Featured Report: Report: 19 million will use remote patient monitoring by 2018

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Peer Feedback via Social Media Benefits Surgical Residents

June,26,2014

by: Greg Goth

A UCLA study shows that surgical residents who received anonymous feedback from their peers through a social networking site showed greater improvement in their robotic surgery skills than those who received no such feedback.

The study, published in the early online edition of Annals of Surgery, is the first to examine the use of social networking to facilitate peer review of surgical procedure videos, said senior author Jim Hu, M.D., director of robotic and minimally invasive surgery in the urology department at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Read More

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Report: 19 million will use remote patient monitoring by 2018
June,26,2014

by:Stephanie Baum

Technological advances, particularly through devices that can track patient health and trigger alarm bells when significant changes occur, are designed to reduce costs associated with readmissions and extended hospitalization. A new report by Berg Insight shows that 3 million patients worldwide are connected to some form of remote monitoring device at home and monitored by a professional caregiver. In four years, it projects that figure to top 19 million. But what applications are remote patient monitoring devices used for most? And how will the market evolve?  Read More: 

FierceHealthIT

Hospitals 'very sloppy' about security efforts

June,,2014

by: Katie Dvorak

Healthcare facilities are constantly in danger of being hacked and having data stolen, but two researchers have found that many hospitals themselves leak valuable information online. The data leaks result from network administrators enabling Server Message Block, or SMB, which, when configured a certain way, broadcasts the data externally, researchers Scott Erven, head of information security for Essentia Health, and Shawn Merdinger, an independent healthcare security researcher and consultant, shared in a recent Wired   Read More

HIE Watch

Avoiding provider-patient mobile exchange pitfalls

June,25,2014

by:ERIC WICKLUND

Mobile technology has opened up new avenues for physicians to stay in touch with patients outside the office. However, some worry about diminishing returns over time, after the novelty wears off. With the help of B.J. Fogg and the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, GenerationOne, a Southfield, Mich.-based developer of collaborative mobile health and management tools, has compiled a Top 10 list telling providers what they should be avoiding with such communications.  Read More

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