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Stephanie Baum

Stephanie Baum

Stephanie Baum is the East Coast Innovation Reporter for MedCityNews.com. She enjoys covering healthcare startups across health IT, drug development and medical devices and innovations deployed to improve medical care. She graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania and has worked across radio, print and video. She's written for The Christian Science Monitor, Dow Jones & Co. and United Business Media.

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Using avatars to improve physical therapy adherence

Using avatars to improve physical therapy adherence

May 15, 2013 11:04 am by | 0 Comments

A lot of companies have championed the benefits of devices like Fitbit to help engage patients in their healthcare and track their progress in a trend that’s referred to as ... Read more
Sanofi taps PatientsLikeMe to spur clinical trial participation

Sanofi taps PatientsLikeMe to spur clinical trial participation

May 14, 2013 7:07 pm by | 0 Comments

It’s no secret that drug developers have had a tough time recruiting clinical trial participants. Companies are trying a myriad of approaches to help pharmaceutical companies solve this challenge from ... Read more
Is Angelina Jolie’s surgery a logical response to genetic test results?

Is Angelina Jolie’s surgery a logical response to genetic test results?

May 14, 2013 3:16 pm by | 0 Comments

After reading Angelina Jolie’s editorial in The New York Times today, I came away with a few questions. How common is it to choose to have a double mastectomy as ... Read more
New York patient portal contest winners take on health literacy challenge

New York patient portal contest winners take on health literacy challenge

May 13, 2013 6:39 pm by | 0 Comments

What should a patient portal for a statewide health information network look like? That’s a question New York eHealth Collaborative has been considering for awhile. If the interface characteristics of ... Read more
Philly gets second health IT accelerator with Canadian program

Philly gets second health IT accelerator with Canadian program

May 13, 2013 1:45 pm by | 0 Comments

Six months after declaring its intention to open a health IT accelerator in Philadelphia, the Canadian Consulate General has set one up at the University City Science Center.The inaugural class ... Read more
Need your dose of medical marijuana? Fingerprint, please

Need your dose of medical marijuana? Fingerprint, please

May 13, 2013 11:19 am by | 0 Comments

As biometrics has evolved from the stuff of James Bond plot lines to an increasingly common security tool, the healthcare industry is beginning to take an interest to better protect ... Read more
Wow of the Week: Penn training dogs to detect ovarian cancer

Wow of the Week: Penn training dogs to detect ovarian cancer

May 11, 2013 8:52 am by | 2 Comments

Call it the furriest cancer diagnostic. University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, Penn Medicine and Monell Chemical Senses Center are collaborating to train dogs to detect ovarian cancer using ... Read more
Healthcare entrepreneurs, these 4 digital health accelerators are looking for applicants

Healthcare entrepreneurs, these 4 digital health accelerators are looking for applicants

May 10, 2013 2:35 pm by | 0 Comments

As the provisions of the Affordable Care Act and HITECH Act are rolled out, providers and payers are looking for ways to address pain points varying from improving patient engagement ... Read more
Social health network offers discreet way to share, receive health info publicly

Social health network offers discreet way to share, receive health info publicly

May 9, 2013 8:13 pm by | 2 Comments

A neurologist has started a healthcare social network called HealthKeep that he describes as the inverse of Facebook. Everyone is anonymous but their information is public.It was developed to help ... Read more
Entrepreneur recuperating from heart surgery wins hackathon pitch for Teva project

Entrepreneur recuperating from heart surgery wins hackathon pitch for Teva project

May 9, 2013 2:23 pm by | 0 Comments

Entrepreneurs face plenty of stress pitching a new idea to a potential customer. But most don’t have to do it the day they’re discharged from the hospital after having laparoscopic ... Read more
Q is for Quintiles: CRO picked good time to return to the public markets

Q is for Quintiles: CRO picked good time to return to the public markets

May 9, 2013 9:00 am by | 0 Comments

[Update] Contract research organization Quintiles returned to the public markets today, trading on the NYSE under the stock symbol Q. It raised $947 million after it was priced at $40. ... Read more
N.Y. eHealth’s next digital health class will add patient, caregiver workflow

N.Y. eHealth’s next digital health class will add patient, caregiver workflow

May 8, 2013 5:12 pm by | 1 Comments

It was graduation day for the eight members of New York eHealth Collaborative’s inaugural class for its digital health accelerator. But the second class, already in the planning stages, will ... Read more
3 things that will help telemedicine go mainstream and win over pessimists

3 things that will help telemedicine go mainstream and win over pessimists

May 8, 2013 10:05 am by | 0 Comments

There was a feeling of cautious optimism among many of the attendees of the annual American Telemedicine Association conference this year in Austin that attitudes towards telemedicine are shifting shifted ... Read more
Iron Yard sets up first digital health accelerator in Southeast US

Iron Yard sets up first digital health accelerator in Southeast US

May 7, 2013 12:00 pm by | 0 Comments

Digital health entrepreneurs in the Southeast now have a new source of help for launching a company: The Iron Yard in Spartanburg, SC. The organization has already had one class ... Read more
The rise of telepresenters: an emerging job in telemedicine industry

The rise of telepresenters: an emerging job in telemedicine industry

May 7, 2013 9:00 am by | 0 Comments

As the telemedicine industry matures in the US, there’s a job that at least one provider anticipates will grow in demand in the next few years: telepresenters.They are a bit ... Read more