Baxter International, Global Medical Response and Cardinal Health provided the latest round of funding for Boston-based Medically Home, joining Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente as strategic partners.
Although the use of mobile technology in healthcare is growing more common, numerous obstacles still block the way to widespread adoption.
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.
At yesterday's Pepperdine Graziadio Future of Healthcare Symposium, a panel of experts discussed the impact of telemedicine and what is to come.
Mobile health business Practice Unite, which has added eight health systems and hospitals and four home healthcare agencies as customers in the past year, is moving into the remote monitoring business for geriatric care. It is providing the app to a consortium of home care groups, as part of a partnership between Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute […]
If there’s one diss for a digital health device I’ve heard voiced more frequently than any other it’s this: it’s a solution or technology in search of a problem. It implies a certain level of arrogance by the inventor that a technology will be so brilliant that healthcare professionals will find a way to adapt […]
A nutrition app that tailors diets to patients’ diseases and medications to avoid adverse reactions, Nutrify shared the winners’ circle spotlight with a price transparency tool, Clear Health Costs. A tie? That would never happen on Shark Tank where winners are lionized and the losers get a lesson on entrepreneurship they never forget. Patient Shark […]
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.
ActualMeds graduated from New York Digital Health accelerator‘s inaugural class last year with a goal of making it easier for patients with a high risk of readmission to manage their medication. More than one year later, it’s raised two-thirds of the company’s first equity round. It plans to use the $5 million it’s seeking in […]
#Doctors being squeezed by many new trends in #healthcare & #tech. Via @EricTopol@NYeHealth#DHC14pic.twitter.com/5EMQKFPMlZ — Wen Dombrowski MD (@HealthcareWen) November 17, 2014 Eric Topol, the director of Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, California, shared some more details of his vision of democratized healthcare at the New York Digital Health Conference this week. In a […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFzOyGEsB6I People are complex beings – that’s why we need to use many methods to get people to take their prescription meds consistently. Smart bottles to alert physicians and patients, text messages, phone call reminders. Next IT’s healthcare channel is developing an even more interactive approach to medication adherence. It is applying artificial intelligence to […]
A 3D audio system for blind navigation developed by a team of Microsoft engineers and designers could make a huge difference in improving the quality of life for visually impaired people.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
It’s a bit ironic that health IT companies try to improve patient safety and solve problems like alarm fatigue by developing another alert system. But Ristcall hopes to avoid that by creating a set of wearables for nurses and inpatients that allow them to communicate with each using the hospital’s Wi-Fi network. Ristcall, which is […]
The race to contain the Ebola virus is getting some new tools in the form of Biomeme’s smartphone-enabled diagnostic. At DreamIt Health’s demo day in Philadelphia today, CEO Max Perelman said a few of the devices were being deployed to West Africa to track the disease and could soon be used in Ebola clinics. The […]
Gaming as a motor skill therapy, a solar-powered electronic health record device, ideas for fixing healthcare and a freaky demonstration of LED communication were some of the things that drew my attention in the exhibition hall of the Connected Health Symposium and beyond. Here are the highlights. One of the big themes of the conference […]
For people who are visually impaired, seeing eye dogs are not only a warm companion, but they’re a tool to help with everyday life. In a world constantly evolving, however, a new smartphone app is claiming it can replace the four-legged guides. EYEBRIDGE has created an app for the visually impaired that gives them 24/7 access […]