Entrepreneurs are taking different approaches to making physician recruitment easier and more cost effective from filling shifts to checking and organizing physician credentials.
Novartis will continue its T-cell research at the University of Pennsylvania. The Novartis-Penn Center for Advanced Cellular Therapeutics opened in Philadelphia this year.
Employee assistance programs have become essential tools for organizations aiming to address mental health challenges, reduce burnout and foster healthier workplaces.
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania presented their study findings last week at the Heart Rhythm Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco.
According to the report, from McKinsey & Co., Google and the Wharton School, one of every 20 Google searches today is for health information. That's grown 15 percent a year since 2011.
The $550 premium discount may not have been large enough.
The study results suggest it may be possible to link social media content to health outcomes.
Choosing the right brain injury rehabilitation program is a critical decision that can shape the future for you or your loved one.
One group of developers who took part in Penn Apps student hackathon developed a device to help visually impaired users make the most of their smartphones.
Instead of just building apps that people may or may not use, healthcare innovators have started taking lessons from counterparts in other industries by testing their ideas first, according to University of Pennsylvania researchers.
The switch to digital TV freed up radio spectrum formerly used by analog TV broadcasts for all kinds of new services. Now, count telemedicine to rural Botswana as one of those services. Microsoft has been taking advantage of unused broadcast frequencies known as TV white spaces to test the delivery of broadband Internet to remote parts of Africa. […]
A clinical decision support tool designed to make it easier to integrate clinical pathways into workflows walked away with $50,000 from Ben Franklin Technology Partners as part of a University of Pennsylvania mobile app development competition. Decnut was one of five mobile health teams selected by Penn’s Uptart incubator as part of the Technology Transfer […]
Incorporating aquatic therapy can enhance patient outcomes and shorten recovery times for health care professionals. In the Chicago suburbs, the demand for such programs is rising.
The use of Twitter in healthcare has already shown beneficial uses in tracking risk for heart disease and for medical research, but a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that tweets are also associated with an increase in state-level enrollment in health insurance marketplaces established under the […]
With the number of smartphone users set to hit 2 billion this year and the wearables users expected to hit nearly 50 million by 2018 , a University of Pennsylvania study decided it was time for a competition between these two markets focused on accuracy. It selected from the top 10 best-selling apps and devices […]
News reports that highlight good Samaritans who successfully revived people who suffered a heart attack are the kind of feel-good stories that make us wonder if we’d be capable of keeping it together in that stressful situation. A team of developers from France and Spain with a fondness for Star Wars developed an app for […]
The use of social media in healthcare is evolving, with providers still largely trying to figure out how it can be applied to healthcare settings and patients. But it turns out that Twitter, and the language used on it, may be a good predictor of coronary heart disease, according to a new study in Psychological Science. […]
Many people each year go to their doctor to get an annual physical just to make sure everything is in good shape. But is it really worth the time (for you and the doctor) and the money if you don’t have any symptoms? Ezekiel J. Emanuel, an oncologist and a vice provost at the University […]