to run Medicare and Medicaid. The decision to use a so-called recess appointment to install Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services drew immediate fire from the GOP. Republicans said it was wrong for Obama to go around the normal Senate confirmation process. That
view was echoed by a key Democratic committee chairman, although the recess appointment is a tool used by presidents of both parties.
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Concerns raised over reliability of medical apps for smartphones
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"Is there an app for that?" When it comes to consumer health care applications for smart phones, the answer, increasingly, is yes. There are now close to 6,000 consumer health apps, according to a review published in March by MobiHealthNews, and more are being added every day. Many are free or cost $1 to $10 to download. Some physicians are concerned about the
reliability of the medical information provided by many of these apps, which offer advice and information on a wide array of health topics.
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Tennessee hospital advertises ER wait times
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From broken bones to bullet wounds, you never want to wind up in the emergency room. And when you do, you certainly don't want to wait for care. But depending on why you're walking through those doors,
a minute may feel like a lifetime. So now there's a new way to know exactly how long you'll be waiting. Parkridge Medical Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., has put up several billboards, one with a clock counting the minutes to health care. And patients already are putting it to the test.
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California hospitals try online ER scheduling for low-risk patients
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Some of the stress from that trip to the emergency room is on the way out. At least two area hospitals are implementing a system that allows patients to avoid the wait from the comfort of their home.
Loma Linda University Medical Center is working with InQuickER, a program that lets patients schedule an emergency room visit online. San Antonio Community Hospital in Upland plans to offer the system in mid-August, a spokeswoman said. InQuickER eliminates the uncertainties, discomfort and stress of waiting in the ER by allowing patients who have non-life- or limb-threatening ailments to schedule the time to come into the ER.
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Monitoring blood pressure at home may help keep it low
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With proper training, people with high blood pressure may be able to control it more effectively on their own at home than through conventional methods, British researchers contend. Through
telemonitoring of their blood pressure and adjusting their medications according to guidelines agreed upon in advance, patients assigned to self-managed care saw greater reductions in blood pressure after six and 12 months than patients receiving standard care through health professionals, the study found.
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Health care mobile devices forecast to gain 7%
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The total market for hand-held devices in health care is expected to reach $8.8 billion for 2010, a 7 percent increase from last year when the global market posted $8.2 billion, a new report
shows. The report, titled "Handhelds in Healthcare: The World Market for PDAs, Tablet PCs, Handheld Monitors, & Scanners," was published by health care market research firm Kalorama Information.
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5 ways social media helps promote good health
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This March, a report on chronic disease and the Internet by the Pew Internet and American Life Project and the California HealthCare Foundation showed that people fighting such illnesses are using social media to find information and connect with others who suffer similar ailments. While the research showed that people who have chronic illness are less likely,
on average, to have Internet access, when they're online they are more likely to blog about chronic disease and participate in online discussions or other forums.
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Patients, referring docs at MD Anderson making good use of Web portal
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Just one year after its launch, officials at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report that 57 percent of patients and 40 percent of referring community physicians are using its Web-based portal for personal health information. Patients are accessing their medical information an average of 3.3 times per week, while referring physicians are clicking on their
patients' records 2.8 times per week, according to MD Anderson Clinical Information Services reports.
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