Los-Angeles-based hospital Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has integrated its EMR to enable access to Apple's HealthKit platform for more than 80,000 patients, reports Bloomberg. Patients using HealthKit will now have the ability to integrate their personal medical information such as weight, blood pressure, steps taken, glucose levels and oxygen saturation levels with their patient files, enabling easier online access to their physicians.
“This is just another set of data that we’re confident
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Archives for 2015
Mount Sinai Launches System for Seamless Faster Referrals
The Mount Sinai Health System and software company par8o are creating a seamless referral process for the Health System’s care providers. Effective referrals matter because patients with chronic heart failure or diabetes, for instance, may have more than one physician caring for them, and most primary physicians coordinate with many other care providers. With medical practices across the Mount Sinai Health System referring hundreds of thousands of patients each year, the need for an intelligent
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Oschner Health Pilots Apple Watch to Manage Chronic Diseases
After being the first Epic client to integrate with the Apple HealthKit, Ochsner Health System has announced it is now the first hospital in the nation to use the Apple Watch for managing patients suffering from chronic diseases. As part of the Ochsner Hypertension Digital Medicine Program pilot program, the New Orleans-based provider will utilize the Apple Watch to track several hundred patients who are struggling to control their blood pressure.
How It Works
Through wireless blood
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Sen. Alexander Urges HHS Secretary To Fix Problems with EHRs
Last Thursday in a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the FY2016 budget request from the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), Sen. Alexander asked HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell if she would commit to working to fix the problems with the electronic health record (EHR) system:
“Doctors don’t like their electronic medical record systems by large,” he said. “They say they disrupt the work flow. They interrupt the doctor-patient relationship. They haven’t been worth the
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Infographic: How Healthcare Technology is Saving Lives
We live in an age where the use of technology dominates our lives and these technological developments have had an amazingly positive impact on the healthcare industry. Digital health technology has heavily influenced the improvement in our health and the increased life expectancy we are seeing today.
The following infographic created by Mission Safety Services outlines the progress we have made, the work that is being done, and possible future developments in healthcare technology
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Rock Health Expands to NYC, Announces 3 New Investments
Rock Health, provider of full-service funding to promising entrepreneurs breaking into healthcare is expanding to the East Coast with the opening of a brand new office in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of NYC. In conjunction with the new NYC office, Rock Health also announced it has added three new East Coast companies to its portfolio. These companies will join Rock Health's existing portfolio of East Companies: Aptible (NYC), Cardiio (Boston), Docphin (NYC), Kit Check (DC), Neumitra
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Blueprint Health Debuts 7th Class of Startups at Demo Day in NYC
Blueprint Health, a NYC based mentor-focused health technology accelerator today announced the showcase of their Winter 2015 class of startups at their seventh annual Demo Day in NYC. The Winter 2015 Accelerator class is composed of seven new companies solving a diverse set of problems in the health industry. As with our previous classes, these companies are attacking difficult problems for large health stakeholders, selling mostly B2B solutions, although in this class there are a number of B2C
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Comedian Kevin Hart Becomes Rally Health’s 1st Digital Health Ambassador
Rally Health Inc., a leading developer of consumer digital health engagement tools is partnering with Kevin Hart, actor, comedian and health advocate to become Rally's first digital health ambassador. As part of the collaboration with Rally Health, Hart will encourage consumers to take a more active role in their health.
During his "WHAT NOW" comedy tour, Hart will urge his fans to move more, eat better, and take better care of themselves. Like Rally Health, Hart believes that even simple
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athenahealth, Epic and Medfusion Tops for Driving Patient Portal Adoption
A recent KLAS report finds vendors athenahealth, Epic and Medfusion are the most effective at helping their customers drive patient portal adoption. The recent KLAS report entitled Patient Portals 2015: Adoption beyond Meaningful Use reveals all three vendors having over half of their customers report that at least 20% of patients have accessed the portal--a number well beyond the meaningful use bar of 5%.
For the report, KLAS interviewed 186 healthcare provider organizations to determine
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73% Of Consumers Would Not Switch to Apple Watch For Fitness Tracking
73% of current fitness tracking users would not consider switching to the Apple Watch for fitness tracking, according to a recent Treato survey of 8,700 users of fitness trackers. When asked if they would consider switching to Apple's new Watch for fitness tracking, 48% are either extremely satisfied or satisfied with their current device. The survey findings reveal that despite the hype surrounding the Apple Watch release, the company may face a significant hurdles in converting existing
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