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This You Tube video shows how the world of digital technology is like a runaway freight train. It's huge and doesn't seem to be slowing down. You might not realize just how much it affects our lives. The facts in this video will give you an idea. Prepare to be amazed.

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Video Report: What is mHealth?

Video Report: What is mHealth?

Tuesday - November 23rd, 2010 - 08:50pm EST by Brian Dolan | | | | |

What is mobile health? It’s been a topic of much discussion. My favorite response to this question came from mHealth analyst Jody Ranck who told me in a recent interview that: “In order to have an eye on where things might go and in order to have some ability to anticipate or analyze the unexpected, resisting a precise definition for mHealth, in my mind, is a good thing.”

As Ranck also rightly noted at the time, there is pressure from many groups for a precise definition of mobile health.

As part of our coverage at the mHealth Summit in Washington D.C. earlier this month, we polled close to two dozen attendees about their personal definitions for mobile health, mHealth or wireless health. What was core to the definition for them? Thanks to a lot of help from videographer Ethan Goldwater, MobiHealthNews is proud to present this video report: What is mHealth?

Video Report: What is mHealth?

Health Informatics

A SlideShare Presentation about Health Care Informatics from a College of Engineering. It demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach and collaboration between many disciplines to improve health care:

The future of health care is wireless

That’s what cardiologist and geneticist Eric Topol says in a new video, where he explains how we’ll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs and chronic conditions.

Speaking at TEDMED 2009 in San Diego, Calif., Topol highlights several smart, connected wireless devices that can be used in medicine today. The goal? Keep more of us out of hospital beds and on our feet.

“The future are digital medical wireless devices,” he says. “In the future, you’re going to be checking all your vital signs: your heart rhythm, your blood pressure, your oxygen, et cetera. It’s already available today.”

The director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, Topol also serves on the board of the West Wireless Health Institute, which looks at how wireless tech can help healthcare.

One example? Topol says the stethoscope — invented in 1816, yet still carried around by doctors everywhere — is on its way out, thanks to devices such as GE’s handheld ultrasound.


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Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
  • patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
  • transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
  • institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
  • vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.

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