UPMC center showcases ‘virtualization’ of healthcare
The long-awaited boom in home-based, wireless health monitoring devices might happen sooner rather than later. In fact, Dr. Andrew Watson, medical director of the UPMC Center for Connected Medicine in...
View ArticleNuance voice-enables Epic Haiku, Canto apps for clinical info input
Just one week after Nuance Communications announced that it had inked a deal with Cerner to add voice input to the electronic health records (EHR) company’s mobile EHR apps, it has announced a similar...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs expect IPOs from Practice Fusion, Castlight, ZocDoc
It’s purely speculative, but a survey of entrepreneurs working in digital health suggests that Practice Fusion, Castlight Health and ZocDoc could be the next companies in the sector to go public....
View ArticleHenry Ford Health System launches app for cancer patients
The Henry Ford Center for Cancer Surgery has developed an app to help cancer patients find the answers they need when dealing with and treating cancer. Developed in part by Dr. Steven Kalkanis, the...
View ArticleOhio hospital emergency department adds mobile communication
Since the beginning of 2013, the Joint Commission has required accredited hospitals to meet certain standards for patient flow through the emergency department. To comply, St. Rita’s Medical Center, a...
View ArticleApple reveals tracking app HealthKit and partners with Mayo Clinic, Epic
At Apple’s WWDC event, the company announced its rumored native health tracking platform, which we now know to be called HealthKit. Rumors have circulated that the tracking platform would be called...
View ArticleWhy Apple’s HealthKit launch is important for digital health
At its World Wide Developers Conference yesterday, Apple announced two new health tools: a health data tracking platform for developers called HealthKit and a dashboard app for consumers simply called...
View ArticleWill patient-generated data from HealthKit reshape the EMR?
Some industry stakeholders from providers to investors to consumer device makers think something like Apple’s HealthKit could be the catalyst that finally brings the patient — and patient-generated...
View ArticleReport: At least 14 hospitals in talks to pilot Apple HealthKit
At least 14 hospitals are now either actively involved in a HealthKit pilot or in talks to roll one out, according to a new report from Reuters. Google and Samsung are beginning to approach hospitals...
View ArticlePatient-generated data integration challenges aren’t technical anymore
By and large, the barriers to integrating patient generated data into hospital systems are no longer technical, according to a panel of technology experts at the Partners Connected Health Symposium....
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