At the recent Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, the company revealed their new Health app and and HealthKit platform, to be released as part of iOS 8 this fall. Together, they will aggregate users’ health information and make it easier to … Read More
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Net Neutrality and TeleHealth
A battle is raging over net neutrality that threatens to reach the magnitude of the SOPA/PIPA debacle of 2011. Net neutrality is the concept that all data from content providers (companies like Netflix and Google) are treated equally by internet … Read More
Should Medicine be on Social Media?
The Mayo Clinic broke from established research publishing procedure by using Twitter to announce the upcoming release of an article on Celiac Disease—in 2009. Staff tracked followers’ response to the Tweet and used this information to distribute the study to … Read More
Health Online: The Medical Community’s First Use of the Internet
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
Moving Forward with mHealth
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 Affordable Care Act Gives Telehealth a Boost
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
Google Glass in Medicine: Revolutionary Technology
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
mHealth in Rural Developing Areas Offers Enormous Potential
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
How Will Heartbleed Affect Medical Information Technology?
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