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Apple reveals newest app. Could it change health care?
Dan Diamond, Managing Editor After months of anticipation, Apple on Monday unveiled its new Health app, its cloud-based information platform known as “HealthKit,” and a slew of new partnerships with Epic Systems, Mayo Clinic, and a number of other hospitals. The open question: Will Apple’s big play for the health care market end up changing […]
Healthcare’s Wearable Revolution: Hot Market
Dan Carroll, Motley Fool The next health care blockbuster may be closer than you think. The best investors consistently reap gigantic profits by recognizing true potential earlier and more accurately than anyone else. Let me cut right to the chase: There is a product in development that will revolutionize not how we treat a common […]
How Urgency Will Save Hospitals
By Todd Campbell, In the next five years the number of urgent care clinics operating across the United States is expected to surge to 12,000, up from about 10,000 today. Many of those clinics will be owned by hospital chains like HCA (NYSE: HCA ) and Tenet Healthcare (NYSE: THC ) which are struggling to grow earnings […]
Top E Healthcare Technology Trends for 2014
What is trending in healthcare technology as we approach 2014? Technology is an ever-changing paradigm, but some issues simply keep rising to the top. The mobile revolution continues, and patient involvement and engagement in their own healthcare is on the rise. It is becoming imperative to improve not only the patient, but also the caregiver […]
Can Twitter Help Healthcare?
Twitter turns seven today and to mark the occasion here are seven reasons why healthcare professionals should be on Twitter. #1. You can build trust in and raise awareness of your healthcare messages #2. Many medical journals now use Twitter to release their latest content #3. It’s easy to interact with established and potentials colleagues […]
BYOD Invades the Operating Room
By Stacey Higginbotham. Much like enterprises are using more consumer technology (or consumer-like) technology, hospitals are also trying to figure out how shifts in user interfaces, voice recognition and other developments should make their way into their treatments. While the medical profession has a reputation for being somewhat stodgy, there are hints it is looking […]
iPads and Kids in the Emergency Room: Less Scary
A trip to the emergency room is a scary experience when you’re a kid. First of all you’re hurt or sick. That’s bad enough, but then you come to a strange place where doctors and nurses in funny outfits start poking and prodding and asking confusing questions.
Does Your Doctor Like Technology? Social Media?
Technology Paneldiscussed the ways in which new technologies are contributing to the patient/physician relationship. The panel which included Denise Silber (founder of Doctors 2.0), Jamie Tripp Utitus (MS survivor and health blogger) and Renza Sciblia (diabetes consumer and health blogger) Relationships in medicine are as important now as they were in the past. The difference is that today’s […]
