UnitedHealthcare Rewards members can earn up to $1,000 per year by meeting daily activity goals, tracking sleep and fulfilling other one-time health activities. The program is intended to incentivize healthy habits, the insurer said.
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2016 will be that plateau in the form of a pattern recognition year.
These wearable device companies are producing smart technology, from vests and shirts to bracelets and watch-like trackers, to continue growing the healthcare wearable industry.
Within six months of purchase, most health wearables monitor the inside of a bedside table drawer.
In an effort to bring more useful data into its EHR, eClinicalWorks today said it will integrate data from wearables and fitness trackers from its wholly owned subsidiary healow. The data from the devices will be directed into a consumer’s personal health record via healow.com and the healow mobile application. It will also be available […]
A new report by Paubox calls for healthcare IT leaders to dispose of outdated assumptions about email security and address the challenges of evolving cybersecurity threats.
After swift backlash to the ridiculously labeled article on the health concerns of wearable technology, the New York Times is at least addressing reader concerns in a column by Public Editor Margaret Sullivan. She notes that the original print headline was not, in fact, the alarmist and absurd “Could Wearable Computers Be as Harmful as Cigarettes,” […]
Sweat can be as helpful as blood in checking on health. Doctors already use it for drug tests and insights on diseases like cystic fibrosis. But sweat has its limits – largely because there’s only so much of it you can collect at one time. Technology may have caught up with the power of sweat. […]
A majority of Americans want to monitor their health with connected , wearable devices, according to a recent survey from A&D Medical. In addition, “most Americans” are concerned about their weight, yet less than half are concerned about their blood pressure, the survey said. A&D Medical, which manufactures and distributes bio-metric monitoring devices likes blood pressure […]
A San Francisco-based accelerator focused solely on wearable technology and the “Internet of Things” is raising $1.2 million, according to a filing with the SEC. Wearable World, which launched its accelerator in 2013, incubates a variety of wearable developers, including several operating within the healthcare space, among them Google Glass healthcare app developers Remedy and […]
The home care industry is booming. As Baby Boomers age and more families seek in-home solutions for loved ones, demand for home care services is at an all-time high.
The Center for Connected Care, part of Boston-based Partners HealthCare, unveiled a research tool that is says will help a wide range of healthcare companies “better understand what consumers want from – and how they actually use – personal health technologies.” The cHealth Compass, as it’s known, aims to help the healthcare industry, medical and […]
Building on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s idea to incorporate data from beyond healthcare, the ONC is hoping to lay the groundwork for an “EHR of the future” that includes a wide swath of data that it said could more accurately capture a person’s overall health. In a lengthy report released this week, in conjunction […]
Mobile health and fitness app startup Nudge recently launched Nudge Coach, a HIPAA-compliant tool that it says allows health professionals to analyze consumer data from health wearables by organizing the data in one spot. Nudge Coach is built on a web-based platform that interprets wearable data, including a user’s hydration, fitness, diet and sleep patterns. It […]
While there may be an explosion of wearable health devices for consumers that bring them a multitude of new data streams, incorporating those devices and that data into a major health system’s EHR remains a daunting, slow-moving task. That’s according to Martin Entwistle, director of Sutter Health‘s Innovation Center at the Palo Alto Medical Center, […]
The rate of adoption for wearable health devices will likely increase, but only if companies actively engage consumers, turn data into insight and focus on actually improving consumer health, according to a new study from PwC. Before any promise can be realized, health wearables “will need to provide more than just data,” the study said. […]