Which features of healthcare apps do patients desire most?
A new Verndale survey of nearly 500 individuals from found consumers most strongly want healthcare apps to provide the ability to manage appointments.
NEJM commentary: Test health innovation before building apps
Instead of just building apps that people may or may not use, healthcare innovators have started taking lessons from counterparts in other industries by testing their ideas first, according to University of Pennsylvania researchers.
Behavioral Health, Interoperability and eConsent: Meeting the Demands of CMS Final Rule Compliance
In a webinar on April 16 at 1pm ET, Aneesh Chopra will moderate a discussion with executives from DocuSign, Velatura, and behavioral health providers on eConsent, health information exchange and compliance with the CMS Final Rule on interoperability.
Wellcoin has launched in an effort to encourage healthy lifestyles – healthcare’s answer to Bitcoin, kind of
Would you work out or sleep more if you knew you'd get a credit to shop at Whole Foods?
ENGAGE: Keep health apps simple, outcomes-focused
"I don't think people give a damn about their health unless they're sick, then they care a lot," said Neal Sofian, vice president of engagement and innovation at Vivacity, a Premera Blue Cross wellness subsidiary, at the MedCity ENGAGE conference.
Awful but funny: Talking weight loss app dishes out insults to help you lose weight
The meanest weight loss coach ever has landed in the app store, and her name is CARROT Fit. It’s a simple app that uses manually entered data to calculate BMI and track a user’s weight over time. But instead of incorporating game mechanics or social interaction or a wearable device, it adds a slightly different […]
Here are the most viewed healthcare stories of 2013 on MedCity News
10. Our broken healthcare system defeats even the most empowered patients Jess Jacobs and Donna Cryer are experts on the healthcare system — professionally and personally. Jacobs has postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and describes it best in her own words: I have an idiopathic condition. It lies somewhere between the heart, autonomic nervous system, […]
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
mHealth Summit: Too many apps, not enough business models
By now you’ve probably read a review or two of the mHealth Summit recently held in Washington, D.C. I had the opportunity to attend once again and came away with several insights of my own. But first, a picture: This image illustrates what many of my fellow Summit attendees realized after just a few minutes […]
Manhattan Research: 10 patient groups most likely to be mobile health users
People living with cystic fibrosis, growth hormone deficiencies and acne were among the most likely to report using their smartphones to find health information in a new survey from Manhattan Research. With its 2013 Cybercitizen Health U.S. study, the pharmaceutical and healthcare market research firm set out to help healthcare marketers understand how patients and […]
40,000 health-related apps and no easy way to know which ones work
Christine Porter is hooked on the My Fitness Pal app. In October, after deciding to lose 50 pounds, Porter started typing in everything she eats, drinks and any exercise she gets. “This is like my main page here,” says Porter, who lost 42 p...
Smart as a (Blue) Button: Program brings medical records to your smartphone
It's one of those unhappy holiday surprises -- a visiting family member gets sick. That happened to Dr. Farzad Mostashari last Thanksgiving. "My dad comes downstairs and he has acute pain in his eye where he had cataract surgery. And I said, 'Wha...
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.