Apple has announced that ResearchKit, an open source software framework designed for medical and health research that helps doctors, scientists and other researchers gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using mobile devices, is now available to researchers and developers.
The platform was first launched last month with five inaugural research apps developed using ResearchKit study asthma, breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease,
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Report: Hospitals That Use Tablets/Mobile Devices Are More Efficient
74 percent of hospitals that use tablets or other mobile devices to collect information from patients are more efficient than those that don't, according to a new report by Ricoh. The report reveals more than half (54 percent) say patients are less anxious during hospital visits when healthcare providers use tablets or other mobile devices to perform data collection.
These are among the findings of an online survey conducted by Harris Poll of more than 2,000 adults in the United States
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IBM to Acquire Explorys & Phytel To Fuel Watson Health Unit
Today IBM announced plans to acquire Explorys, a healthcare intelligence cloud company that has built one of the largest clinical data sets in the world and Phytel, a leading provider of integrated population health management software. The acquisition of both companies strengthens IBM's leadership position in healthcare analytics and cloud computing, and will help bolster its ability to extract and share deep insights to improve wellness and benefit patients.
Explorys and Phytel will now
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InstaMed Brings Apple Pay to Healthcare For First Time
Nearly 20 percent of U.S. consumers with credit records — 42.9 million people — have unpaid medical debts, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. With mobile payments expected to reach grow from $52 billion in 2014 to $142 billion by 2019, the healthcare industry must leverage simple, secure and private payment solution as more consumers enroll in high deductible health plans.
To address the growing consumer need for mobile payments, InstaMed, a healthcare payment network
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AstraZeneca To Use Patient-Reported Data From PatientsLikeMe for Pharma Research
PatientsLikeMe announced this morning a five-year agreement with AstraZeneca to provide patient-reported data in support of the pharmaceutical company's research initiatives. This is a first of its kind agreement for AstraZeneca and signals an intent to increasingly engage the patient voice in development programs. It's also a collaboration that we both believe will transform the discovery process, and help create products and services tailored to what patients really
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HIMSS15: AMA President Unveils Physician Leadership Plan For Digital Health
The game-changing digital health transformation of medicine is emerging into a new phase, according to Robert M. Wah, M.D., president of the American Medical Association (AMA), and there is reason for great optimism in the future of this evolution as the AMA helps physicians take on a greater role in leading changes that will move technological innovations forward.
Today, in his keynote address to the 2015 Annual HIMSS Conference Innovation Symposium in Chicago, Dr. Wah discussed the AMA’s
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Validic Launches Mobile Health Developer Platform with HealthKit Integration
Similar to Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Google’s APIs and resources to help developers build directly to their platforms, Validic has launched Validic Connect™ to enable app and devices developers to build directly to the Validic digital health platform. Validic Connect™ officially launched at the start of this quarter. The company also announced today the addition of 36 new clinical and fitness devices to its marketplace – growing its ecosystem by 20% in the first quarter of this year.
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Cleveland Clinic Innovations Launches Store to Sell Digital Health Products
Cleveland Clinic Innovations — the healthcare provider business development arm — quietly launched ADEO, an e-commerce company designed to sell digital health care products directly to hospitals, physician practices and patients last October.
The store currently has 13 products available in the store, which is described as the "first online marketplaces for medical innovations.” The name “ADEO” comes from the Latin phrase meaning “to go forward.”
The service is an outgrowth of the Global
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SERMO’s Social Network for Doctors Expands Reach to UK
SERMO, as the leading US social network for doctors, today announces its international expansion by adding the UK as its first new country, uniting 38,000 UK physicians to the existing US social network of 305,000 US doctors. Together, SERMO is now the first global medical social network exclusively for physicians with 343,000 members. SERMO aims to unite physicians in multiple countries by the end of 2015.
The Power of Medical Crowdsourcing
SERMO is a virtual doctors’ lounge, teaching
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Are Drones the Future of Medical Air Transport?
Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs – also known as drones – have long been a topic of conversation among retailers, who hope to use the fast flying technology to deliver packages at record speed. But there are many other options for drones, and some of the most exciting potential applications come from the world of medicine.
Drones and Medicine: How Does That Work?
Drones are small, rotary wing aircraft that can be controlled remotely or preprogrammed to fly certain routes. They are
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