When MobiHealthNews reported on the recent Pew findings last week, we quoted Susannah Fox as saying the Long Tail of the app market likely sustains some niche health apps. One such app, the HysterSisters hysterectomy support app, demonstrates how an existing online community can leverage a social health...
The Federation of State Medical Boards has released Model Policy Guidelines for the Appropriate Use of Social Media and Social Networking in Medical Practice. It addressed the physician-patient relationship, professional and ethical standards and provides recommendations for state medical boards to consider...
Doximity Launches iRounds, The First Real-Name, Physician-Only Forum San Mateo, Calif. (Feb. 7, 2012)-Doximity, the largest online professional physician network, today announced the launch of iRounds, the first HIPAA-secure forum for doctors that enables members to tap into the collective knowledge...
A population that is on the move will increasingly turn to mobile health applications, predicts a new market study. The Hampshire, England-based Juniper Research Ltd. projects that mobile networks will monitor 3 million patients by 2016, according to a company news release. The growth will be fueled...
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now has an app geared toward the iPad generation. The CDC's leap into mobile health gives iPad users touchpad access to the organization's Facebook, Twitter and YouTube sites, as well as articles about health topics, a health-related blog...
A group of physicians is using the latest social-media technology to help demystify health information technology that is overwhelming many of their medical colleagues. The heart of the project is a new website designed to "serve as a trusted resource for doctors who are contemplating or are in...
OMG! With a whopping 2.2 trillion text messages zipping across the U.S. last year, the Department of Health and Human Services is trying to dial up ways to have texters get their fingers do the talking about health. The HHS Text4Health Task Force notes that at-risk populations, including teenagers and...
Got a public-health emergency? Log into Facebook. But don't stop there. Three emergency-management experts say in a commentary this week in the New England Journal of Medicine that Twitter, foursquare, Loopt, smartphone apps, RSS feeds and other social networking sites and technologies can quickly...
The web never ceases to amaze me. I’ve gotten to the point if I can’t find something I’m looking for, no matter how obscure, I figure that I did something wrong in how I framed the search. For example, I was trying to connect to a high school classmate, someone I hadn’t spoken with since before [......
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The American College of Physician Executives is offering some preventative medicine to keep hospital medical executives from being overwhelmed by the changing world of health IT. The ACPE says its new health IT leadership certificate program is designed to help medical executives "more easily and...
Got a blue-ribbon health IT idea? If so, prizes courtesy of the federal government could be in your future. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT isn't saying just what those prizes might be, but it has pumped nearly $5 million into its Investing in Innovations Initiative --...
Telehealth played a key role in significantly increasing hepatitis C cure rates in a New Mexico medical trial, according to an article published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine. Treatment of hepatitis C, a chronic infectious disease of the liver that can be fatal, requires 12...