Do You Think Remote Health Monitoring Will Revolutionize the Healthcare Industry?
Information technology plays an important role in many aspects of our society and is an emerging force in the healthcare industry. One area of health IT that shows great promise is remote health monitoring, which during the past 10 years has risen from humble beginnings to become a significant player in healthcare.
One benefit of remote health monitoring technology touted by supporters is its ability to increase access to care for geographically underserved areas. Because patients in rural areas often have a much harder time than their urban and suburban counterparts when it comes to accessing medical care, a study is being conducted at the University of Colorado Hospital, under the direction of Dr. Vandivier, to measure the effectiveness of remote health monitoring in patients with COPD who live in urban and rural regions of Colorado. “Urban medicine is kind of different than rural medicine, so we’ve partnered with Kaiser Permanente, and we’re enrolling patients from both of our sites,” Dr. Vandivier told OncNG. “We’re also doing rural medicine, which we’re maybe even more excited about because a lot of patients out in these counties in Colorado that are rural or even frontier— which have even fewer people—have a lot harder time getting their medical care.”
Source: http://www.hcplive.com/mdnglive/articles/Onc_Long_Distance_Dedication
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Trauma registry
Trauma registry by CASS-OpenSource
Trauma registry suite; Data collection application and server scripts to build trauma data warehouse and perform web-based analysis reporting. Cross-platform compatible for Windows, Apple, Unix, or Linux.
Sources:
http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=198312&ssid=64177
http://sourceforge.net/projects/trauma-registry/
Trauma registry suite; Data collection application and server scripts to build trauma data warehouse and perform web-based analysis reporting. Cross-platform compatible for Windows, Apple, Unix, or Linux.
Sources:
http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=198312&ssid=64177
http://sourceforge.net/projects/trauma-registry/
Future smartphones
Smartphones will have some incredible capabilities in 5 years
In essence, future smartphones will have the capabilities of current laptops (not the fastest laptop, but an "average" laptop). They won't have spinning hard drives, but they will be much more capable of multimedia and high-speed data connections. Just follow the history of the Apple iPod to see changes in Flash storage space, processor speed, battery life, and more. I believe Apple will continue to set the trend that others will follow. Samsung, HTC, RIM, Sony, Motorola, Palm, Nokia, and all the others will follow Apple's lead.
Source: http://www.medicalsmartphones.com/2009/08/smartphone-capabilities-in-5-years.html
In essence, future smartphones will have the capabilities of current laptops (not the fastest laptop, but an "average" laptop). They won't have spinning hard drives, but they will be much more capable of multimedia and high-speed data connections. Just follow the history of the Apple iPod to see changes in Flash storage space, processor speed, battery life, and more. I believe Apple will continue to set the trend that others will follow. Samsung, HTC, RIM, Sony, Motorola, Palm, Nokia, and all the others will follow Apple's lead.
Source: http://www.medicalsmartphones.com/2009/08/smartphone-capabilities-in-5-years.html
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