Almost everyone in my family got a techie gadget for Christmas. My oldest son got a portable vibration speaker system that turns just about anything — a cup, a bowl, a lampshade—into a speaker. My daughter spent the holidays in SnapChat-Instagram bliss on her new iPhone and like many Americans heading into a resolution-filled New […]
All-encompassing patient engagement solutions are inevitable. But are the current concerns over health IT regulations and healthcare reform delaying implementation? That’s one potential takeaway from the early rollout of Verizon’s Converged Health Management platform, which made its official debut in October. Since then, the company has started some early tests with a hospital and a […]
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.
Healthcare has a connectivity problem. You might think I’m talking about cellular service coverage, Internet bandwidth or network integration, but telecommunications infrastructure is only a small part of the problem. Connectivity simply refers to the state of being connected, but there is a pervasive disconnect everywhere you look in health care. Many patients are disconnected […]
Look out, wellness entrepreneurs. Selling your patient engagement solution to doctors and employers just got a lot more challenging. Verizon announced the Converged Health Management platform today. This white-label solution covers the entire process of patient engagement. It can collect data from wireless medical devices and send it securely to the cloud. Algorithms look for […]
Eighteen companies from outside healthcare have entered the medtech market, including Qualcomm, Sony, Verizon, AT&T, Canon, Samsung and Motorola, according to PwC’s latest report on medtech and innovation. While medtech companies still work to chip away slowly at what innovation means–literally without a definition, big companies from the tech and IT space dive in. “I […]
Innovation and startups, according to Cleveland Clinic CIO Dr. Martin Harris, are the only way the healthcare system will be able to shift to one that’s focused on a new way of delivering team-based care. “We need net new innovators who aren’t in the current delivery cycle bringing us those new tools that we can […]
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.
New penalties in the HIPAA update are forcing hospitals to take data breaches more seriously, as service providers like Verizon have found (here’s a short summary). Updates to the rule treat health IT vendors as business partners with shared liability for patient data breaches. That has spurred them to have more meaningful conversations with Verizon […]
With the remote-monitoring market projected to reach $296.5 million by 2019, more companies see the value in developing a product for this market, including telecommunication companies. Verizon received its first 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a cloud-based, remote-monitoring tool that helps transmit data generated from patients with chronic conditions from […]
In this article, I will present a series of questions that health care organizations should ask their IT service providers to address before providing such service providers with identifiable patient health information in electronic format (electronic patient health information or ePHI). 1. Do you encrypt electronic patient health information in-motion, at rest, or both? There […]
Duke University is partnering with Verizon (NYSE:VZ) in a health IT initiative pursuing technologies intended to improve care, expand healthcare access and lower costs. The agreement pairs Duke’s research resources with Verizon Connected Healthcare Solutions, the telecom giant’s healthcare practice group. Duke will make available personnel, including research and project management experts. Intellectual property from […]
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