Whither patient engagement? Artist and patient-rights advocate Regina Holliday shared her latest, perhaps most inflammatory addition to the "Walking Gallery," while two health information exchange groups released a new video explaining Blue Button.
Watch our video interview with athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush (and a statue of Mick Jagger), from the Hard Rock Café in Chicago, filmed during HIMSS15.
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
MedCity News first got a peek at a virtual cadaver for medical education from San Jose, Calif.-based medical imaging software company Anatomage back in 2013. That technology now is in clinical use, as we learned from this video produced by the University of Connecticut Health Center and shared by the Doctors Channel.
Orb Health, a Phoenix-based grad of the Dallas-based healthcare accelerator Health Wildcatters, has raised seed funding as it prepares to launch a portal to connect physicians with labs and patients. The goal is to provide tools that spark communication between physicians and patients about their health. It is also intended to make it easier for […]
iCancerHealth Platform from Medocity – from Medocity on Vimeo. Mobile health business Medocity wants to do away with the idea that cancer patients have to cope on their own once they get out of the hospital. After half a year of beta testing its patient-facing app, iCancerHealth, that is designed to function like a patient-centric […]
A company that developed a medical device sensor to review and process clinical lab tests with a minimal amount of blood has taken the top prize in Nokia's X Challenge for sensing technology.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
In Google’s quest to identify technologies with a global impact, Google [x] initiated a series of conferences to give a stage to innovators in life sciences and technology. Solve for X is coming to New Jersey in a February event at Rutgers University organized by the Google Developer Group for North Jersey. It’s looking for […]
A health IT company that previously provided migraine patient data to pharmaceutical companies, Ubiqi Health, has relaunched as Klio Health. The new business, which CEO Jacqueline Thong started earlier this year, aggregates data from patients with chronic conditions with the goal of assessing effectiveness of treatment between visits through a portal. Thong spoke with MedCity […]
The international annual healthcare think tank meet-up that is TEDMED produced an interesting series of themes beyond the ones specifically outlined by TEDMED 2014 organizers. Some of the most interesting speakers revealed the fascinating brain chemistry at work behind humdrum rituals such as sleeping and breastfeeding. Other speakers drew connections between the brain chemistry associated […]
Beyond the speakers at TEDMED 2014 this week, the TEDMED Hive was the scene of much of the activity at the conference and was designed to advance the conversation beyond the auditorium. Healthcare entrepreneurs in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., presented mobile health devices and surgical tools to not only make healthcare easier to get […]
At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' appearance at TEDMED 2014 this week drew a lot of attention as the company prepares with Walgreens to roll out physician-ordered diagnostic test collection centers at stores around the country.
Two wearables entrepreneurs have produced a sensor designed for kids’ sports to alert coaches and parents when a player has received a hard blow to the head, possibly causing an injury. They have launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking to raise enough funding to set up production for the device. Ben Harvatine and Seth Berg co-founded […]
A new Frost & Sullivan report calls attention to a new chapter in printing technology making its way into healthcare called 4D printing. The biggest difference from 3D printing is 4D involves technologies that alter the properties and behaviors of objects such as external stimuli such as changes in temperature. They can also, to a […]
It's clever packaging but the Isansys Lifecare's video illustrating its wireless patient monitoring device -- Patients Status Engine -- shows in several steps the simplicity and complexity of the system in action.
A handful of entrepreneurs have developed ways for smartphones to use data from spirometers to allow patients with respiratory problems, particularly for asthma, to track lung capacity and, in some cases, share that information with physicians. In what sounds like an intriguing development, Apple’s latest beta update of its iOS 8 platform for developers includes […]