Digital Health Rounds: Editor’s Progress Notes—March2015, Friday #2

nuviun's Senior Content Editor provides a quick trip around the Digital Health Landscape in this weekly wrap-up with her Digital Health Rounds.

As a nurse-who’s-an-editor-for-a-health-related-publication, I couldn’t help but use some healthcare lingo in naming this weekly column of mine.

Just as we “round” on patients in healthcare to check on current status, and write up our findings in “progress notes” so I round on various sectors in our Digital Health Landscape—providing short notes and links to a variety of stories that caught my eye each week. This certainly isn’t meant to be comprehensive, but just a quick trip across the landscape to help top off our week with you.

This week, I’m moved by the powerful article cited under Health IT, where Christina Farr captures the frustration I feel as both a nurse and a caregiver—when money is first, and patients are last. 

So kick back and relax with me—feel free to skip around, explore further, or linger on something of interest. As with all of our content, we invite you to jump into the conversation and comment at will!

We’re so happy that you’re part of our growing global digital health industry network, and look forward to Connecting Great Minds™ and making a difference in the world together.

Big Data

It sounds like an interesting place to fish, and something our Pam Baker has written about as well:

Journey to a Health Care Data Lake: Hadoop at Mercy

Ehealth

@lucienengelen and @JMedInternetRes are looking for a little help from their digital health friends:

What is e-health ? time for an update ? http://t.co/HRoxSShD3C and PLEASE take our short survey : http://t.co/8V9g5kCmgI #eHealth

— Lucien Engelen (@lucienengelen) March 12, 2015

EHR/EMR

I think this is also a reflection of the improvement in available offerings:

STATS | Physicians Believe in Digital and are Committed to Promoting EMR in their Clinical Practices

Gamification

Some impressive figures: “M2 Research estimates that by 2016, the market for tools, services and applications related to the deployment of gamified strategies will reach $2.8 billion.”

Gamification Boosts the Bottom Line While Promoting Engagement

Health 2.0/Social Media in Healthcare

The power of the 140:

Twitter Chatter Predicts Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment, Penn Study Shows

Health and Wellness Apps

A lot of “consent” language here:

EU health data definition concerning lifestyle and wellbeing apps

Health IT

A powerful and sad piece by @chrissyfarr that captures the unacceptable results of proprietary interests trumping patient needs:

Critical Condition: How a Broken Medical Records System is Endangering America’s Health 

Interoperability

Great interoperability news! Congrats @Validic and @Cerner!

Global #HIT Leader @Cerner selects @Validic for its #DigitalHealth platform http://t.co/b5EStsj16x #mhealth pic.twitter.com/8syuEivdOG

— Chris Edwards (@chrissedwards) March 12, 2015

mHealth

Also highlighted here is the increasing value of the data itself, something that Josh Trent wrote about for us today:

Survey: Data Privacy Biggest Barrier to mHealth Adoption

Medical Imaging

A great post by Ronny Bacharach @Viztek citing some big numbers:

Advances in Medical Imaging Systems Contribute to Global Market Growth

Personal Genomics

@Docweighsin Dr. Patricia Salber provides a nice synopsis:

Genia Technologies: A Game-Changer in DNA Sequencing

Quantified Self

An interesting and lively perspective about how much is too much:

“What to eat, when to meditate and whether to call your parents: can self-monitoring tools make a difference?”

Sensors and Wearables

This could make all kinds of difference in wearable battery life:

Silicon Nanofibers Boost Li-ion Batteries for EVs

Telehealth/Telemedicine/Connected Health

Congrats to @AmericanWell—who is the first in what will be a long list clamoring for such accreditation to satisfy providers, regulators and payers:

American Well’s Amwell™ Earns American Telemedicine Association’s First Accreditation for Online Patient Consultations

Editor’s Pick from the nuviun ranks:

I always love the great questions that come from our wonderful @JohnNosta:

Talent to Task: The Digital Health Accelerator Dilemma

Thanks for joining me—please stop in again next Friday for Digital Health Rounds.

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The nuviun blog is intended to contribute to discussion and stimulate debate on important issues in global digital health. The views are solely those of the author.