Why doctors have started recording appointments for their patients
To help their patients better remember bits of information, more and more doctors are, with their patients' consent, recording appointments.
To help their patients better remember bits of information, more and more doctors are, with their patients' consent, recording appointments.
A study published in JAMA suggests that administrative data could be a more timely and accurate way to assess the effectiveness of devices like the gastric band.
Stryker is shelling out top dollar to buy Novadaq, a maker of fluorescence imaging technologies that allows surgeons to see blood flow in vessels during surgery in real time.
Primary care isn't so easy after all. Geared toward Medicare-eligible adults, Chicago-based Oak Street Health has a new way of rethinking healthcare and making primary care doctors heroes.
A recent FBI alert notes that cybercriminals have been targeting File Transfer Protocol servers to access patient data.
The shift from volume to value is no where more apparent than in the orthopedics specialty where vendors that once obsessed over titanium and steel are now focusing on services to manage the bundled payment era.
Stryker is launching its Triathlon total knee on its Mako robotic system, reportedly priced at $1 million, at a time of bundled payments and cost consciousness in joint replacement procedures.
Big data analytics might just be the proactive piece of the puzzle we’ve been missing – and the potential for this realistic type of fortune telling could not come at a more exciting time.
The goal of the remote home health program is to reduce visits to the emergency room as well as inpatient admissions for high-risk patients.
Trinity Health is the first major user of emRxcelm, which integrates FamilyWize's prescription drug savings program with EHRs and into prescribers' workflows.
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.
"We are patients as designers, reinventing a system we have intimate experience with from the ground up," said Workit Health Co-founder Robin McIntosh.
Smart medtech companies are realizing that they have to be partners to hospitals and not simply vendors selling widgets.
Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a battery-operated injectable computer with a radio antenna that can transmit data to a device located up to 12 inches outside of the body.
“The healthcare industry is under attack,” said Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute. “But it really hasn’t moved the needle all that much.”
The Michigan researchers developed a microfluidic device that sandwiches a thin, permeable polyester membrane and a layer of cultured kidney cells between the top and bottom compartments.