Bernie Monegain
The automaker's SYNC technology, used to integrate mobile health tools and functions, is highlighted at a Tuesday morning HIT X.0 session at HIMSS13
The new report indicates patient monitoring technology is drawing "keen interest" from venture capital firms seeking to address the growing aging and chronic care populations.
Wellocracy, described as a new self-help movement for health and wellness that employs technology to motivate participants and help them reach their goals, launched at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Jan. 8 with an online community and the first in a planned series of e-books.
The deal gives athenahealth a ready-made mobile platform for physicians, while Epocrates gains an EHR platform.
The chief of the cardiology department at 400-bed Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida has developed software for controlling heart devices remotely using an iPad, The hospital's executives say the technology could revolutionize the way physicians reprogram pacemakers.
SweetSpot Diabetes Care, a Portland, Ore.-based company, will remotely monitor blood glucose levels in veterans with diabetes, beginning with a pilot in Dayton, Ohio.
States and communities nationwide will receive more than $103M from the federal government to help combat chronic illness, pegged as the leading cause of death in Americans. The money is aimed at developing new programs and providing technical assistance.Most chronic disease programs employ information technology as a means of tracking patient conditions and reporting to statewide and national registries.
The world market for telehealth is set to exceed $1 billion by 2016 and could jump to $6 billion in 2020, according to a new report from InMedica, the medical electronics market research group within IMS Research.
Boston-based American Well and Numera, headquartered in Seattle will collaborate to deliver health monitoring information directly into live online encounters between physicians and patients.The initiative brings together American Well's Online Care Suite telehealth solution and Numera's NumeraNET gateway.
The global telemedicine market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 19 percent, driven mainly by growth opportunities in Europe, according to a recent report by Technavio, specialists in emerging technologies market research. The report covers the Americas as well as the EMEA and APAC regions.