Technology
Tip-toes in the mobile application minefield
The mobile technology landscape is a varied and technologically heterogeneous. As far as device capabilities have come in the last 5 years, handsets still host various run-time environments that present fragmented options for innovators. While iPhone has been the clear market leader in smartphone applications in the past 2 years, there are a myriad of [...]
mHealth: the icing on the Health IT cake
For those whom might resist adopting health information technology, mHealth promises to bring health information technology to them
The rapidly changing landscape for personal management of health and wellness – what’s your mobile strategy?
The convergence of 1) attention on moderating the healthcare cost trend along with 2) the rapidly evolving capabilities of mobile phones provides a huge opportunity for healthcare product and service providers. Those who can demonstrate the ability to deliver value through the mobile channel have the potential to reap large return on their investment.
Obesity crisis in America – where is the focus on nutrition?
Much ado has been made of the fact that obesity is a full-blown crisis in America. Turn on the news and in any given week it seems like stark statistics are being presented: 33% of American adults are obese. 68% of Americans are obese or overweight. 20% of American children are obese.
Given the relationship between [...]
Thoughts on the new healthcare reform law
Understanding the details of the new health reform law is challenging – but the focus on “access” is just a start. Much more will need to be done to really reform our healthcare model in the US, and to moderate the rapidly escalating cost trend.
Technical insight on the IGB application
iGetBetter is an advanced web application built primarily using 3 key technologies – Microsoft .NET 3.5, Entity Framework with MySQL and JQuery coupled with Windows Communication Foundation. From Microsoft the .NET 3.5 development framework allowed the development team to leverage several prepackaged tools allowing for a fast development cycle. Whenever client input led to design [...]
Sharing Clinical Data, the First Step in Health Provider Collaboration
HealthCampBoston was an engaging one-day meeting of ideas and vision around overcoming the major challenges and false starts on the initiatives to improve healthcare. People with a wide variety of backgrounds were a part of the unconference, in which the attendees drove the agenda and discussions. These unconferences are now international, from London to Azerbaijan, and the next one is in May and promises to be no less stimulating than this one on Tuesday in Cambridge was.
Using Privacy as Currency: Bringing the PHR to Market
Non-functional requirements add overhead to projects. Right or wrong, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick recognized this and is contemplating bypassing reviews for Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance for stimulus funded initiatives. Just as accessibility acts as an impediment to construction projects, privacy delays healthcare IT projects by introducing numerous complexities. Is it time to ignore the rules in order to bring innovation to market?
Advancing to healthcare 2.0 with web 3.0
Web 2.0 was all about user generated content making the web a self-sustainable source of information. Web 3.0 is about organizing this information so that it can be aggregated, analyzed, and used to make and influence decisions. But this won’t be done by idle hands pouring over the organization of content page by page – it will be about building domain ontologies and applying semantics to bring order from the chaos.
My Health History
My personal health records are scattered all over different doctor’s offices, hospitals, and boxes at home. Instead of waiting for my providers, health plans, and pharmacies to agree on, implement, and integrate EMR systems, I want to find out what I can do to have a better view of my own health history.
The task seems [...]
