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Daily FYI October 08, 2009 Google Health partners with 'telehealth' patient-doctor service Source: Medical Marketing & Media Google Health announced the integration of MDLiveCare technology, a service that offers patients access to doctors from remote locations, via webcam or telephone, into its personal health record offering. The partnership, announced today during the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, allows MDLiveCare to flow an individual's medical data into a Google Health personal health record (PHR).
Telesurgery Successful in Iraq Source: Federal Telemedicine News According to a story appearing in MC4’s September newsletter issue of “The Gateway”, LTC T. Sloane Guy IV, M.D., a cardiothoracic surgeon, found that he was not always doing run-of-the-mill procedures in his specialty. However, as Chief of Clinical Services with the 249th General Hospital in Afghanistan until 2006, he successfully completed all of his procedures but he would have been happy with another specialist or two by his side. He could see the need especially in his case to contact with operating rooms in the U.S. to talk to other specialists and to help him assist with his procedures from afar.
Telemedicine Spending to Approach $3.6 Billion Annually by 2014, Report Projects Source: Earth Times The market for telemedicine devices and services will generate nearly $3.6 billion in annual revenue within the next five years, with mobile-services companies taking a sizeable chunk of that business, market research firm Pike & Fischer projects in a new report. The need to control costs, along with the development and expansion of faster wireless broadband networks, smartphones, and data compression solutions, will drive the market growth, P&F says.
Telemedicine finding its way into physician workflows Source: Fierce Mobile Healthcare In a story about telemedicine and mobile healthcare that ran over the weekend, a HealthDay headline boasted: "In Health Care Today, It's Electronic All the Way." That's a rather absurd statement for an industry that still keeps most of its records on paper, but the point is that a few forms of telemedicine have become almost routine parts of the workflow of some physicians. (Think snapping a photo of a skin mole and emailing it to your doctor, or putting on a blood-pressure cuff that's linked to a wireless network to upload data to a cardiologist.)
MDLiveCare First TeleHealth Provider to Launch on the Google Health Platform Source: Insurancenewsnet MDLiveCare, an on-demand telehealth company, announced today at the Health2.0 conference in San Francisco a partnership with Google Health. The partnership includes the secure flow of medical data between MDLiveCare and Google Health, an online Personal Health Record (PHR). Specifically, any Google Health user that has an MDLiveCare HIPAA secure video, phone or email telehealth consultation with a board certified physician or mental health therapist will be able to share his or her medical records with the doctor in advance of the appointment and get records back after the appointment from that doctor.
Preventing hospital visits through telemedicine Source: World Health Organization In the United Kingdom, where 17 million people – more than a quarter of the population – are living with chronic conditions, a new telemedicine programme shows how medical care provided by general practitioners and nurses for such patients can be complemented with “supported self-care”. The benefits of a telephone support programme operating in Birmingham are obvious to Beryl Keating, who has been enrolled now for two years. Keating has had asthma and lung problems since she was 14; she now has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. “My care manager has been such a great help. I now feel much more confident about phoning the doctor for test results, or to make an appointment, or to say if something is wrong,” |
