Healthcare IT News Staff
User experience should be at the forefront of medical device development, according to a new report.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida has announced the release of its first Florida Blue mobile app for the iPhone and Android smartphones, designed to provide members with general health information, tools to manage their own health and details about their benefits.
Physicians in the BRIC region - Russia and India in particular - are incorporating social networks and online communities into their professional resource mix. This trend is likely due in part to user-generated content from peers filling a gap in the availability of online clinical resources in some of these high growth pharma markets, according to a new study from Manhattan Research.
As it addresses an "explosive growth of medical information," IBM has expanded its Health Analytics Solution Center - with team members working to increase and improve remote EHR connectivity through new "Watson"-like analytics power.
A new personal health record platform set to launch this summer aims at giving parents anytime, anywhere access to a comprehensive view of their children's health records.
A new poll from CDW, a provider of technology products and services to business, government, education and healthcare, shows a promising forecast for cloud computing adoption by the healthcare industry.
A new center that aims to develop technologies that will help to improve the access and cost of healthcare delivery is being launched by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.MIT announced the creation of the Medical Electronic Device Realization Center (MEDRC), in collaboration with Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) and GE Global Research.The new center will aim to create revolutionary improvements in multiple areas of the medical industry, including electronic devices, diagnostics and treatments, and technologies to enable information-driven health-care systems.
As it seeks to help members who have been diagnosed with diabetes better control their condition and avoid complications, Aetna has launched a program through which members will receive educational text messages, reminding them about screenings and tests, and offering tips on healthy eating and exercising."Managing a chronic condition like diabetes has to fit in and keep pace with today's increasingly busy lifestyles," said Kyra Bobinet, MD, medical director of health and wellness innovation for Aetna.
More than 4,400 physicians have enlisted in an initiative - launched by QuantiaMD, the online physician community, and the Society of Hospital Medicine (SMH), which represents hospitalists - that's focused on helping high-risk patients achieve better outcomes and avoid preventable readmissions. QuantiaMD and SMH created the initiative in conjunction with a joint study that found that more than nine out of ten clinicians believe reducing readmissions is an important topic, but few have the resources at hand to tackle it.
Technical advancement in the remote patient monitoring market is one of the key factors that is expected to contribute to its growth over the next couple of years, according to a new report. The report conducted by TechNavio and released by MarketResearch.com reveals that the global patient monitoring system market will reach $9.3 billion in 2014. The report focuses on United States, EMEA, and APAC.