A wristwatch-like motion-tracking device can detect movement problems in children whose impairments may be overlooked by doctors and parents, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Read MoreResearchers at the University of Washington have created a new app that was able to detect fluid in the middle ear in pediatric patients.
Read MoreThe digital health industry has much work to do when it comes to developing technologies for underserved populations, including people of color, the LGBTQ community and women.
Read MoreHIPAA compliance is back in the headlines, and in a big way.
Read MoreWith the rapid growth of digital health solutions, there is a serious need for an objective, transparent and standards-based framework to evaluate these healthcare products.
Read MoreSmartphones are quickly gaining the capabilities to make patients’ homes an extension of physicians’ offices, facilitating access to timely medical care. Technological advancements in the phones are enabling them to take higher-resolution photos and deliver better sound quality, suggests Christy Marks-Davis, senior director of marketing for CareCentrix, a company that works with providers and payers to support care of patients in their homes.
Read MoreThe Boston-based Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) has attracted a strong array of telehealth and mHealth executives as it moves to define digital medicine and create evidence-based standards.
Read MoreResearchers from Evidation Health report that people living with chronic conditions who regularly use mHealth wearables to track activity are better at following medication management guidelines.
As consumers start to drive their healthcare experience, concerns about healthcare spending savvy and information overload come to light.
Artificial intelligence is quickly finding its way into the healthcare setting, but identifying high-value use cases can be a challenge.
Social determinants of health (SDOH) has become one of the biggest buzzwords in healthcare. In the quest to provide more complete care—and lower healthcare costs—stakeholders across the healthcare industry, are realizing that treating a patient doesn’t have to begin or end in a hospital.
Read MoreBig data has been making waves across the entire business sector and almost entirely transforming the way things operate. Construction and development, information security, retail, entertainment and e-commerce have all been changed irrevocably by big data, management and cloud computing technologies. However, healthcare has been slow to adopt these innovative solutions.
Read MorePhysicians at UPMC Medical Center in Pittsburgh are using remote monitoring platforms to more easily interact with heart failure patients, other providers, insurers and additional stakeholders.
Read MoreHealthcare providers are taking a closer look at their digital health programs and working on ways to improve access, open the door to new uses and find new ways to make mHealth data work for them.
Clinical Decision Support (CDS) is an early, important, and particularly interesting domain within health informatics. Its purpose is to provide clinicians, patients, and others with knowledge and personalized information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times, to enhance health and health care. It is a critical component of the IOM’s vision of a Learning Health System that we introduced in the first article since it is the vehicle for feeding knowledge obtained from the care of prior patients back to providers caring for current patients or even directly to those patients.
Read MoreA universal health app platform to support informatics-based innovations in care delivery, no matter what the underlying EMR, was a long-held goal of the academic health informatics community. In 2010, the federal government awarded U.S. $15 million to the Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program and the Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics to create and initially develop just such an app platform.
Read MoreThe first article of this series mentioned that, after the success of its new messaging standard for electronic health record (EHR) systems, Health Level 7 (HL7) found it difficult to develop and widely deploy a standard for the rich representation of clinical data for use in patient care. This was due, in large part, to the complexity of medicine and the resulting complexity of the clinical terminologies developed to represent it.
Read MoreIt is hard to conceive of a better rationale for healthcare interoperability than the management of chronic disease. People in advanced, industrialized countries are living longer, and chronic disease rates among the elderly are on the rise in part because of lifestyle issues, such as obesity and inadequate exercise. As a result, the care of chronic diseases (such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, chronic lung disease, and chronic kidney disease) accounts for well over 90% of spending by Medicare, the U.S. health insurance program for people age 65 and over. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has found that the top 5% of patients with four or more chronic diseases are responsible for 30% of all Medicare chronic disease spending. While just 17% of Medicare patients live with more than six chronic conditions, they account for half of all spending on beneficiaries with chronic disease.
Read MoreThe Internet of Healthcare Things can increase patient success rates as it eases processes for healthcare workers and cut costs. Telemetry embedded into vital sign monitors, EKGs and other devices provide nurses and doctors with proactive updates on patient status.
Read MoremHealth data from wearable devices and patient monitoring tools will increasingly feed artificial intelligence and analytics technologies.
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