A comprehensive service for choosing a hospital
This website brings an array of criteria into one site. It uses patient surveys, hospital reports, and government data to help your search. It also reports on a hospital's efficiency and support for Medicare. Click here
Good News for Patients Hidden in Health IT Policy Committee’s Meaningful Use Stage 2 Recommendations
For Stage 2, the Policy Committee’s recommendations place greater emphasis on providers and hospitals providing patients direct electronic access to their information. Read more
Case Studies on Disruptive Innovations Within Integrated Health Systems
This is a series of RWJF Pioneer-funded case studies by the Innosight Institute that uses disruptive innovation theory to examine integrated delivery systems and aims to identify the critical factors necessary to achieve increased quality, reduced cost, and access improvements. Click here
Integrating Social Media into Emergency-Preparedness Efforts
A New England Journal of Medicine perspective article outlines how social media tools such as Twitter and Foursquare could improve public health response systems by bolstering communication between the public and emergency responders. Globe and Mail et al. Click here for the article and more
Report: Telehealth Could Ease Health Disparities in Rural U.S.
Broader adoption of electronic health records and expanded access to telehealth technology could help address such health disparities. Reuters et al. Read more
Technology Is The New Smoking
A new British study released today backs up what we otherwise know intuitively, that Internet usage is increasingly becoming an addiction. Read more
5 Free ScreenCasting Applications Useful in Creating Training or Tutorial Videos
5 free or almost free ScreenCasting tools on Rolando's Logbook site. Click here
When Social Features Meet Personal Health Records
New PHR system will incorporate gaming and social networking principles to improve engagement with users and help them better manage and improve their health. . Read more
FAIR Health To Launch Online Tool for Users To Look Up Medical Costs
A Web-based tool to help consumers estimate the cost of various medical procedures.Read more
FDA says Medical mobile apps must meet standards
New guidelines governing the use of mobile apps for health care. Read more
eLearning Initiatives: mTBR
The Tennessee Board of Regents (mTBR) has developed an initiative for new innovations (Mobile Devices and App Technology, Social Networking, Gaming, Simulations, Virtual Worlds) to increase recruiting, retention, graduation rates, and for meeting the needs of 21st Century Technological Workforce. Read more
Xbox Kinect helps surgeons in the operating room
Doctors at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Canada are using the Kinect to solve the “touching dirty things” problem. Read more
In the near future, large groups of people will demand apps and devices to help manage their potentially serious conditions
Health care experts envision a number of new devices & Apps to help individuals cope with a number of challenges... Read more
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e-Behaviorial Health
Benefit from new technologies... enable people to have remote access to CBT
