healthcare

Can your smartphone serve as a behavior change agent to influence positive health outcomes? This infographic created by Mobiquity highlights 15 ways your smartphone can help monitor, motivate, and influence health outcomes by delivering the right message, at the right time, in the right place. Read More »

This infographic from the Hawaii Island Beacon Community illustrates how the organization aims to transform healthcare on the island. Read More »

Thanks to the diligence of so many students, scientists, clinicians and public supporters of free and open access to research, FRPAA has been reintroduced, and the RWA has been thwarted, at least for now. These proponents of open access refused to accept that in this digital age, clinicians should be so removed from the data providing the foundation for evidence-based practice...Our voice has been heard, but the fight rages on. Read More »

If it is one thing that the healthcare IT industry doesn’t lack, it is innovation – or it least innovation on the edges. A quick search on Google for health IT innovation challenges will serve you up over 23K hits. [...] Read More »

Many developing countries are making significant investments to increase the number of health workers available to provide care to growing populations. However, the available funding is far short of what is required... Read More »

The government-mandated push to implement electronic health records is supposed to centralize patient data, and reduce human medical errors in the process. [...] Read More »

Insurers are getting faulty and incomplete data from the new U.S.-run health exchange, which may mean some Americans won’t be covered even after they sign up for an insurance plan. Read More »