Glow launches app to track infant development, unveils monetization strategy
Glow Baby is part of a broader trend of apps helping new parents track infant health and development.
Glow Baby is part of a broader trend of apps helping new parents track infant health and development.
Researchers at the hospital's Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research will train Watson in nephrology by reading medical literature and scanning data on mutations for a kidney disease known as steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome.
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.
Although Cutler said it will make the device available to the mass market, it will also work with pediatricians across clinical practices and hospitals —specifically in the acute care realm.
Perhaps like children themselves, pediatrics often is misunderstood by others in the healthcare industry. "People think the pediatric market is small," Patrick K. FitzGerald, the first-ever vice president for entrepreneurship and innovation at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said Tuesday at MedCity CONVERGE in Philadelphia.
Telemedicine boosters have long touted remote consultation as a way to expand access to behavioral health services, but clinicians once resisted the technology at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo., the hospital's telemedicine chief said at mHealth + Telehealth World 2015.
The push to make California the third state to do away with personal exemptions from childhood vaccinations has been partly defined by a war of words between opposing sides of the debate on Facebook, A Jezebel article highlighted the debate.
Secure e-mail that won't send attachments? We should expect more from patient and family portals in 2015.
It’s been pretty well documented that kids watching TV before bed could affect their sleep negatively, but a new study published in Pediatrics is showing that spending time with a small screen, say that from an iPhone, Droid or tablet, could be even worse. Kids who slept near small screen devices reported getting even less sleep […]
Mom, doctor and entrepreneur Amy Baxter and her bee-shaped pain relief device Buzzy will come face-to-face with TV’s toughest investors tonight on the reality show Shark Tank. Hopefully she’ll fare better than the duo of doctors who delivered what Mark Cuban deemed the “worst presentation ever” on the show last fall. Baxter, a pediatric emergency […]
Ear infections drive some 13 million children and their parents or caretakers to the doctor each year — often to be told to wait a few days and see if the infection clears on its own, or to be given an antibiotic that may or may not help. The problem with those solutions, according to […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Children’s hospital leaders in Ohio recently brought to light an “unlimited supply” of unsolved problems in pediatrics that certainly isn’t going to solve itself. In response, they and others have increasingly turned to collaboration to bring new medical treatments to children. In Ohio, six children’s hospitals have banded together under the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association, […]
Commercializing new products in pediatrics comes with many challenges — among them that children make up a small percentage of the population but have very specialized needs. Hospitals, foundations and academic institutions in Ohio have really prioritized pediatric innovation over the past several years — but more on that in a separate post. Leaders at […]
One of the pain points of technology transfer hospitals and universities face is that it can a lot of time and money to shepherd an idea to the point it can spin-off from the organization. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has formed a partnership with Osage University Partners, a venture capital fund that invests in new […]
The importance of good design in healthcare takes on a whole new meaning when we talk about pediatric care. Children’s hospitals are filled with art, music, color, plants, natural light – anything to mask the bleak, eerie feel of a sterile environment. Lately, I’ve noticed healthcare facilities and innovators seem to be also paying more […]
The U.S. division of the Beijing Genomics Institute has opened an office around the corner from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, according to a press statement. It’s a logical move as CHOP and BGI have been collaborating on several projects in connection with their joint genomics center — BGI@CHOP. The partnership gives the hospital the capacity […]