Back in April of 2008 I wrote about the pilot program being conducted with Blue Cross for this application and you can read more at the link below. A short clip from the original post follows. Blue Cross to Pilot Diabetes Smart Phone Application “260 patients will be a part of the program...
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By taking a look at this letter, I can see what nothing gets accomplished in Congress today requesting the Forms 990 from IHI to include all schedules. Senator Grassley is also asking about his benefits and I assume this might be inquiring as to whether or not he’s going to be a Medicare participant...
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Here we go one more time for one of my “favorite” rants (grin). Nobody takes this seriously as we have no role models as we don’t see anyone at top levels, with the exception of President Obama using any technology, look how much press his use of a BlackBerry received a while back. Now there...
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Here’s one more application for the iPhone if you are traveling and want to located medical services outside the US to be available this year. With rising healthcare costs in the US, many other countries are extremely interested in touch economic times in making an inroad to capture some of our...
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Here’s my equation for wireless – the data needs to go somewhere. If you are a regular reader here you have seen everything Eric Topol talks about and a lot more. What is cool is to see him wearing the stick on heart monitor. What we do lack here is knowledge and balance. ...
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We have new entry into the body monitoring, behavioral information data arena, but unlike other that clip on, this one sticks on. I guess the closer the devices get the better the data? This one is not here the US, well yet anyway, but we have few others around . They all talk...
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This looks to be a solution to helping the consumer get connected, selecting the devices they feel are beneficial or perhaps recommended by their physicians or wellness coach programs. As mentioned in many posts on the blog here, blue tooth is rapidly changing the way we interact with medical devices...
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USAA Bank is privately held and only has one location, but has used mobile applications in part to move up into the top 20 banks in the US. This is actually pretty cool, take a picture of your check and send it off and money is deposited. USAA Bank also offers health insurance benefits through...
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