Launched by Tim Soo, a student at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Ben Shyong, a developer and entrepreneur at University of Pennsylvania, Meddik is a search engine designed to help users wade though the daunting amount of healthcare information available on the Internet and pare it down to a manageable level that targets the specific areas one user may be interested in reading about.
ScriptPad is a Colorado company targeting small physician practices with a software app for mobile phones designed to simplify the way in which physicians work with pharmacists to prescribe drugs for their patients. Its app is available at the app store; a version for Android phones is coming soon. "Your voice of feedback will be heard and we will create applications that you want to use instead of being forced to use," its website says, hearteningly.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
The online physical therapy platform developed by Force Therapeutics allows physical therapists to convey exercise instructions to their patients. A practicing physical therapist herself, Bronwyn Spira, president of Force Therapeutics, designed the software from an industry insider's point of view.
Above Stress makes a healthcare mobile app that provides a straight forward way to outline an individual's stress levels, and hopes their product will win over wellness programs, insurance companies and other organizations looking for ways to increase preventive care.
East Brunswick, New Jersey company CareSpeak Communications develops wireless communications technologies for the institutional and consumer healthcare markets. It developed a two-way text-message communications platform for health care apps and started a partnership with with UnitedHealth in September. Among its apps are reminders for patients to take their medication on time, a specialized app for diabetics to monitor glucose and insulin levels and the ability for physicians to communicate with patients.
A Palo Alto, California company, Health Tap has a network of physicians that can answer health questions online or through a smartphone app and receive answers from physicians representing 100 specialties. About 6,000 physicians and 500 healthcare institutions are participating in the service.
Lyndhurst, New Jersey-based health IT and medical device company, EnHatch, gives medical innovators, surgeons and physicians the tools to get their ideas to market as soon as possible. Its focuses on collaboration between surgeons and engineers in the development of medical devices. Its vice president of engineering, Michael Phipps, was previously a project engineer at Tornier and Stryker Orthopaedics.
Beyond Lucid Technologies, based in Walnut Creek, California, has developed a software platform called MediView for emergency medical technicians that tackles the problem of hospitals needing information in the critical minutes that the patient is picked up and delivered to them.
The experience of having surgery can be a stressful and sometimes frightening prospect for patients. New York-based OrganizedWisdom's program enables physicians to deepen patient understanding of complex surgical procedures with diagrams, videos and information that can be viewed at home and with a patient's smartphone. The company's chief medical officer, Dr. Howard Krein, is an assistant professor of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery, at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and a founding partner and co-director of Jefferson's Herbert Kean Center for Facial Aesthetics.
Gaming is a big trend in health IT and mobile health in particular as a way to help patients follow a health regimen and make healthier choices. Ayogo's gaming software targets people with chronic diseases and encourages them to share their day-to-day progress with stories.
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.
Dr. Eric Topol’s identity as a physician remains closely connected to Cleveland Clinic. His biography prominently states he is “well known for leading the Cleveland Clinic to become the #1 center for heart care,” among other things. Plus, his not getting the chief executive position at Cleveland Clinic, the subsequent departure and the brouhaha surrounding […]
Dr. Eric Topol, vice chairman of West Wireless Health Institute who also works at the Scripps Research Institute, kicked off the mHealth Summit in Washington D.C. with an energetic and interactive discussion of the future of mobile healthcare (he gave himself an ECG on stage with an iPhone app and hotel lotion). His message: Innovation […]
