Fitbit is the early dominant leader in the market for digital fitness trackers with nearly 40% of the market, according to new research Parks Associates announced today in advance of the firm's Connected Health Summit: Engaging Consumers, September 4-5 in San Diego, California. The 2Q 2014 survey of more than 5,000 U.S. broadband households found that Fitbit is far ahead of its closest competitors Samsung (14%), Nike+ Sensor (14%), and Nike Fuelband (8%).
"Slightly more than 6% of U.S.
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An Accountable Provider’s Guide to Consumer-Driven Health Care
New white paper from Lumeris provides an accountable provider’s guide to consumer-driven health care and offers 5 strategies to successfully engage patients
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Walgreens and Greenway Health Implement Largest Pharmacy EHR Ever
Greenway Health today announced the completion of the largest centralized cloud based pharmacy EHR system ever deployed, Walgreens Cloud EHR. Walgreens has completed its chain-wide rollout of the Greenway Health-powered EHR solution, giving pharmacy staff at all of its more than 8,200 locations a single, complete view of patients’ prescription, immunization and health testing records.
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TigerText Secure Messaging Volume Surges 750%
TigerText, the leader in secure, real-time secure messaging for the enterprise, marked the first half of 2014 with record sales and customer growth, which led to a 750% spike in message volume. TigerText customers are now sending over 300 million messages per month across its secure platform.
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AirStrip Raises $25M for Mobile Enabled Healthcare Expansion
AirStrip, provider of mobile healthcare applications that drive clinical transformation, has raised $25 million in a strategic funding round led by the Gary and Mary West Health Investment Fund, Sequoia Capital and Wellcome Trust that includes some of the most influential leaders in healthcare.
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Verizon Unveils QR Code Login That Eliminates Usernames and Passwords for Healthcare
Verizon's QR Code Login by their Universal Identity Services enables healthcare providers to help address strict HIPAA compliance mandates.
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Practice Fusion Partners With Vitals for Online Appointment Booking and Doctor Reviews
Practice Fusion, a cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) platform, is partnering with Vitals, a leader in providing online transparency tools and data that help consumers find top doctors and make informed decisions about their medical care. The 12 million patients who visit Vitals for online appointment booking and patient reviews each month will now have access to doctors who use Practice Fusion and its consumer-facing site, Patient Fusion. In turn, these Practice Fusion doctors are
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Caradigm Offers Healthcare Providers Unlimited Identity and Access Management
Caradigm, a population health company, today announced new Identity and Access Management (IAM) offerings designed to make it easier for healthcare organizations to control access to applications and patient data, even as their workforces and IT environments rapidly grow and change.
Built exclusively for healthcare, Caradigm® Identity and Access Management (IAM) – including Caradigm Single Sign-On and Caradigm Provisioning – enables healthcare organizations to protect against increasing
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Nuance’s PowerShare Network Is Now Sharing 3 Billion Medical Images via the Cloud
Nuance's PowerShare Network enables provider organizations to instantly view, share and store medical images and associated reports for patient care.
Nuance is announcing its achievement reaching an industry-first milestone in sharing 3 billion medical images through the Nuance PowerShareTM Network, the industry’s largest cloud-based medical imaging network that enables providers and patients to coordinate care and share information across disparate health systems, as simply as people
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HIMSS Workforce Survey Reveals Challenges in Hiring Health IT Professionals
HIMSS Workforce Survey reveals the lack of qualified health IT talent as the biggest challenge to hiring health IT professionals for healthcare providers.
With high demand for health IT workers projected to continue for the foreseeable future, the 2014 HIMSS Workforce Survey results find healthcare provider organizations are facing increasing challenges in hiring health IT professionals. A total of 200 individuals, including hospital and health IT executives and executives from health
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