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Changes In The Health Care System Driven By Self-Service And DIY Health
Health care is migrating from the bricks-and-mortar doctor’s office or care clinic to the person him or herself at home and on-the-go–where people live, work, play, and pray. As people take on more do-it-yourself (DIY) approaches to everyday life–investing money on financial services websites, booking airline tickets and hotel rooms online, and securing dinner reservations via OpenTable–many also ask why they can’t have more convenient access to health care, like emailing doctors and looking into lab test results in digital personal health records.
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Commentary: Is mHealth Bound For Same Ambiguous Fate As Health IT?
Deep in the back offices of Silicon Valley startups and stalwarts, you won’t commonly encounter phrases like "automotive IT" or "plastic injection molding IT" – yet all through the healthcare industry, such vague-almost-to-the-point-of-confusing terms pepper the conversation. Read More »
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CommonHealth Will Enable Android Phone Users to Access and Share their Electronic Health Record Data with Trusted Apps and Partners
Cornell Tech, UC San Francisco (UCSF), Sage Bionetworks, Open mHealth and The Commons Project are collaborating to develop CommonHealth, an open-source, non-profit public service designed to make it easy and secure for people to collect their electronic health record data and share it with health apps and partners that have demonstrated their trustworthiness. CommonHealth will leverage data interoperability standards, including HL7 FHIR to offer functionality analogous to Apple Health™ to users of Android™ phones.
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Consumer-Driven Health Plan Members More Likely To Use Health Apps
A new report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) suggests that not only are people who are enrolled in consumer-driven health plans more cost conscious, but they’re also more engaged with mobile health and digital health tools. Read More »
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Cornell Tech Professor Pries Open Medicine
Deborah Estrin, who founded Open mHealth, wants to build apps that capture people's everyday activities and give doctors insight into patient health. Read More »
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Could Mobile Health Become Addictive?
The hype over mobile health is deafening on most days and downright annoying on some. So it is with some reluctance that I admit that mobile has the potential to be a game-changer in health. I’ve professed enthusiasm before, but that was largely around the use of wireless sensors to measure physiologic signals and SMS text as a way to deliver messages to patients and consumers... Read More »
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Cytta Connect™ Technology Receives Resounding Response And Secures Illustrious Advisor
Cytta Corp. (OTCQB: CYCA), creator of the CyttaConnect™ Open Source mobile medical monitoring technology, announces that it is currently discussing multiple implementations of its proprietary Cytta Connect™ system into several different US medical markets. Read More »
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Digital Health Funding Rose 45 Percent In 2012
According to health tech accelerator Rock Health, investors poured $1.4 billion into digital health companies last year, which is up 45 percent from 2011. The major areas of interest include healthcare purchasing tools for consumers, personal health tracking, Electronic Medical records and hospital administration. Read More »
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Discussion Flows At YourTurn Sessions
New this year at the 2014 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, YourTurn has a democratic spirit. It's a collaborative series of free-flowing 45-minute forums where hosts and attendees are on equal footing: How the conversation unspools is left entirely to how the audience directs it. Read More »
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DIY Healthcare: Going Beyond WebMD
Despite all the hoopla about the Affordable Care Act, and what it will mean for the U.S., the fundamental experience of going to the doctor hasn’t changed and while innovation and experimentation are inherent to the field of medicine, they aren’t as common in how healthcare is delivered. Read More »
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Docs, Don’t Ignore mHealth
In March of this year, a startup called Scanadu launched a crowd-funding campaign with hopes of raising $100,000. As of this writing, their campaign has raised over $1.4 million, which is the most successful campaign in Indiegogo's history. Read More »
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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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Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition Program Announces Finalists Humetrix iBlueButton App Recognized
Humetrix, a leading provider of consumer healthcare apps, announced today that its iBlueButton app has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition. Humetrix’s iBlueButton app was recognized as a finalist in the EHR category of the awards program from the publisher of FierceHealthIT, FierceHealthcare, and FierceMobileHealthcare. Read More »
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Freedom, Social Support, and Motivation
A recent TechCrunch article by Nir Eyal suggests that many apps fail to change behavior because they feel too much like work. We want to lose weight, but the obligation to log every meal seems to rob us of autonomy much like homework does. Read More »
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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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