Can your smartphone serve as a behavior change agent to influence positive health outcomes?
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Physicians Still Confused on Impact of Health Insurance Exchanges to Their Practices
More than half of the nation's physicians express confusion on how the impact of health insurance exchanges' new policies will affect their practices and have little faith that the y will launch on time
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Medical Device Startups Leads The Midwest In VC Funding In First Half of 2013
Medical device startups lead the Midwest with $188 million in total equity funding in the first half of 2013
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2013’s Top 10 Native & Virtualized EHR Mobile Applications
Black Book Rankings has released rankings of the top EHR mobile applications in their latest "2013 State of Replacement EHR Market Study,"
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Kinsa Smart Thermometer Takes Grand Prize in Innovate Health Tech
Kinsa Smart Thermometer was announced today as the $25k grand prize winner in Innovate Health Tech NYC, a competition designed to promote innovation within NYC's health technology sector.
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ONC Releases Federal Health IT Strategic Plan Progress Report
The Health and Human Services Dept. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released a report describing the progress made on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan.
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Healthcare IT VC Funding Is On Pace to Exceed $2 Billion in 2013
Healthcare IT VC funding is on pace to exceed $2B in 2013 according to report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the Healthcare IT
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MedSnap Launches Medical App to Improve Medication Safety for Patients
MedSnap, LLC introduces MedSnap ID, a medical app to quickly identify an entire set of patient pills and screen them for safety.
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Dr. Eric Topol on Replacing Clinicians With Algorithms
Dr. Eric Topol, Editor-in-Chief of Medscape, discusses if the nation is on the verge of a healthcare provider shortage, or if clinicians are being phased out by algorithms.
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Is Healthcare Gamification The Key to Controlling Healthcare Costs?
Healthcare gamification – including points, badges and leader boards – may be a key to controlling rising healthcare costs, according to a recently completed pilot program by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.
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