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With all the recent advances in eHealth, it may seem as if the internet has only recently become an important tool in health care. In fact, the medical community has been sharing information online since the earliest years of the … Read More

  The days when physicians made regular house calls are long gone in Western medicine, traded for the efficiency of centralized hospitals and clinics. Modernizing medicine has involved compromise, however, sometimes at the expense of patient care. Today, mHealth technology … Read More

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, affects not only how healthcare is paid for, but also how that care is provided. As the ACA shifts reimbursement structures to incentivize better patient care with more … Read More

The smart glasses market is predicted to grow rapidly, with two million devices shipping this year and increasing growth in coming years, according to ABI Research. While widespread consumer use may still be years away, the medical community has expressed … Read More

Modern medicine is rapidly evolving with the advent of mHealth (mobile health) technologies. In advanced healthcare systems, the mobile revolution offers the opportunity to improve quality of care, patient outcomes, efficiency, and the patient experience. In the developing world, however, … Read More

The tech world is still reeling from the April 7th revelation of a security vulnerability affecting hundreds of thousands of secure servers. The source of the vulnerability, known as Heartbleed, is a bug in OpenSSL, an open-source encryption software. The … Read More

As the healthcare industry embraces the cutting edge of information technology, a mobile device has become a more valuable tool for most doctors than the venerable stethoscope. Healthcare apps have popped up to support every aspect of the industry. Here … Read More