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In Uganda, Grassroots Radio Bridges Health Care Gaps
For rural, low income Ugandans, access to health information and to basic health services is limited. Most remain unaware of their health rights, and educational outreach is hampered by low levels of literacy. Read More »
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In-Depth: All the News from the Connected Health Conference 2016
This week, the Connected Health Conference in National Harbor, Maryland brought together stakeholders and thought leaders in digital and connected health. MobiHealthNews covered the two-day event this week -- links to our coverage from Monday and Tuesday are at the bottom of this roundup... In a panel moderated by Dr. Joe Kvedar, the VP of Connected Health at Partner’s Healthcare, Alden Doerner Rinaldi, medical director at Mount Auburn Hospital and Ronan Wisdom, global lead for connected health at Accenture, talked about how the role of digital tools is changing in healthcare...
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Inadequate Cancer Medicines In America?
Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Infectious Disease and Public Health Specialist Celine Gounder and Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor in Medicine Dr. James Bradner discusses cancer medicines with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock." Read More »
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INASP Launches Open Access Week Competition 2015
INASP has launched its Open Access Week Competition for 2015. The competition is open to representatives of institutions and organizations from INASP partner or network countries. Open Access Week, a global event now entering its seventh year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn more about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in Open Access developments. For more information, see OpenAccessWeek.org.
Inaugural Blueprint Health Startups Pitch Investors On Disrupting Health Industry
Nine startups demo’ed today at Blueprint Health, the health-tech startup incubator nestled in a Soho office that opened its first session in January. Read More »
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Incoming President Of IOM Outed As Member Of Boards Of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Medtronic And Pepsico
We just discussed how the new CEO of the National Quality Forum was revealed to be a member of the board of directors of Premier Inc, and discussed the implications of this apparently intense conflict of interest. Read More »
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Incorporating Methods for Basic and Advanced Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Tests Into Open Source Software for Meta-Analysis
While software is available for meta-analysis in general, there is not yet any open-source user friendly software available for specific meta-analysis of diagnostic test data. AHRQ is funding development work on an open source software product called OpenMeta-Analyst.
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Increase in International Cyber Attacks Calls for National Testbed
On Friday 21st of October The United States was subjected to massive and widespread cyberattacks which disrupted website domains and internet traffic through DDoS attacks. DDoS attacks flood websites with traffic and impairs normal services. "The massive outage drew the attention of the FBI which said Friday that it was "investigating all potential causes" of the attack." Popular websites like Twitter, Amazon, Spotify and Netflix went down for some users on Friday...
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Increasing Health IT, EHR Investment Runs Up Practice Costs
New data from MGMA shows that increasing health IT and EHR investments are running up major practice costs. Health IT and EHR investments are costing physician-owned multispecialty practices thousands of dollars per physician, according to a new report from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). The 2016 MGMA Cost and Revenue Report shows that health technologies such as EHRs ran physician practices up to $32,500 per physician in 2015...
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Increasing Transparency, Activating Patients: The Case For Open Medical Notes
A group of health leaders, consumer advocates, and medical professionals are gathering in Washington, D.C., today to advance a simple idea that I see as transformational—having doctors make medical notes available to their patients so they can become more engaged in their care. Read More »
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Increasingly Popular Cooking Hacks Offers e-Health Biometric Sensor Platform to Monitor Patients via Arduino, Raspberry Pi
A new e-Health sensor platform has been developed to provide tools to monitor patient conditions via Arduino and Raspberry Pi open source hardware platforms. The service is from Cooking Hacks, the open hardware division of Libelium, the wireless sensor networks platform provider for Smart Cities solutions. Read More »
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Increasingly, Clouds Are Built the Open Source Way
Today’s cloud computing landscape has no clear leading vendor; but rather is a mosaic of services. While the commercial opportunities are enormous, open source clouds are beginning to dominate the private cloud side of the market.
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INCREDIBLE: Denmark Will Be The First Country On The Planet That Will Become 100% Organic!
What could be more environmentally and socially advantageous than an entire country going 100% organic? The Danish government has actually announced that it will transform the entire country’s agriculture into organic and sustainable farming. This means that Denmark will be the first country on the planet to become 100% organic. Denmark is at the fore-front when it comes to organic items and how they trade with the world, nevertheless the Danish government has actually set a bigger challenge...
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Independent Doctors Unite To Fight National Trend Toward Hospitals Buying Physician Groups
Since January, at least 114 local doctors have traded their independence for steady paychecks from hospitals. The move, part of a nationwide trend, has wide implications not only for doctors but also for patients' pocketbooks. Read More »
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Independent Hospitals Disappearing In Ohio
University Hospitals announces its intent to acquire one of two of the last independent hospitals in northeast Ohio while consolidation continues in Massachusetts and New York City. Read More »
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