Digital Health
JANUARY 22, 2018
Iya Khalil is a woman who’s always been ahead of her time. In middle school, she was captivated by the writing of Stephen Hawking. After graduating school at Cornell with a PhD in physics, while colleagues were heading to Wall Street to be quants, or to Silicon Valley to launch the next Webvan, she was […].
Clocktree
JANUARY 23, 2018
The opioid crisis in America is hurting communities all around the country. Many people in need of treatment for opioid addiction live in rural areas without dedicated treatment centers. This lack of access in rural areas means the residents are not receiving treatment. So what can telemedicine to do help the opioid crisis? On October 26, 2017, The White Housedeclared the opioid crisis a public health emergency and the administration acknowledged a need to expand treatment throughout rural are
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Health Populi
JANUARY 31, 2018
It’s February 1st, which marks the first of 28 days of American Heart Month – a time to get real, embrace, learn about, and engage with heart health. Heart disease kills 610,000 people in the U.S. every year, equal to 1 in 4 deaths in America. It’s the leading cause of death for both men and women in the U.S. Knowing your blood pressure is an important step for managing the risks of heart disease.
33 Charts - Digital Health
JANUARY 31, 2018
If you got together the best user experience professionals in Silicon Valley and invested billions into the creation of The Best EHR in the World, doctors would still hate it. They would complain that The Best EHR in the World is destroying medicine and hurting patients. Long essays in the Sunday New York Times would wax nostalgic about the good old days before the The Best EHR in the World.
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Healthcare communication has evolved from handwritten notes and paper charts to digital tools like EHRs, telemedicine, and AI-powered platforms. This blog explores how these advancements improve patient outcomes, streamline care delivery, and enhance provider collaboration. Learn about the role of mobile health (mHealth) apps, secure messaging, and social media in bridging communication gaps.
Arizona Telemedicine Program
JANUARY 18, 2018
Recent technological advancements have changed the way we see the world, paving the way for the growth of concepts such as telemedicine in the field of medical technology. Telemedicine is a method of providing clinical healthcare to someone from a distance by the use of telecommunication and information technology.
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Digital Health
JANUARY 16, 2018
I missed the 2018 Computer Electronics Show this year (it overlapped with JP Morgan’s Healthcare Conference) so I had to rely on the kindness of friends and media to send me alerts on the weirdest digital stuff on earth. CES is chockablock with things no one needs and no one should have even thought to […].
Clocktree
JANUARY 5, 2018
2017 was a ground breaking year for the world of telehealth. More than 60% of all healthcare institutions in the US have implemented telehealth technology into their care systems. Access to online care has never been better. The ability to receive care remotely bridges large gaps in our healthcare system, and makes it easier for patients to be in contact with their prov iders.
Society for Participatory Medicine
JANUARY 4, 2018
Language has a magical influence on the lives we lead, with an impact on our thoughts, emotions, and/or actions. The words we use are one of the most potent ingredients in the science of language. Words have the power to heal, guide and motivate. They can confuse, mislead, and even hurt us. The intent of a spoken word can often be misinterpreted leading to an unintended consequence.
33 Charts - Digital Health
JANUARY 20, 2018
Traditionally bowel sounds and the ability to pass urine were signs of postoperative progress. Now there’s the smart phone sign. Researchers in this month’s Journal of Hospital Medicine studied 221 postoperative patients. They wanted to know if a patient’s use of a smartphone during the initial clinical assessment by a surgeon could be used as a marker for well-being and suitability for discharge.
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Insulin Nation
JANUARY 30, 2018
Insulin Nation had the chance to catch up with the Founder of T1International, Elizabeth Rowley, and Erin Gilmer, a health advocate, about the #insulin4all campaign and the work of T1International. T1International is a global nonprofit that works to improve life-saving access to insulin, supplies, and healthcare for individuals with Type 1 diabetes around the world.
Health Blawg
JANUARY 22, 2018
Rasu Shrestha is the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and also serves as an Executive Vice President of UPMC Enterprises. You should follow him on Twitter: @RasuShrestha. We spoke about the meaning of innovation and about some of the innovations — past, present and future — at UPMC. Rasu describes his north star as the best interests of the person — the consumer, the health plan member, the patient — and he sees that as being distin
Digital Health
JANUARY 8, 2018
Tech Tonics has shared many stories of digital health pioneers who were passionate about health and computers from a young age, and fell effortlessly into a career at the interface of these interests. David Van Sickle, on the other hand, was most passionate about drumming. When he graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara, David […].
Import Immunity
JANUARY 4, 2018
The old blog still looks pretty ok after two years of inactivity! I ought to have remembered how the startup game goes … raise my head after a few crunch cycles and I’ve got a lot less hair and every article on CNN is about some angry old guy tweeting stuff. Huh. Anyways, here at Adaptive we’ve been busy creating more awesome. My blog hiatus has been all about scaling up the clinical business around our new clonoSEQ assay.
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.
The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven
Society for Participatory Medicine
JANUARY 16, 2018
Guest post by SPM member Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD, who is Co-Director of Behavioral Health Services at the University of WashingtonCenter for Pain Relief. We welcome guest posts from SPM members – see guidelines here. I joined the Society for Participatory Medicine because I believe patient participation is the only path forward for medicine. We live in an era of chronic illnesses like diabetes and chronic pain, when the patient must be the primary caregiver.
33 Charts - Digital Health
JANUARY 30, 2018
If you spend time nosing around medical charts you’ll find that the quality of physician notes vary as much as the doctors who creates them. Even as physicians we sometimes have difficulty understanding what’s happening or where a patient is headed in their care. An informed patient begins with clean information. It got me thinking of OpenNotes. This is a tremendous initiative started at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center that facilitates patient access to traditionally restricted me
Health Blawg
JANUARY 9, 2018
CMS has a communications problem. Together with the Joint Commission, CMS issued joint guidance on the use of SMS messaging for clinical communications just over a year ago. Last month, the Health Care Compliance Association published a story stating that CMS had sent emails to two different hospitals stating that text messaging (including secure messaging services) is verboten.
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Digital Health
JANUARY 3, 2018
I started off the year with an interview with Oliver Wyman Health, one of the top global healthcare consulting firms. They asked me to offer some healthcare investment predictions for 2018. I figure this is a good way to start off the year so have reprinted a mildly expanded version of the article, which first […].
New Age Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2018
Technology advent in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has to led to faster contrast scans, simplified imaging workflows, high quality images and accelerated patient throughput. To keep up with the pace of the changing technology and rising diagnosis and clinical needs, many new MRI machines have been entering market since last half a decade.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 4, 2018
The New Year is a difficult time for Dan and Judy Houdeshell, who lost their son, Kevin, in early January of 2014. Kevin died after going without insulin for nearly nine days due to an expired prescription. Four years later, his family members still grieve; but they are celebrating legislation passed in seven states that authorizes pharmacists to assist patients who find themselves in the same situation. sponsor.
33 Charts - Digital Health
JANUARY 29, 2018
I was on the phone recently with a marketing professional. He had been reading 33 charts in preparation for an interview. So I took advantage of the moment and asked him if he had any advice. “ Write longer posts ,” he said. “ Why ?” I asked. “ Long-form writing lends authority. You know, gravitas.”. As it turns out, I didn’t know. We should write only as much as we need to make our point.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
TeleMed2U
JANUARY 22, 2018
In developed countries like the United States, stroke is still the third leading cause of death. In fact, each year stroke occurs in more than 700,000 patients, leaving many with disabilities and unable to resume a normal life. When a stroke occurs, every second counts. The sooner a stroke victim is treated with medication that […]. The post Telemedicine Trends: How Telemedicine Can Help Stroke Victims Faster appeared first on TeleMed2U.
Health Blawg
JANUARY 8, 2018
I spoke recently with Cindy Friend , who is Vice President of Clinical Population Health Solutions & Transformation at Caradigm – a GE Healthcare company Twitter: @caradigm. Cindy is a registered nurse with more than 20 years combined experience in healthcare administration, clinical delivery, and health information technology both in the public and private sectors.
Iris Telehealth
JANUARY 15, 2018
If you need medical care, the first thing you do is set a doctor’s appointment, right? But in some rural areas, basic healthcare needs aren’t met that simply. Imagine you’re living in Western Nebraska. Or Central Oklahoma. Or rural Maine. If there is a healthcare facility in the area, you’re in luck! And if the [ ] The post The Rural Healthcare Crisis You May Not Know About appeared first on Iris Telehealth.
New Age Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2018
Water pollution is a serious perennial problem in India as over 60% of its surface water resources and groundwater reserves are contaminated by biological, toxic, organic, and inorganic pollutants. Increasing urbanization, agricultural practices, industrialization and harmful human practices are the leading cause of this water pollution. The paucity of clean drinking water leads to hazards such as diarrhoea, cholera, filariasis, etc.
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Insulin Nation
JANUARY 29, 2018
B.J. Garceau is taking the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)’s mission (“fighting for a cure”) very seriously. She will make her debut in the MMA on February 3, and the event will benefit the charity in several ways. First, all proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the organization. Garceau will also sell merchandise (fight shirts, tanks, hoodies, and sweatpants) and donate the profits to JDRF.
VSee
JANUARY 10, 2018
This article is based on the 2017 Telehealth Failures & Secrets To Success (TFSS) conference talk Telehealth Reimbursement Models for Non-medical Services given by Brenda Schmidt. You can see all speakers and talks from the conference here) “How will I get reimbursed?” is always one of the first questions people have when starting to do telehealth.
Mobile Health Matters
JANUARY 18, 2018
The healthcare IT industry enters 2018 with a lot of potential, along with the need to overcome structures that have historically stunted progress. What is on our health IT wish list? AirStrip is feeling optimistic about the industry’s direction in terms of broader collaboration for building up truly interoperable systems to improve patient care, and overall health system stability.
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