From 9 Tablet Tips to the 15 Most Wired Hospitals January 23, 2012

• Study: For Now, Web-Based Healthcare Tools Are Mostly Ineffective

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association accents the limits of web-based health management tools that are currently available.

• Dr. Bryan Vartabedian – The MDigitalLife Interview

• Mobile health trends and challenges in 2012

• Top 15 Hospitals are very wired

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I’ve studied the “Healthcare’s Most Wired” Health Providers from Hospitals & Health Networks and the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Hospitals for many years. It strikes me in 2012 that with meaningful use and patient engagement on the front-burner for providers adopting EHRs that a useful metric for these studies could be patient engagement.

• 9 Tablets Fit For Doctors

• Headphone-wearing pedestrian injuries triple as audiophiles stop noticing onrushing trains

The number of pedestrians injured or killed while wearing headphones has tripled in the last six years: 16 oblivious PMP users were offed in 2004, the number rising to 47 for last year.

• Hugo Campos challenged himself to eat only vegan meals throughout last December and took pictures of everything he ate or drank from an almond to a cup of coffee.