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Gettin’ higi with it: Lupe Fiasco’s foray into public health

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Wed, Mar 13 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Social Media, Patient Engagement, Entrepreneurs, Social networking, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Food and nutrition, exercise, People in healthcare, Obama Administration, Personal Health Records, Family and kids, pharmacies, Technology in healthcare, wireless health, Innovation/innovative companies, Health care & health policy, Exercise & fitness, Medicine: wellness & disease, Psychology & behavior, Diabetes & metabolic syndrome, Obesity & weight loss, Todd Park, health tracking apps, Cardiovascular, gaming, gamification, digital platforms, controlling risk factors, Healthy habits, SXSW, SoLoMo, higi

Physicians like mobile health apps for patient health – eClinicalWorks on transformational path

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Mon, Feb 25 2013
Filed under: Filed under: doctors, Health IT, Medication Adherence, electronic health records, Patient Engagement, telemedicine, diabetes, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Connected Health, telehealth, mobile health, mHealth, Personal Health Records, Technology in healthcare, wireless health, Health literacy, HEALTH CONSUMERS, INTERNET AND HEALTH, HEALTH ENGAGEMENT, DESIGN AND HEALTH, HEALTHCARE DIY, HEALTH CARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, PHRS, HEALTHCAREDIY

Formally tracking health data changes health behavior and drives social health

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Sun, Feb 3 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Health IT, Medical Home, Home Care, Primary Care, diabetes, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Obesity, Nutrition, exercise, Connected Health, mobile health, mHealth, Personal Health Records, Technology in healthcare, Medical device, Health care & health policy, Psychology & behavior, social media and health, HEALTH CONSUMERS, HEALTH SOCIAL NETWORKS, INTERNET AND HEALTH, POPULAR CULTURE AND HEALTH, PREVENTION AND WELLNESS, HEART HEALTH, FOOD AND HEALTH, WOMEN AND HEALTH, HEALTH ECONOMICS, HEALTH ENGAGEMENT, Patient experience, behavior change, DESIGN AND HEALTH, SENIORS AND HEALTH, INTERNET DEMOGRAPHICS, MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, HEALTH AT HOME, DEMOGRAPHICS AND HEALTH, HEALTHCARE DIY, REMOTE HEALTH MONITORING, CHRONIC CARE, fitness, CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH, MONEY AND HEALTH, PHRS, medical innovation

The Internet as self-diagnostic tool, and the role of insurance in online health

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Fri, Jan 18 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Health IT, Social Media, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Obesity, Nutrition, Connected Health, mobile health, mHealth, Personal Health Records, Technology in healthcare, wireless health, Health literacy, Aging, anti-aging & longevity, social media and health, HEALTH CONSUMERS, HEALTH SOCIAL NETWORKS, INTERNET AND HEALTH, MEDIA AND HEALTH, WOMEN AND HEALTH, HEALTH ENGAGEMENT, DESIGN AND HEALTH, Baby boomers and health, INTERNET DEMOGRAPHICS, MOMS AND HEALTH, DEMOGRAPHICS AND HEALTH, HEALTHCARE DIY, CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH, MONEY AND HEALTH, aging and technology

Consumers want digital communications from providers, from payment reminders to patient care via email

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Tue, Dec 25 2012
Filed under: Filed under: doctors, Medication Adherence, electronic health records, telemedicine, Privacy and Security, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Connected Health, telehealth, mobile health, personalized medicine, mHealth, Personal Health Records, Technology in healthcare, Innovation/innovative companies, Aging, anti-aging & longevity, social media and health, INTERNET AND HEALTH, POPULAR CULTURE AND HEALTH, RETAIL HEALTH, WOMEN AND HEALTH, Patient experience, behavior change, DESIGN AND HEALTH, Baby boomers and health, INTERNET DEMOGRAPHICS, MOMS AND HEALTH, HEALTHCARE DIY, REMOTE HEALTH MONITORING, CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH, aging and technology

People want more control over health care in the midst of rising costs: a tale of two surveys

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Sun, Dec 23 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Health IT, Health insurance, health plans, Patient Safety, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, Medical research, Medical Education, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Personal Health Records, Technology in healthcare, health disparities, Payment, Health literacy, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Medicine: wellness & disease, physician leadership, HEALTH CONSUMERS, INTERNET AND HEALTH, HEALTH ECONOMICS, HEALTH MARKETING, HEALTH ENGAGEMENT, Patient experience, Medical Ethics, HEALTHCARE DIY, HEALTH CARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, HEALTH BENEFITS, PHRS

Group led by Daschle, Frist sizes up mHealth opportunity

A report from the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Health Project, led by former Senate majority leaders Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), says that mobile health is a promising avenue for increasing patient engagement, which should be one of the major goals of health care reform. But barriers...

Posted to News by mobihealthnews on Mon, Dec 10 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Uncategorized, electronic health records, EHRs, PHR, remote monitoring, Personal Health Records, chronic disease management, Bipartisan Policy Center, secure email

Nurses, pharmacists and doctors rank top in honesty, says Gallup poll

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Wed, Dec 5 2012
Filed under: Filed under: doctors, Medication Adherence, health, Physicians, Home Care, Primary Care, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Prescription Drugs, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Personal Health Records, pharmaceutical, Health care & health policy, Medicine: wellness & disease, pharmacy, social media and health, HEALTH CONSUMERS, KIDS' HEALTH, POPULAR CULTURE AND HEALTH, PREVENTION AND WELLNESS, RETAIL HEALTH, WOMEN AND HEALTH, HEALTH MARKETING, HEALTH ENGAGEMENT, MOMS AND HEALTH, CHILDREN'S HEALTH, HEALTH AT HOME, HEALTHCARE DIY, social networks, SUPPLY CHAIN, COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, CHRONIC CARE, CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH

Aetna mobilizes its myActiveHealth PHR with iTriage

In the latest attempt to get consumers to embrace personal health records, health insurer Aetna is making its myActiveHealth PHR portal with the mobile iTriage app. According to Aetna, more than 4 million people have myActiveHealth PHRs, offered through ActiveHealth Management, an independently run Aetna...

Posted to News by mobihealthnews on Thu, Oct 11 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Uncategorized, accountable care organizations, Personal Health Records, iTriage, Aetna CarePass, mobile EHR, myActiveHealth PHR, tethered PHRs, untethered PHRs, Aetna PHR

What Jerry the Bear means for Health 2.0

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Wed, Oct 10 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Medication Adherence, Physicians, Patient Engagement, diabetes, hospitals, San Francisco, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, health technology, Nutrition, Pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, Food and nutrition, exercise, People in healthcare, aging in place, Health care professionals, Pharmacists, Tools, Medical devices, Personal Health Records, Family and kids, pharmacies, Technology in healthcare, PatientsLikeMe, Innovation/innovative companies, MIT, Health 2.0 Conference, Pharmaceuticals, Health care & health policy, Exercise & fitness, Medicine: wellness & disease, Aging, anti-aging & longevity, Change Management, DIY Healthcare, population health, health benefits of play, behavior change, Society for Participatory Medicine, health care innovations, passion, healthcare stakeholders, patient self-monitoring, health care attorney, Kaiser, smart phone apps, smartphone apps, Sproutel, Body 2.0, CureTogether, technology incubators, social environment, Indu Subaiya, elderly, Matthew Holt, juvenile diabetes

OpenNotes study finds better outcomes, more engagement

[Reminder: Be sure to join us today at 2PM Eastern for the Inevitable, Imminent Rise of Remote Patient Monitoring webinar featuring presentations by MobiHealthNews, Preventice, and The Mayo Clinic. If you are not one of the 800 who has registered so far, don't miss out and sign up right here -- it's...

Posted to News by mobihealthnews on Thu, Oct 4 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Uncategorized, electronic medical records, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Personal Health Records, Annals of Internal Medicine, OpenNotes, ePatient Dave, patient access, Geisinger Health System, Harborview Medical Center

The Power of the Blue Button

In August 2010, just 25 months ago, President Obama announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was going to make Veterans’ personal health records available to them online with something called the “Blue Button.” Blue Button is an incredibly simple idea. It puts electronic information in...

Posted to News by Health IT Buzz on Mon, Oct 1 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Electronic Health & Medical Records, Blue Button, Personal Health Records

Interview with Ken Ong, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Informatics Officer of New York Queens Hospital – New York Presbyterian

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Thu, Sep 27 2012
Filed under: Filed under: EHR, SaaS, Health IT, HIMSS, electronic health records, health information exchange, HIE, patients, Institute for Health Technology Transformation, Social Media, Smart Phones, cloud computing, informatics, HHS, Security, immunizations, privacy, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Mobile Technology, Software as a service, Personal Health Records, patient portals, Technology in healthcare, wireless health, Servers, medication reconciliation, PaaS, Health care & health policy, mHIMSS, mobile device security, National Institute of Standards and Technology, iHT2, providers, Enterprise Applications Store, engaging patients, broad network access, New York Presbyterian, ‘Security of Mobile Computing Devices in the Healthcare Environment', reportable diseases, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, on-demand self-service, Intercontinental Los Angeles Century City at Beverly Hills, enforce compliance, “Health Care Analytics: From the Waiting Room to the Point of Care”, hybrid cloud, security breaches, public cloud, disease registries, laptop theft, private cloud, Jean DerGurahian, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Network Access Control mechanism, iHT2 Advisory Board, rapid elasticity, remote wiping, Adventist Health System, New York Queens Hospital, iHT2 Health IT Summit, device encryption, strong passwords, sydromic surveillance, Platform as a Service, summary of care documents, secure health messaging, improving care coordination, liability considerations, tablets, Cedars-Sinai Health System, community cloud, asset control, resource pooling, test results, IaaS, inactivity timeouts, Ken Ong MD MPH CMIO, public health reporting, healthcare information at point of care, Infrastructure as a Service, NAC, NIST, SearchHealthIT.com

Aetna finds consumers aren’t very empowered in health

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Fri, Sep 21 2012
Filed under: Filed under: EMR, Health insurance, electronic health records, electronic medical records, accountable care organizations, Social Media, Patient Engagement, Twitter, health plans, Health reform, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, mobile health, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, uninsured, mobile apps, mHealth, Personal Health Records, pharmacies, Technology in healthcare, wireless health, Aetna, Innovation/innovative companies, Payment, Health literacy, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Medicine: wellness & disease, Psychology & behavior, Change Management, HEALTH CONSUMERS, RETAIL HEALTH, HEALTH MARKETING, HEALTH ENGAGEMENT, behavior change, DESIGN AND HEALTH, HEALTH CARE MARKETING, health insurance exchanges, patient empowerment, VALUE BASED HEALTH, HEALTHCARE DIY, HEALTH BENEFITS, health cost information, difficult decisions about health insurance, delay care, postponing medical procedures, cost-management tools, health care self-efficacy, HSAs, Aetna’s Empowered Health Index Survey, cost-estimation tool, provider-patient communication, health plan illiteracy, mobile platforms, re-inventing health communications in a disruptive way, streamlined health administration, skipping and stopping prescription meds, lack of price transparency, general health education, health provider quality ratings, out-of-pocket costs, dis-empowered patients, Explanation of Benefits, web platforms, health plan education, MSAs, Member Payment Estimator

Chiropractic EHR vendor ChiroTouch debuts three iPad apps

ChiroTouch, a San Diego-based vendor of integrated electronic health records and practice management software for chiropractors, has released three native iPad apps, two of which are intended for patient use. One, CT Provider Interface, gives chiropractors remote access to patient records, including...

Posted to News by mobihealthnews on Thu, Aug 2 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Uncategorized, Personal Health Records, EMR iPad apps, EHR iPad apps, mobile EHR apps, ChiroTouch, chiropractic health IT, PHR iPad apps