From Google Glass to the latest in consumer technology, Augmedix’s Pelu Tran tells us where wearables are headed in healthcare.
Seems like everyone is talking about the proliferation of wearables these days. It’s hard to find a wrist that doesn’t don one of the latest health tracking devices. In 2015, the wearable trend also gained greater traction among healthcare providers—with gadgets like Google Glass displaying great potential in multiple areas from surgery to telehealth.
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MTBC Unveils E-Prescribing App for Apple Watch
MTBC (Medical Transcription Billing, Corp), a leading provider of proprietary, healthcare information technology solutions has released its e-prescribing app for the Apple Watch now available to U.S. healthcare providers.
Apple Watch App Features
The app will extend key components of its existing e-prescribing app for iPhone users, known as MTBC iRx, to the Apple Watch. Users of the Apple Watch app can view patient refill request alerts and inbound patient communications on the watch and
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State of Mobile Health Apps Security: Perception vs. Reality
55 percent of consumers expect their mobile health apps to be hacked within the next six months, according to a recent report from Arxan Technologies. Executive IT leaders (48%) who have oversight or insight into the security of the mobile healthcare and produce apps also share the same concerns.
For the report, "State Application Security," Arxan Technologies surveyed 318 consumers and 80 IT executives with security oversight or insight into mobile health apps in the US, UK, Germany, and
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Mobile Engagement Provider mPulse Mobile Pulls In $10M
mPulse Mobile, a mobile engagement solution provider that spun out of the healthcare division of mobileStorm has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by HLM Venture Partners with participation from OCA Ventures, Merrick Ventures and Jumpstart Ventures. The capital will enable the company to enhance its analytics capabilities and gain further penetration in the consumer health and wellness market.
The company's cloud-based intelligent mobile messaging solution is HIPAA compliant and
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Amwell Named The #1 Most Downloaded Telehealth App
Amwell, American Well's consumer-facing mobile app for live, online doctor visits, is the #1 most downloaded telehealth app for the second year in a row. According to App Annie, a market intelligence leader in app analytics revealed that Amwell was the most popular telehealth app of 2014 and 2015 in the U.S., based on combined iOS and Google Play downloads1.
The telehealth app gives people the ability to see a doctor of their choosing by video, in less than three minutes on average. Amwell
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AT&T Launches Foundry For Connected Health to Foster Digital Health Innovation
Telecom leader AT&T is set to open the AT&T Foundry for Connected Health in February 2016 at the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute in Houston. The new foundry will focus on digital health innovations that benefit those in and out of the clinical care environment – helping caregivers and patients bridge the gap between a clinical setting and the home. The new opening marks the company's fifth foundry innovation center.
By leveraging Texas Medical Center’s campus, the the
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Validic Unveils VitalSnap to Enable Real-Time Health Data Transfer from Non-Connected Devices
Digital health platform Validic today unveiled VitalSnap™, a new mobile technology that enables users to easily record health data from their in-home device via their smartphone's camera at CES 2016. The goal is to take vital information from non-connecting devices that may never be sent to or viewed by a provider and deliver this data seamlessly to healthcare organizations, helping overcome connectivity barriers that limit the overall care experience.
How It Works
A majority of medical
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Under Armour to Develop IBM Watson Powered Health & Fitness App
Under Armour and IBM are teaming up to create and provide meaningful data-backed health and fitness insights, powered by IBM Watson's cognitive computing technology. Under Armour's new UA Record™ combined with a Cognitive Coaching System will serve as a personal health consultant, fitness trainer and assistant by providing athletes with timely, evidence-based coaching around your sleep, fitness, activity and nutrition, including outcomes achieved based on others "like you."
As envisioned, a
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BlackBerry Integrates with Sharecare to Enable Secure Messaging
BlackBerry are teaming up with digital health and wellness engagement platform Sharecare to provide consumers with better and more secure insights into their health. As part of the partnership, Sharecare and BlackBerry will integrate Sharecare's proprietary fractal voice analysis into BlackBerry's secure messaging to increase consumer self-awareness, reduce stress and improve relationships, all while providing the gold-standard in consumer privacy.
Building on this, the companies will move
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Accenture: Only 2% of Hospitals Engage Patients Using Mobile Apps
Mobile health app usage has grown increasingly over the past three years with 54 percent of health consumers willing to use their smartphones to engage with their healthcare providers, according to new research from Accenture. The report finds that despite the acceptance from consumers, healthcare providers are failing to meet consumer needs with consumers complaining about poor user experience with providers’ proprietary apps and mobile functionality that often fails to meet their individual
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