Is Agile Development Good for Health IT?
Agile software development teams rapidly deliver high quality applications that customers actually use. That’s the promise. The Standish Group has estimated that 64% of software features are rarely – if ever – used and only 20% are regularly used. In Health IT, where software development costs are inherently high, this factor is particularly noteworthy. In addition to the costs of compliance...
Read More20+ Federal Healthcare Apps
The federal government has developed several mHealth offerings. A USA.gov page lists 85 federal government mobile apps and mobile websites. 21 of them, or 25%, are healthcare related. Of these, 14 are apps, 6 are mobile websites and one is offered as both an app and a mobile website. Users with mobile devices made by Apple, iPhones and iPads, have the most app choices. Of the 15 healthcare apps...
Read MoremHealth – Health IT Going Mobile
Is mHealth on the verge of explosive growth? Consider that remote monitoring tools already exist for diabetes, asthma, cardiac arrhythmia, sleep apnea and other conditions. According to Berg Insight, 200 million in the US and EU suffer from these conditions. iPhone apps are available to monitor blood pressure and glucose levels. Berg Insight estimates that the global mHealth market reached $10...
Read MoreMedical Images: Control Your Own
In the not too distant future you may be able to control your medical images the same you control your bank account today. That is the goal of a new project funded by the NIH. The pilot project will allow 300,000 patients to do just that as soon as the first quarter of 2011. Thanks to a contract awarded to LifeImage Inc. of Newton, MA patients will be able to use the lifeIMAGE platform to manage...
Read MoreScientific Collaboration Online
A 2009 National Institutes of Health grant funded the development of an online community to support collaboration among scientists across multiple disciplines. The result is VIVO, an emerging national network of scientists from government, private and acacemic institutions.
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