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Apple Hasn’t Solved The Smart Watch Dilemma
...The best-case scenario for the Apple Watch is that the product we saw announced today will eventually iterate into something really great. Because anybody who’s ever worn a watch will tell you: this thing has serious problems...
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Apple HealthKit Has Good Prognosis
Apple's HealthKit, Health app and now the Apple Watch positions the company with a revolutionary platform, allowing health and fitness apps to work together. Apple is seriously preparing to take a slice of the mobile health market, opening a door for partners to provide value-added services...
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Apple HealthKit Recovers Its Health With iOS 8.0.2 Release
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 Introduces ResearchKit, Giving Medical Researchers the Tools to Revolutionize Medical Studies
Apple® today announced ResearchKit™, an open source software framework designed for medical and health research, helping doctors and scientists gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using iPhone® apps. World-class research institutions have already developed apps with ResearchKit for studies on asthma, breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.* Users decide if they want to participate in a study and how their data is shared. Read More »
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Apple Isn’t the Only One to Blame for Smartphone Labor Abuses
Apple is an easy target and, in a way, the most deserving. As the most valuable company in the world, it deserves exceptional scrutiny...
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Apple Strongly Denies Stuffing iPhones And iPads With NSA Backdoors
Apple has vociferously denied writing surveillance backdoors into iOS, the operating system used on the iPhone and iPad range of devices. The Cupertino CA-based company released a strongly-worded statement denying any collusion with the spying programmes of intelligence agencies like the NSA and GCHQ...
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Apple Tries To Redefine mHealth And The Watch
Apple is out with its latest, much-anticipated products, and taking a step into healthcare with a new iPhone-enabled watch. Will this be a big step forward for digital health, or just a grab of the high-end quantified-self market?...
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Apple Watch: All Hype Or Some Hope For Healthcare?
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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Apple Wins Patent Battle With Samsung, But Is Losing The War
The legal front in the smartphone wars between Apple and Samsung picked up steam yesterday after a jury awarded both sides some cash in a patent infringement fight. The jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple $119.6 million in damages, far short of the $2.2 billion Apple had been seeking, and less than the $930 million Apple was awarded in an earlier trial in the same courtroom...
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Apple, Facebook, Others Defy Authorities, Notify Users Of Secret Data Demands
Major U.S. technology companies have largely ended the practice of quietly complying with investigators’ demands for e-mail records and other online data, saying that users have a right to know in advance when their information is targeted for government seizure.
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Applying The Lessons Learned In Other Industries To Health Care
While grappling with the costs and imperfections of our health care system in recent years, a multitude of experts in the field found it useful and enlightening to compare health care to a variety of more familiar industries, and to suggest that health care should adopt operational models that have been shown to work well in those other industries...
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Apprio Awarded $3.4M Federal Health Architecture Contract for Developing Federal Health Information Model
Apprio Inc....today announced it received a contract from the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) to support the Federal Health Information Model (FHIM) for up to a maximum of five years and totaling $3.4 million. The purpose of the FHIM is to support interoperability requirements for FHA's federal partners by serving as a logical information model that identifies common data for the enhanced collection, sharing and use of critical information between federal agencies and private sector healthcare organizations. "Creating a cohesive federal health environment requires a great deal of planning and consensus," said Bobbie Peterson, Executive Vice President, Health Solutions for Apprio.
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Are Client Server EHR Holding Back Healthcare?
The number one topic of debate on this blog has definitely been Client Server EHR versus SaaS EHR...No doubt both sides have a case to make and we’ll see both in healthcare for a long time to come...
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Are Industry Rankings Really Indicative of EHR Usability?
A high ranking for an EHR might not be indicative of its actual usability. This becomes clear when one compares recent industry rankings with polls and testimony coming straight from users. Just last week, KLAS released its Best in KLAS rankings, with Epic Systems clearly coming out on top. Taking home two overall rankings and seven other Best in KLAS rankings, the EHR vendor giant continued to assert its dominance in the health IT industry...
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Are The Keys To Interoperable Health IT Hidden Outside The Health Care Field?
To build a truly modern and interoperable health care system, some leading health IT experts think critical answers may be hidden in industries typically thought to be unassociated with health care...
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