The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)is hosting the first-ever behavioral health data visualization challenge called VizRisk. Its goal is to foster increased utilization, innovation, and critical analyses of publically available but underutilized government health data to better inform personal and health policy decisions. The challenge is calling on talented designers, coders, data scientists, public health experts, and others from around the country to analyze, organize, and
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Avinent Launches First Google Glass App for Dental Surgery
Avinent launches the world's first Google Glass app for dental surgery to provide clinicians with access to precise step by step information minimizing risk during implant surgery
Avinent, a Barcelona, Spain-based dental implant company has developed a new Google Glass app for assisting surgeons with dental implant procedures. The application called Avinent Glass was developed in partnership with the software development company Droiders and Dr. Jesús López Vilagran opens up
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HealthUnlocked, UK’S Largest Social Network for Health, Expands to the US
HealthUnlocked, the leading social network for health related information in the UK, today announces its official launch in the U.S. The digital health company, founded in 2010 by CEO Jorge Armanet and Chief Medical Officer Dr Matt Jameson Evans, is one of the fastest growing startups in the UK health tech sector, growing exponentially since 2011 and last month received three million site visits. HealthUnlocked already provides NHS Choices’ user-generated, interactive content via the
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ProTransport-1 to Deploy Google Glass in Ambulances and Mobile Medicine Units
ProTransport-1 partners with CrowdOptic to deploy Google Glass in ambulances and mobile medicine units for real-time video evaluation of patients during transport.
ProTransport-1, a Northern California based medical transport provider has announced a software partnership with CrowdOptic, maker of mobile and wearable broadcasting solutions to deploy the CrowdOptic Google Glass broadcasting solution in its ambulances and mobile medicine units.
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Symplur Unveils Social Healthcare Intelligence Platform, Symplur Signals
Today, Symplur, LLC unveiled their new social healthcare intelligence platform called Symplur Signals in Paris at the Doctors 2.0 & You conference last month and is targeting July 14th as the official launch date. Known was the highly popular Healthcare Hashtag Project, Symplur maintains the largest database of healthcare related Twitter conversations in existence.
Large healthcare organizations, academic institutions, and medical associations wishing to gain business intelligence or to
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Wearables: A Solution Searching For Problems?
Wearables, devices used to sense data and process it into information, are generating quite the buzz in healthcare these days. But down the line, does that buzz come with a sting?
In Wearable Tech News, Tony Rizzo reports wearable technology spending predictions of $50 billion by 2018. He also reports on a ground-breaking, glucose-sensing contact lens for diabetics that will be a “true solution for a very real medical problem that affects hundreds of millions of people.”
By 2016,
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Validic Expands Digital Health Ecosystem by 44% with Infometers Acquisition
Validic, the healthcare industry's premier technology platform for accessing digital and mobile health data, announced today the acquisition of Infometers Inc., a Silicon Valley-based technology company that connects remote healthcare monitoring devices to the healthcare system.
With this acquisition, Validic's digital health ecosystem increases 44% enabling Validic clients – including hospitals, physicians, payers, pharma and wellness companies – greater access to key patient data from
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iPatientCare Updates Its Wearable EHR App for Google Glass Functionality
iPatientCare, Inc., provider of cloud based ambulatory EHR, Integrated Practice Management and Patient Portal Solutions, announced an updated version of its native miGlass the first Wearable EHR App for Google Glass. The new Glassware technology extends the functionality to the iPad, Android and web to Google Glass, giving physicians access to patient records at the point of care without having to look away from their patients.
"Medication Adherence and other health behaviors are often the
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Rock Health: Digital Health Funding Breaks $2.3B In First Half of 2014
Digital health funding totals $2.3B in the first half of 2014 according to recent 2014 Midyear Digital Health Funding Report by Rock Health.
Rock Health, provider of full-service funding to promising entrepreneurs breaking into healthcare today released their 2014 Midyear Digital Health Funding Report, an in-depth analysis report of digital health funding in first half of 2014. The report found funding of digital health companies continued to grow overall, totaling $2.3B in the first half of
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5 Biggest Barriers to Google Glass Adoption in Healthcare
Google Glass adoption in healthcare is promising, but also has its share of challenges to overcome. We examine the thoughts of Dr. Rafael Grossmann and Pristine’s Kyle Samani on the subject.
The little wearable optical computer that could, may be helping physicians and medical professionals see things a bit differently these days—but how Google Glass will seamlessly replace other devices to enhance clinical care has yet to come fully into focus. For even the device’s biggest enthusiasts say
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