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Doctors Get Their Own Cringe-Worthy Instagram
A new photo-sharing network is changing the way healthcare professionals interact and learn from one another. It's not for those with weak stomachs. Read More »
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EHR Implementation Remains Top Concern Among Physicians, Practices
As more physicians and medical practices work toward meaningful use of an EHR, getting the technology seamlessly integrated into daily work flow continues to be a main concern. For the second straight year, EHR adoption and implementation issues were ranked as the most pressing information technology problem by respondents of the Physicians Practice 2014 Technology Survey, sponsored by Kareo.
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FDA Lays Out Rules For Some Smartphone Health Apps
Food and Drug Administration officials say they will begin regulating a new wave of applications and gadgets that work with smartphones to take medical readings and help users monitor their health. Read More »
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Fixing The Background Technologies On Which Health Apps Depend
Developers are flocking to health IT with the laudable goals of making a difference in people’s health (and earning some money in the process). The complex and balkanized field presents numerous barriers to entrepreneurs breaking into the space...
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Go and Play: Gaming and the NHS
Pokemon Go has given a tantalising glimpse of mass gamification’s potential to improve health outcomes. But getting effective “health” games into the hands of patients and clinicians is no easy task. Ben Heather reports from last month’s Games for Health conference in Coventry...
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Google Trends Data Highlights Medical and Healthcare App Growth
Google Search continues to be the dominant internet search engine. Trends in internet keyword searches over time monitor the growth (and waning) of products and topics. Google provides a keyword search tool called Google Trends that allows users to map relative keyword searches over time and compare multiple keyword search trends. I recently examined the trends related to the search term medical app on Google Trends. I found some expected and unexpected findings in this analysis. This is the first post in a series highlighting interesting insights from this untapped source...
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Growth Of SMART Health Care Apps May Be Slow, But Inevitable
This week has been teaming with health care conferences, particularly in Boston, and was declared by President Obama to be National Health IT Week as well. I chose to spend my time at the second ITdotHealth conference, where I enjoyed many intense conversations with some of the leaders in the health care field [...]. Read More »
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Kaiser Permanente Invites Software Developers To Build Apps
Health care giant Kaiser Permanente took small steps today allowing developers to access code to public information residing on its website, through an application programming interface (API). Read More »
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Many Device Manufacturers May Miss Looming UDI Deadline
Vendors that sell medical devices to healthcare organizations will be scrambling to meet a mid-September deadline to get unique identifiers and meet requirements to match them with devices and accompanying software. Loftware, a vendor of unique device identifier labeling solutions, recently conducted a survey of about 120 medical device professionals and found that only 15 percent of respondents said they believe their organizations are ready for the September 24 deadline...
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mHealth Group Urges FDA To Publish Final Guidance
Some mHealth advocates are getting impatient with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA released its preliminary guidelines for the regulation of mobile medical apps in late 2011, and since then the mHealth world has been awaiting the government agency's final document. Read More »
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mHealth Regulatory Coalition Urges FDA To Release Final Apps Guidance
The mHealth Regulatory Coalition (MRC) on June 21 sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urging HHS, through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to publish the final guidance on mobile medical applications (MMA) "as soon as reasonably possible." Read More »
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mHealth Tools Projected To Save $500 Billion In Productivity By 2021
The constantly changing and quickly evolving mobile health industry is often considered the Wild West of healthcare, with new technologies and innovative services shifting the practice of preventative medicine from the doctor’s office to the patient’s pocket. Read More »
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Palomar Health And Qualcomm Launch Glassware Medical Incubator
Glassomics Will Discover How Wearable Computing Devices Can Impact the Healthcare Industry Read More »
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Redefining Medicine With Apps And iPads
The history of medicine is defined by advances born of bioscience. But never before has it been driven to this degree by digital technology... Read More »
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Should Mobile Apps Be Regulated?
Two opposing groups of stakeholders recently petitioned the government, one urging the administration not to rush into any regulation, the other asking for regulatory guidance as soon as possible. What do you think? [...] Read More »
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