Information Age 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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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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Nurses are central to ensuring Meaningful Use ...

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Bowles, K. (October, 2010). Achieving Meaningful Use with Information Technology: Telehealth Research. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI),14 (3). Available at http://ojni.org/14_3/Bowles.pdf

Bowles, K.,(February, 2011) ONJNI....Achieving Meaningful Use With Decision Support Research http://tinyurl.com/4ol9r6p

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