mobile health

iPod started becoming utilized in treating children with speech problems.

Parents are always encouraged to practice with their children at home to supplement the services of the speech therapist. Mobile Articulation Probes provides a very easy way for parents to practice with their children at a very affordable price ($29.99).

The results can be e-mailed to their child’s speech therapist to follow up with the treatment. On the other hand, if this application is being used by speech therapists the words that the child is not producing appropriately can be e-mailed to the parents for daily practice at home.

About two-thirds of doctors using their smartphones in the course of a practice day said they could not connect the devices to a practice or hospital electronic medical records system. The report notes that such a barrier is keeping physicians from using their smartphones as much as they would like, particularly in tasks such as patient monitoring.

A new study from a Boston-based company that provides telephone care management reports that a targeted program cut medical costs, mostly by reducing hospitalizations

This project is using mobile field data collection techniques to identify gaps in health services to enable more effective and equitable delivery of scarce health resources to remote and poor regions. 

A short video introducing this project can be seen here: http://healthpslp.cdu.edu.au/video/health_VIDEO.html

Nimble incorporates throwback features from ClearPractice's software-as-a-service EMR software, which has been around since 2006 and includes scheduling, tracking inpatient rounds, prescribing meds, and reviewing/ordering lab results. But it is updated with not only an iPad-specific user interface, but a series of additional fields, such as Name, Location, Admit Date, Floor, Bed, Admission Status, and Claim Status.

To comply with the federal HIPAA Privacy Rule, data is not stored on individual devices; physicians can use the iPad's Wi-Fi or 3G network to connect to the Nimble cloud and access records. Nimble also connects to the company's Web-based SaaS billing system to submit payment charges.

the focus is on health and not illness ~ it’s wellness driven, the focus on the individual and not medical providers ~ it’s consumer driven.

At the US Open of Surfing, teams of young women hired by the Oral Cancer Foundation for three days handed out creatively worded stickers, T-shirts, and even temporary tattoos, all bearing a special QR code to the crowd. When beach-goers scanned the code with their smart phones, they were taken to a specially designed web page informing them that oral cancer can be caused by the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus, the risk factors for it, and what they could do to avoid the cancer it can cause.