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Everyday across the U.S., tens of thousands of patients in the Veterans Administration health system start their day by answering questions about how they feel. But they aren't meeting with a doctor or a nurse — or even talking to them on the phone. Instead they are pressing buttons on an alarm clock-size device called a Health Buddy. Some of the patients will connect a weight scale or a blood pressure cuff to the device, which transmits the information to a VA database where it is analyzed for warning signs of impending health problems. The VA's 49,000-patient network is part of a quiet revolution in health care dubbed "telemedicine," aimed at improving care and lowering costs by keeping patients out of hospitals and nursing homes. The cost of monitoring a VA patient at home is $1,900 per year, compared with $77,000 for nursing home care, according to the government agency. Most of the patients in the VA program have chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease and depression. With health care costs consuming nearly a fifth of the economy, devices like the Health Buddy offer one way to manage the wave of baby boomers that will require more and more medical care as they age. Telemedicine has been endorsed by doctors and care takers who believe seniors fare better at home, amid familiar routines and surroundings. Even doctors at tech savvy medical practices point out the technological and economic hurdles.
Bolohealth.com: India’s first health and wellness portal with social networking - eHealth
'bolohealth.com,' the first-of-its-kind Indian portal for health and wellness was unveiled on 22, July, 09. The portal will enable users to network with health enthusiasts and access health related information online. Addressing the press, Dr. Simanta Sharma, Founder and Managing Director of HealthOn Infosoft Pvt. Ltd. said, 'bolohealth.com attempts to break the clutter by becoming your online health buddy – it makes you ask, voice your opinion and thoughts, and participate through 'My bolohealth'. It is truly a first of its kind model of participatory healthcare or health networking.' He further added, 'bolohealth.com, through its repertoire of diverse forms of content makes you experience healthiness, connect with likeminded health enthusiasts and listen to their stories, and most importantly, get real and active about health itself.'
'In its content portfolio – bolohealth.com is rich and comprehensive what with its many microsites such as -- on pregnancy and women's health, skin, hair and beauty, diet, nutrition and fitness, sex and relationships, children's health and parenting and many more – all of these addressing the diverse needs of modern day users,' informed Sharmistha Dey, Co-founder, and Chief Editor and Content Officer of the portal. She further added, 'bolohealth.com is interactive and makes health interesting and fun with its content forms such as features, quizzes, slideshows, QnAs. And last but not the least, bolohealth.com is as much health by the people with its Web 2.0 components as it is health for the people and of the people.' 'People are reading, people are talking, people are asking as well as interacting. We are an evolved and ever more inquisitive audience. And we need to learn! Bolohealth.com is a comprehensive health portal to reckon with because of what it offers its audience – relevance and authenticity of the content it serves – and because of its power to engage and involve the audience. bolohealth's panel of doctors, health professionals and medical writers speak about matters relevant to the health of the Indian audience,' said Jini Mathai, Co-founder, and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, HealthOn Infosoft Pvt Ltd.
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- Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. No one wants to think about the stuff I do — death, suffering, pain, heartache, grief, sorrow. Individual reluctance is mirrored in the health care system's belief that more care and technology can stave off death, and that what we don't talk about won't happen. And often that strategy... More »
- Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The mobile phone is a strong contender as a key transforming agent in the future of health and healthcare. There are now more than 5.3 billion cell phone users around the globe, and 90 percent of the world's population is covered by a commercial wireless signal. We now have... More »
- Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Health systems are at a crossroads. Throughout the world, countries at all levels of economic development and with all types of political systems have embarked in a creative search for the elusive goal of universal coverage. From Chile, China, and Ghana to the USA, India, and Rwanda, novel ways... More »
- Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. When I first suggested to a team of health care clinicians that their work needed to be radically redesigned, I was told that the word "radical" was reserved for only the most serious of medical procedures and I had no license to use the word — after all, I... More »
- Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The challenge that we face — making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people — is not unique to health care. Almost every industry began with services and products that were so complicated and expensive to provide that only people with a lot of skill and a... More »
- Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. At first blush, it would appear that entrepreneurship is alive and well in health care. And that's true in many areas: New devices, pharmaceuticals, and surgical techniques regularly get developed and incorporated into practice. Virtually every day, there is information about a clinical study with a new way to... More »
- Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. As we face the challenges of advancing "Healthcare and Innovation" at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, advocating for further diffusion of cost-effective and proven heath benefits of vaccination improves quality and access, and is a key to preventing disease. While vaccines (initially discovered in 1792) now enter their fourth... More »
- Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. By the time I saw Mr. Johnson (not his real name), he had received three CT scans in less than 24 hours — and we had done nothing to make him feel better or cure his clinical problem. The day prior, he had seen his primary care physician in... More »
- Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Health is defined by the World Health Organization as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity...The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race,... More »
- Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. In a famous scene in 1875, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow returned to Bowdoin College with his classmates to celebrate their 50th reunion. Many had died, but through verse, Longfellow challenged those remaining to think how much they could still do: "For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though... More »
- Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Welcome to the dawning era of social innovation, in which more people aspire to tackle old problems in new ways with new tools. Lacking confidence in established organizations and governments to do the trick, innovators think that it's time to reinvent institutions to make progress on social issues such... More »
- Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Supposedly, everyone working in health care wants the same thing: to help people get and stay healthy. "Everyone" includes primary care doctors, medical specialists, nurses, hospital administrators, health insurance providers, nutritionists, pharmaceutical companies, medical technology manufacturers, fitness gurus, paraprofessionals, public health commissioners, and charities dedicated to a disease... More »
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