Sutter Health Chief of Digital Health Dr Albert Chan is taking part in a panel discussion about the patient experience at the ViVE conference by HLTH and CHIME in Miami Beach March 6-9. In an interview, he discussed some of the digital health tools they've implemented from behavioral health to maternity care and AI.
Once the Consolidated-Clinical Document Architecture is in the HealthKit database, enabling an app to transmit it is easy.
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.
Big Blue is opening Watson Health's global headquarters near Boston and introducing IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences and IBM Watson Care Manager. This comes barely a week after Salesforce debuted a data aggregator called Salesforce Health Cloud.
The Apple HealthKit health information platform would start tracking "reproductive health" in the forthcoming iOS 9, Apple said Monday.
California recently enacted legislation that goes even beyond HIPAA for patient privacy, particularly as privacy relates to the bevy of new healthcare products hitting the market through mobile apps and personal health records. Assembly Bill 658, the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown last September with seemingly little […]
I’m truly not an “Apple fanboy.” I’m a believer in “do-acracy,” rewarding people and companies that create useful products which save me time.I stay objective about every company. I recently emailed one of my favorite companies which has slowed its innovation, “We need products not Powerpoint.” So what about the iPhone 6? Although I’m an […]
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.
Apple’s hotly anticipated HealthKit reportedly experienced significant problems just ahead of its rollout today, leaving scores of developers and healthcare companies who plan on using the platform in a temporary lurch. In a statement, Apple confirmed it ran into issues today but offered little else: “We discovered a bug that prevents us from making HealthKit apps […]
Consumers might not be all that excited about Apple’s plans for healthcare, but developers are already hard at work figuring out how to integrate their products into the Apple health ecosystem. Health tracking companies RunKeeper, Withings, Strava and iHealth told 9to5mac their apps will support Apple’s upcoming health data platform HealthKit, and today a more […]
If the alleged leak of risque celebrity photos from iCloud was going to happen, it couldn’t have happened at a much worse time. Apple is just a week away from unveiling its new iPhone and health wearable, according to reports. Both will presumably connect to the upcoming HealthKit cloud data platform that’s been stirring up […]
A handful of entrepreneurs have developed ways for smartphones to use data from spirometers to allow patients with respiratory problems, particularly for asthma, to track lung capacity and, in some cases, share that information with physicians. In what sounds like an intriguing development, Apple’s latest beta update of its iOS 8 platform for developers includes […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Dr. Joseph Kvedar has seen a few digital health efforts fail. As the director of Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare, he knows what pitfalls are waiting for new efforts to get people to track and change their health habits. In a recent post on The cHealth Blog, he identified the three big challenges […]
It’s no secret that Apple is developing an iWatch as part of its healthcare platform. But all sorts of questions abound as to its potential applications. Apple’s splash into the healthcare market last week revealed some details about an app and its cloud-based platform, but not much more than that. In a new development, a […]
As expected, Apple jumped into the health information business today, launching both a new health app and a cloud-based health information platform. The new app, called simply “Health,” will collect a number of body metrics including blood pressure, heart rate, and stats on diet and exercise. Impressively, Health will constantly monitor key health metrics (like blood […]