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Robots Let Doctors ‘Beam’ into Remote US Hospitals
The doctor isn’t in, but he can still see you now. Hospitals in the U.S. are now using telemedicine robots to leverage the specialists they have better and more efficiently. Via the robot, the doctor can see, hear and speak to the patient, and have access to clinical data and medical images. The robot has […]
Industry To Watch In 2014: Healthcare Tech
by Iiya Pozin Healthcare is miles behind the curve when it comes to technological innovation, an industry that historically has not been easy to innovate for. This month’s implementation of Obamacare, however, is just one of several macro trends in the space that could well create “the perfect storm” for entrepreneurship, positioning healthcare tech as […]
Healthcare Predictive Analytics and the HIPAA Omnibus Rule
By Ed Burns — Healthcare predictive analytics holds so much promise: The technology could help hospitals understand which patients are most likely to need follow-up care, therefore reducing readmissions. It could also assist primary care doctors in managing large patient populations with diverse illnesses. “In the real world, data doesn’t move for free very often. […]
How useful are patient portals for increasing patient engagement?
Posted by Ella Buitenman | November 27, 2013 Lately we hear a lot about so called ‘patient portals’. On November 12th we had a conference about elderly care in the Netherlands. Patient portals were mentioned. A few days later an article about the portal MijnGezondheid.net appeared on a Dutch website about ehealth. The most obvious reason for […]
What do people want from health apps?
A survey of 250 patient and consumer groups Brought to you by PatientView During May to June 2013, PatientView undertook a pilot survey of 250 disparate patient and consumer groups worldwide. The aim was to determine the qualities people seek in their health apps, learn which of these qualities is the most important, and find […]
Survey: Consumers willing to switch doctors for medical data access
A recent survey shows that a large number of US consumers (41 percent) are willing to switch doctors in order to get complete access to their medical records. And patient education and increased patient engagement is to blame for this. Doctors, although are not showing the same enthusiasm. The survey covered over 9000 people in […]
Social Media Policies for Physicians
By: Brandon Glenn Social media guidelines for physicians frequently focus on the need for doctors to separate their personal from their professional identities, but those types of policies get social media all wrong, according to a viewpoint recently published in JAMA. Instead, the viewpoint’s authors suggest a simpler, more straightforward means for physicians to assess […]
Trends in Cloud Computing
Increasingly small and medium businesses are employing Cloud Computing, a relatively new term referring to scalable, virtualized computing resources available on the Internet
