mHIMSS Bloggers

A draft proposal of the FDA guidelines for regulating mobile medical applications was released in July, 2011. In response, the mHealth Regulatory Coalition sent detailed comments on the proposal. More

Over the last six months I've had the pleasure of talking to many professionals leading mobile initiatives – from global telecommunications companies concerned with the impact mobile computing is having on their infrastructures to small companies looking to leverage the hundreds of thousands of mobile applications available from the many public and private app stores. From the largest to the smallest, there are very common themes in the challenges being faced. More

I promised readers a follow-up to my last entry, “Look Ma, No Wires” but I thought that with the upcoming HIMSS annual conference and the number of people in one place who will be relying on mobile devices while away from the office, it was a good opportunity to make people aware of the perils of using these devices. More

Technology-savvy consumers are clamoring for the convenience of the “coolest” mobility devices in the workplace. More

At the start of a New Year, many people find themselves looking ahead as they decide upon their goals and how to achieve them. More

The healthcare IT (EHR and interoperability platforms and tools) and mobile health (or mHealth) industries are traveling on similar paths. They are both technologies in evolution that are sorely needed. More

I started thinking about what will happen when my kids look back at videos shot when they were young. What about those images will look old-fashioned to them? And I realized that they would ask me one simple question – “What’s with all the wires?” More

Over the past several years, as debate about the future of healthcare has raged, “quality, cost, access” has become the mantra for thought leaders seeking strategies to render our system sustainable. More

The New York Times recently shared a post on its Bits blog about multitasking clinicians endangering patients’ lives, which has caused some buzz on the Internet lately. More

Medicine as an establishment is known to adopt significant changes slowly, whether it relates to practice itself, new technologies or other practice tools or the emergence and acceptance of new specialties. More

When will our employees learn not to identify patients on Facebook or any other social media site? More

The campaign, backed by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, uses overweight children to urge Georgians to "stop sugar-coating the problem" and tackle the growing epidemic of juvenile obesity head-on. More