Imagine this: you’ve been catching up with your mHealth news, answering some emails, and working on that report due next week. But after a couple hours, it gets harder to focus on your work. You’re vision is a little blurry … Read More
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New activity tracker for a niche sport
Activity tracking wearable devices are one of the fastest growing tech categories, according to a 2016 report from the Consumer Technologies Association. Based on CTA’s survey, 20 percent of U.S. households now own an activity tracking wearable, and 15 percent … Read More
Get Your Next Eye Exam on Your Laptop
Opternative is a Chicago-based startup that launched in 2012 and now offers the first online refractive eye exam. With $40 and no trip to the doctor, patients aged 18-40 can get a signed prescription for glasses or contacts. While Opternative … Read More
Encouraging Doctors to Embrace mHealth
As EHRs become the norm, with 97 percent of U.S. hospitals now using certified EHR technology, how can physicians maximize time with patients? We discuss this in further detail on athenahealth’s CloudView Blog. You can read the full article here: http://www.athenahealth.com/blog/2016/07/01/maximizing-physician-time … Read More
Ten Important Moments on the Path to Precision Medicine
We’ve come a long way since Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, presented his research on experiments in plant hybridization in 1865. The Augustinian monk spent years crossing pea plant varieties in a monastery garden in the Czech Republic. … Read More
A Big Year for Precision Medicine
Geisinger’s MyCode Community Health initiative recently reached its goal of enrolling 100,000 participants, marking a major milestone for precision medicine. The news comes just months after the White House announced important pilot projects that move the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative … Read More
Are There Better Ways to Price Medicare Drugs?
Prescription drug spending is rising fast and the Obama administration has proposed a plan to test new ways of pricing drugs covered under Medicare part B. National spending on prescription drugs was about $457 billion last year, nearly 17 percent … Read More
A ‘Magic Wand’ for mHealth Security Concerns
Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a ‘magic wand’ to wave away concerns about mHealth data security. The device called ‘Wanda’ uses radio waves to securely link mobile health devices in hospitals, clinics and the home. Wanda addresses a growing … Read More
Pigeons Elevate Wearable Air Quality Monitors
In March a flock of ten trained pigeons wearing air quality ‘backpacks’ took flight across London to launch a novel air pollution monitoring campaign. The backpacks detected nitrogen dioxide and ozone, two main gases that make urban air pollution so … Read More
What is the Internet of Things? (and why does it matter for healthcare?)
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term first used in 1999 to describe a phenomenon that has since become commonplace: machine-to-machine communication using wireless technology. Healthcare IoT has huge potential to disrupt the industry while raising questions about data … Read More