Apps help emergency rooms offer shared decision-making
Mobile apps are helping to accelerate the shift.
Forthcoming app wants to turn kids with T1D into ‘diabetes ninjas’
Controlling chronic diseases is about building good habits, and to get children and teens with Type 1 diabetes into healthy routines, the method has to be fun.
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How PDPM Optimization Improves Facility Financial Performance
Transitioning to PDPM models significantly shifted the healthcare industry. By replacing the RUG system, healthcare providers cut waste and more accurately reflect the care each patient received.
Image-sharing app Figure 1 takes pulse of healthcare professionals
With a user base of half a million healthcare professionals around the world and more than 1 billion views of its medical cases, mobile healthcare image-sharing platform Figure 1 is starting to tap into its critical mass.
Hospital co-develops app with SeamlessMD to improve joint replacement care
Toronto-based SeamlessMD is partnering with Holland Orthopaedic & Arthritic Centre, part of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in the same city, to introduce myHip&Knee, a free app that helps patients both before and after joint replacements.
App integrates wearables data into Carolinas HealthCare EHR
Carolinas HealthCare System quietly released the myCarolinas Tracker app months ago for both Android and Apple iOS. Very quietly, apparently.
Boston Children’s enlists ResearchKit for hep C study
This study, called C Tracker, will give researchers insight into patients' daily activity, monitor symptoms and assess the efficacy of treatments.
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Why Your Patients Are Leaving and How to Stop It
Patient expectations continue to evolve, and healthcare practices that fail to adapt risk more than just revenue—they risk losing trust.
Cleveland Clinic app helps trainers assess, manage sports injuries
Cleveland Clinic's Sideline Guidelines contains medical information and branching logic to help trainers and other medical professionals diagnose sports injuries on the sidelines, plan training schedules and decide when an athlete is medically able to return to play.
Chicago mental health agency tries mobile care management with veterans
A Chicago mental health and community services agency is piloting a mobile care management platform with its population of military veterans.
Nebraska Medicine, Epic supporting limited functions of Apple Watch
Patients at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha with an Apple Watch can download Epic's MyChart app to their wrist-worn devices and clinicians can use the professional version, called Haiku, but is the hype justified?
Telehealth shows promise for treating Parkinson’s disease
The mPower app helps Parkinson's disease patients track metrics such as dexterity, balance, gait, voice patterns and cognition, then send readings to researchers.
A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Success
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.
This hospital actually got physicians to embrace a mobile messaging app
There have been numerous efforts, or at least discussions, to get hospital physicians and staff to better communicate via text messages and away from widely used but somewhat antiquated pagers. But so far, it’s largely been problematic because people would use their own devices, potentially opening themselves and their hospitals up to HIPAA violations. So […]
SAP mobile EMR was exposed to hacks
German software giant SAP recently fixed two potentially dangerous flaws in a mobile medical app that could have allowed malicious hackers to upload fake patient data, Computer World reports, a development that underscores the serious security issues at hand for healthcare, no matter the scale of the organization. SAP was able to fix the issues […]
UnitedHealthcare piloting fitness app that pays for healthy behavior
As part of an effort to make health insurance a more tangible and consumer-oriented tool, UnitedHealthcare is in the process of developing a new app that offers financial incentives for users who practice healthful behavior. The Minneapolis-based insurer is currently piloting the iPhone app, Reward Me, in Arizona and Illinois, offering users a litany of […]
Epic to open its EHR system to customers for app development
Epic Systems is in the midst of launching an app store that will allow third-party companies to develop products in tandem with its EHR system, which is the most commonly used across hospitals and physician practices. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that the app store was announced Tuesday at the Wisconsin Innovation Network by Mark […]
Salesforce survey: Millennials want telehealth and mobile apps
Just ahead of the closing enrollment period for Obamacare, tech behemoth Salesforce released a report titled “The State of the Connected Patient 2015,” detailing the potentially huge shift in how patients interact with their providers, particularly younger patients, and how technology might help improve connectivity. “While traditional communication channels remain popular among patients, the next generation […]