There’s Yelp, Urbanspoon, Rate My Professor and TripAdvisor, just to name a few. But why are there no trusted doctor review websites? HealthGrades and a few other sites have tried but lack participation. The NYT‘s Ron Lieber proposes that it’s a supply and demand issue: Consumers would trust sites with more robust reviews, but not [...]

Many in the healthcare industry believe that telemedicine holds the key to solving some of America’s most pressing healthcare problems, namely access and expense.Video conferences between doctors and patients, for example, are quicker, easier and more convenient for both parties than traditional in-office visits, the thinking goes.But many states restrict doctors’ ability to prescribe medicine to patients they’ve never seen in person, potentially setting up a barrier to telemedicine adoption.

A digital health company that has developed an integrated technology framework for pathology, laboratories and physician practices’ electronic health records has secured more than $2 million in venture capital backing in its latest financing round.The round was led by Philadelphia-based Emerald Stage2 Ventures and Vital Financial in Connecticut. Pennsylvania-based Osage Venture Partners, New York-based Milestone [...]

Frank Moss of the MIT Media Lab and director of the New Media Medicine group discussed some of the projects the lab has undertaken to help people manage their own health and speed up the development of digital health apps and devices at Social Media Week in New York.“We dramatically underestimate the power of ordinary [...]

About 11 percent of doctors have knowingly lied to a patient in the last year, according to a new survey published in Health Affairs.Reasons why doctors lie to patients vary. Nearly 20 percent of physicians said they had not fully disclosed an error to a patient due to fear of malpractice litigation. More than 55 [...]

A company with a medical device to detect early onset of age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in adults ages 50 or older, is raising $2 million in a series A preferred financing round to commercialize its diagnostic tool, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year.Apeliotus Vision Science [...]

A digital atlas that provides a state-by-state guide for tracking sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS has been produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The CDC began developing the atlas in 2010 and it went live earlier this month.In emailed responses to questions, a spokeswoman for the CDC said the Atlas was developed to [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing epidural injections of steroids to treat neck and back pain following a warning by Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY) seven months ago that administering its Kenalog steroid around the spine could cause serious complications, according to a report by Bloomberg.Bristol-Myers in New York revised its label for Kenalog to [...]

As Penn Medicine expands digital health across its health system with the continued implementation of electronic medical records for inpatients and improves patient-monitoring for patients at risk for readmission, it is striking a balance between the need for change and the need for carrying it out at a manageable pace.Bill Hanson was appointed chief medical [...]

The JP Morgan Annual Healthcare Conference has become the biggest conference for the industry drawing pharmaceutical and medical device companies, clinical research organizations, and of course, their investors.Over the course of four days, attendees get their fill of back-to-back company presentations. Some found those presentations unenlightening. Audrey Erbes, principal of Erbes & Associates, described presentations [...]