Is this the right way hospitals can listen to their patients?
Is this the way to do a "patient panel" properly. And will everyone really listen?
Partners wants better understanding of what consumers want from digital health
The Center for Connected Care, part of Boston-based Partners HealthCare, unveiled a research tool that is says will help a wide range of healthcare companies “better understand what consumers want from – and how they actually use – personal health technologies.” The cHealth Compass, as it’s known, aims to help the healthcare industry, medical and […]
Reducing Clinical and Staff Burnout with AI Automation
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
How can clinicians actually evaluate mobile health apps?
While mobile health technologies and companies offer great promise is reaching patients and consumers, perhaps the greatest challenge is quantifying actual success versus hype and simply touting the next app. Partners Healthcare in a blog post notes that the success of mHealth platforms is increasingly difficult to gauge or is taken from a tiny sample […]
Study: Social media pages focused on chronic illnesses are mostly for marketing
Social media and healthcare are an odd couple, at least for Facebook. It turns out that only about 9.5 percent of Facebook pages about chronic diseases are used for actual support, while about 32 percent of such pages are marketing ploys, according to a study in the Journal of Medicine Internet Research. The study also […]
Three things: Kvedar’s wish list for Apple’s HealthKit
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 […]
Spero Therapeutics catches Roche’s eye with a new way to target drug-resistant bacterial infections
Overcoming challenges posed by the growing number of infections that are resistant to traditional antibiotics is the goal of a startup surfacing today with a $3 million Series A and a drug development partnership with Roche. Spero Therapeutics was born last year out of a collaboration between VC firm Atlas Venture’s seed program and Partners […]
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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.
Post-health reform reality: living with less? (Morning Read)
While questioning each other's money-making techniques, the chiefs of Massachusetts' most prominent hospital network and private health insurer agreed that controlling soaring healthcare costs begins with a shift in thinking: adjust to a climate of limited resources and learn to live with less, reports MetroWest Daily News.
Morning Read: Why we must change how primary care docs get paid
Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare: Why we must change how primary care docs get paid: A study of how primary care doctors at one Philadelphia practice spend their time yields some disturbing results, and further shows why primary care is becoming a less-and-less desirable field to enter. Each […]