Enterprise Healthcare Cloud provider, Castlight Health has signed a partnership with Teladoc, the nation’s first and largest telehealth provider with more than 8 million members. This relationship enables Teladoc to offer its telehealth services through Castlight’s technology suite to all enterprises that work with both Castlight and Teladoc.
Castlight empowers large businesses to manage healthcare spending and enables employees and families to make informed choices with a clear understanding
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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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Global Mobile Health Solutions Market to Grow at 34.88% CAGR by 2018
The global mobile health solutions market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 34.88 percent through 2018, according to a new report from Sandler Research. The growth is mainly driven by the increased usage of 3G and 4G telecom networks. Both 3G and 4G networks help in enhanced communication and network access to healthcare applications. They are used in smartphones and tablets as they provide fast connectivity to health tips, health-based games, doctors' advice on diseases, and online medical
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Arizona Care Network Offers Propeller Health to its Members with COPD
Propeller Health (formerly Asthmapolis), the FDA-cleared digital health solution for chronic respiratory disease, and Arizona Care Network, a physician and health system collaboration, jointly announced today that ACN will be the first Accountable Care Organization (ACO) to offer the Propeller platform to its members with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Arizona Care Network was formed through collaboration between two of the state's largest health care organizations, Dignity Health
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Secure vs. HIPAA Compliant: What’s the Difference for Text Messaging?
White paper from DocHalo explores the differences between secure vs. hipaa compliant text messaging and what features make a secure texting solution truly HIPAA-compliant.
The need for physicians and other healthcare team members to be in constant communication with each other has never been higher. Secure texting applications seek to provide healthcare professionals a quick and convenient way to connect while complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
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Cartoon: Why Big Pharma Can’t Innovate with mHealth
David Doherty, CoFounder & Director at 3G Doctor recently published this satire comic shown below that highlights the reasons why big pharma is failing to innovate with mhealth. In his recent article regarding the obsession with the 'random controlled trail' approach to mHealth, Doherty states,
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Archiac Pagers and Lack of Secure Text Messaging Costs Average Hospital More Than $1.75M Annually
Inefficient communication during critical clinical workflows such as patient admissions, emergency response team coordination and patient transfers costs the average U.S. hospital about $1.75 million annually, according to a new report from Imprivata® and the Ponemon Institute. Titled “The Imprivata Report on the Economic Impact of Inefficient Communications in Healthcare,” the report finds that a significant amount of time is wasted during these workflows—primarily due to the inefficiency of
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MediSafe Releases 1st Medication Management App for Android Wear Smartwatches
MediSafe has expanded its leading medication management platform to include wearables, becoming the first mobile health app on Google’s just-announced suite of Android Wear smartwatches.
Users wearing either the LG Android Wear, Samsung Gear Live or Moto 360 smartwatches, who also have the MediSafe medication management solution installed on their Android smartphone or tablet, will automatically have a MediSafe “wearable app” loaded on their Android Wear and begin receiving medication reminders
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iPatientCare Updates Its Wearable EHR App for Google Glass Functionality
iPatientCare, Inc., provider of cloud based ambulatory EHR, Integrated Practice Management and Patient Portal Solutions, announced an updated version of its native miGlass the first Wearable EHR App for Google Glass. The new Glassware technology extends the functionality to the iPad, Android and web to Google Glass, giving physicians access to patient records at the point of care without having to look away from their patients.
"Medication Adherence and other health behaviors are often the
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Methodology: 6 Key Stages of A Successful mHealth Project
New methodology created by Tony Kane Consulting Ltd outlines six key stages of a successful mhealth project.
Typically, mHealth has been held back by a lack of insight into the necessary factors to ensure a successful mHealth project. To address this issue, Tony Kane Consulting Ltd has developed a structured repeatable methodology supported by real life case studies and practical toolkits to help project sponsors successfully build the critical elements for success into their plans and
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