Last year two Johns Hopkins University medical students got on stage at Health Datapalooza III and accepted a $100,000 check. Since then, many have heard of the duo’s company called Symcat. The Symcat app, an online symptom checker, was the … Continue reading
The media often like to take certain experiences in health care and demonstrate how they’d play out in other industries. It not only makes for comical and outlandish scenarios, but it provides accurate context as to how outlandish these scenarios … Continue reading
Happtique has been spending a lot of effort cataloging all the health, clinical and fitness apps in the Apple App Store, Google Play and more. Their goal is to create prescribable apps, and proprietary app stores for providers. The idea is that … Continue reading
Cerner announced that it will acquire PureWellness, a health and wellness company that offers a platform for corporate wellness programs. In combination with Cerner Millennium and Cerner HealtheIntent, the offering will be known as Cerner Wellness, and further strengthens Cerner’s … Continue reading
Don’t miss the next Health 2.0 Show March 27th at 10:00am PT. This month we’re covering Big Data and the Quantified Self. Special guest DJ Patil will join us in an interview to talk about the world of Big Data … Continue reading
Kaiser Permanente held an event today in Washington, D.C. to discuss the alignment, and in many cases the nonalignment, of the kinds of health care-related information that different groups are posting to the web. At the event, American Voices ― … Continue reading
Big Data is discussed by many organizations as necessary in achieving a smarter health care system than the one we have now. At the same time, others are looking for ways to bolster the effects of Small Data, which are … Continue reading
Our team at Health 2.0 is excited about sharing the 2013 Matchpoint program. Since our last post, we’ve created new ways to enhance both of our sponsors’ and innovators’ experiences in finding lasting partnerships. Matchpoint East is set to hit … Continue reading
Kareo launched its free cloud-based EHR, which is available as a stand-alone application or can integrate with other Kareo products. Kareo acquired mobile technology and a clinical knowledge base from Epocrates and leveraged these assets in developing its new EHR. … Continue reading
Akhila Satish once spent a summer answering phone calls at a medical office, where she learned a lot. Specifically she learned about the patients who would call in and not hold back when it came to detailing their symptoms and … Continue reading
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Health Data Platform (HDP) challenges were designed to create new functionalities for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ repository for open health data, HealthData.gov. The site is dedicated to making … Continue reading
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