More information about connecting California’s Consumers, tip from Larry Leisure, President of iMetrikus:

This is from the 2008 Deloitte Survey of Health Care Consumers, page 14 of the report:

• 13 indicate prior use of one or more medical devices for monitoring a condition for themselves or a family member.
• 7% of consumers report expressing a preference to their physician about a specific branded device.
• 88% of consumers say they would be interested in using a self-monitoring device at home if they were to develop a health condition that required regular monitoring. 33 % said they were extremely interested.
• Reasons for consumers’ interest include the elimination of trips to the doctor’s office (75%), the convenience of reporting results to the doctor electronically (69%) and the ability of the device to help in adjusting their medications (67%)

Interesting to see that consumers recognize the costs that come with (potentially) unnecessary visits to the office to monitor chronic conditions. I am next going to look at consumer costs for managing blood pressure. If anyone has articles handy, please post them below….

April 1st through April 2nd:

• Pattern Recognition » Blog Archive » I really hate Zotero - Like the concept, wants to improve the implementation
• Medical Home | Solution to Chronic Care Management? | Health Care | Disruptive Innovation for a New Primary Care Model | Center for Health Solutions - Deloitte LLP - Very nice overview of Medical Home, particularly with the rundown of stakeholders in the back, plus the medical home cost model.
• WordPress ? Support » Tags Import As Numbers, Not Words - Importing issues Wordpress
• Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 ? Co-produced by TechWeb & O’Reilly Conferences, April 22 - 25, 2008, San Francisco, CA -
• Compare Accounts | YouSendIt - Store and forward service for the times when e-mail isn’t so efficient. I use XDrive.
• Convert Your Paper to iPaper | Scribd - An ambitious project to convert paper , no extra charge
• John Furrier Says Google?s CIO is Leaving for EMI - Interesting change of employer, could the same thing happen if a Google employee was recruited to run a health care organization?
• Twitter - A Teaching and Learning Tool | ICT in my Classroom - Nice discussion of the uses of Twitter in education
• VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, docs and videos - An interesting image, video, voice annotating service. What are the applicaitons in medical group training and patient involvement