Diana Manos
At the close of the third annual mHealth Summit, held Dec. 5-7 in Washington, D.C., keynote speakers highlighted the vast impact mobile phones and other mobile devices are having -- and will continue to have -- on healthcare delivery in the United States and worldwide.
The mHIMSS Mobile Health Venture Fair, held during Tuesday's mHealth Summit, enabled start-ups and potential companies to pitch their mHealth ideas to investors and experts.
The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS), the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) and AT&T announced Monday an mhealth initiative to deliver diabetes self-management training.The project will deliver diabetes self-management training (DSMT) project will be launched within an underserved minority community in Dallas, Texas.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is hosting the Sixth Annual National Health IT Week Sept. 12-16, 2011 in Washington, DC.HIMSS officials bill the event as "a collaborative forum, where public and private healthcare constituents can work in partnership to educate industry and policy stakeholders on the value of health IT for the U.S. healthcare system."
A new poll shows most people trust health and medical research information provided by traditional news sources over social media and mobile devices.According to a statewide survey, commissioned by Research!America, most Maryland residents trust the health and medical research information provided by traditional media - newspapers (77 percent), television (71 percent), magazines (68 percent), radio (66 percent) - and the Internet (66 percent).
Kaiser Permanente this week has opened a new Center for Total Health near Capitol Hill. Kaiser executives said they hope the center will be a place or bringing together history, innovation, and state-of-the-art technology. It should also provide a place for innovators, leaders, influencers, thinkers and believers in wellness to talk about health. Kaiser would like the center to help demonstrate what Kaiser Permanente and others are doing to advance health and care delivery in the United States.
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ORLANDO, FL - The debut of HIMSS' HIT X.0 mini-conference at last month's HIMSS11 Conference and Expo in Orlando drew hundreds of attendees to a keynote featuring Aneesh Chopra, the nation's technology czar, and John Glaser, CEO of the Health Services Business Unit at Siemens.
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) has reintroduced the Fostering Independence Through Technology (FITT) Act, which would expand the use of telehealth technology under Medicare in rural and other underserved communities across the nation.The bill was first introduced in 2009, but never made it out of committee.According to Thune, the bipartisan FITT Act of 2011, reintroduced March 8, would create a pilot program to provide incentives for home health agencies across the country to use home monitoring and communications technologies.
In a broad State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Obama hailed the information age in America and the need for the federal government to support IT innovation.