August 6, 2008
Home BGL monitoring by Microsoft
Microsoft gives Partners grant for diabetes home-health program | HarvardScience
The Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare, one of the nation’s leading integrated health care delivery systems, received funding from the Microsoft HealthVault Be Well Fund to develop a home-based glucose monitoring system for patients with diabetes. This new initiative, Diabetes Connected [...]
August 6, 2008
Pick of the Diabetes web resources
Tool Tuesday: Diabetes Online | HealthPricer Blog – Comparison Shopping for Health Products
23.6 million people in the United States, or 8% of the population, have diabetes. The online world has transformed how we look up information and connect to people. That is certainly the case for diabetics, and their families and friends, that have questions [...]
August 6, 2008
Health Care Magic vision
About HealthcareMagic | HealthcareMagic.com – Redefining Healthcare
HealthcareMagic is a leading consumer-centric health company founded to transform how people approach their overall health and wellness. By putting individuals at the center of their own healthcare, HealthCareMagic allows them to make informed choices and offers more convenience and control over their individual healthcare decisions.
What is HealthcareMagic.com ?
HealthcareMagic [...]
August 6, 2008
I am a Lazyvore
The Jew and the Carrot » Blog Archive » The Opposite of Lazyvore – Practicavore?
First there was the locavore – the folks who lived and breathed (as well as ate and drank) locally grown food. They enthusiastically joined CSAs, left their jobs in the city to start a farm, and launched local-food experiments in their [...]
August 6, 2008
Social Media and IxD
The Jakarta Post – Creative innovations from young university students
Indonesia, represented by a team of students from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), won the Rural Innovation Achievement Award at the 2008 Worldwide Imagine Cup held in Paris this month.
It was source of national pride that members of our young generation were able to attain [...]
August 6, 2008
Mapping Med, then E and then Tel
Med-e-Tel
The International Educational and Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT
Med-e-Tel is accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME) to provide the following CME activity for medical specialists. The EACCME is an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) – www.uems.net.
Med-e-Tel is designated for a maximum of 18 [...]
August 6, 2008
Telenursing
International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH) | Telenursing | Mission Statement – Vision and Definition
The Telenursing Working Group is envisioned to be an international network of ISfTeH members who are nurses and nursing advocates who support the use of technologies, telehealth/telemedicine and eHealth to deliver nursing care and nursing practice remotely. Nurses [...]
August 6, 2008
Medical Informatics
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
Medical Device Informatics Group
How can medical devices and information systems better meet the needs of health workers and patients? Our research team of biomedical engineers, computer scientists, and hardware designers work together to develop technology innovations that connect patients with providers. We’re focused on improving health outcomes and patient quality-of-life. We [...]
August 6, 2008
Remote patient monitoring system
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
A Mobile Phone Based Remote Patient Monitoring System For Chronic Disease Management
Project Summary:
A remote patient monitoring system was developed for improved chronic disease management. The system utilizes commodity mobile phones and newly introduced Bluetooth-enabled medical devices to transmit patient physiological information from the home to a central repository where [...]
August 6, 2008
The future of Chronic Care
This statement captures the future of chronic care succinctly – 2 significant points:
Integrated primary and ambulatory care model
Using an e-health platform
The precise point of our project at RMIT – just two points!!
Care Assessment Platform (CAP)
Care Model for Sustainable Management of Chronic Disease
An integrated primary and ambulatory care model is being recognised as the future in [...]
August 6, 2008
E Health classification
eHealth – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
eHealth (also written e-health) is a relatively recent term for healthcare practice which is supported by electronic processes and communication. The term is inconsistently used: some would argue it is interchangeable with health care informatics and a sub set of Health informatics, while others use it in the narrower sense [...]
