Lygeia Ricciardi stepped down as director of the ONC Office of Consumer eHealth a year ago, but continues to carry the torch for patient engagement and empowerment in the private sector, as she explains in this video.
In the spirit of innovation, we wanted to try something new, namely record a video interview with new Boston Children's Hospital Chief Innovation Officer John Brownstein via a Google Hangout chat.
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.
If you were at the just-concluded American Telemedicine Association annual meeting in Los Angeles, you likely saw the MedCity News Media Pavilion in the exhibit hall. We interviewed about two dozen newsmakers and interesting attendees on camera. Here is a taste of what we produced.
A new video just in time for the approaching Halloween season depicts Uncle Sam as a OBGYN physician as part of a campaign against Obamacare health insurance. It’s unmistakably creepy and that’s the intent behind the video by Generation Opportunity, a conservative non profit with staff who previously worked for the Republican party. It’s an […]
Duke University researchers have developed a blood test diagnostic to detect whether a respiratory illness is caused by a viral infection faster and more accurately, according to an Associated Press story. The life science innovation could be a potential game changer in the effort to curb the overprescription of antibiotics. It could impact the risk […]
Harvard Business Review called it the sexiest job of the 21st century. Data scientists are in huge demand, especially in healthcare. There’s an unquenchable thirst at the moment for analytics information that can help hospitals and payers respond to public health challenges like predicting who is more likely to be readmitted after discharge or who […]
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.
A medication adherence app for families, a social network for recovering alcoholics and a mobile health diagnostic that claims to diagnose concussions based on eye movements. In addition to contributing to the debate on mobile health apps and medical device regulation these are some of the 10 companies that will compete as part of an […]