eHealth

STD help

Discussing a sexually transmitted disease (STD) with a partner or potential partner can be awkward and embarrassing. How do you approach the subject? What do you expect the outcome to be? Now, new high-tech prevention tools can help. One tool is the website Qpid.me.[read more]

Hospitals & digital marketing

Hospital executives say they are increasing their digital marketing budgets to reach and influence doctors. Close to 30 percent (on average, about $13,000) is aimed at physicians, and the balance targets consumers for the typical small hospital budget.[read more]

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One of the most interesting sessions I attended at ATA 2013 in Austin was moderated by Frost & Sullivan’s Daniel Ruppar. Daniel talked about the varying adoption and growth rates of telehealth categories such as remote patient monitoring, mHealth, and telemedicine; here are some takeaways from the panel.[read more]

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Angelina’s decision to have a double mastectomy shows healthcare marketing’s inner potential. By pairing the sexy science of genomic medicine with the breathtaking boldness of patient empowerment, Angelina has given us a glimpse of its beautiful potential.[read more]

Telemedicine: the doctor is always in?

Have you noticed the recent wave of TV commercials for one-to-one video calling or multiple participation video collaboration, or one-to-many webcasting? The mainstream adoption in business will be driving more medical provider and hospital applications…eventually.[read more]

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In fact, if the BBC is to be believed (and, really, when isn’t it?), the mis-reading of doctors’ abbreviations puts lives at risk. The UK’s Medical Defence pointed out that difficulties arise because some abbreviations have more than one meaning.[read more]

We’ve read the stories: From bedridden patients sending text messages to their health workers, to young people receiving HIV prevention messages via SMS, the mobile phone seems to have morphed from communications device to essential life-saver. But is the evidence there yet that mHealth is an effective and suitable health delivery intervention in the developing world?[read more]

This is a great video from a keynote by Professor Alain Labrique for the MOOC Mobile Health without Borders from Stanford. Professor Labrique is the Director of Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative, and world expert and pioneer on mHealth. The video is an overview of mobile health innovations around the globe.[read more]

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One of the most exciting changes that social media has brought to healthcare and medicine is that the emerging tool breaks the barrier for information that was only available to highly trained medical professionals. Now, by including a hashtag, anyone can be a participants of a medical meeting.[read more]

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ICD-9 coding to ICD-10 as mandated by the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA). Workers’ compensation commercial insurers are non-covered entities under HIPPA and therefore exempt from the mandate to convert their billing practices to ICD-10.[read more]

Patient leads (Photo: Alan Cleaver)

People are increasingly relying on the Internet to find the answers they need when it comes to services, especially with healthcare and medical services. This is why it is so important for medical offices to have a strong process set up that gets people landing on their website.[read more]

Medicare's blue button

Medicare's Blue Button provides you an easy way to download your personal health information to a file. You can download the file of your personal data and save the file on your own personal computer. The Blue Button is safe, secure, reliable, and easy to use.[read more]