AI-assisted software development can help teams achieve faster delivery, lower costs, and higher-quality results – all key to meeting patients' and providers' digital health expectations.
A new Verndale survey of nearly 500 individuals from found consumers most strongly want healthcare apps to provide the ability to manage appointments.
Balancing healthcare benefits and insurance costs requires research. From becoming a Difference Card member to offering wellness resources, there are many ways to improve healthcare at low cost.
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.
Would you work out or sleep more if you knew you'd get a credit to shop at Whole Foods?
"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.
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 […]
Choosing the right software translates directly into better client management, operational efficiency and growth for your spa franchise. Discover which tool is best for your business.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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...
Every wellness clinic is only as successful as the capabilities of its software. Here's where you can find the top-rated practice management solutions for med spas.
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...