What patients think, or even know, what they’re entitled to know about their own medical record and what physicians and health systems think a patient should have access to continues to vex both sides of the equation, but the scale is tilting more toward a patient-focused mentality, even among regulators. Joy Pritts, the former chief […]
Participate in the MedCity ENGAGE conference by watching parts of the event live online. Day 2 of ENGAGE Live begins Wednesday. The schedule of the broadcasts is listed here and will be shown in this post as they happen. All times are eastern daylight time. View Day 1 here 8:35 AM: Keynote Speaker: Innovating Health […]
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
It used to be that patients would wait for the physician or the health system to engage them, but increasingly the patient is charting their own course, having grown tired of the slow-moving behemoth of our healthcare system and enabled by advances in technology that have been applied to other industries. Dr. Joseph Smith, chief […]
Participate in the MedCity ENGAGE conference by watching parts of the event live online. Day 1 of ENGAGE Live begins Tuesday. The schedule of the broadcasts is listed here and will be shown in this post as they happen. All times are eastern daylight time. View Day 2 here 4:20 PM: Keynote Speaker: The Promise […]
Click to expand the slideshow to full screen and click ‘Show Info’ at the top of the box to see the names of people shown in slideshow. The issues facing all hospitals are myriad and increasingly complex, but for public hospitals that treat a disproportionate share of uninsured, most vulnerable patients and serve as the […]
There was blood. There was guts. There were handsome doctors, suffering patients, and villainous bureaucrats. There was inspiration, frustration, and innovation. Code Black, the independent film screened Monday by the attendees of MedCity ENGAGE in Washington D.C., managed to tell a true, exciting and emotional story about what it’s like to work in the emergency […]
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.
Matthew Quinn has served as the director of healthcare initiatives for the Federal Communications Commission for the past year, but as of this Monday he returns to the private sector. He will be Intel’s East Coast managing director for healthcare and life sciences . That’s setting up an interesting perspective for another upcoming role — […]
Rural communities have been far ahead of other regions in developing telemedicine tools, which have helped reduce the divide between patient homes and distant hospitals for follow-up care between appointments and to assess whether they need to come in for treatment. The Center for Rural Health Innovation led by Dr Steve North in Spruce Pine, […]
Patient engagement has shifted rapidly in healthcare over the last five years, and new technological advances are helping to drive the trend even further. At UCSF’s forthcoming, $1.52 billion Mission Bay campus in San Francisco, that will especially be the case, according to Seth Bokser. He is medical director for IT at the UCSF Center […]
FasterCures, part of the Milken Institute dedicated to improving drug development by encouraging greater patient involvement is searching for digital health entrepreneurs to pitch at its upcoming conference, Partnering for Cures. The group is looking for collaboration opportunities between biotech and digital health, partly to find more effective ways to improve clinical trial recruitment. Entrepreneurs […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
ENGAGE is an executive level event focused on the latest strategies, solutions and best practices to advance patient engagement and healthcare delivery.
Big Pharma has a reputation of being late to the digital health game. Slowly but surely, that’s changing. Pfizer is working with a game lab on a clinical trial of a video game designed to detect early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Janssen Healthcare and Johnson & Johnson Innovation launched the Digital Health Masterclass Challenge to […]
We’ve finalized our keynote speakers for MedCity ENGAGE and they’re the kind of leaders you’d want at a think-differently patient engagement conference. They’re a mix of government minds, medical savvy, entrepreneurship and C-suite pharma leadership. Each is passionate about seizing the opportunities in patient engagement and healthcare delivery. They are: Joy Pritts, the country’s first […]
Dr. Leana Wen knows the healthcare system not only as a doctor, but also as a caregiver. The emergency medicine physician at George Washington University noticed a startling disconnect between patients and doctors as she juggled medical training while also helping her mother undergo breast cancer treatment nearly a decade ago. Since then, she’s devoted […]
The point of care is just one place where innovation is happening in healthcare. Behind the scenes, new technologies are being used to improve communication between caregivers, to make administrative tasks more efficient, and as Dr. Somesh Nigam will tell you, to help insurance companies be more proactive about their members’ health. Dr. Nigam oversees […]