Royal Philips has announced that Lumify, a smart device ultrasound solution, is now available for purchase by licensed healthcare providers or organizations in the U.S. Philips’ new ultrasound digital health approach connects off-the-shelf compatible smart devices, a mobile application, advanced ultrasound transducer technology, integrated IT and support services to help healthcare providers improve patient care and reduce costs.
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Archives for 2015
KLAS: Advisory Board, Premier Top Firms for Value-based Care Consulting
As healthcare moves from a fee-for-service model to a value-based care (VBC) model, many providers are having to reengineer aspects of their business. "Value-Based Care. Making the Shift: Who Can Help?" is the first report published about this market segment by KLAS. The report found that Advisory Board, Conifer and Evolent scored high with providers in giving them confidence to deal with evolving alternative payment models and preparing for future risk.
Top Firms for VBC Consulting/Management
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Ochsner to Measure Digital Health Outcomes in Clinical Studies
InnovationOchsner (iO), an innovation lab and accelerator created by Ochsner Health System is teaming up with Evidation Health to conduct robust clinical studies to determine the real-world impact of digital health outcomes on the health of patients and the cost of care.
The partnership will pair Ochsner Health System’s medical expertise and diverse patient population, iO’s digital health capabilities, and Evidation Health’s technology platform, data analytics engine and health outcomes
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Trident Gum to Reward Consumers for Sharing Mobile Health Data
This week, Trident Gum Brand launched a new campaign that allows consumers to share their data, including activity, sleep and food details from their choice of wearable device, smartphone, or activity app, in exchange for coupons in convenience store Kum & Go’s mobile app. Kum & Go operates more than 400 stores in 11 mostly Plains states, from Arkansas to Montana.
How It Works
The campaign, coined C.H.E.W. (Change Health Every Week) allows shoppers to opt-in via the Kum & Go
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KLAS Report Finds Cerner, InterSystems Top Global EMR Vendors
A new KLAS report finds EMR vendors Cerner and InterSystems as the top-performing fully rated global multiregional vendors. Provider surveys and commentary show that Cerner performs very well in Europe and the Middle East, while InterSystems performs well in Asia/Oceania and the Middle East. The report also finds Allscripts had the highest score in the Europe market.
The report, "Global EMR Performance 2015" highlights vendor performance by region, shows that Epic performs best in
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Medable Taps Rackspace to Deliver Secure Healthcare APIs for Developers
Medable, an application and analytics platform for healthcare, is utilizing a hybrid cloud environment with Rackspace Public Cloud and Private Cloud to help deliver a secure API for health IT app developers. The Palo Alto-based digital health startup has developed an end-to-end platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution for developers to create medical-grade, HIPAA compliant apps. Device companies use the platform to deliver device data to doctors and patients for immediate care. Additionally,
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Reimagining Aging: Designing Digital Health Products for Aging Boomers
Editor’s Note: Stuart Karten is the principal of Karten Design, a product innovation consultancy creating positive experiences between people and products specializing in health technology.
The number of adults aged 65 and older will double to nearly 90 million people by 2050. The baby boom generation — the largest in history — aren’t babies anymore. They are taking their unique perspective into their senior years, and that perspective will help shape healthcare for the next several decades.
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Medical Researchers Analyze Social Media to Understand Side Effects of Pain Meds
Harnessing the power of social media, medical researchers have sifted through more than two billion tweets and online posts to study the harmful side effects of narcotics medication taken for chronic pain. The research team, led by the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education, reviewed a vast collection of patient entries on Twitter and social media forums such as askapatient.com and patientslikeme.com.
The unfiltered sentiments posted on these sites revealed
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New Browser Extension Helps Med Students Contribute to Wikipedia Medical Articles
Docgraph, a company that works to create, maintain, and improve open healthcare datasets has publicly released Batea, a new browser extension that allows med students contribute clinically relevant portions of their browsing patterns to data scientists working with Wikipedia. Until now, Batea has previously in private beta with medical students from UCSF and UTHouston.
Key Benefits
Built by DocGraph with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Batea will improve clinical
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VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz Launches $200M Bio Software Fund
Menlo Park, CA based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is launching a new $200 million fund focused on funding companies software companies in the bio space led by Vijay Pande, the firm's first professor in residence from Stanford University, where he was a professor of chemistry, computer science, and structural biology.
The new software-focused bio fund will focus on investments in three emerging areas:
1. Digital health & therapeutics - digital therapeutics for chronic
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