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How Millennials Are Impacting Healthcare IT

March 11, 2016

Via: HITECH Answers

Millennials between the ages of 18 and 24 have been changing the norms as consumers. Nearly all business sectors have been affected by millennials because they are not sticking to traditional consumer trends. Below we highlighted 5 ways in which […]


TECH

Digital health developers tackle mental health

March 11, 2016

Via: Modern Healthcare

Like many providers, Boston-based Steward Health Care System is taking on an increasing amount of financial risk for health outcomes. It now has hundreds of thousands of patients under risk-based contracts. But the 11-hospital group identified a weak link in […]


TECH

Beyond the Smart Home: The Health Hub of the Future

March 9, 2016

Via: HitConsultant

Almost every day, we see announcements about yet another “connected” product that is hailed as creating a “smarter” home environment. These types of products promise an easier, more convenient way of living, but they aren’t always connected to our lives—or […]


TECH

When it Comes to Medical Apps, Buyer Beware

March 8, 2016

Via: MedPageToday

In a study presented this week at the American Heart Association EPI and Lifestyle conference (AHA EPI) in Phoenix, researchers from Johns Hopkins have shown one of the most popular medical apps to be inaccurate and misleading. Instant Blood Pressure […]


TECH

Medical Devices Vulnerable to Hacking

March 7, 2016

Via: MedPageToday

As HIMSS gets underway, the healthcare IT world is still shaking from last month’s audacious privacy breach at a California hospital. Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital paid a $17,000 ransom to a criminal enterprise that broke into the hospital’s system, encrypted data, […]


TECH

In healthcare technology, it’s patient, patient, patient

March 4, 2016

Via: Modern Healthcare

What do consumers want when they interact with the healthcare system? The answer may partly depend on their age. At this week’s annual meeting of the Health Information and Management Systems Society, the themes of consumerism and patient engagement were […]


TECH

Smartphone Blood-Pressure App Often Wrong

March 4, 2016

Via: MedlinePlus Health News

A popular app that uses your smartphone to check your blood pressure is inaccurate, missing high blood pressure readings in four out of every five patients tested, researchers report. Instant Blood Pressure promises to provide an estimated blood pressure reading […]


TECH

Fully digital hospitals can improve efficiency and customer service

March 2, 2016

Via: HealthcareITnews

Rueben Devlin, CEO of Humber River Hospital in Toronto, sees full digitization as the future of physician efficiency and patient experience. In seeking to fully digitize Humber River, the hospital focused on improving communications, bringing disparate technologies together into one streamlined package. […]


TECH

Health IT has to work better for doctors

March 2, 2016

Via: HealthcareITnews

In a co-presentation with National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD, at HIMSS16 Tuesday evening, Acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Andy Slavitt said physicians “want better technology.” From both a policy and an innovation perspective, it’s time to give it […]


TECH

90 Percent of Hospitals Still Use Pagers and Overpay to Maintain Legacy Technology

March 1, 2016

Via: Healthcare Informatics

Despite widespread use of smartphones and other mobile devices among healthcare providers, 90 percent of hospitals still use pagers and overpay by 45 percent to maintain legacy paging services, according to a study by Tiger Text and using research conducted […]


Innovation, TECH

Digital health: the future for medicine?

February 26, 2016

Via: The Medical News

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” these were the words of Alan Kay quoted by Dr Euan Ashley at the Recent Developments in Digital Health 2016 event at the Royal Society of Medicine. No one […]


TECH

The Coolest Fitness Devices To Monitor Your Heart Rate

February 22, 2016

Via: Z Living

This American Heart Month, we give you something to think about: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), even though cardiovascular (heart) disease is the number one cause of death among American women and men today, it is […]


Innovation, Med Tech, TECH

6 policy reforms to improve U.S. healthcare

February 18, 2016

Via: FierceHealthcare

Leaders from across the industry have identified six “common-sense solutions” to improve the U.S. healthcare system, touching on subjects including data interoperability, Medicare payment policies and care of chronically ill patients, according to a report released Wednesday. Working on behalf […]


TECH

Wearables Poised to Dominate Medical Device Market Share

February 12, 2016

Via: Hitconsultant

A new patent landscape report from iRunway reveals a tectonic shift in the medical devices industry, with new technology players poised to take significant market share from traditional medical device manufacturers in the non-invasive monitoring arena. Medtronics, General Electric, Eli […]


TECH

Harnessing the Power of Mobile

February 10, 2016

Via: Healthcare Informatics

It’s widely acknowledged that healthcare, as every other industry, is becoming more mobile and that mobile solutions, whether apps, wearable devices or services like remote patient monitoring, hold a lot of promise as digital tools healthcare leaders can use to […]


TECH

Integration of Digital Health Tools for Pharmacy

February 8, 2016

Via: HitConsultant

CVS has been a dominate force in the retail pharmacy market for some time—but could the popular retail chain become the next major player in the digital health movement? According to its Chief Digital Officer Brian Tilzer, it’s getting there. […]


TECH

Telemedicine Bill Could Save $1.8B Over 10 Years

February 4, 2016

Via: HitConsultant

The American Medical Association (AMA) today supported the bipartisan Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act to expand the use of telemedicine to achieve quality care for patients. The CONNECT for Health Act would: – […]


Patient Experience, TECH

Accenture: Only 2% of Hospitals Engage Patients Using Mobile Apps

January 7, 2016

Via: HitConsultant

Mobile health app usage has grown increasingly over the past three years with 54 percent of health consumers willing to use their smartphones to engage with their healthcare providers, according to new research from Accenture. The report finds that despite […]


TECH

“Data as a Drug” Will Define The Next Decade of Medicine

December 21, 2015

Via: HitConsultant

Medical science is now producing gene-editing technology, implantables, and pills with digestible microchips. The plethora of technologies will sense our body signals and can help predict and prevent illness. Increasingly, humans are becoming machines. We already have wearables, but we […]


Patient Experience, TECH

The digital hospital: Meeting demands of active, tech-savy consumers

August 5, 2015

Via: Information management

Healthcare is undergoing a transformation that’s driven by a fundamental shift in the expectations of patients. In this guest post, Brendan Ziolo, head of large enterprise strategy at an IP networking, ultra-broadband access and cloud technology company, gives hospital executives […]