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E-health’s Role in Transforming Clinical Practice in a Nutshell

The rate at which health care practice is being initiated and carried out is getting more up to date than ever before.  In recent years it has become known as E-health and this started at [+]

Five Budding Technologies for ePatients

Information Technology has been rapidly taking over industry after industry and profession after profession. The medical profession is not an exception either. More and more patients are depending for both medical information and treatment through [+]

The Use of E-Health for Care Delivery

E-health care is a noble concept crated for the online health care of people. Information technology (IT) will be one of the most promising upcoming departments in the health services sector. This [+]

Michigan Engineering Students Develop Mobile Communications Technology for Cerebral Palsy Patients

A young woman with cerebral palsy walks into a Starbucks and, despite her compromised motor skills and speech difficulties, uses an iPad to do what she’s never done before – she orders [+]

Mobile Health Technology Can Reach the Remotest Corners

Consider this: a mobile phone with applications to detect cancer and tuberculosis, control sugar levels for diabetics and monitor vital signs. The champions of mobile health or "mhealth" technology are promising healthcare [+]

How E-Health Can Affect Quality in Clinical Setting

Even though e-Health has been around for many years, it can be called a relatively new concept. Earlier, e-health services were unorganized and were in nascent stage due to lack of big [+]

Health 2.0 announces Spring Conferences

Health 2.0 Spring Fling conference will be held in San Diego on March 21-22. This event will focus on three themes where Health 2.0 can make a big difference: making health care cheaper; [+]

Finalists announced in the e-Government National Awards 2010

The finalists have been chosen in this year’s e-Government National Awards. The UK’s most closely watched public sector technology awards, supported by the Prime Minister David Cameron, recognise excellence and innovation in digital initiatives in national and local government, [+]

Wireless Healthcare and Heart Failure Management

There are many good heart failure medications. What's been missing, however, has been the critical information to help physicians adjust the medication when necessary to keep the patient healthy and out of the [+]

Telemedicine broken down, and today’s need

Long before sophisticated technology had infiltrated the health care industry, patients had to take a trip to doctors/physicians to seek medical care. People had to travel far and wide to access health [+]

Pilot Study of Providing Online Care in a Primary Care Setting

PATIENTS AND METHODS: A pilot study of using the Internet for online care (“e-visits”) was conducted in the Department of Family Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Patients in the department preregistered [+]

Telemedicine’s favorite son, Teleradiology

With the help of tele-radiology, patients can now avail services of a radiologist without being physically present in the same room with them. There is a great need for professionals who can analyze [+]

New Technologies for Respiratory Care

New technologies for respiratory care are centered on providing more complex and advanced technologies. The direction that new technologies are moving in are aimed to: · Directly measure the patient’s health with the use of more [+]

Medical Homes, Accountable Care and E-Health

Many state governments are piloting E-Health and Patient Centered Medical Home initiatives. In this vid, Iowa is engaging in this new discussion. Iowa e-Health: A public-private collaboration to promote health information technology (health [+]

Basic E-Tools Of Medical Home

Medical homes (or patient-centered medical home - PCMH), also known as, Connected Care, is designed to provide more comprehensive and personalized care coordination for patients to increase the access and quality of health care. The [+]

Bay Area Doctors Build Innovative Employee Wellness Program for Construction Firm

Palo Alto Medical Foundation has come up with an excellent new wellness program that combines traditional occupational medicine with E-health technologies. “For companies like Graniterock, investing in preventive medicine, such as a weight loss and [+]

Very interesting discussion on 21st Century Tools for Health Leadership and digital divide

Tessie Guillermo, President and CEO of ZeroDivide, discusses how to overcome the digital divide so that all communities have access to new media to improve health. As a large E-Health advocate, I have to continually remind [+]

Remote Healthcare Monitoring: The Smart Bandaid

Qualcomm is working with companies like Corventis who have created Piix a Smart BandAid which provides the next-generation ambulatory cardiac monitoring service with beat-to-beat, real time analysis, automatic arrhythmia detection and wireless [+]

Intervention Research on e-Health for the Visually Challenged

The general objective of this project is - To develop a deeper understanding of the health issues faced by visually impaired individuals and assess the value of introducing eHealth applications into existing health service delivery [+]

E-Health 2010

Check out all of the Sessions and Panel Discussions here:  devlopmentavantgarde [+]