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How do connected care technologies play a role in healthcare?
Philips’ recently released Future Health Index zooms in on Americans citizens’ and healthcare professionals’ views of connected care technologies. The post How do connected care techn...
https://medcitynews.com/2017/05/connected-care-technologies-healthcare/
Is ResMed’s $800M health IT buy a pivot away from devices?
No. “It’s a logical double down on connected care,” CEO Mick Farrell said – as ResMed plans to streamline the home medical equipment supply chain. The post Is ResMed’s $800M healt...
Report: Market for home health technologies will triple by 2020
The forecast from Tractica considers medical, health and wellness uses of connected devices, services and applications outside traditional clinical settings. The post Report: Market for home he...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/08/home-health-technologies-2020/
‘Wireless health’ has become redundant
Wireless technology has become so ubiquitous in healthcare that the term “wireless health” itself has lost its cachet. The post ‘Wireless health’ has become redundant appeared first on...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/06/wireless-health-has-become-redundant/
The healthcare data debate: Forget big data and think actionable data
If you work in healthcare you hear the terms “big data,” “population health management,” and “integration” daily. You look around and see hundreds of dedicated engineering resources, ...
Salesforce survey: Millennials want telehealth and mobile apps
Just ahead of the closing enrollment period for Obamacare, tech behemoth Salesforce released a report titled “The State of the Connected Patient 2015,” detailing the potentially huge shift i...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/02/salesforce-survey-millennials-want-telehealth-mobile-apps/
Providers still lagging in patient engagement
Healthcare organizations and providers are still largely confused, or at least slow, when it comes to effective patient portals and other technologies that may help spur better patient engagement...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/02/providers-still-lagging-patient-engagement/
UnitedHealthcare upgrades Health4Me app to include wearables integration, mobile payments
UnitedHealth today unveiled a series of interesting upgrades to its Health4Me app, including mobile payments and integration into wearables. It’s yet another expansion of the app, which until t...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/02/unitedhealths-latest-app-upgrades-include-payments-wearables/
Innovating the doctor’s lounge
Editor’s note: The author is a member of the Sermo advisory board. The doctor’s lounge used to be a great meeting place for doctors. A place where only doctors could go to discuss medical cas...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/01/innovating-the-doctors-lounge/
How do you get patients to use health tech? Add people
People require more than interactions with cold technology, no matter how personal, intuitive, or human-seeming it might be. The post How do you get patients to use health tech? Add people app...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/01/get-patients-use-health-tech-add-people/
Hospital robots, 3D printing and middleware, oh my! What technologies will hospitals look to this year?
As hospitals look to integrate the most advanced technology that will help them reduce readmission rates and improve outcomes, there is a lot to consider. Buzzwords abound, like big data and coor...
Dartmouth-Hitchcock uses EMR in hopes of curbing unnecessary transfusions
Pathologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock are looking to curb the use of unnecessary blood transfusions for non-bleeding patients by adding a “best-practice alert” in the patient’s EMR, with the ...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/01/dartmouth-hitchcock-uses-emr-hopes-curbing-unnecessary-transfusions/
In 2015, ecosystems will transform fragmented wearables market
The widespread availability of fitness wearables coupled with marginal use has created a relatively new trend in the market — ecosystems. After all, no one can afford to depend on the business ...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/01/wearable-ecosystems-seek-transform-fragmented-wearables-market/
Retail health clinics seeking telemedicine, mobile technology to grow presence
Retail giants Walmart and Target, and likely others, will continue their steady march into the healthcare setting, sensing an opportunity to leverage their customers with a mix of technology that...
Survey raises question: Which researchers do people trust with their health data?
The appetite for health data grows and along with it conversations on people’s comfort level with making that information available. Young people tend to have a pretty passive attitude towards ...
Modell Foundation launches software it says can save $40B with early detection of primary immunodeficiency
The Jeffrey Modell Foundation in New York recently launched software that aims to better inform the healthcare world on primary immunodeficiency disorders, harnessing data from medical records th...
Can software help combat sepsis?
It’s well known that sepsis is among the most vexing and persistent conditions, costing the system as whole upwards of $20 billion – the single most expensive condition in hospitals– and ca...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/01/can-software-help-combat-sepsis/
As fitness wearables add health components, Accenture report shows they still need to nail down basics
Only 8 percent of consumers purchased a fitness wearable last year, according to an Accenture survey released this week. You’d never know it from the pervasiveness of these companies at CES t...
Healthcare’s application of the Internet of Things is directly in the FTC’s crosshairs
Federal Trade Commission head Edith Ramirez singled out companies with devices that store personal health information, such as blood-glucose levels, in a talk that highlighted concerns over data ...
The affects of new face-to-face encounter and reporting procedures on home health
The graying of America is here and in five years 20% of Americans will be eligible for Medicare services. This means that the number of people using home health services funded by Medicare is sur...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/01/affects-new-face-face-encounter-reporting-procedures-home-health/
FDA expands Sentinel project with the hope that EHR data can speed safety efforts
The FDA is moving ahead with its Mini-Sentinel pilot program after five years, making it a full-fledged program that will utilize access to EHRs of some 178 million patients and the claims data c...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/01/fda-expands-sentinel-project-hope-ehr-data-can-speed-safety-efforts/
Designer is revamping everything from white boards to office visits at Cincinnati Children’s
My first feeling after entering a hospital is anxiety. If I am not worried about my own procedure or a family member’s test, I am thinking about all the germs in hospitals. I’ve never had a p...
6 healthcare startups that are transforming patient care
It was incredibly hard to restrict myself to a handful of healthcare startups and initiatives that have made an impact this year or made significant progress towards their goal of improving patie...
https://medcitynews.com/2014/12/6-healthcare-startups-that-are-transforming-patient-care/
CMS adding 89 new ACOs
CMS yesterday announced that 89 new accountable care organizations were formed to join the Shared Savings Programs, bringing the total of such ACOs to 405 that serve more than 7.2 million patient...
41 percent of caregivers use some digital health device to provide care
Digital health may be a compelling market, especially the use of digital devices by caregivers looking after some of the seniors that will make up 42 percent of the population next year. But it r...
Survey: Wearables, cloud to ‘change the face’ of home care
Just about every corner of the healthcare world is undergoing rapid change, and the home health industry is no different. New policies from Medicare, coupled with emerging cloud-based technologie...
https://medcitynews.com/2014/12/survey-wearables-cloud-change-face-home-care/
Health information exchanges seek unified voice, more collaboration
Representatives from some 20 health information exchanges across the country are collectively forming a national consortium, dubbed the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative, that a...
https://medcitynews.com/2014/12/health-information-exchanges-seek-unified-voice-collaboration/
Survey: Consumers want to be engaged by providers with patient portals
Consumers show a strong preference to getting their medical records online, if given instruction on how to easily access them, according to a survey by Xerox and Harris Poll. Sixty-four percent o...
Kaiser launches teledermatology
Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii recently rolled out a teledermatology service, enabling dermatologists to remotely view patient images of skin ailments through the health system’s HealthConnect. Kn...
Survey: Consumers and providers narrowing gap on healthcare outlooks
Consumers and providers have not always seen eye-to-eye on matters of healthcare, and while the gulf is narrowing, there are still gaps to overcome, according to a survey from consultancy Booz Al...
https://medcitynews.com/2014/12/survey-consumers-providers-narrowing-gap-mobile/