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Hope to see you at #HIMSS13 New Offerings and Programming for Health IT Professionals

Medicine and Technology

Technology mandates and quality healthcare have finally come together in a way that we’ve never seen before, and in response, we’ve created specific content around the coming trends in 2013, with a particular focus on meaningful use, mobile health and consumer engagement.” I hope to see you there!

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Apple Health app will link to your medical records (thanks to FHIR)

Medicine and Technology

Apple recently announced that its mobile Health app will link to electronic health record (EHR) systems. This will allow patients/consumers access to their personal health record (PHR).

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Rural Health IT Workforce Program

Medicine and Technology

These formal training programs will result in the development of a cadre of HIT workers who can help rural hospitals and clinics implement and maintain systems, such as electronic health records (EHR), telehealth, home monitoring and mobile health technology, and meet EHR meaningful use standards.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

Mobile health — the application of sensors, mobile apps, social media, and location-tracking technology to obtain data pertinent to wellness and disease diagnosis, prevention, and management — makes it theoretically possible to monitor and intervene whenever and wherever acute and chronic medical conditions occur.

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Unifying the Healthcare Assembly Line

Mobile Health Matters

The launch of Meaningful Use under the Affordable Care Act drove the electronic medical record (EMR) “Gold Rush,” the mass implementation of EMRs in a shift away from paper charts. The Aftermath of the EMR Gold Rush.

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What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

So back in 2011 I wrote the first profile in IHE that was targeting ‘ease of use by lightweight application platforms such as Mobile Health Applications”. Thus it targeted use of HTTP RESTful, using JSON encoding. The Mobile Health Documents (MHD) profile was born to provide a more simple API to an XDS environment.

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Who will regulate mHealth? Patient Engagement at Crossroads; New Alliance Takes On Interoperability

Chilmark Research

Public vs. Private Oversight of Mobile Health. Stage 2 meaningful use is requiring a deeper level of patient access to their records via view, download and transmit requirements and there is even a requirement for some email messaging between provider and patient. Below are abstracts from this month’s update.

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