There was a lot of humility on stage when members of government organizations presented this week at the Healthy Communities Data Summit (HCDS) in San Francisco: “We could never pull this off on our own.” “We move at snail’s pace.” … Continue reading
Goopatient, a personal health record app, is now available for Android. The mobile app allows patients to keep everyday health records, store personal electronic medical cards, use #hashtags to organize records, and attach medical files. The San Francisco Department of … Continue reading
The Obama administration announced a $1 billion initiative to fund innovations in federal health care programs aimed at cutting costs and improving outcomes. This initiative marks the second round of Health Care Innovation Awards. Stanford engineers have developed a flexible, … Continue reading
In order to squeeze waste out of the health care system, campaigns have been developed mostly on two fronts, informing both providers and receivers of care about the actions they can take to hold down increasing spending. For example, through … Continue reading
HIMSS Media launched an online community dedicated to chronicling new and innovative models of care that improve individual and community well-being, while reducing health care costs. The Future Care community website is supported by IBM and its Smarter Care initiative. … Continue reading
Geisinger Health System will expand patient access to their doctors’ notes in its Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded OpenNotes program. Thus far, 82 percent of participating patients opened at least one EMR note. Kaiser Permanente Northwest (KPNW) joined the Oregon Health … Continue reading
This week at the ATA Annual International Meeting & Trade Show in Austin, Texas, InTouch Health revealed seven hospitals and medical systems that are using the company’s telemedicine robot RP-VITA. Some will remember that the 5’4’’ machine with autonomous navigation … Continue reading
Qualcomm Life acquired HealthyCircles, a care coordination SaaS provider, to integrate Qualcomm’s 2net™ Platform and Hub with the HealthyCircles enterprise platform. The integration enables providers to collect, monitor and manage near real-time actionable data that is readily accessible and shareable … Continue reading
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration officially launched its online Patient Network last week. The website is designed to centralize the information that patients normally come looking to fda.gov for, and also to give patients a way to interact with … Continue reading
Harvard researchers licensed GNS Healthcare’s REFS (Reverse Engineering and Forward Simulation) Big Data analytics platform to build computational models of the mechanisms involved in cell differentiation. Researchers also plan to explore how cells react to various drugs. Vivify Health, Inc., … Continue reading
A new study by the Georgia Institute of Technology saw improvement in young asthma patients who received a text message about their condition every day. Pediatric patients were sent questions about their symptoms as well as asthma factoids via SMS. … Continue reading
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