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Small Business Trade Association Defiantly Planning Next Steps after Healthcare Reform Upheld

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TMCnet's Healthcare Tech Week in Review

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Young People, Right or Wrong, Rely on Web and Mobile Devices for Healthcare Info

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I’m probably showing my age but when I wanted information I was uncomfortable asking my parents about, especially health-related, I went to my friends, preferably in some dark, hidden place.

But more and more young people today are using smartphones to keep track of their health, according to a story by Milt Freudenheim. According to a website called the Young Invincibles, 39 percent of young people ages 18 to 29 own a smartphone.

Freudenheim reports in his story that young adults are, of course, much more likely than older people to have a smartphone and to use it to look for health information, as found out by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which surveys technology trends.  And what are these young adults looking up?

The three hottest topics searched for on Yahoo Mobile in January were, you guessed it, early pregnancy, herpes and HIV, as stated by comScore, an online research firm, according to Freudenheim.

The most popular symptom searches on PCs? Gastroenteritis, heart attacks, gout and shingles, Yahoo said – appropriate for the older people who tend to use computer keyboards to look up health information.

A survey done by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation all the way back in 2001 found that two out of three young people at that time used the Internet for health information, and four out of ten said they believed what they found on the Web, and acted on it.

Young adults aren’t just using mobile devices to track whether nausea and fatigue are early signs of pregnancy, they’re also  downloading apps to help manage their eating, drinking and exercise, just like older adults, Freudenheim says, referring to a survey by Everyday Health, an online company with health, diet and exercise Web sites.

Geoff McCleary, group director for mobile innovation at Digitas Health, told Freudenheim that some health care companies were even “noticing that more people were using a mobile device to visit their Web sites.”

So what are we to make of all this? As most of us have found, not everything on the Web is true. Are young people being led astray by trusting what they find? A recent study found that a third of young adults believe “the Internet is as vital to the human race as air, food, and water.” So is it dangerous that they’re getting their health information on the Web? Hard to say. The only thing we know for sure is that most kids, since time began, look for information every place but from their parents!

Edited by Carrie Schmelkin
By Deborah Hirsch , HealthTechZone Contributor

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TMCnet's Healthcare Tech Week in Review

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It’s all the rage in our country, the electronic sharing of data among healthcare professionals. But IBM announced that Soon Chun Hyang University Hospital, a Korean healthcare institution, will use IBM's smarter computing approach to build the country’s first integrated hospital infrastructure to allow doctors, nurses, clinical laboratories and insurance institutions to share patient data in Seoul, Bucheon, ChunAn and Kumi.

Today Independa and LivHOME, Inc., announced an agreement under which LivHOME, a provider of “professionally led at-home care for seniors,” will use Independa’s CloudCare services to not only remotely monitor them for safety but also offer ways to stay socially engaged with the world, and will be available in late spring. It’s a new movement and it’s called “aging in place.” What it simply means is creating an environment that’s safe enough for seniors and those living with chronic disease to remain at home, not be shuttled off to a nursing home.

To us when we’re in the hospital, it’s a welcome sound, that buzz. It signals the nurse that we need her. But imagine you’re surrounded every day, every hour by endless buzzing, beeping, and hissing. Do you think you’d hear any of it, after awhile?

That’s the disturbing conclusion the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has come to, following a story last year in The Boston Globe that linked this “alarm fatigue” to hundreds of deaths. So the FDA is taking steps to reduce this in hospitals “by intensifying its pre-market review of medical devices that sound alarms and could contribute to the desensitization of nurses.”

If you’re waiting for a heart, you might be pretty annoyed that former Vice President Dick Cheney, at age 71, just got one. But according to Fox News’ Dr. Marc Siegel, he didn’t jump any lines. But as Siegel points out, the heart transplant itself isn’t really the news – it’s the left ventricular assist device (LVAD), or mechanical pump, “also known as a ‘bridge to transplant,’ which has improved to the point where it may sometimes take the place of a transplant itself.”

If you’re as confused as I am about the cases currently in front of the Supreme Court that revolve around the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Mary Massaron Ross may be able to guide you. I talked with her on the phone this week about the several pending cases that involve the new health care act and she cleared a lot of things up.

Massaron Ross, president-elect of the DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar, is a defense attorney with Plunkett Cooney PC in Detroit and an appellate law expert. DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar is a 22,000-member organization that represents businesses and corporations in civil litigation.

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Enterprise Fax over IP: Considering the 'Paper Problem' in Healthcare

By Juliana Kenny, TMCnet Managing Editor

The healthcare and medical industry has some of the most dreaded and complicated paper trails and processes out of most industries (legal probably pulling a close second). Issues involving compliance, security, and financial details leave healthcare organizations looking for paperless solutions. Unfortunately, once an organization adopts a paperless solution that does not necessarily mean it’s automatically relieved of compliance issues.

The folks over at OpenText did some research and found out that compliancy fines in the U.S. are at an all-time high for healthcare organizations. These compliancy violations can exceed seven figures, so at stakes that high, organizations need to be aware of the penalties possible and actively work to prevent accruing them.

The risks associated with paper-based communications and processes are not widely known, especially amongst enterprises. Education on these processes is really the only way to ensure that a business will not get booby-trapped into compliance fines and expensive legal proceedings.

A webinar planned for Thursday, April 12 at 2 p.m. ET is designed to shed some light on the best practices for companies that have implemented digital fax solutions and paperless procedures. Titled “A Simple and Compliant Solution to the Paper Problem in Healthcare: Expert Insight and an Example from the Real World,” the webinar intends to discuss security, privacy, and risks.

OpenText will reveal how it integrates its digital faxing solution to achieve HIPAA compliance, improve processes, and dramatically lower costs. Members of healthcare organizations in the compliance and managerial tiers will learn ways to improve productivity and patient care while maintaining the security of data and patient information. Attend the webinar on the 12th to get the whole scoop on what the paperless industry is doing for healthcare.

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Big Data Enables Healthcare to Process Massive Amounts of Data for Clues into Illness

By Deborah Hirsch TMCnet Contributor

It’s only just being talked about, but it’s been around for awhile. The name is clean, simple and says it all. Big Data — the ability to crunch the massive amounts of data out there and process and interpret it, according to Ben Rooney of the Wall Street Journal.

TMCnet contributor Nathesh recently reported that a study by research firm IDC has shown that “the Big Data technology and services market is growing at 40 percent a year and by 2015 will reach $16.9 billion” – seven times the overall information technology and communications business growth rate.

Healthcare is one of the places it may play out most.

In the past, wrote Rooney, healthcare was one doctor looking at one patient with only the information the doctor had at that time. But what if a doctor has access to thousands, or even tens of thousands, of people? And all the data that goes with them?

Acquiring medical data has historically not been easy, wrote Rooney, as it is “wrapped in layers of regulations and stringent safeguards and is expensive to collect.” Even more difficult to interpret and use, it hasn’t represented the whole population – just the ones who are sick.  

So while health services can already collect information from laboratories, hospitals and front-line doctors, the problem is that “It is massively skewed. It is highly biased by the people who go to doctors; the ill, the hypochondriacs and the elderly,” Shamus Husheer, CEO of Cambridge Temperature Concepts, told Rooney.

Big data is no stranger to other industries. It’s storage technology is being used to power advanced research across universities and to extract clinical and operational data from iPads and digital pens “for visualization into dashboards and drill-down analyses and in the creation of reports.”  

One of the applications in the healthcare world made by Husheer's company using big data is a sensor that women wishing to conceive wear 24 hours a day “which records movement and changes in body temperature (an indication of ovulation), up to 20,000 readings a day,” valuable information that is obtained only through searching through mounds of data.

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