Health Tech Insights

Independa™ is incorporating IDEAL LIFE’s wireless health monitoring products into its growing set of tools for caring remotely for independent older adults. IDEAL LIFE devices, including scales, glucometers and medication dispensers, as well as its wireless hub, will become part of the Independa Artemis™ solution. Professional caregivers and the elderly will be able to easily connect the IDEAL LIFE elements with other Artemis, a health monitoring solution software, components for tracking health,…

Providers of cellular and satellite networking services for connecting telehealth and other non-phone wireless devices are approached every day with new use case scenarios about how telemedicine can provide novel value.  Those applications are growing rapidly in the market.   Want to find out what are the 5 top conditions? Click here

MedClimate, a DC area startup in the HealthTech field, presented last week at TechBUZZ as part of Capital Connection 2012. MedClimate is looking to take a problem that many new and expectant parents face with doctors and that is, getting questions answered without increasing wait times in already packed waiting rooms. As Tim Barnes, Founder of MedClimate, points out in his pitch, everyone has experienced long waits at doctors offices….

As companies become more aware of the benefits of healthly employees, corporate wellness programs have exploded into workplaces and with it, the need to quantitatively measure individual and group progress to wellness goals. We recently had the chance to hear from Dave Monahan, President and CEO of FitLinxx, to learn more about FitLinxx’s activity monitor, the Pebble, and the elements of a well-designed corporate wellness program.

Currently, we are in the middle of a huge wave of innovation in health services. Many of the innovations that are currently occurring include the following: Voice Recogition Mobility BI and analytics Social Media Want to find out more about this? Click here

Interested in a career in health information management?  The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has just released a cool new  Health Information Management (HIM) Career Map©  during its Assembly on Education meeting in Orlando, Fla. They claim it is the first career map of its kind in the healthcare profession. Want to view the map? Click here

A large part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act is aimed at making patients’ health records more accessible between multiple physicians, as well as between doctors and their patients. Part of this initiative has been to implement the use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. Read more about this here

Just because health care reform is now around the corner, don’t think that our health woes are solved. We still spend inordinate amounts of money on our medical bills in this country, wealthier communities still receive far better care than less-well off ones, and the medical profession sometimes lags far behind in terms of incorporating technology to make it more accessible and understandable to the average patient. And that’s just…

A new document from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) aims to help small and midsize practices in selecting mobile apps, focusing on usability. Formal, in-depth product comparisons might not be practical for smaller practices, but a review of usability recommendations and best practices can ease this process. Read more about it here

The first five prospective certification bodies are the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, Drummond Group, ICSA Laboratories, InfoGard Laboratories and Orion Register. All but Orion Register currently participate in the Stage 1 meaningful use program under a temporary certification program. Read more about this here