Saturday, March 29, 2008

Med Updates by E-mail

A couple days ago I saw the news that the FDA was checking into a possible link between Singulair and some mental health concerns. Just yesterday, I got this note from RWJ about doctors receiving medicine updates via e-mail.

This is obviously a great use of technology to address a health problem, namely getting information about a medicine recall/concern into the hands of doctors as quickly as possible. It's nice to see technology being used to solve an actual problem, as opposed to the all-too-common model of looking for a problem that can be solved with a new/fun technology. Here's hoping the iHealthAlliance has great success with this new project.

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