Last week, the New York eHealth Collaborative announced the New York Digital Health Accelerator (NTDHA) that is run by the NYeC in partnership with the NYCIF and the New York State Department of Health. The program will fund 12 early- and growth-stage digital health companies that are developing cutting edge technology products for healthcare providers.
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HIT Innovation Founder Stories:Jakob Jønck, Co-Founder, Endomondo Pt.2
First edition of HIT Innovation Founder Stories, we speak with Jakob Nordenhof Jønck, Co-Founder of Endomondo, where Jakob shares his story of how three former McKinsey & Co. management consultants (all former semi or professional athletes) took their passion for active, healthy lifestyles and created Endomondo, a social fitness application that turns mobile phones into full-fledged personal trainers. Endomondo is a great example of how technology can be utilized as a tool to provide
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HIT Innovation Founder Stories:Jakob Jønck, Co-Founder, Endomondo
There is an emerging community of digital health entrepreneurs utilizing technology innovation to help transform healthcare. In an effort to provide coverage of this growing community and inspire future digital health entrepreneurs, HIT Consultant has launched “HIT Innovation Founder Stories” where we will speak with a digital health founder to share their journey from inception to launch, obstacles/challenges, and lessons learned. In our first HIT Innovation Founder Stories, we speak with
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Thought Leadership: Mobile Applications In Healthcare
Mobile Applications in Healthcare: Reaching Out to Patients to Improve Care by Colin Konschak, MBA, FHIMSS and Ram Davaloor, MS, MBA One in five mobile phone owners today owns a smartphone, a trend that is on the rise as consumers increasingly use these devices as handheld computers. Not surprisingly the number of consumer smartphone applications (apps) that were downloaded went from 300 million in 2009 to five billion in 2010. With mobile devices outnumbering personal computers, we
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Catholic Healthcare West inks $4.3M deal with AirStrip
Catholic West, the fifth largest heath system in the US announced today that they have inked a $4.3 million 3 year deal with AirStrip Technologies to use their AirstripOB applications at 32 of it's hospital systems that have birthing facilities. Currently, AirStrip has piloted Airstrip at two of it's California hospitals, Mercy Medical Center and Sequoia Hospital. AirStrip OB Overview The AirStrip OB app gives physicians mobile access to vital patient data in waveform
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Infographic: App Overload for Doctors
Infographic that displays how many apps doctors download creating app overload for doctors
With smartphones and apps quickly gaining popularity in healthcare, there are now thousands of medical apps available in the app store – making it tough for doctors to find the ones they need most for treating patients. To illustrate this app overload challenge faced by doctors today, Epocrates conducted research on this and created an infographic looking at the numbers – how many apps doctors download,
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