U.S. World Cup Team Uses GPS Devices To Track Player Health. When the U.S. Men's National Team played Belgium last night, physicians tracked their every movement using small GPS devices that measured players' physical workload and the distances they covered over time, Bloomberg reports. Background According to a study published after the 2010 tournament by Jiri Dvorak -- chief medical officer of Fédération Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA -- improved injury prevention among all World Cup teams has contributed to a lower number of match injury cases.
Dvorak applauded FIFA's acceptance of the new injury prevention methods, adding that during this year's tournament FIFA expects there to be fewer than two injuries per game, down from 2.7 injuries per game in 1998. GPS-Tracking Device Details The matchbox-sized GPS systems are commonly used by coaches to track players': Exertion and energy expenditure; and Positioning. U.S. The U.S. Scientists taught a computer to detect future teen binge drinkers. Apple and Google and Samsung, Oh My! Three of the world’s biggest technology companies – Apple, Google and Samsung — have made big announcements in the world of connected health in the past few weeks. A fourth is positioned to enter the fray. These major announcements illustrate the convergence of consumer technology, health, and wearables, with the potential for Big Data and population health impacts. Among the three tech giants, Samsung announced its consumer health/tech story first, on May 28, 2014, at its Digital Health Initiative meeting.
Samsung unveiled the Samsung Architecture Multimodal Interactions platform, SAMI, along with the Simband prototype wristband that would enable users to view health data Dick Tracy-style, via smartwatch. The company is allocating $50 million in development funds for early-stage digital health investments and is sponsoring a developer challenge. Enter Apple, which unveiled its HealthKit platform at its Worldwide Developers Conference June 2-6 2014.
That’s the supply side. 10 Digital Health Trends Shaping the Next 20 Years. Apple’s focus on a “Healthbook” app could improve public health, force doctors to adopt mobile. Last week the New York Times reported that Apple met with the FDA to discuss mobile medical applications. While it’s no secret Apple has been on a hiring spree focused on talent with expertise related to mobile health, this has been the surest sign to date that Apple has plans to release a dedicated health app in future iterations of iOS. The reliable 9to5mac claims Apple is working on a “Healthbook” app, similar to the Passbook app currently on all iPhones. It will enable users to store blood pressure recordings, heart rate, glucose levels, and other health metrics. Improving Public Health There are millions of iPhones that have been sold, and the feature that makes it great for a public health tool is also a feature many technology purists hate — uniformity.
If Apple were to create a standard health metric tracking application – Healthbook, it would be easy to teach individuals how to use the app because of the uniformity factor. Force doctors out of their comfort zone. Survey: Consumers' Top 3 Online Sources for Health Information. The vast majority of American adults look online for health information, according to a survey from healthcare research and marketing firms Makovsky Health and Kelton. The survey of 1,001 adults revealed consumers' top three go-to websites: WebMD (53 percent)Wikipedia (22 percent)Advocacy group websites, such as American Heart Association or American Cancer Society (16 percent) This reliance on online sources reveals consumers who are motivated to take control of their own health and who expect to be able to find answers in real time.
"When health concerns strike, people want information almost immediately," said Gil Bashe, executive vice president and practice director of Makovsky Health, in the news release. More Articles on Websites: 10 Stories on Hospital Marketing, Communications 3 Recommendations For Linking Health IT, Patient Engagement Piedmont Healthcare to Publish Unedited Physician Reviews From Patients © Copyright ASC COMMUNICATIONS 2012. Prediction: 24 million will use diabetes apps by 2018 | mobihealthnews. Lucien Engelen: Crowdsource your health | Talk Video. The Next Big Health App Needs to Do More Than Just Track Our Numbers | Gadget Lab. Illustration: Tom Whalen I don’t want to die. And so I exercise regularly and eat lots of vegetables and track just about every damn thing I do.
I step on a scale every morning. I can tell you exactly how many steps I took on any given day, how much sleep I got last night and what my resting heart rate is. A few years ago, I spit into a test tube, and mailed it off to 23andMe to attempt an end run around any unkind fate my genes have in store. But I’m totally blind on some of my most important numbers, like my blood pressure and cholesterol level. Think about your heartbeat for a minute. We tend to focus on individual metrics in isolation–like heart rate or step counts–because they are easy to measure. This week we got a deep look at the rumored new health and fitness tracking application for Apple’s next iPhone, called Healthbook. There are already devices that can collect the data referenced in these images–even the hard-to-find stuff.
Digital health and the pharmacy of the future: 5 startups to watch. A California state law passed last fall to recognize pharmacists as healthcare providers illustrates how the traditional behind-the-counter role of the pharmacist is changing fast in the new era of healthcare. It’s no surprise then that technology innovation is rising to meet pharmacists as their roles expand. Several interesting companies aimed at transforming a particular process or challenge in pharmacies have sprung up recently. Here are a few I’m keeping an eye one. Feel free to share others in the comments. Mail-order pharmacy PillPack launched earlier this year as a full-service pharmacy for the millions of Americans who take five or more medications a day. Led by designers and pharmacists, the company aims to make prescription management easier for those customers by organizing prescriptions into daily packets and handling all of the back-end work with insurance companies and physicians.
[Image credit: PillPack] Copyright 2014 MedCity News. Hear the latest industry news first. Personal-health-technologies-answer-trillion-dollar-question-himss.aspx?utm_content=buffer2e70a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter. Below is a guest blog post from Eric Dishman, Intel Fellow and General Manager of the Intel Health & Life Sciences Group. If you will be at HIMSS14, be sure to attend his educational session (#74) on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at 10 a.m. in Room #320. During his talk, Eric will share his own experience battling cancer and the lessons he learned about the importance of a customized care treatment plan. In addition, Dell’s Chief Medical Officer Andrew Litt, M.D., will join Eric for a discussion on the future of genomics and personalized medicine.
Find out more information and read the latest blog posts on health IT in the Intel Health and Life Sciences Community. In the currently raging debates about healthcare, there’s little attention to population aging and the cost of care — two critical trends that I call the $4.6 trillion question. One of the ways we must respond to these trends is to use technologies that enable a model I call “care anywhere.” Policy makers are paying attention. Bio: The ‘social’ side of Chinese health care. The tidal wave of social media in China is rapidly changing how individuals behave—including doctors. More than 50 percent of them use social media regularly (exhibit), according to a recent survey.
Some leading ones have hundreds of thousands of followers. Oncologists and physicians who treat chronic diseases are among the doctors with the largest followings. Exhibit Nearly three-fourths of surveyed Chinese physicians have used social media. Enlarge Hospitals have picked up on this trend, and for good reason. For more on this research, download the full report, Healthcare in China: ‘Entering uncharted waters’ [PDF–1MB]. About the authors Cindy Chiu is an associate principal in McKinsey’s Shanghai office, where Ari Silverman is a principal; Chris Ip is a director in the Singapore office. Europe Fall 2013. Only 2 days till Health 2.0 Europe - Big data, mHealth, NHS Compass... and more!
What health startups think of Apple’s new motion tracking chip. At Apple’s launch event Tuesday for its two new iPhones, the company announced the addition of a new hardware component for the device: a motion co-processor, called the M7. “What does that do?” Apple’s Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller asked at the event. “Well, it takes advantage of all these great sensors and it continuously measures the data coming from them without even having to wake up the [the phone's main processor]. It measures the accelerometer, the gyroscope, and the compass. Schiller said that the chip, working in tandem with Apple’s now updated Core Motion API, will be able to tell fitness and health apps whether the user is stationary, walking, running, or driving.
To get a sense for how wearable device makers and big name fitness app companies were processing the M7 news, I asked Misfit Wearables cofounder and CEO Sonny Vu, RunKeeper founder and CEO Jason Jacobs, and MapMyFitness cofounder and CEO Robin Thurston for their takes. What The Evidence Shows About Patient Activation: Better Health Outcomes And Care Experiences; Fewer Data On Costs. + Author Affiliations ↵*Corresponding author Patient engagement is an increasingly important component of strategies to reform health care. In this article we review the available evidence of the contribution that patient activation—the skills and confidence that equip patients to become actively engaged in their health care—makes to health outcomes, costs, and patient experience.
There is a growing body of evidence showing that patients who are more activated have better health outcomes and care experiences, but there is limited evidence to date about the impact on costs. Emerging evidence indicates that interventions that tailor support to the individual’s level of activation, and that build skills and confidence, are effective in increasing patient activation. Furthermore, patients who start at the lowest activation levels tend to increase the most. Health Survey 2013 - Makovsky.
Global Wireless Health Market Expected To Reach $59.7 billion by 2018. The global wireless health market is currently valued at $23.8 billion in 2013 and is expected to reach $59.7 billion by 2018, at an estimated CAGR of 20.2% from 2013 to 2018, according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets. The key drivers of rapid growth in the market are increasing awareness, aging population, need to combat increasing healthcare expenditure, chronic disease management, and technological advances in the field. The report found the increasing adoption of wireless health delivery by medical communities and patients to connect in real time for optimized care is expected to be a major growth factor.
However, the report identified the some of the key barriers to the growth of the market: privacy and security issueslack of standard communication protocolsinfrastructuralcost issues North America leads as the biggest market for wireless health in the year 2013, followed by Europe, and APAC. Qualcomm, Inc. For more information, click here to read a summary of the report. 10 Cool Fitness Gadgets For Health Junkies. We love gadgets of every kind, be it appliances for the kitchen or electronic ones for hiking or camping trips. We have even featured wearable gadgets for you, and a few cool ones designed for your pets, just to cover everyone in the family.
While the idea of using your smartphone and health apps to monitor your workouts and vital signs are not new, did you know that there are gadgets that can work together with your smartphones to help you stay fit and healthy? In fact, we’re here to introduce about 10 of these gadgets, this time for the calorie counters and gym-goers. These gadgets may be able to help you make the best of your workout sessions, track your health progress and have fun at the same time.
All that aside, they are all built for a mind focused on health and fitness, which is top priority to come out the winner in a dog-eat-dog world. Recommended Reading: 30 iPhone Apps To Help You Watch Your Health Finis Neptune Misfit Shine Sportiiiis Into cycling? iSpO2 Pulse Oximeter HAPIfork. Global Wireless Health Market Expected To Reach $59.7 billion by 2018. Health: Online Health by the Numbers. By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Digital Technology has changed the landscape in health care, and it has changed the role of the consumer, patient, caregiver and health care professional. The internet has empowered patients and consumers to take charge of their health and to be proactive. Consumers and patients are active participants in their health care. The Pew Internet and American Life Project explores the impact of the internet and “provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.” Health Online 85% of U.S. adults use the internet.72% of internet users say they looked online for health information within the past year.77% of online health seekers say they began their last session at a search engine such as Google, Bing, or Yahoo.
Your turn How do you use digital technology for your health? We would love to hear your thoughts in the comment section below. Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project Fox, Susannah Pew Internet: Health. Digital health needs more physician entrepreneurs. Just as new physicians sometimes get caught unprepared for the business realities of an insurance-centric healthcare system because medical schools don’t teach practice management, so too are even the most creative doctors often lacking in entrepreneurial skills because medical schools don’t address that subject either, according to someone who is trying to remedy the situation. “The biggest challenge to me is creating an entrepreneurial mindset in the physician community,” said Dr. Arlen D. Meyers, president and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SOPE). “I’m trying to engage the docs and empower them with innovation and knowledge.” Meyers told MobiHealthNews. In his view, about 1 percent of U.S. physicians have the right mindset to be successful entrepreneurs.
It is quite a challenge. Meyers is working from both the inside and the outside. He has seen a profound change in the landscape in just a few short years. He is particularly bullish on telehealth. Social Media Use by Health Care Professionals and Trainees:... : Academic Medicine. Purpose: To conduct a scoping review of the literature on social media use by health care professionals and trainees. Method: The authors searched MEDLINE, CENTRAL, ERIC, PubMed, CINAHL Plus Full Text, Academic Search Complete, Alt Health Watch, Health Source, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Web of Knowledge, and ProQuest for studies published between 2000 and 2012. They included those reporting primary research on social media use by health care professionals or trainees.
Two reviewers screened studies for eligibility; one reviewer extracted data and a second verified a 10% sample. They analyzed data descriptively to determine which social media tools were used, by whom, for what purposes, and how they were evaluated. Results: The authors included 96 studies in their review. Conclusions: These findings provide a map of the current literature on social media use in health care, identify gaps in that literature, and provide direction for future research. Jitterbug Touch 2 offers seniors more health apps.
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