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Bone Cancer: What It Can Do To Your Skin
A lump growing under the skin could be a sign that you should never avoid. In this post I'm discussing bone cancer and common effects it has on skin.
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Can digital health solve the impending Aged Care Crisis?
HealthXL in collaboration with Northern Health hospital network in Melbourne and IBM has examined the aged care space.
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Digital Health Toys or Tools?
What good is an image, if not clinically useful?
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Early, Iterative, Functional: How to develop the right medical device to actually help people.
The world doesn’t need more gadgets, it needs better ways of thinking, of Design Thinking. Of working with the people it affects, and helping them to get what they can actually use, especially when it comes to healthcare and medical devices.
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HealthXL Hackathon
A short blog report from our HealthXL hackathon examining how we can better leverage technology to enable older adults to live more independently at home.
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Health Insurances fail to generate reach with mHealth apps
Health Insurance Companies have failed to generate any notable reach with their mHealth app porfolio's
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Health Insurance Companies and mHealth Apps
“Currently HICs have rather unfocused and small app portfolio’s which do not in most cases seem to be backed up by a goal driven mHealth app strategy.”
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Can Digital Health tools help patients with clinical management?
With the proliferation of digital health tools, this post discusses how new tools can best serve patients in clinical management.
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Diaceutics Personalized Medicine Convergence 2015, September 15-16
Our fifth Convergence will focus on the specific challenges facing personalized medicine integration.
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Idea to IPO – What Every Founder Needs to Know
David C. Robinson discusses some of the key terms every founder should know about traditional funding rounds.
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Founders, Your Thinking Is Probably All Wrong About Valuation
The valuation issue at the end of the day is one of trust between founders and investors. On the surface, it appears that a maximized valuation is in the best interest of the founder, while an optimized valuation favors the investor.
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5 Best Medical Alert Apps
Smartphones are excellent ways to stay up to date about medical news, and they can even keep you safe since they are usually within reach.
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mHealth Market to Grow at an Impressive CAGR of 33.5% During 2015 - 20
Global mHealth Market (Device, Service, Application, Stakeholders and Geography) - Size, Industry Analysis, Trends, Opportunities, Growth and Forecast, 2014-20
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Increasing Investor Confidence Translates to More Early-Stage Seed Investment
David C. Robinson thinks we'll soon see that venture capital is in the process of creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that the industry itself is contracting.
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Why knowledge may be the best medicine
Merck Manuals announces its new health literacy campaign, Global Medical Knowledge 2020.
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DataVision Why Does MERS Get More Attention on Google Than Ebola Did?
Why Does MERS Get More Interest On Google Search Than Ebola Did, While Killing Far Less?
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Smart patches: The next big thing in wearables
With some heavy lifting from the engineering and medical communities, wearables are becoming smaller and more specialized. These new wearables can do more than count steps. They deliver much needed medications and nutrients, like insulin or iodine, to those who need them.
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Roche Diagnostics joins HealthXL,global market for health innovation
Through HealthXL, Roche Diagnostics is to collaborate with innovative Connected Health companies globally
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Striving for Excellence in HealthCARE must be Patient Focused
As a global Digital Health community, how can we better develop usable content and support our providers while focusing on the patient's perspective?
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Robotics could boost healthcare in Africa – ACI
ACI, a Nigerian organization with the goal of seeing young Nigerians take leadership position in robotics and software development has stressed the need for Africa to embrace robotics to improve the quality of healthcare on the continent.
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DataVision Why This Doctor Went On The Silk Road to Help People With Their Drug Problems
Doctor X, the Dark Web and 5 Data Graphics That Will Open Your Eyes
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App Options for Fighting Addictions
Overcoming an addiction is difficult, but these apps can help you break your habits from alcohol to gambling and everything in between.
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How a checklist helps ensure vaccinations are safe
Thanks to an innovative checklist developed by German rheumatologists, the decision to immunize against potentially fatal viruses could be a little easier.
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Growing waistlines have mHealth investors seeing green
Significant growth is expected in the global mHealth market over the next five years due to lifestyle diseases. Read on to find out which countries might benefit most from mHealth innovation and why they aren’t likely to see it.
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How to Measure Digital Health Success
Technology is changing the way we think and talk about healthcare like never before. It's time we decided what success should look like.
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Scanadu's Tricorder at NewCo Silicon Valley: Empowering Consumers
Scanadu’s tagline contains a challenge: “We are the last generation to know so little about our health.” Scanadu is dedicated to changing that.
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African startups that are digitizing patients’ health records
Many hospitals across Nigeria and across the continent are still paper-based. It is therefore not surprising that digital health entrepreneurs in the respective countries are developing tools aimed at digitizing health records.
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DataVision Want to Start in Data Science? Here is a Starting Point
Want to Start in Data Science? Here Are the Software Programs and Systems Experts Say They Use...
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Mobile Digital Health Innovation: #Health4Me
#DigitalHealth innovation must be simplistic, solutions driven, and patient-centered. This podcast interview with Kirk Pion, Vice President - UnitedHealth.
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Driven to distraction
Why car manufacturers shouldn’t rule cognitive science out
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Don’t count TV out: How one show prompted 60,000+ Australians to go off their meds
A new study, published in The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA), found that over 60,000 people stopped taking their prescribed statins after a show was aired that criticized their popularity.
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DataVision Social Media Data Quiz - How Much Do You Know About Social Media?
Is Social Media here to stay? How may areas such as health be affected by it? How much is my profile worth to social media companies and how many people use it anyway? These are a range of very interesting questions. We looked at several industry reports and statistics and cranked out a quiz for you to test your knowledge on social media statistics (or how good you are in guessing).
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Let’s write medical Apps with Apple ResearchKit!
This post describes the Apple ResearchKit and how app developers and healthcare providers can use it for medical research or clinical trials
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Retail clinics vs. telehealth in a head-to-head battle for support
In an era ruled by convenience, two new models of urgent care are emerging: retail-based clinics and telehealth services. Which is better?
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How digital health startups may become profitable in Africa – AMPION
An expert has said that digital health startups in Africa have a major challenge in their value proposition – they are struggling to find ways to become profitable businesses.
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Are EMR adoption rates personality-dependent? Maybe yes, maybe no
News that US regulators are softening some of their EHR requirements is bringing mixed reviews from physicians and patients, who seem divided on the issue.
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Study: Patients prefer convenience to privacy, but often don’t have the choice
A significant discrepancy exists between patients' desire and their actual use of online communication tools to communicate with their physicians, according to a new study.
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SaferMom seeks to improve maternal, child health in Nigeria
Through the use of SMS and prerecorded voice services, SaferMom hopes to make a big impact on maternal/child health in Nigeria.
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Building a bridge to interoperability
The Diary Corporation, a new, multinational developer, seeks to bridge the data gap for patients.
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Fish Where the Fishes Are: How the BBC is Using Mobile Messaging Apps to Engage Audiences
The rise of mobile messaging apps offers a whole new way to share public health information. Damian Radcliffe explores how the BBC’s Global News division is tapping into this trend to support their coverage of emergencies.
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DataVision Wearable Technology Market Dashboard - Get the Full Picture
"I wish there would be a tool to give me a full overview for the Wearable Tech Market" - If this is what you have been looking for, you might have come to the perfect spot. We built a comprehensive dashboard to give our readers more transparency on what is going on the wearable technology space.
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Nosta & Friends Nosta & Friends: A Visit with Jack Young - Qualcomm Ventures
In this week's edition of Nosta & Friends, John visits with his friend, Jack Young, Senior Director, Qualcomm Life Fund at Qualcomm Ventures, and General Partner, dRx Capital, fresh from the IPO of Fitbit, one of his fund's investments, which many insiders consider to be a seminal event in digital health.
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CHLA Joins HealthXL to Source Collaborative Opportunities in Connected Pediatric Care
CHLA has joined its global group of partners, bringing about a new focus on Connected Pediatric Care to these leading healthcare brands.
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Expert: Ghanaians are ready for digital health, government isn’t
A Ghana-based digital health expert has told nuviun that the citizens of Ghana (Ghanaians) are enthusiastic about digital health and are ready to embrace it, even though the local digital health ecosystem is poorly developed and supported.
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Robotic rounds: would you take your meds from a robot?
More hospitals are investing in robots to do the jobs once held almost exclusively by health care professionals like nurses, doctors, and others. But do we trust them?
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7 definitions of 21st century patients, for better or worse
The role of patients is changing as healthcare digitalizes. nuviun's Jenn Lonzer discusses 7 different meanings for the term "patient" in a changing healthcare landscape.
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Washington Post chronicles our quantified selves: are we measuring up?
Ariana Eunjung Cha's recent roundup of digital health called, "The revolution will be digitized", points a searing finger at our growing addiction to track.
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What Bill Gore Can Teach Us about Servant Leadership and Corporate Culture
I think we can all learn from our own experiences and incorporate the lessons companies like Gore can teach us about the value of service-based leadership.
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Apple Health Watch a Neuromarketing Dream
Although the Apple Watch is able to measure health responses – could there be a more sinister undertone to the business model?
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6 remarkable health and fitness mobile apps you'd regret missing
As a health freak individual, you can leverage mobile technology and its key offerings. The trend of health and mobile apps is taking the health industry by a wave.
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What we talk about when we talk about ePatients
At the recent Cinderblocks2 conference, ePatient Dave DeBronkart told attendees that his doctor prescribed the Internet, where he was empowered by community and information.
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Is Business Culture Driving Unnecessary C-Sections?
C-section or vaginal birth? If you have the choice, what would it be? In recent years we have heard much about a considerable increase for c-sections by choice, rather due to medical advice. But is it possible to judge quickly what motivation drives women to more c-sections?
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New Yorker cartoonist pokes fun at Dr. Google with iPhone cartoon
How many of us have surfed the web to self-diagnose before actually seeing a real doctor? Kaamran Hafeez pokes fun at this phenomenon in his witty caricature.
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Why Hack Aging with HealthXL?
HealthXL together with Northern Health hospital network and IBM are hosting a hackathon style weekend in Melbourne 10-12th July. Here are some reasons to join.
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Fighting drug-resistant TB with big data—in the jungle
A new online tool, hailed the most comprehensive and accurate to date, uses big data to predict resistance to drugs commonly used to treat tuberculosis.
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My Master Class on Mind Mapping for Health. Doctors 2.0 & You Paris 20
Introduction to the applications of mind mapping in medicine.
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DataVision Buddha's Brain - Muse Headband Quantifies Meditation
Meditation is one of the best tools for mental wellness - how is tech helping us on our path to zen?
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Study: 4 in 10 rheumatoid arthritis patients don’t take their medications as prescribed
Digital health leaders are tackling the issue of medication adherence, which is a significant problem for people with rheumatoid arthritis, according to a new study from the University of Manchester.
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Dokita app focuses on good prognosis for sick Africans
Dokita is a social network in which people can interact with health professionals.
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Is technology making doctors sick?
Physician burnout is on the rise as already overburdened doctors add EHR administration and health care reform research to their to-do list. Is there a cure?
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People with autism see the world differently, from infancy
A new study from the University of London's Birkbeck Babylab links enhanced visual perception in infants to the development of autism spectrum disorder symptoms later in life.
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Your data will likely be breached
Data breaches are on the rise in healthcare organizations, but hackers aren’t after your health data, according to security experts at HIMSS15.
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Big data 411 for 911 calls
Much has been said about the value of patient data within the healthcare system. That data is largely generated by providers and healthcare machines. Surprisingly, little attention has rested on the value of patient data generated by the patient, especially in regards to first responder and ER doctor specific use.
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A patient-led health revolution
A passionate group of patient advocates, artists, and industry thought leaders gathered last week in Grantsville, Maryland for Regina Holliday's Cinderblocks2 conference.
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5 Best Fitness Trackers for Summertime Sports
At first, the Jawbone Up and Fitbit trackers were the hottest devices on the market, but competitors have created increasingly diverse offerings. Much like buying a car, you need to choose the tracker make and model that best suits your lifestyle.
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DataVision Is the Public Still Interested in Science?
Journalists and academics are pumping out publications at breakneck speed - how much impact do these articles really have?
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ICD-10 deadline looms in U.S. but only 28 percent of health providers know expected revenue impact
The ICD-10 deadline looms in the U.S., but only 28 percent of health providers have performed revenue testing.
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How 4G mobile connections are changing health monitoring
A new UK study shows a 63 percent rise in the use of health-related apps on the 4G network of one mobile provider since August 2014. So what’s driving this increase? And how can digital health players harness this potential? Damian Radcliffe investigates.
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Is sharing caring? New study shows patients want access to their EHRs
Some doctors and patients who participated in the recent US study on Electronic Health Records known as Open Notes are speaking out about EHRs. The survey says....
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Genomics vs. evolving Typhoid superbug
Genome sequencing and data analytics uncovers key, multi-drug resistant strain in growing Typhoid epidemic
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Digital health app to promote risk awareness among people with epilepsy
Although the risk of fatality from epilepsy is relatively low, sudden death is 20x more likely if you have epilepsy—and 42 percent of these deaths are avoidable. Yet, physicians often struggle to decide when and how to discuss this risk with epileptic patients. In a recent study conducted by researchers from Plymouth University, physicians implemented a patient-centered checklist intervention in an attempt to encourage patient education around the risk of sudden death.
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Predictive Analytics, Healthcare and a Life Much Awaited
Data mining and data analytics has been of immense importance to many different fields as we witness the evolution of data sciences over recent years.
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Yet another Apple iPhone app—this one tests your DNA
According to the MIT Technology Review, Apple plans to launch apps that give iPhone users the chance to test their DNA, leaving some spitting happy.
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Bad patients
Jenn Lonzer and Anthony Stedillie, CEO of CompassMD, discuss the science (part psychology and part data) of bad patients
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Startups The Hottest Startups Of 2015: Driverless Cars
We all heard that Google is pushing the boundaries for self driving cars. Originating from a startup, the field is increasing in heat.
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Sandwich generation developing elder-care apps out of necessity
A growing number of Silicon Valley executives trapped in the sandwich generation are leaving the rat race to develop elder-care apps for their own parents.
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East Africa’s first e-Health conference to be held later this month
Kenya is set to host the first ever eHealth conference in East Africa later this month in Naivasha from June 22-26.
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How this SAAS solution keeps doctors in the mHealth loop
Some apps, combined with an Internet filled with health information, might give patients the illusion that they can manage their own medical care. But how do we, as patients, decide which app is best for us? Are these apps and other health supports—which may or may not accurately provide diagnoses—even vetted by physicians?
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DataVision Bill Gates On What is Likely to Kill Us
While defending ourselves against terrorism we may be missing the biggest threat - microbial outbreak. Bill Gates gave a TED talk in Spring 2015 on how we should prepare for danger.
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Startups Top 2015 Startups: Infectious Disease
Bill Gates made a call to action to get ready for the next epidemic - what are the top startups helping to deal with infectious disease?
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Three technologies to prevent medical errors and add important data for analytics
How can hospitals and providers bring down error rates? Here are three technologies that can help—and also add important data for use in other analyses.
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Coalition of mHealth companies mobilizes to bring aid to Nepal
A group of US-based non-profits and mHealth companies, led by Health eVillages, have joined the Real Medicine Foundation to provide relief to survivors in Nepal.
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Study: Majority of older adults willing to be screened for dementia by phone
Identifying memory difficulties and cognitive issues—although it can be a frightening prospect—is the first step toward treatment.
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Canadian study finds remote patient care reduces readmission rates
An Ernst & Young study commissioned by the Canada Health Infoway found that remote patient care benefits patients and the publicly-funded healthcare system.
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New, fingerprint drug test yields rapid results and big implications for healthcare
A simple fingerprint is all that’s needed to detect cocaine use, according to new research by a group of scientists from the University of Surrey Ion Beam Center and the Biomedical Research Center at Sheffield Hallam University. nuviun dug further, investigating what further implications this new tech may have for healthcare.
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Forget about mouse traps. Smarter breast pumps are on their way.
It’s clear there’s a market for smart, connected, more functional and discreet breast pumps that can deliver real-time data for breastfeeding moms. How fast they come to market is another question altogether.
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DataVision How an Ex-Google Employee is Changing Mental Health in Ireland
Ireland is beautiful, no doubt. But the mental health situation doesn't belong to its beauties. One man is on a mission: an immigrant and ex-google employee, who might have started to change an entire health system.
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FDA issues warning against medical device vulnerabilities
Health care facilities should protect themselves against security vulnerabilities found in two computerized drug infusion pumps manufactured by Hospira.
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When vaccines aren’t quite enough
Only months after many thought vaccines had rid Africa from meningitis, a new strain emerges, closing schools, and killing hundreds in Niger. There are seeds of hope, however, in innovations like the test from the Central India Institute of Medical Sciences.
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DataVision Mental Health vs. Hollowman: New Ways to Diagnose Mental Health
How a new computer assisted diagnostic approach could change how doctors diagnose mental health disorders.
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Will digital health put women’s health on the e-map?
Fempreneur Gabrielle Guthrie recently mused on the differences between women’s and men’s health, wondering if digital health will bridge the gap. So will it?
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Hospital workflow solutions from the frontlines
Nurses in NHS hospitals using Nugensis Health’s digital careflow solutions report having time for tea breaks. In the UK, this extra time with patients and the ability to take breaks couldn’t come at a better time.
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All Eyes on Digital Health
Digital Health seems to have exploded on take-off, but is imploding on landing. We have the technical capabilities to support healthcare without borders, expert patients, and digitization from head to toe... Why aren’t we there yet?
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Profiles in Digital Health Profiles in Digital Health: Andre Persidsky, Prana Tech
In contrast to many wearables which encourage us to be more active, Prana’s aim is to try and help wearers slow down and achieve an optimum mental and physiological state.
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Does Size Matter?
How big is big data? How we could run out of data storage capacity and how digital DNA storage might provide an answer.
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The Curious Case of Digital Health
What’s holding digital health back, when its future appears so bright? In this first of two articles, Lorena Macnaughtan starts from the very beginning, taking a look at the roots of the digital health movement.
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How the IoT could change the role of the home healthcare aide
In the world of connected devices—or the Internet of Things (IoT)—patients are able to maintain their independent lifestyles despite serious illnesses. While at HIMSS15, I had the opportunity to tour the iHome (also known as the Intelligent Medical Home). The 1,800 square-foot iHome housed a middle-aged man with congestive heart failure and his mother recovering from a broken hip (among other health issues)—both of whom required assistance in their homes—and their live-in home healthcare aide.
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Skyrocketing cancer burden in Mexico creates mHealth demand
A new big data study finds a skyrocketing cancer burden in Mexico, with most growth coming from the growing aging population. mHealth can help bridge access to care gaps and improve quality of life for patients, but not until digital devices and Internet access are less expensive, and designed specifically for seniors.
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Africa needs more digital health entrepreneurs and startups –Neto
In an exclusive interview with nuviun, Ikpeme Neto, founder of Nigeria-based Wella Health, provides his perspectives on the opportunities for digital health in Africa.
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Donor beware: ancestry DNA samples may be used against you
A US man was falsely suspected of murder after an online genealogy registry violated its own privacy policy to hand over DNA samples of his relatives to police.
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The (online) search for a few good docs
BetterDoctor, a Silicon Valley start-up, wants to ease the pain for patients seeking the right physician through a searchable website and mobile app.
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Growing trend: home health technology users to soar to 78.5M by 2020
Digital health definitely isn't a fad. The number of consumers using home health technologies is expected to skyrocket over the next four years.
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Study: Why key influencers might not win popularity contests
New study finds that peer-nominated influencers are more effective at bringing about health behavior change than people with the most social contacts.
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DataVision How Filthy Are You?
You have approximately the same weight of gut microbes as brain. For every 1 human cell in your body there are 10 microbes.
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Could digital telehealth change nursing, for the better?
In an interview with Patricia Slusser, RN, we discussed the differences between the RN’s role in a traditional, face-to-face doctor’s appointment and what her day is like as a caregiver and digital telehealth facilitator.
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Patient Room 2020 is on its way. More calming, connected care
Futuristic hospital rooms hint at being patient-centric, integrated, sensor-based organisms with all the right stuff, from monitoring to calming lighting.
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How search engines can make us sick
A new study found that online information seeking could lead to cyberchondria rather than to useful information for consumers.
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DataVision The Problem With Bad Air and What Startups Do To Offer New Solutions
Real time air pollutant maps could tell you what your air is like on your street. Here are three ways air monitoring could help us.
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DNA-based personality test may add new dimension to personalization in healthcare
Precision medicine heralds a new age in healthcare. A time when we move away from standardized treatments to personalized regimens, based in large part on DNA. But now along comes a new idea that may further personalize healthcare – DNA-based personality tests.
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Interoperability in America: What is the patient's role?
In a world where relationships are sustained over the years, across thousands of miles, through free social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, it is a bit hard to believe that access to our electronic medical records (EMR) is so limited to the hospitals or clinics where we receive care.
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Study: Cancer in 3D
A new study demonstrates the use of 3D cancer cultures called organoids in personalized drug screening.
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Tesla Powerwall could revolutionize digital health
If the end game of digital health is to leverage tech and create better, more affordable care, could solar-powered lithium-ion batteries be the tipping point?
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Why VR could be the next best thing in anxiety treatments
New relaxation techniques that use virtual reality (VR) may become a helpful tool in the fight against generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
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Digital Health Live in Dubai & Beyond
A short overview of the major digital health events this year to date, plus our experience at Digital Health Live 2015
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DataVision Get it Right: Grip More Important than Handshake!
Did you ever consider whether a strong hand shake could be useful for more than intimidating the person you shake hands with? Turns out, hand grip strength may be a better predictor of cardiovascular and noncardiovascular death than current methods that measure systolic blood pressure.
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Is telehealth the answer to the mental health crisis in the UK?
89% of UK patients get appointments within 90 days of referral to mental health services. What if there were a less expensive way to reach more patients in less time? Is telehealth psychology's best-kept secret?
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10 new things we learned about digital healthcare from the World Economic Forum
Since 2001, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has published a detailed annual study which assesses how economies around the world are harnessing ICT to promote economic growth and well-being.
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Telesurgery robots can be hacked says university study
Telesurgery via robots is the answer to many people’s prayers, doctors and patients included. However, a new study shows they can be toyed with from afar.
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Women in MedTech Group Launches at MassMEDIC Forum
The first-ever Women in MedTech event launched last week in Waltham, MA as 125 women gathered for a MassMEDIC-sponsored forum titled "Disruptive Technologies"
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DataVision Can a health junkie and a coffee drinker be friends?
Coffee had a bad reputation among health geeks for a long time. Now it's time to look at some evidence, and redraw the picture.
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Immunotherapy: Because colorectal cancer is personal
New research from the UK takes personalized medicine to the next level: combining immunotherapy with more traditional treatments and treating colorectal cancer on a genetic level.
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1DocWay telepsychiatry brings virtual couch to rural patients
A telepsychiatry start-up called 1DocWay is helping mental health patients in rural areas access treatment while helping hospitals tap into a new market.
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DataVision Why An AI Robot Wanted to Kill Me
Sometimes humans get so efficient that it’s pointless. Cue, nuclear war. Could artificial intelligence (AI) be the next example?
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Machine learning to reduce insurance premiums, improve patient experience
Payers, patients and providers will all see many benefits from widespread use of big data and machine learning across the entire healthcare ecosystem.
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Will 'Tatoo-Gate' take a bite out of the Apple Watch launch?
Word that the new Apple Watch heart rate monitor malfunctions on people with wrist tattoos has irked consumers fond of ink on skin.
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Will accessible healthcare technology disrupt current delivery models?
With the increasing availability of accessible healthcare technology, do the current healthcare delivery models stand to be disrupted?
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Are there healthcare processes technology cannot (easily) replace in Africa?
Healthcare professionals in Africa identify simple healthcare processes they believe would very difficult for any form of technology to replace.
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IBM's SoftLayer Joins HealthXL Network to Extend Health IT Innovation
Through HealthXL, IBM's SoftLayer Plans to Unlock the Potential of the Health IT Market
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Patient disengagement: Is gaming the answer?
It seems that most of us are so busy working at sedentary jobs and caring for family members that exercise isn’t a priority. Or perhaps we feel the need to be entertained and traditional exercise is, well, boring. As part of the HX360 meeting for start-ups at HIMSS15, leaders from several gaming companies met to discuss ways in which they can make exercise more exciting.
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Digital Health Live 2015 - Kick Off & Day One
Digital Health Live 2015 - letting you immerse yourself in the future of healthcare through digital health.
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Apollo Hospitals Joins HealthXL to Collaborate with Clinical Providers
Through HealthXL, Apollo Hospitals, Asia’s foremost healthcare services group, aims to collaborate with American and European clinical providers to further pos
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Digital Health at Home: Day Two at DHL2015
Day two of the Digital Health Live Conference in Dubai has been packed with health innovation and smart applications. We included a snapshot of the some of the most important smart innovations below.
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Nosta & Friends Nosta & Friends: Christian Assad, MD—Using Virtual Reality in Interventional Cardiology
In this edition of Nosta & Friends, John Nosta welcomes Christian Assad, MD—who is a champion of using VR as a game-changer in medicine.
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British Doctor Uses Augmented Reality to Help 4.8 Billion People to Access Surgery
Interview with Dr. Shafi Ahmed about how to give the majority access to safe surgeries.
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John Sculley - The Uber-isation of Healthcare
John Sculley, ex-CEO of Apple and Pepsi, and also health technology investor, gave his view on healthcare inequality and how smartphones could maybe build more equality and healthcare access in developing countries. We interviewed him at the Digital Health Live conference in Dubai today, where he spoke about the future of healthcare.
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What If You Could Get Diagnosed Before Getting Sick? Exponential Medicine
An interview with Dr Daniel Kraft about stage zero diagnosis
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Is health information at the heart of patient engagement?
This is the last of a series of two articles, based on interviews with Regina Holliday, on patient access to health information. Patient access to their health information was a hot topic at HIMSS15 and an issue that will continue to evolve along with health IT.
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DataVision WIRED Health 2015: Startups Delivering Solutions
Five interviews with innovators at WIRED Health 2015: nuviun investigated why they do what they do and how technology is involved.
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Patient access to health data: It’s all or nothing
As the HIMSS15 dust settles in Chicago, the thoughts of attendees like myself who may have been overwhelmed by the sheer size and utter busy-ness of the conference are beginning to settle into some interesting thoughts about the business of health care, the roles of mHealth, patient portals, and data ownership. This is the first in a series of two articles about open access to data.
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MU’s Meaningless Marriage: Don’t Patients and Providers Want to Be Engaged?
What does the under-use of patient portal technology signal about the patient-provider relationship?
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DataVision Walking, The Latest Wonder Drug?
There’s a new single treatment for almost all chronic diseases. It’s free. It’s proven to be as effective, if not more effective, than mainstream drugs for multiple major killers. The treatment? Walking.
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Health insurance goes mobile in Nigeria
Just like other aspects of healthcare, the high mobile penetration rate in Nigeria has presented another opportunity for stakeholders in the health insurance sub-sector to achieve NHIS’ goal of health insurance coverage for every Nigerian.
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Where healthcare data democratization, consumerization and provider control collide
Healthcare providers are no longer keepers of the data; here’s what that loss of control means and what to do about it.
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DataVision Mapping Mental Health - How Technology Could Open A Window
How could tech help combat mental health problems?
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Digital health cyber threats study to examine data breaches
Imagine having all of your private health information hacked into by cyber terrorists. With EHR and Health IT rising, cyber health hacking is a very real threat.
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The Power of the Crowd: Crowdsourcing Crisis Relief
The race to fill this information gap in Nepal is on. The 7.8-magnitude quake has killed more than 5,000 people already and disaster relief efforts are kicking into action to prevent further deaths.
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Data Integrity Makes List of ECRI's Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2015
A U.S. patient safety think tank, the ECRI Institute, has released its 2015 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations, and data integrity makes the list.
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Profiles in Digital Health Profiles in Digital Health: FrontlineSMS
In 2015, FrontlineSMS celebrates its tenth birthday. Damian Radcliffe spoke to Sean Martin McDonald, the CEO of FrontlineSMS, about their first decade.
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Trading Conflict for Synergy: The New Normal for Oncology and Palliative Care
Should we defend the status quo in the face of the demographic tsunami of aging Baby Boomers, the unsustainable stratospheric costs of cancer care, and the challenges and dissatisfaction of our cancer patients and colleagues when we simply want the best for all involved?
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Beyond the Boardroom: The Business of Innovation Requires New Strategies for Success
In today's business environment, the ability to effectively connect What-You-Know to Who-You-Know, the buyers in your market, have become the keys to business development success—and new strategies are needed to get it right.
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Is This the Most Powerful Clinical Research Tool Ever Invented?
Much has been written over the past few months about Apple ResearchKit and its potential to completely revolutionize R&D; in the life sciences industry. The idea is simple. And it got me thinking; is the iPhone the most powerful clinical research tool ever invented?
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State-of-the-art digital image repository of patient tissue announced
Philips and Mount Sinai Health System in New York are working on a new digital pathology database tool that advances clinical research for diseases like cancer.
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Personal Predictive Models: Could Clinical Analytics be Consumerized, Too?
Just as the consumerization of healthcare is upon us, perhaps the consumerization of predictive modeling could grow to meet the demands of the public for their own good.
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DataVision The Problem Medical Research Has With Genomics
Why medical research still seems to be miles away from using genomics for large-scale breakthroughs, and why open source might be a solution to accelerate things.
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Can germ-zapping robots kill superbugs in hospitals? Apparently so.
Star Wars-style robots that can clean better than your mother, and stop super bugs in their tracks, are cleaning up in hospitals across North America.
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Cleveland Clinic, HealthXL & HealthBeacon Launch Collaboration
HealthXL and its partners launch research collaboration to revolutionize the management of self injectable medication at home.
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Telemedicine Cuts Costs and Improves Outcomes in Chronic Disease Management
In our “Digital Health in Action” series, we focus on specific examples from each sector to show what an impact digital health is making on healthcare across the world. Here, we look at the use of telemedicine in chronic disease management.
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Power to the patient, and other themes from HIMSS15
With 43,129 attendees – from physicians to social media managers – all of them passionate about health IT, the energy (in terabytes) was palpable at last week’s annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference.
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Watson Health fuels precision medicine, breaks healthcare data silos
Watson Health is developing a cloud-based database of anonymous health data to benefit researchers and fuel precision medicine.
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Beyond Launch: Why Scale-up is the Secret to Start-up Success
No venture can grow without talent, and the two basic types of talent needed—strong employers and strong employees—must evolve together.
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Nurses Step Up to the Global Health IT Plate
Cognizant of their critical influence in healthcare, nurses are taking a more active role in health IT leadership and implementations around the world.
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How Gamification Improves Health and Health Education Outcomes in Children
Scientific evidence supports the use of active video games to promote a range of health and health education-related outcomes in children. Even sedentary games produce tangible outcomes in asthma- and diabetes-related behavioral changes in children.
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Profiles in Digital Health ENTROPY BE GONE!...Enter John Nosta, Renaissance Man
In her profile of Digital Health Philosopher John Nosta, Gisele Waters, PhD, describes a nootropic prescription for the entropy, silence, ruts, and obscurity in digital health and medicine.
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On trend: connected adult briefs help aging society manage incontinence
Sensassure, an early stage start-up that helps caregivers know when seniors need incontinence care, could be a geriatric gamechanger and a real money saver.
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The Automation of Healthcare: 10 Questions We Should Ask about the Use of Clinical Analytics
Predictive modeling and clinical analytics will eventually rule the healthcare roost—and we must ensure that a framework for safe and ethical use is created as it inevitably does.
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Study: The Competitive Dynamics of Online Fundraising
A new study, published today in Current Biology, digs into the competitive nature of online fundraising—and the link between visual effects and the wallet.
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Google Maps for Human Joints: A Cellular Look at Osteoarthritis
Researchers from UNSW in Australia are using previously top-secret semiconductor technology to zoom in on aging joints at a cellular level.
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HIMSS survey indicates mobile is gaining traction in Health IT
Mobile technologies appear to be critical to the healthcare industry’s shift to patient-centered, value-based care, according to the 2015 HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey. Released yesterday at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago, the online survey finds that 90% of the 238 health IT decision makers claim their organizations use mobile technology to engage patients.
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MIT student creates therapeutic social network for depression
More than 800,000 people die from suicide attempts each year, according to the WHO. Will a new social network and app for depression help save lives?
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There's No Place Like HIMSS
There’s no place like HIMSS – no other place where the business of healthcare seems so… business-y.
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New algorithm to predict clinical response to anti-cancer drugs
Traditional medicine is often based on trial and error in patient care. We know from decades of experience that any given drug will work miracles in some patients and poorly or not at all in others. Variances in the disease also affect drug efficacy. For example, certain cancer tumors respond well to chemotherapy, while others build up a resistance over time. What we haven’t known is how to predict drug outcomes in advance of putting the patient through the regimen. But thanks to new developments, including and most especially big data analytics, that’s about to change.
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The ONC Identifies 3 Roadblocks on the Health Information Highway
Given the speed and relative ease with which information flows these days, you’d think that physicians would be able to talk to each other about a patient without much ado. There are many roadblocks on the health information highway, however, according to a report to Congress released Friday by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).
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HIMSS Survey Identifies Top 5 Business Issues Impacting Patient Care Delivery
Patient engagement is top-of-mind among health information technology leaders, according to the 26th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, released today at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago.
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Stroke-fighting Watchman wins approval after years of FDA roadblocks
Boston Scientific has finally won FDA approval for its Watchman implantable that helps reduce strokes in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.
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The status of telemedicine in Africa
Even though much progress is needed, there's still a lot of activity currently around telemedicine efforts in Africa.
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The Democratization of Medicine and the Two-Party System
Digital health philosopher and nuviun strategic advisor John Nosta teams up with nuviun’s Senior Content Editor and 30-year nurse Sue Montgomery to provide their unique perspectives on healthcare’s two-party system.
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What Pew's new global attitudes research means for digital health providers
The Pew Research Center's new report provides some key insights into the use of technology across the globe for those involved in digital health.
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When Robots Replace Doctors
Being a doctor with a passion for technology hasn't been easy in recent years with all the talk of computers replacing us. But is the threat real?
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Asthma Management Program Uses Big Data to Help Louisville Residents Breathe a Bit Easier
The first signs of spring signaled the start of AIR Louisville, a collaborative big-data project that uses digital health technology to track and improve asthma symptoms over time.
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Nosta & Friends Nosta & Friends: Martino Chiaviello—How Digital Health Partnerships Will Change the World
In this edition of Nosta & Friends, I welcome my friend Martino Chiaviello, a creative thinker and brand-builder in the life science arena. Tino is a well-respected creative director and self-proclaimed technology geek. He’s my kinda guy!
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Digital Health’s Growing Conundrum: The Ethics of Everything
Black or white is a luxury, and gray is increasingly the color of the day when it comes to our rapid advances in medicine and healthcare.
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Rapid expansion in China's mobile health market
China faces a challenge of service delivery, and one way to address this is technology. With 1.2 bn mobiles for 1.4 bn people potential for mHealth is huge.
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Open Humans matches volunteer healthcare data with researchers
Researchers are using big data tools to find new treatments, cures, and diagnostic tests every day. But sometimes their efforts are foiled, or at least made more complicated, by privacy rules and concerns.
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Hot flash news flash: Hand-held Menopod helps stop hot flashes cold
The Menopod is a discreet, digital cooling device that helps women put the kibosh on hot flashes. The device puts relief in the palm of their hands. Hallelujah!
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M&A; Heats Up in Digital Health
Everyday Health acquires Cambridge BioMarketing Group, perhaps a sign of the M&A; that lies ahead in digital health.
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Your Adolescent, on Devices: The Pediatrician Weighs In
Do you know what “kids are doing these days”? Do you monitor YouTube and Facebook and Twitter? Well, if you’ve got a tween or teen, in particular, you should.
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VR technology removes obstacles when it matters most: World's first live-streamed birth
Samsung Gear VR shines a light in the depths of Western Australian mines, bringing a father together with his family for the world’s first live-streamed birth that he would have otherwise missed.
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What Solutions Do Vendor-Neutral Hubs Offer for the Interoperability Quagmire?
Vendor-neutral hubs have achieved a certain level of interoperability between multiple healthcare entities with simplicity and reduced cost.
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Arkansas flip flops on law supporting telemedicine
After rejecting a bill that would have allowed telemedicine companies to set up shop in Arkansas, state legislators passed another bill to allow it. Sort of.
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Big Data Study Brings Us One Step Closer to Understanding Autism
University of Warwick big data study isolates differences between autistic and non-autistic brains.
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How much is your health data worth?
As Digital Health evolves, there will be more data that can be collected about you and your health—and the collective value of that data is of increasing interest—not just to medical researchers, but to anyone with an interest in health.
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Study: Wireless sensors help lower staph infections in hospitals
French scientists have turned to digital health for a possible solution to the spread of antibiotic-resistant staph infections in hospitals and elsewhere.
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Study Links Climate Change to a Potential Upsurge in Some of the World's Deadliest Diseases
For a tiny little bug, the mosquito is attracting a great deal of attention from scientists around the world. For many in the developed world, the insect is known as a persistent and pesky nuisance. But for those living in more tropical climates, the mosquito is a carrier, or vector, of some of the world’s deadliest diseases.
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DataVision Fertile ground: 27 Infant & Female Health Startups Going Wild In 2015
A list of the world’s top 27 digital infant and female health tech startups for 2015.
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If You Gots the Poison, I Gots the Remedy: A Lesson for Digital Health
One of the biggest challenges we have today in digital health is the absence of scientific proof that products do what they claim to do. There is an amazing abundance of discovery, invention, and marketing, but an entirely unsatisfying amount of evidence—the data that would prove the claims are fact-based.
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3 Must-Have Health Apps to Combat Chronic Stress
Studies indicate that stress management training has a long-term positive effect on health. Despite this, many of us feel we don't have time for – or can't afford – traditional psychotherapy. With digital health, however, stress relief is but a *free* app away.
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INFOGRAPHIC: Why Innovation is Needed in Global Mental Health
In global mental health, innovation could mean the difference between life and death.
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Using Big Data to Predict and Plan for Future Healthcare Crises
Most conversations around big data in healthcare center on improving patient care or sharpening the business. We’ve also discussed, in this blog at least, how to use big data to spur innovation and adapt to disruption. But there’s another key use that rarely comes up: predicting future health crises.
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In Digital Health, What’s Your Plan B?
In Digital Health everything changes. Entrepreneurs have to navigate the well-known and the unknown to bring their ideas to life.
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Don’t Wait to Exhale: This Sensor Detects Cancer in Your Breath
Vantage mHealthcare, a New York-based health sensor development company, is developing a hand-held sensor capable of detecting lung cancer through breath analysis in order to facilitate earlier, more convenient, and cost-effective screenings for lung cancer.
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Fitness wearable Bia goes under citing poor investment and capital
At a time when the wearable market seems to be exploding, it’s hard to imagine that a top selling fitness wearable could actually go under. Yet it has. But why?
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Power to the Patient: The Role of Portal Technology in Changing the Patient-Provider Relationship
Momentum for the patient empowerment movement continues to grow, and will escalate as baby boomers and their higher expectations transition into the senior years.
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The Power of Social Media: Do Sentiment Analytics Reflect Hospital Quality?
Hospital ratings on social media correlate with traditionally accepted measures of hospital quality, such as 30-day readmission rates, according to a recent study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
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Nosta & Friends: Dave Albert, MD—The Heartbeat Behind AliveCor
In this edition of Nosta & Friends, John visits with his friend, Dr. Dave Albert—Chief Medical officer of AliveCor, and the innovator behind its groundbreaking and potentially life-saving technology.
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DataVision The Angelina Jolie Pitt Cancer Story
A Story for the Masses: Precision Medicine (& Genetic Sequencing) and Why Knowledge is Power.
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Scientists Foresee Implanted “Cortical Modem” for Restoring Sight
Optogenetics update: A tiny implantable the size of two stacked coins could restore sight or provide a heads-up display for Terminator-style vision
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5 Questions Every Health Innovator Should Ask
Innovators are frequently in such a hurry to get their product to market that important implementation planning steps receive only cursory attention. Believe it or not, there’s a science for that.
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Genome sequencing: What do patients think?
Through an online engagement project,