- Mayo Clinic names John Halamka, M.D. president of Mayo Clinic Platform, starting January 1st, 2020.
- Under his leadership, Dr. Halamka will help shape the future of Mayo Clinic Platform as part of Mayo Clinic’s digital health initiatives to support healthcare transformation.
John Halamka, M.D., has been named the president of Mayo Clinic Platform, starting Jan. 1, 2020. In his new role at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Halamka will oversee the future direction of the Mayo Clinic Platform that will help
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Digital Transformation In Healthcare Is Not Happening As Fast As It Should — And There’s One Reason No One is Talking About
At first glance, the healthcare field seems to be a goldmine for digital innovation. An overextended workforce, outdated protocols, hundreds of wasted hours in administrative tasks, a patient population that is wide open to digital solutions, a multitude of inefficiencies and redundancies — the opportunities for digital overhaul in healthcare are myriad. Yet every year the graveyard of digital health tools gets more crowded as innovators fail to overcome healthcare’s uniquely complex barriers to
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DarioHealth Launches Digital Diabetes Program on Walmart.com
DarioHealth announce it is expanding the retail distribution of its digital diabetes management program through Walmart.com.- Through Walmart’s online distribution channel, DarioHealth will offer Walmart consumers MyDario, a complete digital solution to manage diabetes, hypertension, nutrition, and exercise.Global digital therapeutics innovation provider, DarioHealth Corp. (NASDAQ: DRIO) announced today the launch of the Dario-powered digital diabetes program on Walmart.com. Walmart is the
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Garmin Expands Into Sleep Industry with Strategic Partnership with Sleeprate
- Wearable company Garmin expands into the $69.5B sleep industry with a new strategic partnership with Sleeprate.- The partnership will leverage data and technology from both companies, giving consumers a personalized behavioral plan and e-coach to fix their poor sleep and exercise habits. Garmin International, Inc., a global leader in consumer wearables and Sleeprate, a leading sleep platform, today announced the first mobile self-help sleep assessment and improvement program that aims to help
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HealthVoyager Selected as Winner of Lilly’s Digital Health Innovation Challenge
- Lilly concluded its first digital health open innovation challenge, “Transforming IBD Care: Better Disease Monitoring, Management, and Care for People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease,” and selected HealthVoyager as the winner.- The challenge culminated in a competition hosted at Lilly’s headquarters in Indianapolis, where five finalists presented their digital health solutions aimed at transforming IBD care to a panel of judges.Eli Lilly and Company, today announced it has named HealthVoyager,
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Philips Unveils Next-Gen Enterprise Imaging Solution to Embed Intelligence Across Patient Journey
- Philips launches next-generation enterprise imaging solution designed to connect clinical capabilities and optimize workflows around every step in the patient’s journey.- The new enterprise imaging solution supports hospitals and imaging centers as they seek to connect and optimize performance, improving the patient experience, health outcomes, and staff experience, while lowering the cost of care.Royal Philips, today introduced its next-generation enterprise imaging solution that delivers a
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IBM Watson Health Unveils Imaging AI Marketplace of FDA-Cleared Solutions
- IBM Watson Health unveils two new products at RNSA 2019, Clinical Review 3.0 and The Imaging AI Marketplace. - Clinical Review 3.0, a tool recently launched in the UK that analyzes medical imaging studies and their associated reports to identify potentially missed findings, facilitating higher quality and more comprehensive care for the patient.- The Imaging AI Marketplace is a single-source solution designed to help simplify the complex process of locating, purchasing, deploying and managing
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Elsevier Acquires 3D Anatomy Platform 3D4Medical
- Elsevier acquires Dublin, Ireland-based 3D4Medical, an advanced 3D anatomy platform for an undisclosed sum.
- The 3D4Medical acquisition complements Elsevier's well-established and trusted health education offerings.
Elsevier, a global information analytics business specializing in science and health, and part of RELX, has acquired 3D4Medical, the global anatomy education company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. With this acquisition, 3D4Medical joins Elsevier's
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Medable to Power UConn Virtual Study on Statin-Related Adverse Events
- The University of Connecticut (UConn) Department of Kinesiology and Hartford Healthcare is recruiting the help of Medable, a provider of digital trials to implement a cloud-based platform to evaluate statin-related adverse events called SAMS. - The virtual study helps monitor patient responses to statin medications via an app, and notify clinicians and patients when the patient should stop or start their medication based on presenting symptoms collected via electronic patient-reported
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3 Ways to Have Better Conversations About Behavior Change with Patients
- Motivational interviewing is a counseling method proven effective to drive patients towards behavior change; but in reality, motivational interviewing takes practice to master.
- Kognito’s instructional designer Seth Bleecker shows healthcare professionals three ways to have better conversations about behavior change, right now.
Many simulations draw on motivational interviewing (MI), an evidence-based counseling method that helps people change their behavior and make healthier choices. I’m
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