Resources

New Horizons for Health through Mobile Technologies November 17, 2011 | World Health Organization The use of mobile and wireless technologies to support the achievement of health objectives (mHealth) has the potential to transform the face of health service delivery across the globe. A powerful combination of factors is driving this change. These include rapid advances in mobile technologies and applications, a rise in new opportunities for the integration of mobile health into existing eHealth services, and the continued growth in coverage of mobile cellular networks. More

Tag you're it! You Just Became a FDA Regulated Manufacturer of Medical Device - Effect of new FDA regulations covering MDDS on Healthcare Providers November 17, 2011 | HIMSS HIMSS Medical Devices & Patient Safety TF and CE-IT Community are offering an On Demand webinar that provides illustrations of what qualifies as an MDDS, FDA Requirements for MDDS manufacturers, overview of major implications for healthcare providers, timetable for compliance, what you need to know, patient safety implications, cost implications, and resources. More

mHealth Evidence Workshop November 17, 2011 | U.S. Dept. of Human & Health Services Mobile health (mHealth) has the potential to simultaneously reduce the cost of health care and improve our health by encouraging healthy behaviors, providing continuous monitoring to prevent or reduce health problems, reducing acute health care visits, and providing personalized, real-time intervention in the mobile environment. However, traditional methods of evaluation needed to address efficacy and safety in mHealth are not well aligned to the pace of technological development. More

Expanding Broadband for Healthcare November 17, 2011 | mHIMSS A Presentation to the HIMSS Ambulatory Roundtable by Kerry McDermott, Director, Healthcare, Federal Communications Commission More

Mobile Medical Apps – Draft Guidance November 17, 2011 | U. S. Food and Drug Administration, (FDA) A presentation by Bakul Patel, Policy Advisor, Center for Devices and Radiological Health More

Improving the Health of Hispanics Using Mobile Technology November 17, 2011 | 3CInteractive Nearly 50% of Hispanics own a smartphone (compared to 27% for non-Hispanic whites) and a higher percentage of Hispanics (25%) have used their mobile phone to search for health information than non-Hispanics (15%). In short, the opportunity for deploying mHealth with Hispanics is immediate and significant. More

IS MOBILE THE PRESCRIPTION FOR SUSTAINED BEHAVIOR CHANGE? November 17, 2011 | Health Innoventions Mobile phones offer unprecedented potential as a medium through which behavior change can be supported. 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

Position Statement on Transforming Nursing Practice through Technology & Informatics November 17, 2011 | HIMSS The landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,”i emphasizes the importance of recognizing the vital role of nurses in transforming healthcare in our country and presents recommendations for how to promote that role in the future. More

National Broadband Plan: Ch. 10 on Healthcare November 17, 2011 | Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Broadband is not a panacea. However, there is a developing set of broadband-enabled solutions that can play an important role in the transformation required to address these issues. These solutions, usually grouped under the name health information technology (IT), offer the potential to improve health care outcomes while simultaneously controlling costs and extending the reach of the limited pool of health care professionals. More

A Call for Clarity: Open Questions on the Scope of FDA Regulation of mHealth November 17, 2011 | mHealth Regulatory Coalition 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

Ubiquitous Wireless Enables All-Private Room Critical Care Hospital November 16, 2011 | Virginia Commonwealth University Health System This webinar will focus on VCUHS' (Virginia Commonwealth University Health System) new 275-bed all private room critical care hospital and how a unified wireless infrastructure provides caregivers a virtual link for everything from remote communication of bedside alarms to physician access to the EHR. More

Healthier Wi-Fi for Hospitals November 16, 2011 | Ruckus Wireless With so many new high-powered handheld devices hitting the market and new medical applications utilizing wireless within the healthcare industry,Wi-Fi is no longer a considered a technology of convenience but expected to be a reliable and ubiquitous medium. More

Secure & Manage Enterprise iPads at the Point of Care November 16, 2011 | BoxTone Mobile Service Management Spot checks of hospital and health care IT staff validate that the iPad and other tablet devices are set to become the preferred data collection and access tool for doctors, nurses and clinicians to more accurately treat patients at the point of care. More