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Dianne Rees

How do smartphones impact healthcare: Report « ScienceRoll - 0 views

  • EPG Health Media published a comprehensive and interesting report on smartphone use in healthcare (How do smartphones impact healthcare professionals and infuence the way they practice?) which is actually a great comparison between Europe and the United States.
  • (81% of US respondent doctors already own a smartphone device with ownership set to grow to 94% within 6 months).
ricky1900

The Impact of Copayments on Home Healthcare Industry | Upload Article - 0 views

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    Medical billing services create medical claims for healthcare service providers to get reimbursements. Nevertheless, there isn't only a professional clinic or hospital setting for patients. A home healthcare industry is flourishing in equal pace to provide value-based services, and the trend of increasing copayments is clashing with it.
jim con

mHealth Used By Poor In Uganda | eHEALTH Magazine - 0 views

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    The mobile healthcare has not yet come up and still is in the initial levels in most of the countries. mHealth has seen a lot of failures so far, but still shows potential to be beneficial for general masses. There was a randomized control trials conducted in Uganda to assess the impact of a mobile phone-driven health service for the poor.
Dianne Rees

Notes from London: Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit | mobihealthnews - 0 views

  • For mHealth, we need to move beyond the SMS, because it is important that you know what is wrong with a patient before you try to treat them.
  • We need diagnostic devices in the field.
  • In Nigeria
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  • Digital healthcare focused on prevention, prediction, participation and personal health. Digital P4 will include mHealth and services on the Web.
  • “The barriers facing mHealth and it’s impact on health in developing countries can be generalized as being infrastructural, regulatory and project sustainability.
  • Steven Dodsworth, Head of Life Sciences, Highlands & Islands Enterprise:
  • Thomas Brennan, Research Assistant, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Oxford University
  • Ari Isa Muhammad, Director, Economic Planning and Coordinator, Millennium Development Goals, Office of the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria:
  • Dr. Henry Potts, Senior Lecturer, UCL, UK: “The reality is that extra data is not what doctors want.
  • mHealth service developers need to show an economic as well as a medical advantages to their offerings, Potts advised.
  • Chuck Parker, Executive Director, Continua Alliance: “Right now the market is focused on devices and services for chronic disease management.
  • But longer term, we need to shift that focus onto supporting people who are healthy and well, too.
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    A synopsis of the Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit in London
Dianne Rees

Way With Words: Coming Back to Health Literacy - 0 views

  • Mobile interactive technology (such as texting) has great potential to reach users with limited health literacy skills, and the team at ODPHP is actively exploring how we can use mobile to communicate important health messages. Recent mobile campaigns, such as TXT4BABY and KNOWIT have shown promise in this regard.
  • That said, the digital divide is still very much a reality and more research is needed to assess the reach and impact of mobile health
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