Yes, the wearable technology introduced last year might be facing a public backlash – and it may not even be appropriate for consumer use at this point – but there's a very real future for Google Glass in healthcare.
Also, Physicians noted that EHRs had the potential to improve some aspects of patient care and professional satisfaction. Yet for many physicians, the current state of EHR technology significantly worsened professional satisfaction in multiple ways, due to poor usability, time-consuming data entry, interference with face-to-face patient care, inefficient and less fulfilling work content, insufficient health information exchange, and degradation of clinical documentation.
In the next decade, increasing consumer awareness and demand for better facilities will also redefine healthcare—the country's second largest service-sector employer. In revolutionizing the healthcare system and propelling its next phase of growth, technology and mobility will play a crucial role.
World's largest chipmaker Intel Corporation has unveiled the Intel Sensing Platform for enabling mobile-based healthcare delivery to masses.<br />"Our new chip, combining hardware, mobility, analytics and cloud-based technology enables doctors and hospitals to provide affordable personal healthcare for masses," the US-based company's Indian subsidiary said in a statement in Bangalore
Kaiser Permanente CMIO John Mattison cautions healthcare organizations to take a hard look at the way they approach data to ensure that health information is an asset, not a liability. He also cites the need for a new role: a health data concierge.
The so-called “retailization” of healthcare is picking up significant steam, especially after the high-profile announcement from Kaiser Permanente and Target Corp last week, wherein Kaiser will staff four Southern California clinics.
Google is shutting down all of its Google Glass Basecamp stores, according to reports.
Most of these apps—which include CrossCheck, from Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, and Companion, from a Boston-based startup called Cogito—aren’t yet publicly available. But some projects have completed trials with small groups of patients, larger trials are underway, and preliminary results are encouraging. These apps are based on objective, contextual data, and they require little work on the part of patients.
The government must recognise the role low-cost health IT innovations could play in improving diagnostic accuracy, including many that would be useful for rural India
During his talk Topol dropped the names of numerous digital health and medical device companies that reflect a push towards people gaining more control over their healthcare and advancing a more personalized approach to medicine. Here's a look at some of those businesses
While big data has been a big buzzword in tech circles for some time, healthcare providers have been slower to embrace the promise. But the attitude is changing quickly among clinicians and is now more closely aligned with that of the consumer, according to a new report from PwC.
A Harvard Healthcare Acceleration Challenge launched a competition in October to speed up availability of healthcare technologies earlier this year. About one month later, it has selected four healthcare startups spanning how hospital blood banks bid on blood from blood centers to predictive analytics for palliative care.
The founder of the 500 Mobile Collective fund, Edith Yeung, is a new investment partner with 500 Startups. She sees an opportunity to use mobile apps to supplement the healthcare infrastructure of developing countries such as India and China and across the African continent that account for 80 percent of mobile users or 3 billion people.
Garter, Inc., an information technology research and advisory company, reports that healthcare providers in India are expected to spend US $1.1 billion on IT products and services in 2014, a 5% increase from 2013.
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Big data analytics has the potential to transform the way healthcare providers use sophisticated technologies to gain insight from their clinical and other data repositories and make informed decisions. In the future we’ll see the rapid, widespread implementation and use of big data analytics across the healthcare organization and the healthcare industry. To that end, the several challenges highlighted above, must be addressed. As big data analytics becomes more mainstream, issues such as guaranteeing privacy, safeguarding security, establishing standards and governance, and continually improving the tools and technologies will garner attention.
Tectonic structural change is coming to the healthcare market and will impact everyone. Governments, hospitals, insurers, vendors, care organizations, and patients are all struggling to manage the speed and breadth of a transition already underway. mHealth fitness and wellness wearables combined with mobile application adoption has shown that consumers are embracing new ways to monitor and manage their health. These devices are just the starting point for new levels of monitoring and health data collection, integration, and sharing.
The Affordable Care Act mandates that patients have a right to their own health data, but the government has largely gone easy on enforcing this rule — until recently. The Office of Civil Rights under the Department of Health and Human Services, the office charged with requiring providers to share data, is now levying fines for providers that do not have a mechanism for patient data-sharing set up.
Dr. Merlino’s official title is Cleveland Clinic’s Chief Experience Officer (CXO). He’s also a practicing colorectal surgeon. We spoke today on the occasion of the publication of his new book, Service Fanatics: How to Build Superior Patient Experience the Cleveland Clinic Way (McGraw-Hill).
It has come to a point where the technology needs to be proven safe and effective for patients if clinicians are to be expected to adopt it. “It is not an IT issue, it is a clinician issue. We can’t go so fast that we trample clinicians.”