I recently participated in a nationwide (not the United States) healthcare IT planning effort and one recommendation was universal availability of patient portals. Several reviewers commented that patient portal is a loaded term - it implies that clinicians control the data and patients are given a view into it. One person said, “that’s so 10 years ago.” BIDMC has been working with patient/family shared medical records, Open Notes and various consumer-facing apps since 1999. Over that time we've discovered that patients typically do not want raw data, they want something actionable - the tools necessary to assist their navigation through the healthcare process...
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3 Integration Hurdles Mobile Devices Face (And How Apple May Help)
Eric Wicklund | mHealth Summit | September 22, 2014
The recent – and rather breathlessly reported - unveiling of the Apple Watch has many in the mHealth space wondering whether the final bridge is being crossed to patient engagement. Finally, a mobile healthcare platform that both the doctor and the consumer can share and appreciate...
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Apple HealthKit Recovers Its Health With iOS 8.0.2 Release
Christian de Looper | Tech Times | September 29, 2014
After a series of problems with the software, Apple has finally released HealthKit in the new iOS update, iOS 8.0.2. HealthKit was supposed to be released in iOS 8, however for unspecified reasons the release was delayed at the last minute...
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Apple Watch: All Hype Or Some Hope For Healthcare?
Eric Wicklund | mHealth News | September 10, 2014
Apple unveiled its eagerly-anticipated Watch on Tuesday and some mHealth experts are already saying it is just another smartwatch — albeit one with tremendous potential to legitimize the market...
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Does Open Design Hardware Have a Place in Manufacturing?
Eric Larkin | opensource.com | February 16, 2012
...thanks to the popularity of publications like MAKE magazine, and an increase in the availability of specialty electronic parts and open source software, a maker renaissance has begun...
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Government Agencies Face Big Hurdles In mHealth App Innovation
Judy Motti | FierceMobile Healthcare | December 31, 2014
Governmental agencies face a wide spectrum of challenges in creating mHealth apps, ranging from a changing development culture to potential litigious issues, revealed a new report published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research...
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Halamka Pays a Visit to Oscar Health
By John D. Halamka, MD | August 10, 2016
Today I’m in New York City visiting Oscar Health, on my continuing quest to determine how best to integrate digital platforms, patient-family engagement, and care coordination in preparation for MACRA/MIPS and the transformation from fee for service to alternative payment models. At the moment, there is no single magic bullet, but there are early innovations that hold promise. At BIDMC we’ve thought the best approach to care management is to identify a cohort with a disease, then enroll that cohort in a program which involves tracking progress against guidelines/protocols, deploying telemedicine/visiting nurses, and measuring data from home-based devices...
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How Apple’s Purchase of Startup Reveals Health Data Strategy
Greg Slabodkin | Health Data Management | August 24, 2016
Apple’s recent acquisition of health startup Gliimpse is the latest in a long series of strategic moves by the Cupertino, Calif.-based company to capture mindshare and market share in a healthcare industry increasingly reliant on data. News of the tech giant’s purchase of Gliimpse—a personal health record aggregator—did not come from Apple, which does not comment on its acquisitions or the strategy behind them. Reports of the acquisition first surfaced in Fast Company, a business magazine that covers the technology industry...
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In Groundbreaking Move For Health Trackers, Apple Teams With Mayo Clinic
Zina Moukheiber | Forbes.com | June 2, 2014
In a move that propels mobile health apps and fitness trackers from a mostly amateurish realm into the formal health care setting, Apple AAPL announced that it is working with Mayo Clinic to integrate medical information via its platform HealthKit, a part of its new operating system iOS 8 for iPhones and iPads. Apple will consolidate heart rate, blood pressure, weight, and other data from disparate apps and devices, including Nike....
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Rotten To The Core: Apple Stole The Idea And Name For Their New HealthKit App From Us, Claim Australian Tech Designers
Daniel Mills | Mail Online | June 4, 2014
...An Australian start-up company is considering launching legal action against US tech giant Apple, alleging it stole the name it trades under for a mobile app...
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Timeline: How Apple Is Piecing Together its Secret Healthcare Plan
Bill Siwicki | Healthcare IT News | June 23, 2017
Rumors are at a fever pitch that Apple has big plans for healthcare, including putting a medical record on the iPhone, possibly acquiring its way into the EHR market. From its leap into healthcare in 2014 with its HealthKit application programming interface in September 2014 to the June 19 revelation of Apple’s work with the tiny start-up Health Gorilla, Apple has made a series of moves in healthcare that clearly indicate the company has plans for the space that will somehow manifest on its mega-popular iPhone and iPad products. Here’s a look at how Apple got to where it is today in healthcare...
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What is Patient and Family Engagement?
By John D. Halamka, MD | November 9, 2016
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Why We Shouldn’t Call Apple ResearchKit and CareKit ‘Platforms’
Ryan Rossier | HIT Consultant | October 17, 2016
It’s no secret that getting people to engage in their health is one of our generation’s biggest challenges. Digital health engagement, especially, is often discussed as “a huge opportunity,” but the reality is that while people are interested in their health, it’s still incredibly difficult to get them to use digital tools consistently. Enacting behavior change is still a mostly elusive process...
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Will An Anti-Innovation Culture In The NHS Kill Off Technological Progress?
Dick Vinegar | Data Management Hub | June 10, 2014
Hackday system has best chance of overcoming bureaucratic regulatory process that stops apps getting traction they need...
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