A nutrition app that tailors diets to patients’ diseases and medications to avoid adverse reactions, Nutrify shared the winners’ circle spotlight with a price transparency tool, Clear Health Costs. A tie? That would never happen on Shark Tank where winners are lionized and the losers get a lesson on entrepreneurship they never forget. Patient Shark […]
It probably isn’t surprising that the push for interoperability has come down to public-private partnerships like the one announced in New York this week. The New York-led consortium of 19 states and 47 electronic health record and health information exchange vendors known as the EHR/HIE Interoperability Work Group formed a strategic collaboration with HIMSS and […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Update Attendees at New York eHealth Collaborative’s Digital Health conference this week were treated to a lesson in healthcare policy by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel , chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and one of a group of Affordable Care Act architects. Amidst a talk on healthcare […]
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a healthcare economist and bioethicist at University of Pennsylvania and an Affordable Care Act architect presented a pretty dramatic vision of how the hospital landscape and healthcare delivery will change in response to healthcare reform. He also shared some insights into the law’s design at New York eHealth’s Digital Health Conference this […]
ActualMeds graduated from New York Digital Health accelerator‘s inaugural class last year with a goal of making it easier for patients with a high risk of readmission to manage their medication. More than one year later, it’s raised two-thirds of the company’s first equity round. It plans to use the $5 million it’s seeking in […]
#Doctors being squeezed by many new trends in #healthcare & #tech. Via @EricTopol@NYeHealth#DHC14pic.twitter.com/5EMQKFPMlZ — Wen Dombrowski MD (@HealthcareWen) November 17, 2014 Eric Topol, the director of Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, California, shared some more details of his vision of democratized healthcare at the New York Digital Health Conference this week. In a […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.