Which features of healthcare apps do patients desire most?
A new Verndale survey of nearly 500 individuals from found consumers most strongly want healthcare apps to provide the ability to manage appointments.
NEJM commentary: Test health innovation before building apps
Instead of just building apps that people may or may not use, healthcare innovators have started taking lessons from counterparts in other industries by testing their ideas first, according to University of Pennsylvania researchers.
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3D Medical Animation Services: A Revolution in Healthcare Education and Marketing
3D medical animation services have emerged as a groundbreaking tool in the healthcare industry, revolutionizing the way medical concepts are taught, understood, and marketed.
Wellcoin has launched in an effort to encourage healthy lifestyles – healthcare’s answer to Bitcoin, kind of
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ENGAGE: Keep health apps simple, outcomes-focused
"I don't think people give a damn about their health unless they're sick, then they care a lot," said Neal Sofian, vice president of engagement and innovation at Vivacity, a Premera Blue Cross wellness subsidiary, at the MedCity ENGAGE conference.
Awful but funny: Talking weight loss app dishes out insults to help you lose weight
The meanest weight loss coach ever has landed in the app store, and her name is CARROT Fit. It’s a simple app that uses manually entered data to calculate BMI and track a user’s weight over time. But instead of incorporating game mechanics or social interaction or a wearable device, it adds a slightly different […]
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10. Our broken healthcare system defeats even the most empowered patients Jess Jacobs and Donna Cryer are experts on the healthcare system — professionally and personally. Jacobs has postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and describes it best in her own words: I have an idiopathic condition. It lies somewhere between the heart, autonomic nervous system, […]
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
mHealth Summit: Too many apps, not enough business models
By now you’ve probably read a review or two of the mHealth Summit recently held in Washington, D.C. I had the opportunity to attend once again and came away with several insights of my own. But first, a picture: This image illustrates what many of my fellow Summit attendees realized after just a few minutes […]
Manhattan Research: 10 patient groups most likely to be mobile health users
People living with cystic fibrosis, growth hormone deficiencies and acne were among the most likely to report using their smartphones to find health information in a new survey from Manhattan Research. With its 2013 Cybercitizen Health U.S. study, the pharmaceutical and healthcare market research firm set out to help healthcare marketers understand how patients and […]
40,000 health-related apps and no easy way to know which ones work
Christine Porter is hooked on the My Fitness Pal app. In October, after deciding to lose 50 pounds, Porter started typing in everything she eats, drinks and any exercise she gets. “This is like my main page here,” says Porter, who lost 42 p...
Smart as a (Blue) Button: Program brings medical records to your smartphone
It's one of those unhappy holiday surprises -- a visiting family member gets sick. That happened to Dr. Farzad Mostashari last Thanksgiving. "My dad comes downstairs and he has acute pain in his eye where he had cataract surgery. And I said, 'Wha...
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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.