Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School this week opened a previously announced competition to develop “iPhone-like” applications to help unlock data stored in electronic health records. While the focus is on Web apps, the federally funded contest is encouraging submissions for mobile tablets, with a promise of “further optimization for smaller screens” such as smartphones by summer.
Children’s and Harvard will award $5,000 for the best application in June and
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Telemedicine encompasses the use of technology to monitor patients remotely, store clinical data, or facilitate real-time communication between patients and providers. In this podcast we examine some of the regulatory issues and other barriers preventing the faster expansion of telemedicine in the U.S.; including licensure, Internet/telemedicine prescribing, confidentiality and privacy of patient information, reimbursement and coding, and legal liability.
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Corey Vander Jagt, Dir or Product Marketing at Astadia, winner of an InnovatioNEXT award, discusses the healthcare integration work that his systems integration company has been building on the Pervasive DataCloud on the Amazon Web Services platform.
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