Samsung senior phone’s “medical” services
Wednesday - July 28th, 2010 - 11:16pm EST by Brian Dolan | Jitterbug Live Nurse | Jitterbug mobile health | medical apps | Samsung Haven | Verizon Wireless mobile health | well-being mobile services |
Those in the market for a “senior-friendly” phone just got another option: Samsung’s Haven, available to Verizon Wireless subscribers as of today. The Haven features a dedicated In Case of Emergency (ICE) button, adjustable fonts to make it easier to read text on the phone’s screen, speech recognition software and well-being and medical management tools.
The well-being and medical management tools apparently consist of “reminder alarms,” “fitness guide” and “stress relieving music.” Not exactly a comprehensive suite of mobile health services, but perhaps fairly representative of the majority of health and medical smartphone apps intended for use by consumers/patients and available in app stores today.
Here’s the pitch for the phone on the Verizon online store site: “The Samsung Haven makes it easy to speak, hear and be heard. Featuring a slim design and large keys for easy dialing, the Haven is ideal for anyone seeking a phone that’s easy to use. One–touch access to emergency numbers, voicemail, speakerphone and voice commands offer effortless execution, and built–in lifestyle applications like reminder alarms, fitness guide and stress relieving music are perfect for maintaining and organizing an active lifestyle. With such manageable features, the Haven is the right phone for those who want the easy life.”
Jitterbug’s phone services for seniors, which runs on Verizon Wireless’ network by the way, offers a growing list of health and medical services for its subscribers: Live Nurse, Heart Healthy Tips, Wellness Calls, 5Start Emergency (PERS coming in the fall). It has also tinkered with a diabetes management service (D-Coach by WellDoc) and a Medication Reminders service with Meridian Health. (more on Jitterbug’s services here.)
Check out the Samsung Haven phone over at Verizon’s site
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Siemens Innovation
Innovations 10 News & Events Education Discussion Forums
https://www.shsusers.org/Innovations/Innovations10/Keynote.asp
Keynote Presenters
Monday, August 9
8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Energizing Opening Session
You won't want to miss this opportunity to hear this dynamic keynote on ways to meet the challenges of changing technology by understanding the power of human technology.
Keith Harrell, "Attitude is Everything"
Known across "Corporate America" for his energetic, innovative presentations, Keith Harrell is a dynamic life coach who specializes in changing behaviors through a positive attitude. Harrell shares his powerful message, "Attitude is Everything" with audiences around the world. While growing up in Seattle, Washington, he aspired to become a professional basketball player. Although he never realized that dream, an article in The Wall Street Journal refers to him as a "Star With Attitude." The newspaper says, "What sets him apart from less successful speakers is driving ambition, and an attitude that refuses to flag." His signature keynote focuses on ways to meet the challenges of changing technology by understanding the power of human technology.
As president of Harrell Performance Systems, Harrell has created a firm specializing in helping the corporate marketplace achieve and maintain their goals through the power of a positive attitude and is a certified speaker, trainer and consultant.
His book, Attitude Is Everything: Ten Life Changing Steps to Turning Attitude Into Action, was released in March 2000. Harrell gives readers a 10-step program for tuning up your attitude and improving your professional and personal life.
Harrell earned his bachelor's degree in community service from Seattle University before embarking on a 14-year career with IBM where he was recognized as one of the top sales and training instructors. In 1997, Harrell received the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association. In August 2000, Harrell was inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame, a lifetime award for speaking excellence and professionalism.
Thomas J. Miller
CEO, Workflow and Solutions
Health Services
Siemens Healthcare
Tom Miller will present insightful and intriguing views on "Predicting the Future: The World of Healthcare Innovation."
John Glaser
Incoming CEO
Health Services
Siemens Healthcare
John Glaser will address the Innovations '10 audience as the incoming CEO of Siemens Health Services. Formerly the CIO at Partners Healthcare in Boston, John was also advisor to David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for healthcare IT, providing counsel to the Office of the National Coordinator and the Department of Health and Human Services on the HITECH portions of the federal government's stimulus bill, particularly regarding national efforts to adopt electronic medical records.
Dr. Max Rogers
Wednesday, August 11
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Exciting and Practical Closing Day Session
Don't miss this high-energy, multimedia keynote focused on healthcare.
Afterburner, Former Fighter Pilots, including a practicing physician, on achieving Flawless Execution in the healthcare industry.
"Learn how focus on the mission by defining strategy, assessing risks, communication and execution are key elements in aerial combat – and in the business."
Join us on August 11th for an event that will change the way you and your team execute strategies and meet your goals to succeed in today's healthcare environment. The Afterburner team of Brig General (Ret) Charles 'Chaz' Campbell and Dr. Max Rogers, are real Fighter Pilots who understand how critical it is to know how to handle yourself and your team in hostile, fast-changing environments every single day. The Flawless Execution ModelSM is the process used around the world to execute missions when the stakes are high and failure is not an option. For the last 20 years, the World Healthcare Organization and other medical organizations have recognized that the improvements in teamwork, communication and collaboration that dramatically improved aviation safety since the 1980's, directly relate to many of the challenges facing the healthcare industry. Today, many medical units are using techniques from the aviation community and specifically the Flawless Execution ModelSM to dramatically improve the way their teams perform.
Flawless ExecutionSM creates accountable actions and enables organizations to:
* Plan quickly and effectively by tapping into the power of cognitive diversity. In just six steps, your team can produce detailed plans based on individual accountability and team work;
* Brief to win by aligning and poising your team to execute initiatives flawlessly through proper communication techniques;
* Execute by creating an execution rhythm, which drives individual accountability; learn to identify and eliminate performance-draining Task SaturationSM; and
* Debrief your team on the outcome, creating a culture of learning that empowers an individual to offer and accept constructive criticism, create valuable lessons learned, and feed that learning back into future planning to be utilized by the entire organization.
Brig General (Ret) Charles 'Chaz' Campbell This process will dramatically improve small team communication and collaboration from the operating room to the medical unit. It will also provide a framework for continuous improvement that will positively impact patient satisfaction as well as medical business practices. In this rapidly changing, uncertain modern environment where quick response to change is essential to survival, a simple, scalable process that enables improved execution and accelerated learning is critical. Rare cockpit footage and state of the art graphics make for a presentation you will never forget.
https://www.shsusers.org/Innovations/Innovations10/Keynote.asp
Keynote Presenters
Monday, August 9
8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Energizing Opening Session
You won't want to miss this opportunity to hear this dynamic keynote on ways to meet the challenges of changing technology by understanding the power of human technology.
Keith Harrell, "Attitude is Everything"
Known across "Corporate America" for his energetic, innovative presentations, Keith Harrell is a dynamic life coach who specializes in changing behaviors through a positive attitude. Harrell shares his powerful message, "Attitude is Everything" with audiences around the world. While growing up in Seattle, Washington, he aspired to become a professional basketball player. Although he never realized that dream, an article in The Wall Street Journal refers to him as a "Star With Attitude." The newspaper says, "What sets him apart from less successful speakers is driving ambition, and an attitude that refuses to flag." His signature keynote focuses on ways to meet the challenges of changing technology by understanding the power of human technology.
As president of Harrell Performance Systems, Harrell has created a firm specializing in helping the corporate marketplace achieve and maintain their goals through the power of a positive attitude and is a certified speaker, trainer and consultant.
His book, Attitude Is Everything: Ten Life Changing Steps to Turning Attitude Into Action, was released in March 2000. Harrell gives readers a 10-step program for tuning up your attitude and improving your professional and personal life.
Harrell earned his bachelor's degree in community service from Seattle University before embarking on a 14-year career with IBM where he was recognized as one of the top sales and training instructors. In 1997, Harrell received the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association. In August 2000, Harrell was inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame, a lifetime award for speaking excellence and professionalism.
Thomas J. Miller
CEO, Workflow and Solutions
Health Services
Siemens Healthcare
Tom Miller will present insightful and intriguing views on "Predicting the Future: The World of Healthcare Innovation."
John Glaser
Incoming CEO
Health Services
Siemens Healthcare
John Glaser will address the Innovations '10 audience as the incoming CEO of Siemens Health Services. Formerly the CIO at Partners Healthcare in Boston, John was also advisor to David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for healthcare IT, providing counsel to the Office of the National Coordinator and the Department of Health and Human Services on the HITECH portions of the federal government's stimulus bill, particularly regarding national efforts to adopt electronic medical records.
Dr. Max Rogers
Wednesday, August 11
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Exciting and Practical Closing Day Session
Don't miss this high-energy, multimedia keynote focused on healthcare.
Afterburner, Former Fighter Pilots, including a practicing physician, on achieving Flawless Execution in the healthcare industry.
"Learn how focus on the mission by defining strategy, assessing risks, communication and execution are key elements in aerial combat – and in the business."
Join us on August 11th for an event that will change the way you and your team execute strategies and meet your goals to succeed in today's healthcare environment. The Afterburner team of Brig General (Ret) Charles 'Chaz' Campbell and Dr. Max Rogers, are real Fighter Pilots who understand how critical it is to know how to handle yourself and your team in hostile, fast-changing environments every single day. The Flawless Execution ModelSM is the process used around the world to execute missions when the stakes are high and failure is not an option. For the last 20 years, the World Healthcare Organization and other medical organizations have recognized that the improvements in teamwork, communication and collaboration that dramatically improved aviation safety since the 1980's, directly relate to many of the challenges facing the healthcare industry. Today, many medical units are using techniques from the aviation community and specifically the Flawless Execution ModelSM to dramatically improve the way their teams perform.
Flawless ExecutionSM creates accountable actions and enables organizations to:
* Plan quickly and effectively by tapping into the power of cognitive diversity. In just six steps, your team can produce detailed plans based on individual accountability and team work;
* Brief to win by aligning and poising your team to execute initiatives flawlessly through proper communication techniques;
* Execute by creating an execution rhythm, which drives individual accountability; learn to identify and eliminate performance-draining Task SaturationSM; and
* Debrief your team on the outcome, creating a culture of learning that empowers an individual to offer and accept constructive criticism, create valuable lessons learned, and feed that learning back into future planning to be utilized by the entire organization.
Brig General (Ret) Charles 'Chaz' Campbell This process will dramatically improve small team communication and collaboration from the operating room to the medical unit. It will also provide a framework for continuous improvement that will positively impact patient satisfaction as well as medical business practices. In this rapidly changing, uncertain modern environment where quick response to change is essential to survival, a simple, scalable process that enables improved execution and accelerated learning is critical. Rare cockpit footage and state of the art graphics make for a presentation you will never forget.
Friday, July 16, 2010
You can't put diesel in your car, but you can mistake baby tubes
Safety experts watch Las Vegas Hospital: Problems spur queries about the engineering of medical devices
[Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV)]
Published Date: July 15, 2010 09:06:00 AM EDT
Author: By Paul Harasim, Las Vegas Review-Journal
July 15--National medical safety experts are closely following news accounts of what Sunrise Children's Hospital officials have called incidents of "disrupted catheters" that have left one newborn baby in critical condition.
Another infant had to undergo an emergency operation as a result of catheter disruption, the hospital disclosed in a Friday statement that also revealed there have been 14 such incidents since February. Two Sunrise nurses, Jessica May Rice and Sharon Ochoa-Reyes, have been named in a Las Vegas police investigation into "intentional patient harm" and have had their licenses suspended by the Nevada State Nursing Board.
News of the Sunrise situation has "spread like wildfire in safety circles," said Mike Cohen, head of the Pennsylvania-based Institute for Safe Medication Practices, which sends out a regular safety bulletin to hospitals throughout the country.
"Everybody is trying to figure out what happened," he said. "Nobody knows what the hospital means by 'disrupted catheters.'?"
A catheter is a tube that can provide nutrition and medication to a patient.
While acknowledging that medical personnel have been known to act as "angels of death" in deranged efforts to relieve a patient of his or her misery, the safety experts are raising one major question based on problems found at hospitals throughout the country.
Could the disrupted catheters at Sunrise, -- which hospital officials first thought stemmed from technical problems -- have malfunctioned because outdated engineering allows human error?
The national Institute of Medicine estimates that as many as 98,000 people die each year because of preventable medical errors.
"You can't put diesel fuel in your gas tank, but you can inadvertently mix medication and nutrition for a baby through a tubing misconnection," said Debora Simmons, head of the Houston-based National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare. "As a safety researcher, I've been looking at this problem of tubing misconnections for seven years. The medical industry is probably the only industry that designs things where anything can connect to anything."
"It's craziness," she said. "We don't recognize in the way our medical equipment is manufactured that people can make mistakes. When it comes to public safety, when it is at all possible, you have to engineer things so they are incompatible. Don't you think a lot of people might be ruining their engines by mistake with diesel fuel if engineering hadn't made it impossible to do?"
Simmons said it is difficult to expect that busy critical care nurses, though highly trained and well intentioned, will never make a mistake. She noted that a critically ill patient has tubes of one sort of another inserted into much of his body.
Often working quickly in low light to connect IVs for medication and fluids as well as feeding tubes, nurses may sometimes forget to look at where the tubes originate, Simmons said.
"The best solution is to design tubes so that the ones that shouldn't fit together don't," she said, arguing that the cost of re-engineering equipment is largely the reason it hasn't been done.
Cohen noted that his organization reported to hospitals across the country in 2006 that tubing used to deliver breast milk to a baby was mistakenly connected to an IV delivering medications.
"The baby had seizures and respiratory distress but recovered," he said. However, many babies in that situation die, he said.
"We write about these kind of incidents a lot," he said. "Designed incompatibility is necessary to prevent dangerous misconnections of tubes and catheters."
Not only children suffer because of tubing misconnections, Cohen stressed.
Several people have died after tubing from a blood pressure machine or an oxygen mask was mistakenly connected to an IV tube supplying fluid and medicine into a vein. The wrong connection allowed air to enter the vein, causing a fatal embolism.
On July 9, the same day Sunrise officials disclosed problems with catheters in its children's hospital, officials with the nation's Food and Drug Administration wrote a letter about misconnections in medical tubing to manufacturers of medical equipment and health care authorities throughout the country.
The ease of connection has "led to misconnections that have inadvertently linked unrelated systems, and at times, have resulted in serious adverse events. In particular, misconnections with ... feeding tubes and solutions have been associated with serious death and injury," according to the FDA.
The letter suggests manufacturers make design changes that include color coding and adopt the principle "of designed incompatibility, to ensure that devices that should not be connected cannot, in fact, be connected."
On Wednesday, Sunrise officials and police investigators continued to decline comment about the disrupted catheters.
Neither Rice nor Ochoa-Reyes was available for comment Wednesday.
Both of the national safety officials interviewed by the Review-Journal want to believe that neither nurse could have hurt babies intentionally.
"I really want to believe that we're talking about accidents," said Simmons, who studies incidents around the country.
"It's highly unusual for nurses to get together to do harm to patients. But 14 of these accidents since February? That's a lot of accidents."
Contact reporter Paul Harasim at pharasim@review journal.com or 702-387-2908.
To see more of the Review-Journal or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.lvrj.com.
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[Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV)]
Published Date: July 15, 2010 09:06:00 AM EDT
Author: By Paul Harasim, Las Vegas Review-Journal
July 15--National medical safety experts are closely following news accounts of what Sunrise Children's Hospital officials have called incidents of "disrupted catheters" that have left one newborn baby in critical condition.
Another infant had to undergo an emergency operation as a result of catheter disruption, the hospital disclosed in a Friday statement that also revealed there have been 14 such incidents since February. Two Sunrise nurses, Jessica May Rice and Sharon Ochoa-Reyes, have been named in a Las Vegas police investigation into "intentional patient harm" and have had their licenses suspended by the Nevada State Nursing Board.
News of the Sunrise situation has "spread like wildfire in safety circles," said Mike Cohen, head of the Pennsylvania-based Institute for Safe Medication Practices, which sends out a regular safety bulletin to hospitals throughout the country.
"Everybody is trying to figure out what happened," he said. "Nobody knows what the hospital means by 'disrupted catheters.'?"
A catheter is a tube that can provide nutrition and medication to a patient.
While acknowledging that medical personnel have been known to act as "angels of death" in deranged efforts to relieve a patient of his or her misery, the safety experts are raising one major question based on problems found at hospitals throughout the country.
Could the disrupted catheters at Sunrise, -- which hospital officials first thought stemmed from technical problems -- have malfunctioned because outdated engineering allows human error?
The national Institute of Medicine estimates that as many as 98,000 people die each year because of preventable medical errors.
"You can't put diesel fuel in your gas tank, but you can inadvertently mix medication and nutrition for a baby through a tubing misconnection," said Debora Simmons, head of the Houston-based National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare. "As a safety researcher, I've been looking at this problem of tubing misconnections for seven years. The medical industry is probably the only industry that designs things where anything can connect to anything."
"It's craziness," she said. "We don't recognize in the way our medical equipment is manufactured that people can make mistakes. When it comes to public safety, when it is at all possible, you have to engineer things so they are incompatible. Don't you think a lot of people might be ruining their engines by mistake with diesel fuel if engineering hadn't made it impossible to do?"
Simmons said it is difficult to expect that busy critical care nurses, though highly trained and well intentioned, will never make a mistake. She noted that a critically ill patient has tubes of one sort of another inserted into much of his body.
Often working quickly in low light to connect IVs for medication and fluids as well as feeding tubes, nurses may sometimes forget to look at where the tubes originate, Simmons said.
"The best solution is to design tubes so that the ones that shouldn't fit together don't," she said, arguing that the cost of re-engineering equipment is largely the reason it hasn't been done.
Cohen noted that his organization reported to hospitals across the country in 2006 that tubing used to deliver breast milk to a baby was mistakenly connected to an IV delivering medications.
"The baby had seizures and respiratory distress but recovered," he said. However, many babies in that situation die, he said.
"We write about these kind of incidents a lot," he said. "Designed incompatibility is necessary to prevent dangerous misconnections of tubes and catheters."
Not only children suffer because of tubing misconnections, Cohen stressed.
Several people have died after tubing from a blood pressure machine or an oxygen mask was mistakenly connected to an IV tube supplying fluid and medicine into a vein. The wrong connection allowed air to enter the vein, causing a fatal embolism.
On July 9, the same day Sunrise officials disclosed problems with catheters in its children's hospital, officials with the nation's Food and Drug Administration wrote a letter about misconnections in medical tubing to manufacturers of medical equipment and health care authorities throughout the country.
The ease of connection has "led to misconnections that have inadvertently linked unrelated systems, and at times, have resulted in serious adverse events. In particular, misconnections with ... feeding tubes and solutions have been associated with serious death and injury," according to the FDA.
The letter suggests manufacturers make design changes that include color coding and adopt the principle "of designed incompatibility, to ensure that devices that should not be connected cannot, in fact, be connected."
On Wednesday, Sunrise officials and police investigators continued to decline comment about the disrupted catheters.
Neither Rice nor Ochoa-Reyes was available for comment Wednesday.
Both of the national safety officials interviewed by the Review-Journal want to believe that neither nurse could have hurt babies intentionally.
"I really want to believe that we're talking about accidents," said Simmons, who studies incidents around the country.
"It's highly unusual for nurses to get together to do harm to patients. But 14 of these accidents since February? That's a lot of accidents."
Contact reporter Paul Harasim at pharasim@review journal.com or 702-387-2908.
To see more of the Review-Journal or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.lvrj.com.
Copyright (c) 2010, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
For more information about the content services offered by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT), visit www.mctinfoservices.com, e-mail services@mctinfoservices.com, or call 866-280-5210 (outside the United States, call +1 312-222-4544)
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