May 1, 2013
ECG Alarm Alerts Docs to Silent Killer
An institution-wide, computer-based alert system for irregular heart rhythms identified and characterized patients at risk of death, researchers found. Patients identified by the alert system with a greater than 500 ms corrected interval between the Q and T waves of their ECG cycle had a significantly higher risk of death compared with a QTc interval […]
Tags: alert system, Dr. Michael Ackerman, ECG alarm, irregular heart rhythms, MedPage Today
April 29, 2013
Mayo Clinic captures top two awards for Innovative Services in Health Management
Mayo Clinic captured the top two prizes for Innovative Services in Health Management, one of twelve categories presented by the Edison Awards at the ceremony in Chicago. The Gold went to the Mayo Clinic Patient App, which allows Mayo Clinic patients to have mobile access to their personal medical records and appointment schedules through the […]
Tags: Edison Awards, Health Information, Innovative Services in Health Management, iPad App, Mayo Clinic Patient App, medical records, mobile access, News Medical, Patient Online Services
April 26, 2013
Mayo Clinic Creates Institution-Wide Electronic Prolonged QT Interval Warning System
Using a one-of-a-kind computer-aided program, Mayo Clinic has developed and implemented a Mayo-wide electronic warning system to identify patients at risk of QT-related deaths from an abnormality in the heart’s electrical system. The system informs all physicians, regardless of their specialty or QT awareness, if their patient’s ECG activated the QT alarm. In addition, the […]
Tags: alarm, computer program, ECG, electrocardiogram, electronic warning system, HealthCanal, QT death
April 24, 2013
FDA Device Surveillance to Tap Phone App
Last year, a prominent cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute, Robert G. Hauser, and colleagues published a study showing that an automated safety-surveillance software tool applied to large existing databases could have identified problems earlier than actually happened…Dr. Hauser, along with David L. Hayes of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and others, concluded the […]
Tags: cardiovascular device, Dr. David Hayes, Dr. Robert G. Hauser, Minneapolis Heart Institute, safety surveillance software, Wall Street Journal
April 17, 2013
Can a 24/7 Medical App Save Your Life? Better Thinks So.
Better has made a mobile app that taps into the vast database of the Mayo Clinic to provide immediate health care information and assistance. Appearing onstage today at D: Dive Into Mobile, Better founder Geoff Clapp gave a demo and explained his vision for better health care through his new mobile app. Feigning stomach pains, Clapp […]
Tags: All Things Digital, Better mobile app, D: Dive Into Mobile, Geoff Clapp, health care information, iPhone app, mobile app
April 16, 2013
Ultrasound screening test from Mayo Clinic for heart health
The Mayo Clinic offers treatment options for aortic valve disease. Mayo Clinic cardiologist Todd Hurst, M.D. joined the cast of Sonoran Living Live for a discussion about the Mayo Clinic Heart Health and Performance Program…Dr. Hurst discusses the innovative ultrasound screening test of the arteries used to determine a patient’s vascular age and individualized plans that […]
Tags: ABC-15, aortic valve disease, Dr. Todd Hurst, heart health, Heart Health and Performance Program, screening test, Sonoran Living Live, ultrasound, vascular age
April 9, 2013
Anxiety? There’s an app for that
The Mayo Clinic is reporting around 2,000 downloads of its Anxiety Coach App, which for $4.99 gives people instructions for managing their fears and a log for recording their anxiety levels when they confront their fears. A Star Tribune story examined the strong relationship in children between the avoidance of fears and the development of severe anxiety. For some […]
Tags: anxiety, Anxiety Coach app, Dr. Stephen Whiteside, pediatric anxiety, Star Tribune
March 29, 2013
DrChrono adds Mayo Clinic content to iPad EHR for patient education
Y-Combinator incubated company DrChrono, the EHR company currently focused exclusively on iPad- and iPhone-toting providers, has added digitized patient education content in an exclusive licensing deal with the Mayo Clinic to help its DrChrono customers fulfill the patient education component of meaningful use. Additional Coverage: DOTmed, mHIMSS MobiHealthNews by Brian Dolan
Tags: DrChrono, iPad, iPhone, MobiHealthNews, patient education
March 22, 2013
Intuitive Robosurgery Training Seen Lacking in Lawsuits
Intuitive Surgical Inc. (ISRG), the maker of robots used in 367,000 U.S. operations last year, is facing accusations in lawsuits that it put patients at risk by marketing the machinery to doctors without providing adequate training…In gynecology surgery, Mayo Clinic researchers found it takes 90 operations to become proficient on the robot, according to study […]
Tags: adequate training, Bloomberg, Intuitive Surgical Inc., Obstetrics & Gynecology, robosurgery, robots