mHealth’s "disruptive change" is unavoidable:
Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) founder and CEO Robert McCray penned an editorial for MobiHealthNews touting a future in which mHealth satifies the "exploding" demands on the U.S. health care system, and said the changes that wireless technology can bring are unavoidable.
"[I]t is apparent that some institutions and professions will resist the demand for more personalized and efficient access to care. In the face of competition and digital information, however, they will ultimately be unable to resist disruptive change any better than the automobile, music or retail industries."
GreatCall launches cell phone emergency access system:
GreatCall Inc. announced the national availability of its 5Star Personal Security service on the company’s Jitterbug J cell phone. The 5Star Personal Security service is a mobile [phone] personal emergency response system (mPERS) designed to give GreatCall customers real-time access to medical help 24 hours a day.
Mobile ultrasound could become essential tool for docs:
Medgadget editor Iltifat Husain opines that ultrasound will eventually be used instead of stethoscopes in "the majority of primary-care and cardiac practices in industrialized countries." Moreover, "the price of an ultrasound system," he wrote, "doesn’t have to compete with a stethoscope because it can tell you much more with similar training."
Study: iPhone app makes accurate stroke diagnosis:
Researchers from the University of Calgary have shown that doctors can make a stroke diagnosis using an iPhone application just as accurately (and faster) than they can on a traditional computer. In a study recently published by Journal of Medical Internet Research, two neuro-radiologists looked at 120 consecutive noncontrast computed tomography (NCCT) scans and 70 computed tomography angiogram (CTA) head scans. One used a diagnostic workstation and the other using Calgary Scientific’s ResolutionMD Mobile app. The study results showed that using the ResolutionMD app is between 94 percent – 100 percent accurate in diagnosing acute stroke, compared to a medical workstation.
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