Halle Tecco Steps Down from Rock Health Rock Health’s Founder and Managing Director Halle Tecco announced that she is stepping down from the full-service digital health fund via Twitter on Wednesday. 1/ After nearly six years of helping build @Rock_Health, I’ve made the difficult decision to move on.— Halle Tecco (@halletecco) May 4, 2016Apple Taps Google X founder to Lead Healthcare ProjectsApple has tapped Yoky Matsuoka, a cofounder of Google's experimental Google X division and former VP of
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Dr. Leslie Saxon Talks USC’s Virtual Care Clinic
Can virtual healthcare close the care gaps? Dr. Leslie Saxon gives us a glimpse of what’s to come via the latest in telehealth technology. Virtual care is quickly becoming a tangible reality. All over the word, fingertips are tapping onto screens and into data streams, leaving digital footprints in their wake. But where is this trail of telecommunications leading us? According to Dr. Leslie Saxon, we are headed for real progress in creating access to healthcare by plugging deeper into its
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Apple Unveils CareKit, Open Source Framework for Building Health Apps
At a launch event today, Apple unveiled CareKit™, a new open source platform designed to help health app developers enable people to actively manage their own medical conditions. iPhone® apps using CareKit make it easier for individuals to keep track of care plans and monitor symptoms and medication; providing insights that help people better understand their own health.
With the ability to share information with doctors, nurses or family members, CareKit apps help people take
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Cedars-Sinai Enables Access to HealthKit For Over 80k Patients
Los-Angeles-based hospital Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has integrated its EMR to enable access to Apple's HealthKit platform for more than 80,000 patients, reports Bloomberg. Patients using HealthKit will now have the ability to integrate their personal medical information such as weight, blood pressure, steps taken, glucose levels and oxygen saturation levels with their patient files, enabling easier online access to their physicians.
“This is just another set of data that we’re confident
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Oschner Health Pilots Apple Watch to Manage Chronic Diseases
After being the first Epic client to integrate with the Apple HealthKit, Ochsner Health System has announced it is now the first hospital in the nation to use the Apple Watch for managing patients suffering from chronic diseases. As part of the Ochsner Hypertension Digital Medicine Program pilot program, the New Orleans-based provider will utilize the Apple Watch to track several hundred patients who are struggling to control their blood pressure.
How It Works
Through wireless blood
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14 Top Hospitals Are Piloting Apple’s HealthKit Platform
Fourteen of the top major U.S. hospitals are piloting their own trails of Apple's HealthKit platform, Reuters reports. Apple's HealthKit platform serves as an serve as an integrative hub for patient-generated health information like blood pressure, weight, heart rate, calorie burn or sleep activity with third party apps. Users can decide what information is placed in HealthKit and which apps can access their data through the Health app. Apple's rivals, Google and Samsung which have released
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Kinsa Smart Thermometer Integrates with Apple HealthKit
Kinsa, the company behind the world's first FDA-cleared smartphone-connected thermometer, has announced the integration of its app with Apple's HealthKit for iOS 8. The company recently raised a $9.6M Series A round and launched its national school health program, FLUency.
Through the free Kinsa app, users can create individual profiles for each member of the family and easily track fever, symptoms and illness history within the app itself. Kinsa's integration with HealthKit further allows
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5 HIPAA Hurdles for Health App Developers
What will it take for health app developers to achieve HIPAA compliance and protect your personal health data? Medable's CEO Dr. Michelle Longmire explains.
What happens when personal data pervades healthcare to the point that it requires HIPAA-compliant protections? That was the question asked ‘round the healthcare world when Apple released its HealthKit platform in September. While Apple is striving to connect its consumer products within the clinical world, app developers are both
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Infographic: Apple HealthKit vs. Google Fit
Infographic created by True Vault, a HIPAA compliant database as a service provider illustrates how Apple HealthKit stacks up against Google's Fit digital health platform from a developer's perspective. It also highlights Samsung's SAMI (Samsung Architecture Multimodal Interaction) ecosystem and their new sensor-filled watch "Simband."
Know the difference between HIPAA compliant hosting and building a HIPAA compliant app, and download True Vault's Developer’s Guide to HIPAA Compliance.
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FitBit Has No Plans for HealthKit Integration
Despite the flood of health apps and devices rushing to integrate with Apple's HealthKit platform, FitBit has announced it currently has no plans for HealthKit integration, 9to5Mac first reports. In a response to a flurry of queries on their consumer forum section of their website, the fitness tracking developer replied:
“We do not currently have plans to integrate with HealthKit… It is an interesting new platform and we will watch as it matures, looking for opportunities to improve the
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