Standards, Interoperability, Data Exchange

Isolated IT environments have been the historical norm among clinical practices and hospital settings. Those days are quickly disappearing in the clinical environment. Mobile platforms are being rapidly adopted and have the ability to communicate with traditional devices such as stethoscopes and blood pressure cuffs as an integrated part of the IT environment. To properly support this communication, mobile devices must support standards for information exchange which serve as the building blocks for the seamless and secure exchange of health information. The standards section is the source for all things DICOM, LOINC, IEEE, SNOWMED CT, etc. related to mobile and wireless use, including some standards you may never have considered.

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NoMoreClipboard, iMPak Health unveil Health Journals at HIMSS12 February 22, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The journals are designed to collect PHR information and provide a direct portal to clinicians and caregivers – all in a wireless package that's easy to use and unobtrusive  More
 
ONC wants more resources to conduct PHI privacy campaign February 22, 2012 | Diana Manos The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is seeking more information on the risk associated with accessing personal health information through mobile devices.  More
 
mHIMSS tracks at HIMSS12 attract large audiences February 22, 2012 | Eric Wicklund Standing-room-only crowds attend the first mHIMSS-themed sessions Tuesday at the HIMSS12 Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas, including a session explaining how a New York-based healthcare system developed a basic mobile platform for its physicians.  More
Qualcomm shows off Qualcomm Life, 2net hub at HIMSS12 February 21, 2012 | Eric Wicklund Unveiled at last year's mHealth Summit, the San Diego-based telecommunications company's healthcare division now has partnerships in place with more than 50 mHealth vendors and providers.  More
BoxTone, Verizon, Motorola launch platform for Android-based devices February 20, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The new platform aims to enable healthcare providers to push their services out into the field – whether it be a homecare agency, a remote clinic or the battlefield – through Android-based smartphones and tablets.  More
GetWellNetwork unveils iPad capabilities for IPC solution February 17, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The developer of the popular interactive patient care solution is moving away from the hospital-based computer and laptop and giving patients and caregivers the opportunity to access information and communicate while on the move or outside the hospital room.  More
Philips Healthcare to offer a peek at its Personal Health Book project at HIMSS12 February 17, 2012 | Eric Wicklund Philips is getting ready to beta test its new post-hospital portal for patients, providers and caregivers, and will show off the PHR-like service next week in Las Vegas. The company has also announced a deal with eHealth Global Technologies to help cancer patients gather their records online.  More
ONC launches app challenge to aid people with disabilities February 14, 2012 | Bernie Monegain Federal officials say mobile tools can be used to help those with disabilities gain access to their medical records as well as other health and wellness resources.  More
The numbers add up for Teladoc, Rent-A-Center February 14, 2012 | Eric Wicklund In its first year of contracting for telehealth services for all employees, the national retail chain sees savings of more than $700,000 in reduced healthcare expenses and improved productivity – and at least one life saved.  More
New Jersey physician puts mobility to the test (and gets home in time for dinner) February 13, 2012 | Eric Wicklund Whether he's at home, in the air or on vacation, Richard L. Corson uses his laptop to keep in touch with his office. His mastery of mobility puts him on the leading edge of today's IT-enabled healthcare landscape.  More
Qualcomm announces investment in AirStrip Technologies February 9, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The telecommunications giant, which launched its Qualcomm Life subsidiary at last year's mHealth Summit, is throwing its support behind AirStrip, which creates the technology platform to link physicians via mobile devices to patient data collected in EMRs, at the bedside and through home-based monitoring devices.  More
eCollaborative Forum to debut at HIMSS12 February 9, 2012 | Eric Wicklund The day-long forum, organized by the Collaborative Health Consortium, features a packed schedule of speakers and topics focused on developing collaborative platforms to move toward accountable care.  More
Book review: A common sense approach to enabling mHealth February 22, 2012 | Ritch Blasi As mHealth continues to be over-hyped by those in the healthcare and mobile communications industries, “mHealth From Smartphones to Smart Systems” might be the antidote needed to inject some reality into all the hype.  More
Five events signaling the arrival of mHealth February 20, 2012 | David Lee Scher, MD There have been many predictions of when mHealth technologies will break through in a big way. I will mention what I consider a few important recent events which are indicative of mHealth technology’s ‘arrival’ in the mainstream healthcare arena.  More
Pharma looks to mobile strategies to effectively reach prescribers February 17, 2012 | Sanjay Pingle It is well documented that the pharma industry is facing many challenges in 2012. Drug makers are losing exclusive patents on drugs that have matured, causing unexpected losses of revenue in the billions of dollars. As a result, companies are cutting costs and significantly reducing their sales force – which in turn creates the new challenge of reaching practices and hospitals with fewer face-to-face office visits.  More
Five reasons why digital health technologies need FDA oversight February 15, 2012 | David Lee Scher, MD 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
Identifying the challenges and opportunities in mobility February 15, 2012 | Rob Shaughnessy 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
How do digital health technologies get to older patients? February 8, 2012 | David Lee Scher, MD Much of the digital health technologies on the market today are wellness products used by the relatively younger segment of the population.  More
Bring your own device (BYOD) to work - should we even go there? February 3, 2012 | Farida Bambot Technology-savvy consumers are clamoring for the convenience of the “coolest” mobility devices in the workplace.  More
Does the industry's roadmap steer us toward patient-centered care and HIEs? February 3, 2012 | Andrew R. Watson, MD 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
EHRs and mobile health: Similar paths to success? February 2, 2012 | David Lee Scher, MD 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
Five reasons why patients with implantable defibrillators deserve their data January 26, 2012 | David Lee Scher, MD The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on Feb. 17, 2009.  More
WeSprout gives parents a PHR platform for their children January 24, 2012 | Eric Wicklund One of the nagging problems with the adoption of personal health records is the reluctance of the average healthcare consumer to take on the task of launching and maintaining that record.  More
Reducing the rural patient's burden by expanding access with telehealth January 19, 2012 | Andrew R. Watson, MD 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
mHealth Summit 2011 - Super Session 4: Global Policy and Regulatory Perspectives of mHealth January 19, 2012 | Foundation for NIH mHealth Summit 2011 - Super Session 4: Global Policy and Regulatory Perspectives of mHealth  More
A Privacy Framework for Mobile Health and Home-Care Systems December 7, 2011 | mHIMSS In this paper, we consider the challenge of preserving patient privacy in the context of mobile healthcare and home-care systems, that is, the use of mobile computing and communications technologies in the delivery of healthcare or the provision of at-home medical care and assisted living.  More
Healthcare Informatics Organizations Participating in Standards Activities December 7, 2011 | mHIMSS The following pages cover healthcare informatics technology standards developers, advocates, regulatory organizations and vocabulary organizations. These pages are meant as a comprehensive but not exhaustive list, as the healthcare informatics arena is always generating or revising standards and regulations. This is a revision of the 2005 document on SDOs, advocates and vocabularies. During the revision process, some items were removed as not applicable or due to closure.  More
Unique Challenges of Health Care Networks and the Value of Wireless November 29, 2011 | mHIMSS Medical applications are among the most demanding users of network capacity, real-time performance, mission-critical reliability, and data security. Hospitals and medical centers are accelerating the pace of accessing and storing patient records via EMRs. Considering that data centers storing these records are often not connected to the main hospital, or medical office building, all this adds up to an explosion of information straining existing network infrastructure.  More
Defining an EMR and HIE Strategy for Medical Imaging November 29, 2011 | mHIMSS Healthcare organizations are seeking to deliver a robust EMR that’s accessible from multiple points of care. It’s what your patient and medical communities are loudly demanding - with the goal of gaining increased access to patient medical records, and enhanced capabilities with the records themselves. One vital component of an EMR is often overlooked: feature-rich, easy access to integrated, patient-centric, archived medical imaging records.  More
Mobile medical apps guidance: what's good for the US is good for the EU November 18, 2011 | mHIMSS As published in the October 2011 issue of Scrip Regulatory Affairs and on www.scripregulatoryaffairs.com on 14 October 2011.  More
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Device Isolation Architecture Guide V2.0 November 17, 2011 | mHIMSS The purpose of this document is to provide a standard process for isolating and securing networked medical devices using a protected Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) structure. This document’s target audience includes VA OI&T Network staff, OI&T Information Security Officers ISO, and Biomedical Engineers.  More
A Call for Clarity: Open Questions on the Scope of FDA Regulation of mHealth November 17, 2011 | mHIMSS The mHealth Regulatory Coalition (referred to subsequently as the Coalition) is comprised of industry representatives that manufacture and distribute the fundamental hardware and software used in mHealth* systems, healthcare providers who use mHealth technologies to improve healthcare delivery, and non‐profit organizations that advocate on behalf of patients and providers for the use of mHealth in the United States.  More
Cloud Security Myths and Strategies Uncovered September 6, 2011 | mHIMSS Security and compliance is the most often-cited barrier to cloud adoption. Forward-thinking CSOs are already embracing the right security strategy and exercising appropriate caution without dampening cloud optimism. Read what one CTO has to say about ensuring control and visibility in a secure cloud. This paper leverages insights from CSO/IDG research “What’s Top of Mind for CSOs” and includes a checklist of how to build a trusted cloud.  More
Video Presentations from The 2011 mHealth Summit, December 5 - 7 2011 January 18, 2012 | mHIMSS This webpage hosts all of the video presentations from the The 2011 mHealth Summit, December 5 - 7 2011.  More
Definitions of mHealth January 5, 2012 | mHIMSS A collection of mHealth definitions from key healthcare organizations.  More
Open mHealth November 17, 2011 | mHIMSS Mobile phones are proximate, personalized, and affordable. By continuously interacting with and measuring user activity, they can support chronic disease prevention and management as part of daily life, 24x7.  More
Mobile Device Functionality: Mobile OS Comparison Matrix February 11, 2012 | Todd MacCallum The first in a series of reports, author Todd MacCallum provides an overview of mobile device operating systems. Covered in the comparisons are topics such as active directory integration, data encryption, and support for virtual applications.  More
Glossary of Terms February 6, 2012 | mHIMSS   More
mHealth: FROM SMART PHONES TO SMART SYSTEMS January 31, 2012 | mHIMSS Click on the book cover to preview a chapter from the new book mHealth: FROM SMART PHONES TO SMART SYSTEMS  More
Domain - an essential ingredient in Mobile technology December 1, 2011 | mHIMSS Over the last couple of years, the role of smart phones has dramatically increased in the enterprise as well as consumer solutions. The word ‘app’ is no stranger to people across demographics today. However, as a developer, there are several key considerations one must make while developing these mobile applications. Thankfully, there are a wide number of platforms, tools and technologies that are available for developers to leverage from, develop feature-rich apps, and roll them out fast.  More
Mobile Enterprise: Wireless Solutions from the C-Suite to the Field, (mobileenterprise.edgl.com) November 23, 2011 | mHIMSS Wireless and Mobile whitepaper library  More
IHE Work Item Proposal (Short) November 17, 2011 | mHIMSS The Mobile Health platform is a resource constrained one, especially in cases where application developers are attempting to provide support for a wide variety of mobile devices. The typical connectivity of this platform ranges from speeds measured in tens of Kbps to tens of Mbps. However, variations in signal strength, coverage, et cetera, can cause widely varying performance.  More