Editor’s Note: Stuart Karten is the principal of Karten Design, a product innovation consultancy creating positive experiences between people and products specializing in health technology.
The number of adults aged 65 and older will double to nearly 90 million people by 2050. The baby boom generation — the largest in history — aren’t babies anymore. They are taking their unique perspective into their senior years, and that perspective will help shape healthcare for the next several decades.
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Medical Researchers Analyze Social Media to Understand Side Effects of Pain Meds
Harnessing the power of social media, medical researchers have sifted through more than two billion tweets and online posts to study the harmful side effects of narcotics medication taken for chronic pain. The research team, led by the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education, reviewed a vast collection of patient entries on Twitter and social media forums such as askapatient.com and patientslikeme.com.
The unfiltered sentiments posted on these sites revealed
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New Browser Extension Helps Med Students Contribute to Wikipedia Medical Articles
Docgraph, a company that works to create, maintain, and improve open healthcare datasets has publicly released Batea, a new browser extension that allows med students contribute clinically relevant portions of their browsing patterns to data scientists working with Wikipedia. Until now, Batea has previously in private beta with medical students from UCSF and UTHouston.
Key Benefits
Built by DocGraph with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Batea will improve clinical
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Doctors Can Now Earn CME Credits Virtually via HealthTap’s Global Rounds
Starting today, doctors can now earn official Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for socially collaborating and learning from fellow clinicians while providing invaluable solutions for challenging patient cases for free through HealthTap's new Global RoundsTM platform. Global RoundsTM presents doctors with the latest peer-reviewed medical literature, readily available at their fingertips and relevant to a patient's question or condition.
Now, doctors can also add insights from
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CVS Health Unveils New Digital Health Pharmacy Tools
Today, CVS Health is introducing a suite of new digital health pharmacy tools by CVS Health that will help customers manage their health with more ease and efficiency. Since the opening of the CVS Health Digital Innovation Lab in June, the company has been focused on developing digital services and personalized capabilities. The company is already seeing the impact of its digital strategy on other parts of the business in five short months.
Research Shows Digitally Engaged Patients have
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Practo, Uber Partner to Help Patients Reach Doctors in India, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore
India-based physician search portal Practo is teaming up with on-demand transportation platform Uber to make it easier for consumers to reach doctors, so they never have to worry about running late for an appointment. Starting this week, patients in India, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines who book an appointment via Practo's app will be able to see the closest Uber available when they get a reminder alert for their appointments.
How It Works
Using the Practo app, patients can view
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Merck to Produce Anti-Diabetes Meds in Algeria to Improve Care of Patients
Merck, a leading life sciences and technology company, today announced the commissioning of its anti-diabetes medicine production unit for the treatment of diabetes and high blood pressure. A joint venture project has subsequently been set up between the company and its partner, the Algerian laboratory Novapharm to produce 500 million tablets for the Algerian market.
The production unit located in Bou Ismail, a remote village 40 km west of Algiers, will help increase national production
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AIA, Konica Minolta Launch Digital Health Accelerator in Singapore
AIA Group Limited and Konica Minolta, Inc. are teaming up to launch the 'AIA - Konica Minolta Digital Health Accelerator' in Singapore. The 12 week program supports entrepreneurs and businesses to deliver innovative solutions through integrating data to healthcare delivery.
The Singaporean Government's spend on Healthcare in Singapore is expected to double to SG$8 billion by the end of 2015, from SG$4 billion in 2011. 'Digital Health' solutions present one of the most promising growth
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Robotic Surgery Is the Future of Medicine
Editor's Note: Richard van Hooijdonk is a futurist and international keynote speaker on future technologies and disruption and how these technologies change our everyday lives. Van Hooijdonk and his international team research ‘mega trends’ on digital health, robotic surgery,drones, the internet-of-things, 3D/4D printing, Big Data and other how new technologies affects many industries.
The human body is a rather untidy place where your organs, bones, flesh, muscles, arteries
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Rally Health Launches Online Healthcare Shopping Experience, 20M Have Access at Launch
Consumer-centric digital health company Rally Health today launched Rally Connect, an online experience that enables people to shop for the right health care based on their personal needs. Rally Connect integrates with a person’s contracted health plan to offer a better understanding of both the quality and cost of the care they receive. The result is cost savings both for the consumer and for the health plan.
At launch, 20 million people enrolled in employer-sponsored health plans will have
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