Empower Yourself...Welcome to your future and beyond.... Working together we will build upon our "collective wisdom" to create, for tomorrow, what we can only imagine today...J. Perl, Editor
Resident Physicians in Botswana using Android smart phones to practice in remote locations
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mHealth
Research Daily, with Tim Bredrup
With the growth of mobile health in recent years, learning through the
use of mobile devices (mobile learning [mLearning]) has gained
recognition as a potential method for increasing healthcare providers’
access to medical information and resources in resource-limited
settings.
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AHRQ Research about: * Telemedicine * School Health * Health Maintenance
Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
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.