wearable technology
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Providence Chief Nursing Officer: All Hospitals Should Be Using These 3 Tools
In order to effectively address the nursing shortage, hospitals must embrace three key products on the market that has been proven to alleviate nurse burnout, according to Syl Trepanier, chief nursing officer at Providence.
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How Cedars Sinai & Dartmouth-Hitchcock are using wearable tech to improve patient experience
Providers should adopt wearable tech to improve the patient experience and their own efficiency, writes an executive from a health consultancy helping hospitals with their digital strategies.
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Take part in this survey and share some of the trends you are seeing among your clients across healthcare, including chronic conditions, behavioral health and navigation.
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IBM Watson to help Triax sensor measure head injuries
Triax is tapping into IBM Watson’s Personality Insights API to mine social media and other data sources, then combine those sentiments with data from the sensor to help measure risk of head injury from sports. It’s also building Q&A functionality into its consumer app.
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Wearables help manage neurological disorders, predict symptoms
New, wearable technology not only helps monitor symptoms automatically, it may be able to predict seizures and disease progression in patients with neurological disorders.
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Penn Medicine tests continuous, wearable patient monitoring
The three-week pilot is intended to be a proof of concept to see whether clinicians and patients like the wearable monitors.
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Jawbone UP data quantifies exactly how much sleep was lost to California earthquake
I don’t think our Bay Area health IT reporter Dan Verel wears a Jawbone UP. […]
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Amazon launches wearable tech marketplace with “learning center” and resell link
One critique of wearables I heard recently was a side note to the “it’s always […]
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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Devices & Diagnostics, Health IT, Startups
Indie rocker’s Kickstarter for glove that turns motion into sound has healthcare potential
In the near future, medtech may take a cue from rock music. Indie musician Imogen […]
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Devices & Diagnostics, Health IT, Hospitals, Startups
Vote in the Wearables Elite 8: Google Glass for telemedicine vs. x-ray vision for veins
Which company has more potential to make healthcare safer, cheaper or better? Vote for Pristine’s […]
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Devices & Diagnostics, Health IT, Hospitals, Startups
Elite 8: Wearable startups tracking cancer, seizures, heart trouble, babies
We just talked about how to move digital health beyond the healthiest people in the […]
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Internet of Things infographic offers some clues on trends in healthcare
Wearable tech accelerator/incubator Stained Glass Labs has taken a stab at breaking down the Internet […]