Many organizations have asked me to comment on the impact of the Trump Presidency on Healthcare and Healthcare IT. I served the Bush administration for 4 years and the Obama administration for 6 years. I know that change in Washington happens incrementally. There is always an evolution, not a revolution, regardless of speechmaking hyperbole. What am I doing in Massachusetts? I’m staying the course, continuing my focus on social networking for healthcare, mobile, care management analytics, cloud, and security while leaving the strategic plan/budget as is...
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
See the following -
Understanding Healthcare's Top Technology Hazard
Robert J. Szczerba | Forbes.com | August 25, 2014
...Current clinical alarm technology is generally based on Data Threshold Science, which detects when a specific data threshold has been crossed and activates an alerting mechanism (usually an audible alarm)....
- Login to post comments
VA Explores Alternative Therapies
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux | Stars and Stripes | October 19, 2014
...The alternative-therapy programs mark a dramatic departure in the treatment offered to troops who are returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and seeking relief from pain. Among the options: Equine therapy. Alpha Stimulation. Qigong. Guided Imagery. Life coaching. Yoga and Pilates. Hypnosis. Aqua therapy. Botox...
- Login to post comments
Valuable Mental Health Apps Lost in a Sea of Untrustworthy Digital Solutions
Evan Sweeney | Fierce Healthcare | April 10, 2017
The mental health industry has been flooded with potentially untrustworthy apps.
With more than 10,000 mobile health apps available to assist with mental health treatment, patients and clinicians now face the daunting challenge of parsing out trustworthy digital tools. That challenge has only intensified as more apps have entered the marketplace amid the FDA’s hands-off approach to regulating apps and wearables, researchers wrote in JAMA Psychiatry...
- Login to post comments
Wearable Devices With Health IT Functions Poised To Disrupt Medicine
Fred O'Connor | PC World | May 1, 2014
The next innovation in health care may come from Silicon Valley. With Google, Apple and Samsung exploring how to incorporate health IT features into wearable devices, patients may soon provide information to doctors through devices such as smartwatches that can measure and transmit biometric data.
- Login to post comments
What Does the Trump Presidency Imply for Healthcare and Healthcare IT?
By John D. Halamka, MD | November 16, 2016
- Login to post comments
Why We Need Standards-Based Interoperability In Digital Health
Bill Ash and Kathryn Bennett | MEDCITY News | October 15, 2014
A vision for “e-health” is gathering around the world, in which a rich array of dependable data is seamlessly and securely shared between patient and healthcare providers, in support of breakthrough wellness care and remote monitoring capabilities. Global, open development and wide-scale adoption of interoperability standards across technology areas such as personal health device communications, cloud computing, body computing, mobility, social networking and Big Data analytics comprise a critical enabler of the vision...
- Login to post comments
Will Different Medical Devices Call For Different Cyber Standards?
Whitney Blair Wyckoff | FedScoop | October 29, 2014
An increasing number of medical devices, from pacemakers to insulin pumps, include components that could open them to cyber vulnerabilities. So will the Food and Drug Administration start taking into account the differences in these devices as the agency evaluates premarket submissions?...
- Login to post comments
Winners And Losers With The 21st Century Cures Bill
Sydney Lupkin and Steven Findlay | NPR | December 2, 2016
A sprawling health bill that passed the Senate Thursday by a 94 to 5 vote and is expected to gain President Obama's signature is a grab bag for industries, academic institutions and patient groups that spent oodles of time and money lobbying to advance their interests. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calls it "the most important legislation that Congress will pass this year." Who wins and who loses? Here's the rundown of what's at stake in the 21st Century Cures Act...
- Login to post comments
You Won't Believe the Outrageous Ways Big Pharma Has Bribed Doctors to Shill Drugs
Martha Rosenberg | The Influence | July 18, 2016
At the 2010 meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in New Orleans, a psychiatrist from the East coast shared her anger with me about the recent clamp down on Pharma financial perks to doctors. Before news organizations and the 2010 Physician Financial Transparency Reports (also called the Sunshine Act, part of the Affordable Care Act) reported the outrageous amount of money Pharma was giving doctors to prescribe its new, brand-name drugs, there was almost no limit to what was spent to encourage prescribing...
- Login to post comments
- previous page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Copyright ©2011-2020 Open Health Marketplace, LLC. All Rights Reserved.