- Today, UCSF, CommonSpirit Health, UC Berkeley and Propeller announced research that uses data from connected inhalers to show that exposure to ozone in the air leads to more frequent asthma symptoms.
- This is the first study to use a digital health platform to study the impact of ozone on respiratory disease. By attaching sensors to the inhalers of 287 people with asthma in California, researchers were able to track their medication use.
- When ozone concentrations in the air
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Public Health
Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center Uses Wearable Sensors to Combat Spread of Coronavirus in China
- Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center uses VivaLNK continuous temperature wearable sensors to combat the spread of Coronavirus in China.- While quarantining patients may limit patient-to-patient contact, contact between caregivers and patients can also be avoided with technology.VivaLNK, a Campbell, CA-based provider of connected healthcare solutions, today announces Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center (SPHCC) is using VivaLNK's continuous temperature sensor to combat the spread of
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How Back-End Technologies Will Help Improve Patient Outcomes In 2020
For years, healthcare organizations have faced unique barriers to technological innovation. Enterprise-wide issues of disconnected systems and data, the slow speed of application creation, implementation, and maintenance, a lack of mobile capabilities, and the challenges of ensuring security, privacy, and compliance have made it difficult to innovate quickly to improve patient outcomes.
However, this paradigm is changing. In 2020, we will see big changes as healthcare organizations embrace the
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Social Determinants of Health Trends in 2020: The End of the Beginning?
2020 will mark the end of the beginning of Social Determinants of Health (SDoH).
One would be remiss not to give pause and to consider how much time it has taken to get to this pivotal period in US health and healthcare delivery and, focus on the cornerstone “why” healthcare must, with a fierce urgency, step into the twenty-first century of US healthcare delivery. Meaning, it has taken nearly seventy years to go from the World Health Organization identifying the profundity of SDoH influence on
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Change Healthcare, Google Expand Enterprise Imaging Platform With 4 Providers
- Change Healthcare announced a strategic initiative to build and implement the cloud-native Enterprise Imaging Network on the Google Cloud platform with four providers as development partners. - The network will enhance and optimize medical imaging data––enabling providers to improve clinical, financial, and operational outcomes.Change Healthcare, today at RNSA 2019 announced the latest milestone in its strategic initiative to build and implement its cloud-native Enterprise Imaging Network:
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Disruptors or Interrupters? How Apple Is Faring In Their Healthcare Initiatives
Key Highlights
- Part one of our new in-depth series on Apple, Google, and Amazon's latest healthcare efforts since our last report in April 2019.
- A look at Apple's recent healthcare developments, as well as an analysis of what goes beyond the news.
Over the last few decades the “digital age” has enabled many garage-based startups to transform into sustained successes by targeting problems that begged to be solved digitally. Sometimes their leaders identified and resolved
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Boston U Launches First-Ever Virtual Alzheimer’s Disease Population Health Study
- Savonix and Boston University School of Public Health launches the first-ever population health Alzheimer’s Disease Discovery Study (ASSIST) to digitally collect brain health data from over 400k participants.- First-ever wholly digital population health study that captures data from multiple wearable technologies together with sensitive neuropsychology tests to examine how risks for dementia cluster to produce diseases like Alzheimer’s.- Study data will power first time knowledge of how
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Study Reveals First-Ever Predictive Model for Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Related to Social Determinants
- Landmark study released from Stanford Medical School reveals a first-ever predictive model for uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus related to social determinants of health. - Peer-reviewed study released August issue of Medical Care that sheds light on an important aspect of T2DM causality, and addressing them has the potential to save the US Healthcare system billionsDr. Sanjay Basu and Dr. Rajiv Narayanaswamy, in conjunction with Stanford Medical School recently released an article in an
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CVS Health to Invest $2.5M to Build Healthier Communities in Ohio
- CVS Health announced it will invest $2.5M over the next three years to build healthier communities across the state of Ohio.
- Investments will support key initiatives across Ohio including increasing access to healthcare, preventing prescription opioid misuse and supporting tobacco-free living for at-risk populations.
CVS Health, today announced it and its private charity will be donating more than $2.5 million in Ohio over the next three years to improve the health and wellness of
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Getting Back to Joy in Work: A Call to Prioritize The Patient-Provider Relationship
When I think about the term “joy in work”, coined by the Institute for Health Improvement, the first thing that comes to mind are my patients and their health. If I feel like I can contribute in some way to overcoming an illness, meeting their health goals, or improving their quality of life, then it makes the long days of work worthwhile. Like anyone else in any other profession, the impact I make through my work keeps me going throughout all the other headaches. That’s why re-prioritizing the
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