Hospitals’ digital health adoption exploded during the pandemic, leading to many vendor contracts spanning three to five years. As these contracts reach their expiration dates over this year and next, a new report predicts that telemedicine platforms and remote patient monitoring tools face the highest risk of being turned over by hospitals.
Busy Burr leads the innovation team in Palo Alto for Humana. In an expansive phone interview, she talks about parallels between improv and innovation, what true partnership means and where Humana is looking to change healthcare.
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.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve seen at least one of Weird Al Yankovic’s new videos. His latest album, “Mandatory Fun,” debuted at #1 on the Billboard album chart. His marketing plan was genius. He released 8 videos in 8 days and partnered with a different website for each one, ranging from Nerdist […]
As I watched the new “Strength” ad for the iPhone 5s, all the devices looked like Apple accessories. Then I wondered how much the digital health companies had to pay for such high-profile product placement. Finally I realized that Apple would anticipate the “What app is that?” questions and have a list somewhere. Just as […]
When the ad started, I said, “Wow, Misfit has a national campaign going for The Shine.” But then as we watched more of the TV spot, my husband said, “It’s an ad for a phone.” This “Strength” ad for the iPhone 5s started running during the NBA playoffs and it is all about digital health. […]
Get the MedCity Startup Index for May. Apps are out, platforms are in. Investors and entrepreneurs have figured out that not only does it sound better to call your product a platform, you can charge more too. At the start of June, two new healthcare “platforms” have started to take shape. At its annual developer […]
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.
Wearables for grownups get most of the media hype – Fitbit, Jawbone, and Shine – but don’t think that babies have been left out of the quantifiable self craze. Whether they like it or not, babies can now be tracked as well, with devices ranging from teddy bears to turtles. One of the companies in this […]
The medical device crowd is often a gloom and doom group but I think things are actually looking up for this part of the healthcare industry.
One critique of wearables I heard recently was a side note to the “it’s always the healthiest people in the room” issue. David Inns, CEO of GreatCall, named one of the challenges to widespread adoption of wearable technology: Where do you buy these things? Obviously people who want to optimize their workout or figure out […]
At a conference in San Diego this month, a keynote speaker asked how many people in the audience were wearing a fitness tracker. About a dozen people raised their hands. “It’s always the healthiest people you know who are wearing a FitBit,” GreatCall CEO David Inns said. “That’s not going to do anything to cut […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
I was skeptical last year when my boss told me I should go to Las Vegas for the International CES. This enormous event was a big deal when I worked for CNET Networks – but that made sense because CNET.com is all about gadgets. Chris was right: health was everywhere. There was a whole day […]
How many digital health start ups are really targeting the holy grail of Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) reimbursement dollars? It is really hard to find a good answer to that. I tried searching on Google for 2 hours after which I came to the following conclusions. Digital health start ups are either heavily […]