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HealthPrize, MeadWestvaco Partner to Increase Medication Adherence

by HITC Staff 04/22/2015 Leave a Comment

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HealthPrize Technologies, LLC and MeadWestvaco are collaborating to integrate their proven adherence solutions to provide an end-to-end program to pharmaceutical companies, pharmacy chains, and the patients they serve. As part of the partnership, MWV's calendared medication packaging will feature a link to HealthPrize's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) medication adherence and patient engagement platform. Not only will this linkage connect patients to HealthPrize's digital patient engagement
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11 Startups Building the Next Generation of Medical Sensors

by Shannon Dauphin Lee 04/22/2015 Leave a Comment

11 Startups Building the Next Generation of Medical Sensors

Medical sensors are everywhere, and the market continues to boom. In 2012, the medical sensor market was already worth $8 billion, and biosensors contribute more than 60% of that total revenue, according to Markets and Markets. The trend is all over the world, with 42 percent of the market share coming from North America, 32 percent from Europe, and the rest filled out by Asia Pacific countries. In 2015 alone, Pivotal reported that the consumer wearable sector is expected to grow by a
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Geisinger Opens Genomic Research Center, Houses Telegenomics Program

by HITC Staff 04/21/2015 Leave a Comment

On Monday,  Geisinger Health System formally opened its cutting edge Precision Health Center during a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The 14,000-square-foot,$562,000 facility located in Forty Fort will be home to highly specialized teams from Geisinger's Clinical Genomics and Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute (ADMI), and will serve as the primary location for Geisinger Research in northeastern Pennsylvania. The center will house clinical research space as well as a patient care center
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PatientsLikeMe, Biogen Study Reveals Wearables Can Help MS Patients

by HITC Staff 04/17/2015 Leave a Comment

PatientsLikeMe, Biogen Study Reveals Wearables Can Help MS Patients

As many as 500,000 people between the ages of 20 and 50 in the U.S. are living with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to the nonprofit National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Up until the 1990s, patients with advised against exercise as it was thought to worsen symptoms and fatigue. Since then, studies have proven the exact opposite with exercise improving  fatigue, quality of life and mood. So with the recent emergence of wearables over the past few year, can using fitness trackers/wearables help
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Hospital Uses Google Glass To Diagnose Skin Conditions

by Fred Pennic 04/16/2015 Leave a Comment

A team of physicians at Rhode Island Hospital conducted a research trail with Google Glass to gauge the effectiveness, security and patient acceptance of a real-time, video skin consultation. The study began in March, 2014 and concluded after six months. The research results were recently published this week in JAMA Dermatology. Study Overview For the patients who qualified for the trial, the emergency department physicians at the Rhode Island Hospital used Google Glass to contact a
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Apple ResearchKit Now Available To All Medical Researchers

by Fred Pennic 04/14/2015 Leave a Comment

11k Sign Up for Apple's ResearchKit In Less Than 24 Hours

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

by Fred Pennic 04/14/2015 Leave a Comment

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  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

by HITC Staff 04/13/2015 Leave a Comment

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

by HITC Staff 04/13/2015 Leave a Comment

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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

by HITC Staff 04/13/2015 Leave a Comment

PatientsLikeMe announced this morning a five-year agreement with AstraZeneca to provide patient-reported data in support of the pharmaceutical company's research initiatives.

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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