Healthcare disruptors are betting the farm on digital health technology, and they have the funds to validate their enthusiasm. Investments in digital health startups came in at a staggering $8.1B at the end of 2018, marking an increase of 42% from 2017. While investments are slowly beginning to level out in 2019, analysts see this as a sign that the industry is maturing; not, as some thought, as a signal of pending collapse. Health tech has been touted as the cure-all for financial
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Emoji Buttons Effective in Gauging Doctor/Patient Satisfaction in Real-Time
- Penn Medicine researchers implemented emoji button terminals reflecting a range of emotions and sentiments -- stationed around emergency departments (EDs) finds them effective in monitoring doctor and patient sentiments in real-time. - Conducted during a five-month study period in 2018, nearly 14,000 sentiments were recorded across the three terminals, one was set up near physician workstations, another at nurses’ workstations, and the last at the patient exit. - The nurses’ station
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UPenn Taps Medable’s Digital Trials Platform to Power LITE Psoriasis Study
The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has partnered with Medable, a provider of digital trials platform to accelerate patient enrollment and increase patient retention in the Light Treatment Effectiveness (LITE) study, which evaluates home versus office-based narrowband ultraviolet B phototherapy for the treatment of psoriasis.Phase 4 Pragmatic StudyMedable’s direct-to-patient app was selected for LITE, a Phase 4 pragmatic study that will enroll 1050 patients across 20-40 clinical
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Research: Doctors More Likely to Prescribe Therapies Using EMR Dashboards
Purely educating doctors about the importance of prescribing certain therapies may not be enough to make a meaningful impact, according to a new Penn Medicine study published in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. Using acid suppression therapy--an effective method of reducing the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding in vulnerable cardiac patients--Penn researchers tested interventions that utilized both education and an EMR dashboard to provide doctors with up-to-date
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Penn Medicine Launches Telemedicine Hub with Center for Connected Care
Penn Medicine has announced the launch of their new telemedicine hub, Penn Medicine Center for Connected Care that centralizes the health system’s telemedicine activities. The center also includes its almost 15-year-old Penn E-lert eICU for the critically ill, a tele-homecare service for the chronically ill, as well as a telemedicine service linking obstetricians to trauma surgeons caring for critically injured pregnant women, and a tele-urgent care service which eliminates the need for physical
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Penn Medicine, Medable Unveil CareKit App for Bariatric Surgery Patients
Penn Medicine, today announced it is extending the use of mobile devices as a health tool to improve the patient experience and patient care by launching the Penn Life Gained app specifically for bariatric surgery patients at Penn Medicine, as part of the institution’s focus on mobile health and innovative research strategies. Developed by clinicians in the Bariatric Surgery Program and Penn’s Corporate Information Services team, in partnership with Medable, the app is built using the Apple
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Penn Medicine Launches Center for Digital Health to Probe “The Social Mediome”
Penn Medicine has launched a Center for Digital Health to probe “the social mediome” -- a way of collectively describing people or groups based on their digital data merged with their health record data. To lead the newly Penn Medicine Center for Digital Health efforts, Penn Medicine has appointed Raina Merchant, MD, MSHP as the Associate Vice President for the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Director. New areas of research focus for the Center for Digital Health include
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