Featured Report: What do mobile health and underserved populations have to offer each other?

What do mobile health and underserved populations have to offer each other?

MobiHealthNews Dec,03,2013 by:+Jonah Comstock Back in August, I wrote about how the rich and famous were adopting health wearables. But what about the other end of the spectrum? Recent Pew data shows that lower income people are the most likely to have one or more chronic disease, but the least likely to use a health app. Developing mobile health technologies for low income and underserved populations doesn't just have the potential to help those populations - it could also help the entrepreneurs that choose to take advantage of it. Read More

Tele-ICU slashes mortality rates, speeds discharges for hospitals

Modern Healthcare.com Dec,03,2013 by:+Dan Bowman Intensive care unit telehealth technology helped to improve survival rates of ICU patients and speed both ICU and hospital discharges, according to research published Thursday in CHEST Journal. For the study, Craig Lilly, Director of the eICU Program at Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Medical Center, and a team of researchers examined the impact of tele-ICU technology across 56 intensive care units, 32 hospitals and 19 health systems over a five-year period. Overall, they found that patients who were cared for by hospitals that used the technology were 26 percent more likely than those that received usual ICU care to survive the ICU; additionally such patients were 16 percent more likely to survive their hospitalization. Read More

mHealth will be top growth area in healthcare next year, says Frost

mHealth will be top growth area in healthcare next year, says Frost

Fierce Mobile IT Dec,05,2013 by:+Fred Donovan Mobile health (mHealth) will be a top area of growth in the healthcare market next year, according to a survey of 1,835 healthcare executives conducted by Frost & Sullivan. The explosion in mobile technology and applications has spurred mHealth expansion, which has been supported by the widespread use of mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants and other wireless devices. Read More

EHR Incentive Program Healthcare Professionals Did You Know? Non-hospital-based physicians and other eligible professionals can obtain incentive payments of as much as $44,000 under Medicare or $63,750 under Medicaid. Under both Medicare and Medicaid, eligible hospitals may receive millions of dollars for implementing and meaningfully using certified EHR technology. About two-thirds (65 percent) of hospitals and 32 percent of office-based physicians plan to enroll in meaningful use programs by the end of 2012 in order to receive the maximum incentives, according to survey results announced Thursday morning. Fewer federal dollars will be available to hospitals and doctors that wait to adopt EHR technology, and failure to meaningfully use EHRs starting in 2015 will result in Medicare penalties. Watch this video about how to register for the EHR Incentive program. EHR Incentive Program Registration Do you need help with HIPAA and HITECH? Then download and Read our HIPAA Guide for for Doctors and Small Clinics that contains HIPAA security regulations and check lists that you can use to start your EMR network.