Fard Johnmar, founder of Enspektos describes 6 major gifts digital health has granted doctors, patients, caregivers and others during 2014.
There's a lot of skepticism about the potential of digital health tools and technologies to transform health and medicine. A lot of it is warranted. We're still waiting for robust studies that help to prove that tools such as mobile applications and wearables can actually improve health and change behavior. The ones we have today are
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Ambulance Drone Could Transform Emergency Response
Alex Momont, a design engineer at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands has set out to change the negative perception of drones with the creation of the Ambulance Drone, a high speed emergency network of life saving drones. The prototype is an airborne defibrillator-delivery system that can reach any patient within a five-square-mile area in less than one minute. The drone can fly at speeds up to 100 kms per hour and tracks emergency mobile calls using GPS to navigate.
Ambulance
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Google Glass in Healthcare Is Here to Stay
Kyle Samani of Pristine shares his insights on the state of Google Glass in healthcare and why its demise is an exaggeration.
In the past couple of weeks, a number of press outlets have announced what is amounting to the death of Google Glass (see here and here, for example). These reports cite lack of consumer adoption and the fact that consumer-facing software companies (i.e. Twitter) have dropped support for Glass. Following this logic, Glass must be just as dead for professionals
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Mount Sinai Health & Edison Nation Medical Collaborate to Commercialize Medical Device Innovations
Edison Nation Medical, a marketplace for healthcare and medical device innovation has announced a partnership with the Mount Sinai Health System. Edison Nation Medical will work closely with Mount Sinai Innovation Partners (MSIP), Mount Sinai's technology development and commercialization group, to prioritize and bring to market medical device and consumer related healthcare inventions from the Mount Sinai community.
Partnership Details
This collaboration highlights the significance of
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Google Glass Helps 13-Year Old With Retinal Dystrophy
A 13-year old teenager diagnosed with retinal dystrophy leaving him almost completely blind discovered Google Glass helped improved his vision. Retinal dystrophy is a condition associated with reduced or deteriorating vision in both eyes. After 13-year old Ben Yonnatan was diagnosed with retinal dystrophy last year, he quick lost majority of his vision within a few short months restricting his field of view to the size of a straw opening. As a result, Ben's future as a dancer was
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CVS to Launch Digital Health Innovation Lab in Boston
CVS Health Corp is planning to launch the CVS Digital Health Innovation Lab in Boston this winter focused on building patient centric experiences in healthcare, Boston Globe first reports. The CVS Digital Health Innovation Lab will accommodate 100 people in a new 15,000-square-foot office at 116 Huntington Ave, a short distance from both Longwood Medical Area and Cambridge’s technology community.
"Having a Boston presence will help us attract additional talent and increase our connectivity to
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Survey: Yelp Most Popular Site for Online Physician Reviews
Yelp is the most popular site for online physician reviews followed by Healthgrades and RateMDs, according to recent survey conducted by Software Advice on how patients use online reviews. The survey findings indicate that positive patient reviews on multiple sites is becoming increasingly necessary to attract and retain patients, particularly as the healthcare industry shift towards a patient-centric model.
“Online patient-generated content is here to stay—so we might as well use it to make
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Can Professional Failures Foster Digital Health Innovation?
Fard Johnmarr describes the vital role professional failures could play in fostering digital health innovation.
Let's face it. When it comes to tolerating and encouraging failure, there's a big disconnect between what people say and what they do.
In many organizations and businesses, failure and risk-taking is punished, even though both are vitally important -- especially in industries facing or undergoing significant digital-induced economic and human disruption.
Fard Johnmar,
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Kaiser Permanente to Provide Primary Care to Target Clinics
Kaiser Permanente and Target are partnering to launch four Target Clinics in Southern California in November and December. Consumers will receive expanded health services in addition to its traditional primary health care services at Target Clinics including:
- pediatric and adolescent care
- well-woman care
- family planning
- management of chronic conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure
Through this partnership, Kaiser Permanente will provide care to Kaiser
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HITLAB Announces 5 HITLAB World Cup Finalists for 2014
HITLAB a healthcare innovation and teaching lab, is pleased to invite the following teams to compete at the live HITLAB World Cup finals during its inaugural HITLAB Innovators Summit on December 1st at Columbia University's Low Library.
50 teams from India, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uzbekistan submitted truly innovative solutions to address global health issues. Each entry was carefully reviewed for its potential impact on
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