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The Role Of Big Data In Personalizing The Healthcare Experience: Mobile
Cheaper, faster, better technology is enabling nearly one in four people around the world to connect with each other anytime, anywhere, as online social networks have changed the way we live, work and play. In healthcare, the data generated by mobile phones and sensors can give us new information about ourselves, extend the reach of our healers and help to accelerate a societal shift towards greater personal engagement in healthcare. Read More »
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Top 5 Things Investors Look For In A Fundable Digital Health Startup
Dr. Saif Abed shares his top five key investment criteria when reviewing a digital health startup. Read More »
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Top Ten Healthcare Quotes For 2013
This list is by no means comprehensive – it’s simply a list of ten quotes I heard (or saw) throughout the year that made me grab a keyboard. Read More »
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VA And DoD Hint At iEHR Mobile?
Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs have announced that they will begin working on a mobile app that will integrate data from the electronic health records of both departments and combine them into a single mobile platform for clinicians. Read More »
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VA Integrates mHealth Into Daily Care, Gives iPads To Vets
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has started several pilot programs to study the impact of mHealth on the health care of its post-9/11 veteran population. [...] Read More »
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VA Named To The 2013 “Most Wired” Hospitals List
The Department of Veterans Affairs has been named to the 2013 ‘Most Wired’ hospitals list — an event that marks the first time that all VA medical centers nationwide have achieved the honor. Read More »
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VA To Launch Several Health Apps After Year-Long Pilot Program
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to launch several new mobile apps this fall, according to a report from Federal News Radio...
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VA Working On Video Health Apps
The Veterans Affairs Department has rolled out a suite of apps for clinicians and patients that pull information from the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture electronic health record. [...] Read More »
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VA-DoD Integrated Health App Coming, Says VA Official
The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments are working on a mobile application that will complement the integrated electronic health record, said Kathleen Frisbee, director of web and mobile solutions at VA. Read More »
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Vanderbilt Opens mHealth App Contest
Vanderbilt University officials announced Wednesday the kick-off of a new mobile health app challenge intended to transform patient clinical summaries into comprehensible, user-friendly health data. The contest is open to software developers worldwide and promises $20,000 in prize money for the best of the best. Read More »
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VCs Should Back Gadgets For The Sick, Not The Healthy, Doctors Say
Investors have been lining up to invest in consumer-facing health products, as wearable trackers and health apps have taken off with consumers. But these digital-health products—widely used today by people who are already healthy—are subject to the same boom-and-bust cycle that has become the norm in other areas of technology...
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What Is Crowdfunding?
[...] I am so excited that colleagues, friends and family members are asking me, "What is crowdfunding?" I'm not an expert by any means and this will be my first crowdfunding experience, but here's my thinking on the answer to the question. Read More »
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When To Regulate mHealth Apps?
With events such as the Consumer Electronics Associations’ 2013 International CES conference this week in Las Vegas, featuring a dizzying 3,000 global app companies and a digital health summit, there is a lot of hype around what apps can do for healthcare. Read More »
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Why Behavior Change Apps Fail To Change Behavior
The “but you are free” technique demonstrates how we are more likely to be persuaded when our ability to choose is reaffirmed. [...] Though the research did not directly look at how products and services might use the technique, the study provides several practical insights for how companies can influence customer behavior. Read More »
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Will Smorgasbord Approach Get More Patients Engaged?
Yesterday, we took umbrage at what struck us as a bit of “preachifying” by a health IT stakeholder. At issue was the apparent lack of support of EHRs by the public, and his reasons why that lack of support was “wrong”. So today let’s turn it around an look at a different, eminently more hands-on approach to patient engagement. Read More »
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