SPOTLIGHT -
The Clinical Divide: Ensuring Top Treatment for Stroke Victims
What can physicians and healthcare executives do to ensure stroke victims are receiving high-quality, expedient treatment?
Optimizing Physician Workflow to Minimize Burnout
Why health IT must consider physicians in the design stage.
It's Time to Help Our Healthcare Providers
This is the first letter in a series designed to promote physician and clinician healing in the digital transformation.
Mobile Machine-Learning Program Predicts Autism with High Accuracy
The system uses home videos and human video raters to diagnose children with autism.
Blockchain Technology: A Foundation for the Future of Healthcare?
Health information exchange, data security and healthcare all might benefit from blockchain technology.
Bright Health Raises $200M, Continuing Strong Year for Digital Health Insurers
The health insurer’s funding round signals confidence in the industry’s attempt at disruption.
CRISPR Baby Outrage Grows, Fueling Calls for Prosecution, Bans
Though many find He Jiankui’s gene-editing experiment unethical, there is still no proof that he did it.
Inside a First-of-its-Kind Telemedicine Accreditation Program
Can ClearHealth Quality Institute’s telemedicine accreditation program fill an important gap in a rapidly growing sector?
CRISPR Babies Spark Ethical Concerns
Experts and watchdogs say the birth of twins with genetically modified DNA represents precision medicine gone wrong.
Finding mHealth Apps that Doctors Can Trust
Now that mHealth apps are flooding the market, clinicians and health systems must understand their benefits and detriments.
How Anthem Foundation Uses Data, Population Health Techniques to Target Major Issues
Social mapping technology and public health data help the group choose which nonprofits to fund.
Driving Improved Access and Reimbursement While Delivering Better Care
4 reasons to be hopeful for the future of virtual care.
Carving a Path Toward Healthcare Equity: The Surge of Public Investment in Digital Health
Patients in rural communities could benefit most from greater healthcare access. But challenges remain.
New AMA Policy to Help Identify Physician Burnout, Reduce Suicide
Physician burnout and suicide are major issues in the healthcare industry. But how does technology play a part in these trends, and what can technology do to decrease them?
Can mHealth Apps and Text Messages Get Teens to Exercise?
The power of mHealth solutions remains in question, a new study finds.
Mobile Videoconferencing Linked with Reduced Stress, Increased Productivity in Employees
A new study suggests that an mHealth app for mental health counseling is as effective as in-person therapy.
FDA Allows Emergency Use of First Rapid, Portable Ebola Test
The portable reader enables the test to deliver diagnostic results where patients are, leveraging data to jumpstart care in Ebola-stricken areas.
Leaders Weigh In on Solutions for Physician Burnout
Janae Sharp talks to four experts about which steps healthcare leaders can take to fight physician burnout.
FDA Targets Unapproved Genetic Tests Claiming to Predict Medication Response
The regulator issued a warning to providers and patients just one day after approving a 23andMe direct-to-consumer test regarding medication metabolism.
Ambulatory Surgery Centers Are High-Quality, Low-Cost Key for Outpatient Procedures
Data from a new ratings system will show the efficacy and efficiency of ambulatory surgery centers, according to this expert.
23andMe Secures FDA Approval for First DTC Genetic Test for Medication Metabolism
The company’s Personal Genome Service Pharmacogenetic Reports test analyzes 33 variants of several genes.
AMA Slates $15M to Innovate Physician Residency
The Reimagining Residency initiative comes at a time when demands on doctors are changing and physician burnout is roaring.
Augmented Reality Allows Specialists to Provide Care in Remote Locations
How a new AR system fosters direct care on battlefields and in natural disaster zones and rural areas with the help of on-site medical “mentees.”
5 Stories that Highlight the Power and Problems of Digital Health
What you need to know about Bose’s connected hearing aids, mHealth apps and health tech’s power to help patients and physicians.
Stop-Smoking Digital Health Company Carrot Earns $25M
Johnson & Johnson Innovation led the round, which will help Carrot commercialize its smoking cessation platform.
Cellphones Can Boost Patient-Centered Care, Drug Adherence Rates
7 roles mHealth can play in boosting medication adherence.
Drug Delivery Wearables Company on Path to $50M Round
Sanofi’s investment in Enable Injections signals hope in high-tech medication adherence.
There's a Prescription App for That? Digital Therapeutics on the Rise
Why digital therapeutics could become more significant to patients and healthcare providers.
Bose, an FDA Approval and the Changing High-Tech Hearing Aid Market
Bose’s medical device allows users to self-adjust the levels using a smartphone, highlighting how the digital transformation is touching hearing aids.
Why the Future of Digital Health Must Be Simple
Health tech needs to meet patients where they are: on their smartphones and smartwatches.
