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The FDA is creating a largely automated surveillance system to monitor safety of high-risk medical devices, and has authorized a cellphone app for doctors to simplify reporting deaths and injuries to the agency.
Geography and physician referral still top the Internet when it comes to patients' healthcare choices, but insurance coverage is by far the biggest driver when it comes to parents choosing a doctor for their children, according to a new national survey.
This is very sobering for enthusiasts of online rating since this survey is for selection of pediatrician. The population of "choosers" being tested here is largely young mothers who have a very high penetration of internet use and may be using digital sources of the grapevine (like Facebook) over the rating services. I w ould think the reported effect would be even more pronouned if tested in a population of senior citizens.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have given a boost to telemedicine proponents with the publication of a new study that highlights smartphones' efficacy and quality in capturing medical images to evaluate stroke patients. The study, published in the September issue of Stroke is the first to test the effectiveness of smartphone teleradiology applications in a real-world telestroke network, according to Mayo Clinic officials.
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"There's an app for that." Physicians are often criticized for not doing a better job reporting adverse events and this is largely because the method for reporting to the FDA has been burdensome and difficult. An easy to use reporting strategy from a smartphone will increase my reporting dramatically. The speed of reporting and analysis by FDA for actionable items should be significantly shortened.