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These five steps are intended to help organizations manage mobile devices in a health care setting. Health care organizations can use the five steps outlined in this fact sheet to help them develop and implement mobile device policies and procedures to safeguard patient health information.

Mobile devices are moving quickly from convenient social gadgets to legitimate accessories for health care workers and other professionals. Doctors, nurses and hospital administrators are discovering that mobile technology can be used in a variety of practical and efficient ways to improve administrative, technical and medical tasks.

Digital innovations have now made it possible for consumers to use portable devices to access their medical information, monitor their vital signs, take tests at home and carry out a wide range of tasks.

I haven't used any of these portable devices, but I am sure that using these devices is going to be a lot cheaper (and more convenient) than going to any doctor!!!

At Health IT Outcomes, we've made it our mission to provide the healthcare industry with expert guidance on technology system selection, integration, project management, and change management. To help achieve this goal, we speak with industry leaders on everything from EHRs to HIEs to HIM, and then share these conversations with you.

I am interested in reading this article to learn about how patient care is being "powered by technology", as I teach in allied health profession (radiologic science) that utilizes technology extensively, but cannot read entire article unless I sign up Health IT Outcomes.

The World Health Organization or WHO specializes in concerns of international public health and as such it has progressed into deep study of ageism around the world. Understanding how important the role the aging population plays in our lives is crucial to understanding any needs it may require. Health care is one of the major concerns for aging workers and therefore one of the biggest reasons to return to the workforce or delay retirement. All of this of course creates an intense concern of how they might fit in within this digital era.

Objective: This paper presents the results of data gathered on copyright questions asked at an academic health sciences library. Methods: Collected data include questioner's status or discipline, the subject of the questions, the types of activities that the questioners were engaged in, the communication mode, and the length of time it took to answer the questions. Results: Overall results showed most questions were about permissions. Staff asked the most questions, followed by faculty and students. Conclusions: Copyright education is needed at universities, and further analysis of queries will determine the direction of the education.

explores ethical considerations related to participatory visual and digital methods for public health research and practice, through the lens of an approach known as "digital storytelling.

By Alicia Gallegos, special to the Reporter During a student demonstration in 2010, instructors at Stanford University School of Medicine loaded a children's wagon with all the learning materials medical students traditionally acquire in their preclinical years. The towering stacks of paper rose 3 feet high.

Scott, An interesting article. I know that medical schools (and allied health education, including nursing) have been leaders in adopting new technologies for educational purposes. Medical schools immediately identified a use for using podcasts to teach medical students how to detect abnormal heart sounds! Research quickly followed to prove this to be the most effective form of teaching normal and abnormal cardiac sounds. This learning concept is also used to teach radiology residents how to recognize normal and abnormal blood flow sounds when examining vessels (arteries/veins) using doppler ultrasound. Pharmacy schools (and departments) have utilized iPads/tablets/smartphone to run apps (http://www.appszoom.com/android-apps/pharmacology) that include entire pharmacology drug reference lists, commonly used drugs/medications, standard dosages, etc. for quick, searchable referencing.

Scott, I am curious about the level of security placed on the wireless networks used in hospital environments. The more mobile the physicians, nurses and caregivers, the more secure the wireless networks need to be. What measures are being taken to guarantee secure airwaves? Bill

Virtual reality is catching on as a tool in medicine. The technology has been used to treat phobias, reduce pain and even help doctors perform surgery. Now virtual reality is being tried as a way to help people with disabilities explore the world that might be difficult or impossible in real life.

This article was taken from the Academic Search Premier database accessible in the SUNY Empire library. "The article focuses on a study related to roles and ethics of digital technologies in the healthcare industry." Some of the issues discussed in the article include the use of smartphones, sensors and monitors for medical documentation and in measurement of one's health. Other pertinent issues include keeping the privacy of patient records in the digital age.

I chose to read the "A Situated Practice of Ethics for Participatory Visual and Digital Methods in Public Health Research and Practice: A Focus on Digital Storytelling" article on the ethical issues involved in digital storytelling. This article delves into ethics of digital storytelling. It gives 6 ethical principles for digital storytelling. It outlines conditions for ethical practice and provides a digital storytellers bill of rights. Basically this documents the basic right to well being for the storytellers, because this could be "fuzzy" as described in the above article.

An article on campaign finance and ethics.

Using data from a longitudinal study of LGBTQ youth and young adults, this study looks at levels of outness, victimization, and social support within Facebook. Findings included that these youth and young adults use the secutriy controls and other features of Facebook to manage their identities.