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NHS’ Salford Royal Trust, Validic Partner to Integrate Patient-Generated Health Data Into EHR

by Jasmine Pennic 03/02/2017 Leave a Comment

NHS’ Salford Royal Trust, Validic Partner to Integrate Patient-Generated Health Data Into EHR

The Royal Salford Trust of the NHS and digital health integration platform Validic have announced a partnership centering around innovation with health data, research & remote care services. The partnership will enable the integration of patient-generated health data from in-home medical devices, wearables and consumer health apps into the EHR. The goal of this initiative is to identify how the integration of this data yields a measurable difference in patient care, outcomes and
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Black Book: 94% of Physicians Find Digital Health Data Overwhelming, Redundant

by Jasmine Pennic 01/04/2017 Leave a Comment

Increasing Patient Face Time by Decreasing Physician Screen Time

94 percent of physicians find all that digital health data overwhelming, redundant and unlikely to make a clinical difference, according to Black Book’s recent consumer survey. Conducted from September through December 2016, the survey asked 12,090 adult consumers to evaluate the technology they were exposed to, know of or interacted with as an active patient in the last twelve months.The report revealed that 94 percent of consumers with health or activity trackers said their physician informed
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How Millennials Lead the Way to Healthcare Innovation

by Our Thought Leaders 10/10/2016 Leave a Comment

How Millennials Lead the Way to Healthcare Innovation

Editor's Note: Mark Haddad is VP of Consulting for the Microsoft group at SADA Systems, a full-service cloud migration and IT consulting services company, offering cloud solutions, managed services, technical services. Statisticians, researchers and workplace experts love to talk about how different Millennials are than the rest of us as workers and consumers. There have been numerous studies about the potential impact of this group on the healthcare industry, since healthcare defies nearly
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Allscripts, Garmin Partner to Integrate Wearables with Population Health Tools

by Jasmine Pennic 03/02/2016 Leave a Comment

Garmin and Allscripts Enter Strategic Relationship to Improve Patient Care

To help clinicians better manage patient care, Garmin will join with Allscripts to integrate its vívofit suite of wearable devices into the FollowMyHealth and CareInMotion platforms, designed to address specific population health management priorities. Berkshire Medical Center (Pittsfield, Mass.) will serve as the beta site for this 2016 initiative. As part of pilot, Berkshire Medical Center will identify a specific patient population to wear vívofit devices and use the Index Smart Scale.
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Why I’ve Tried Every Wearable and Abandoned 99% of Them

by Our Thought Leaders 10/12/2015 Leave a Comment

Wearables

Editor's Note: Tasso Roumeliotis is the CEO and Founder of Location Labs by AVG, a global pioneer in mobile security for humans and is an expert in mobility. Prior to Location Labs, Tasso was a Vice President at Claridge, a $3 billion fund with wireless and media assets.  In the past 5 years, I’ve tried more than 2 dozen wearable devices. Some for less than a week, some only once, but very few have become part of my lifestyle. Now, I’m not necessarily your average user. You could say
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Post IPO: What’s Next for Fitbit & The Future of Wearables in Healthcare?

by Erica Garvin 06/29/2015 1 Comment

Fitbit Flex Review_Digital Health Data

It was an IPO to remember when Fitbit, Inc. hit Wall Street this June. In fact, it was the third largest U.S IPO of 2015, according to Dealogic. Its stock opened at $30.50, (52 percent above its initial public offering price of $20.00), raised $732 million, and sold 36.6 million shares—giving the San Francisco, CA-based, fitness-tracking device developer a valuation of approximately $4.1 billion. Clearly it was a great day for Fitbit, but what does its initial success say about the long-term
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Infographic: Wearables in Healthcare

by HITC Staff 02/13/2015 Leave a Comment

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Infographic visualization created by Boston Technology illustrates the facts, trends, different types, challenges and future of wearables in healthcare. 
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4 Mobile Health Challenges for Medical Device & Diagnostic Firms

by Bernhard Kappe, Founder & CEO of Pathfinder Software 12/03/2013 2 Comments

4 Mobile Health Challenges for Medical Device & Diagnostic Firms

Bernhard Kappe, Founder & CEO of Pathfinder Software outlines four key mobile health challenges for medical device & diagnostic firms. 
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Rise of Wearables Could Spark Healthcare IT Concerns

by Jasmine Pennic 11/06/2013 1 Comment

Rise of Wearbles Raise Significant Privacy and Security Concerns

Wearable Electronics Could Spark Healthcare IT Concerns (via slashdot) News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch told an audience at a Sydney-based think tank that he wears a bracelet for monitoring his vitals. “I now wear a Jawbone,” he said, referring to the Jawbone Up around his wrist, according to a transcript provided…
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