Overview: A standardized survey instrument and data collection methodology for measuring patients’ perspectives on hospital care Contains 18 patient perspectives on care and patient rating items that encompass...
Jitterbug Wireless is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) founded in 2006. They offer simplified mobile hardware and service targeted towards baby boomers, with the value proposition being...
Overview: County-level indicators of health Covers 3,141 US counties Approx 200 elements Launched in 2000, in hiatus 2004-2006, but working since then Source link Elements: [freemind]/wp-content/uploads/mindmaps/CHSI.mm[/freemind]
Overview: A national survey about the provision and use of ambulatory medical care services in the United States Findings are based on a sample of visits to non-federal...
Overview: SAMHSA was established in 1992 to target substance abuse and mental health services The Office of Applied Studies (OAS) is an Office within SAMHSA- it is the...
Overview: Model-based estimates of health insurance coverage for states and all counties in US In July 2005, SAHIE released the first nation-wide set of county-level estimates on uninsured...
Overview: Information on health risk behaviors, preventive health practices, and health care access primarily related to chronic disease and injury Claimed to be world’s largest, on-going telephone health...
MeYou Health is a ‘well-being company’, in their own words. Their offerings help users engage in a healthy lifestyle, using their social network support. If you are like...
As I’ve written before, medication adherence is an undeniably critical problem for the healthcare system. Most startups in this area have taken the approach of finding novel ways...
Drug safety surveillance (more formally, pharmacovigilence) is a serious and complex issue. Once a drug is FDA-approved and on the market, it needs to be constantly monitored for...
Asthmapolis is brainchild of David Van Sickle a researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison. The basic idea is to equip inhalers with a GPS tag to determine when and...
VisualDx is healthcare’s answer to the visual search trend led by companies like search-cube.com, like.com etc. VisualDx helps identify dental and medical diseases by letting providers search for...
Toumaz technology is a spin-off from Imperial College of London , and they make what is probably the only ultra low-power silicon chip targeted for healthcare applications. In...
Palpitations, dizziness, and fainting can often be symptoms of underlying heart disease. The key to the correctly diagnosing them is reliable documentation of the underlying cardiac rhythm when...
In the last few years, bar code scanning with smartphones has become much more robust and dependable functionality. Predictably enough, it’s main application has been in real-time comparison...