How do connected care technologies play a role in healthcare?
Philips' recently released Future Health Index zooms in on Americans citizens' and healthcare professionals' views of connected care technologies.
Is ResMed’s $800M health IT buy a pivot away from devices?
No. "It's a logical double down on connected care," CEO Mick Farrell said - as ResMed plans to streamline the home medical equipment supply chain.
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Report: Market for home health technologies will triple by 2020
The forecast from Tractica considers medical, health and wellness uses of connected devices, services and applications outside traditional clinical settings.
‘Wireless health’ has become redundant
Wireless technology has become so ubiquitous in healthcare that the term "wireless health" itself has lost its cachet.
The healthcare data debate: Forget big data and think actionable data
If you work in healthcare you hear the terms “big data,” “population health management,” and “integration” daily. You look around and see hundreds of dedicated engineering resources, millions of dollars, and years of effort being invested in technologies to aggregate and analyze data. Some technology companies and healthcare organizations have succeeded in this significant and […]
Salesforce survey: Millennials want telehealth and mobile apps
Just ahead of the closing enrollment period for Obamacare, tech behemoth Salesforce released a report titled “The State of the Connected Patient 2015,” detailing the potentially huge shift in how patients interact with their providers, particularly younger patients, and how technology might help improve connectivity. “While traditional communication channels remain popular among patients, the next generation […]
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Market Trends to Watch for Health Systems and Their Specialty Pharmacies
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Providers still lagging in patient engagement
Healthcare organizations and providers are still largely confused, or at least slow, when it comes to effective patient portals and other technologies that may help spur better patient engagement, according to a recent report from Chilmark Research. “…We found a marketplace long on potential, but short on results to date,” lead author Naveen Rao wrote […]
UnitedHealthcare upgrades Health4Me app to include wearables integration, mobile payments
UnitedHealth today unveiled a series of interesting upgrades to its Health4Me app, including mobile payments and integration into wearables. It’s yet another expansion of the app, which until the middle of last year was for members only. In July, UnitedHealthcare opened it to anyone who wanted to check healthcare pricing. This moved Health4Me into the […]
Innovating the doctor’s lounge
Editor’s note: The author is a member of the Sermo advisory board. The doctor’s lounge used to be a great meeting place for doctors. A place where only doctors could go to discuss medical cases and share the stresses of everyday practice. These days, there is just no time to go there. We see more […]
How do you get patients to use health tech? Add people
People require more than interactions with cold technology, no matter how personal, intuitive, or human-seeming it might be.
Reducing Clinical and Staff Burnout with AI Automation
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Hospital robots, 3D printing and middleware, oh my! What technologies will hospitals look to this year?
As hospitals look to integrate the most advanced technology that will help them reduce readmission rates and improve outcomes, there is a lot to consider. Buzzwords abound, like big data and coordinated care, but what those things actually mean vary largely from one place to the next. In the immediate term, the ECRI Institute has […]
Dartmouth-Hitchcock uses EMR in hopes of curbing unnecessary transfusions
Pathologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock are looking to curb the use of unnecessary blood transfusions for non-bleeding patients by adding a “best-practice alert” in the patient’s EMR, with the hope of reducing risk of complications and costs. “We figured out how to harness the power of the electronic medical record to embed evidence-based transfusion criteria into the […]
In 2015, ecosystems will transform fragmented wearables market
The widespread availability of fitness wearables coupled with marginal use has created a relatively new trend in the market — ecosystems. After all, no one can afford to depend on the business of just a few devices and it opens up access to a bigger share of wearables users. Its also a way to add […]
Retail health clinics seeking telemedicine, mobile technology to grow presence
Retail giants Walmart and Target, and likely others, will continue their steady march into the healthcare setting, sensing an opportunity to leverage their customers with a mix of technology that could be a boon to the digital health space. Speaking at Health 2.0’s WinterTech conference in San Francisco, officials with both companies said the move […]
Survey raises question: Which researchers do people trust with their health data?
The appetite for health data grows and along with it conversations on people’s comfort level with making that information available. Young people tend to have a pretty passive attitude towards their health data being shared compared with older folks. But for those willing to share it, who are they most likely to trust with it? […]