Were digital health innovators best described as a clever Trojan Horse this quarter, or as slimy snake oil salesmen? It really depends on who you ask. At the beginning of the quarter, HHS CTO Susannah Fox said that technology would be a Trojan Horse for culture change in healthcare. She ... Read More »
Anyone who works in health care is used to researching symptoms, drug interactions and other need-to-know stats to keep patients safe and manage their care. Until recently, doctors, nurses and other health care workers would have to wait until they got to a desktop terminal to find the answers they ... Read More »
Three counties in California signed on to use emocha’s apps for managing tuberculosis. The Johns Hopkins spinout is implementing miDOT in Fresno, Merced and Contra Costa counties. It continues national growth for the DreamIt Health Baltimore alum, which is among a group of local health IT startups generating buzz in ... Read More »
WASHINGTON—That handy health app on your phone—the one with access to your medical history, your doctor’s name, even your home address—may be vulnerable to hackers. Technology experts discussed the risks at a House hearing July 14 with the Energy and Commerce subcommittee. The fast growth of information technologies in the ... Read More »
WASHINGTON—That handy health app on your phone—the one with access to your medical history, your doctor’s name, even your home address—may be vulnerable to hackers. Technology experts discussed the risks at a House hearing July 14 with the Energy and Commerce subcommittee. The fast growth of information technologies in the ... Read More »
Back in the middle of the 19th century, the American Medical Association declared war on the so-called “snake oil elixirs” that were all the rage. Today, it has identified a new target: digital health apps. In a speech delivered at the AMA’s recent annual meeting, CEO James Madara described the ... Read More »
The Florida Department of Health has suspended the nursing license of a woman who was caught hitting a patient. Officials say 61-year-old Deanna S. Tackett of Deland cursed at and repeatedly slapped a male patient in the chest and face while he was in an intensive care unit at Florida ... Read More »
There was a time when a quarter’s worth of pharma news in digital health would have meant news from a small handful of players. But this quarter, news has come from lots of different companies, demonstrating that adoption of digital health in the pharma world has breadth, even if we’re ... Read More »
At the MobiHealthNews 2016 event in San Francisco remaining week, one panel dialogue on affected person-generated fitness facts came returned time and again to the idea of affected person-centricity and the importance of incorporating sufferers into the design of virtual health interventions. “It’s surely not simply affected person-generated records, it’s ... Read More »
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