An electronic medical record company helped Dr. Mehmet Oz evaluate the health of Philadelphians by compiling averages for patient data on cholesterol, blood glucose level, blood pressure in real time.The event was held in Philadelphia at Temple University School of Medicine with the goal of helping people better manage their healthcare. If successful, it is [...]

A diabetes education program is seeking to build a support network using physical and video interaction between participants and a patient education network to ensure better outcomes.Live Health also seeks to increase patient referrals by providing automated care coordination between a primary care provider and diabetes education team.With so many type 2 diabetes patients uninformed [...]

The role of depression in prolonging patients’ recoveries, the evolution of the mobile health market and the increased willingness of insurance companies to work with startups were among the most interesting trends to emerge from the Health 2.0 Spring Fling conference in Boston this week.There was a lot of buzz aroundCogito Corp. Its voice-recognition technology [...]

Pancreatic cancer has a reputation as the silent killer because it frequently isn’t diagnosed until after it has metastasized, and there is currently no reliable way to detect it. But a 15-year-old entrepreneur in the making has developed an early detection device with 90 percent accuracy, a noninvasive tool that could improve chances of survival [...]

Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY) and Sanofi (NYSE:SNY) bid goodbye to their exclusive patent for blockbuster drug Plavix with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of generic versions of the blood-thinning drug to nine pharmaceutical companies today, signaling the drug’s fall down the patent cliff.Plavix reached peak sales of more than $7 billion last year, making [...]

Penn State Research Foundation has inked a licensing deal with a medical device company to provide game-changing wireless energy technology for left ventricular assist devices. The technology would be utilized for patients with congestive heart failure and could eliminate wound care issues, making it more feasible to expand the number of patients for the implants [...]

To identify people with diabetes who underutilize healthcare, you don’t need real-time video hookups or smartphone apps. You just need a lot of data to find the people and a big physical infrastructure to deliver the care.That’s the approach theNational Association of Area Agencies on Aging is proposing to cut the costs of diabetes care. [...]

One of the most significant factors influencing healthcare costs is patient adherence or lack thereof. If diabetes patients don’t take their medications, watch what they eat and monitor their blood-glucose levels, they risk complications that can lead to hospitalization.A semifinalist in Sanofi US’ (NYSE:SNY) Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge, iRetainRx believes it can overcome that [...]

A healthcare IT startup has developed a mobile collaboration solution to improve communication between the team of doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals associated with a patient’s care to reduce medical errors.Scott Guelich, a software developer who also has a medical degree, co-founded Care Thread 12 months ago to address problems where they happen most — [...]

At the Health 2.0 conference in Boston this week, a segment in which a group of three serial entrepreneurs shared their insights on startups in the healthcare landscape elicited some interesting comments, particularly on the role patients play in improving healthcare.