UCLA gifts nursing students iPod touch devices

Mobile devices enhance learning....

Report: 70 percent want access to mHealth

mHealth and consumer interest.....

Empowering Consumer Health Care Technology in 2011

Facilitating Consumer Health....

Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward...

Healthcare Technology News: The Spirit of PCAST: "by John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO On December 8, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) release..."

How Can Physicians and Nurses Make The Most of Social Media?

Is Social Media Threatening Medical Professionalism?

HHS' Healthy People 2020 Plan Involves IT To Promote Health

Healthy People 2020 goals encourage the use of health IT to improve the health of communities, Government Health IT .

Read more: http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/12/3/hhs-healthy-people-2020-plan-involves-it-to-promote-health.aspx#ixzz17B18zSpi

Telemedicine poised to treat more patients in health care reform era

Diagnosis by webcam? Future is here

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Article:	Telemedicine poised to treat more patients in health care reform era
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Did You Know....Shift Happens....

Astounding Technology Facts
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.

These are 'social networking and clinical decision support tools' that may complement your teaching and are used for mHealth. How would you use this information age technology in your educational program or in various clinical settings?

Video Report: What is mHealth?

Video Report: What is mHealth?

Tuesday - November 23rd, 2010 - 08:50pm EST by Brian Dolan | mHealth Alliance mHealth Summit | mHealth definition | mHealth Summit | mHealth video report |

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?

Paging Dr. Luddite - Magazine - The Atlantic

Information technology is on the brink of revolutionizing health care— if physicians will only let it.

Retrieved from: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/paging-dr-luddite/8292/

A Sampling Of Resources In Nursing Informatics From Databases, 1985-Present....

Books, Websites and Resources About Nursing Informatics:

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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:

Health Informatics

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.