News
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.
A novelty Or the wave of the future MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - In what its CEO bills as a development that "could finally drive global usage and adoption" of the technology, drchrono, which makes electronic health records for iPads, received meaningful use certification as an ambulatory EHR earlier this summer.
Personal health records may not be catching on as quickly as their advocates would hope, but one segment of the population clearly benefits from having them - those with chronic or serious illnesses or diseases.With that in mind, MedeFile International of Boca Raton, Fla., has signed an agreement with ConnectCare3 to offer the company's Internet-enabled PHR to ConnectCare3's patients and employees.
Hospital administrators sets their sights on regulating smartphone, tablet use CAMBRIDGE, MA - The proliferation of mobile devices in healthcare has given administrators a vexing problem with no easy answer: Should a health system dictate what smartphones and tablets its employees use or allow them to use their own personal devices
FDA draft document offers guidelines - and raises questionsThe questions and comments are pouring in over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's draft guidance on mobile medical apps, making it obvious that the government's first attempt to clarify its regulatory authority over this fast-growing field won't be the last.
Seventy-five percent of individuals working at U.S. healthcare provider institutions use social media for professional purposes, according to a new survey.The Web-based survey was conducted between April and May of 2011 by Frost & Sullivan in conjunction with the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2). Key findings of the survey include: