Market research firm Park Associates has announced a new digital health research revealing four digital health consumer segments based on their attitudes toward their health and healthcare solutions: Healthy and Engaged, Challenged but Mindful, Unhealthy and In Denial, and Young and Indifferent. The research found that among all U.S. broadband households, 26% are Healthy and Engaged, 25% are Challenged but Mindful, 28% are Unhealthy and In Denial, and 21% are Young and Indifferent.
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Phillips and Accenture Develop Brain Controlled Wearable App for ALS Patients
Phillips and Accenture proof of concept wearable app uses brain, voice, and eye commands to show how ALS patients could gain grater control of their lives.
Phillips and Accenture today announced that they have developed proof of concept software connecting a wearable display to Emotiv Insight Brainware that could ultimately give more independence to patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases. Affecting more than 400,000 people per year*, ALS, also
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Can Public Health Data Mapping and Visualization Transform Healthcare Globally?
Laurie Hawkins, project manager of the Victorian Human Services Directory in Australia discusses how public health data mapping can improve global health.
HIT Consultant recently spoke with Laurie Hawkins, project manager of the Human Services Directory (HSD), about the opportunities of the National Health Service Directory (NHSD) and what can be achieved by many different stakeholders, both public and private. In our discussion, Mr. Hawkins explains why working with open health data
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Stanford University Medical School to Deploy Google Glass to Improve Surgeon Training
CrowdOptic partners with Stanford University Medical Center to deploy Google Glass to evaluate training in a variety of surgical settings for faculty and students.
CrowdOptic, a maker of mobile and wearable broadcasting solutions, today announced that the company is working with the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University Medical Center to help improve resident training in complex surgical procedures, through the use of Google Glass technology. CrowdOptic is one of five
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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Validic for Driving Health Data Interoperability for Customers
Validic, the healthcare industry's leading technology platform for health data interoperability has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the 2014 Global Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award for Customer Value Leadership. This award recognizes Validic’s exemplary focus on enhancing the value its customers receive, including customer service, customer retention and customer base expansion. Validic’s platform addresses the two major challenges in the current connected health ecosystem:
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Accelerating Medical Product Development Through Agile Methods
New ebook from Pathfinder Software addresses how agile development can accelerate medical product development to shorten timelines, reduce risk, and improve quality.
The medical device and diagnostics industries are facing unprecedented challenges: regulatory and reimbursement model changes, dramatic technology changes, increasing technology interdependence, and the rising expectations of physicians and patients. Medical Devices and Diagnostics typically have long development cycles, often 3
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HHS Announces First-Ever Behavioral Health Data Visualization Challenge
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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