The impact of medical tourism on medical devices

The Center for Business Intelligence (CBI) will be hosting a webinar on this topic on February 26th, 2008. According to the website , the webinar will address important questions medical tourism raises for the medical device industry:

Intel continues to play with global health

Back in July, I wrote about Intel's plans to make health care more techno-savvy. Yesterday, I came across a headline in India eNews: "Intel helping spread school health." Thanks to Intel, a girls' high school in the southern state of Tamil Nadu became the first school in India to have a health monitoring program; the program will soon be launched nationwide.

Your heart rate monitor watch will soon be obsolete . . .

I was cruising for something to blog about when I came across this headline: "DIY pervasive health monitor keeps tabs on your vitals." Do-it-yourself health? Persuasive technology? Six months ago, I wouldn't have had any idea of what those terms meant (nor would you have ever found me blogging). But I have learned a lot during my relatively short tenure at IFTF, and now I can recognize a Health Horizons blog-worthy story when I see one.

EHRs

iHealthBeat reports on a survey of doctors regarding the use of Electronic Health Records (EHR). Thirty-five percent of physicians surveyed by Medical Economics have an EHR system. Of the physicians who don't, 30% said they planned to adopt an EHR system within the year.

Doctors: When did you Adopt an Electronic Health Record System?

Intel's plans to make health care more techno-savvy

According to Intel chairman Craig Barrett, the health care industry has been slow to adopt existing technology to achieve reform. Healthcare IT News reports on Barrett's speech at a recent chronic care summit hosted by Intel in Washington, D.C.

Oh no! Not more Google Health news!

Honest, I am not obsessed with Google. But they just keep poking around at the edges of Health 2.0, so I feel obligated to play along.

Last week, Google announced a new advisory board on health. It consists of a number of MDs and members of the medical "establishment," a few business people (including a Wal-Mart rep), and one or two patient advocates (depending on how you view the Lance Armstrong Foundation).

Regenerative medicine in the not-so-distant future?

We tend to look five to fifteen years towards the future in our forecasts and maps. On the global health economy map we debuted at the Health Horizons Spring Conference, I felt our projections around the implementation of tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and body hacking to be fairly long stretches.

I love being proved wrong. The headline "Dawn of bioengineering in treating irregular heartbeats" just flashed across my screen ticker.