SPOTLIGHT -
September 2nd 2021
Virtual care can reduce healthcare disparities even after the pandemic ends.
August 26th 2021
Rural populations have the opportunity to leverage telemedicine to improve health outcomes.
August 25th 2021
The interventions are especially helpful for patients in rural and underserved populations.
August 12th 2021
Although the world is very much still in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, a panel of experts tackled lessons learned so far.
April 21st 2021
Twistle's CEO, Kulmeet Singh, says he's come up with a reliable way to measure return on investment for his company's remote monitoring software solutions.
Wearable Data Can Help Change Behavior to Keep Blood Pressure Down
How researchers used a Fitbit to influence behavior change.
Creating Intelligent Computing: A Conversation with Rosalind Picard
Health-tech KOL Janae Sharp talks the brain, wearables and autism and the inventor of affective computing.
Podcast: Is Anyone Obligated to Incite Healthcare Innovation?
Data Book tells the story of artificial heart innovator Robert Jarvik and brings on five health-tech KOLs to discuss who is responsible for advancing medicine.
How the First FDA-Approved Contraception App Performs Across Populations
Natural Cycles unveiled the results of a study of 54,000 women. Here’s what it found.
Doximity Uses Data to Unearth Looming Oncologist Shortage
The finding underscores a problem facing cancer care — and the power of a strong database.
5 Stories Hitting Health-Tech Circles
The week in review is all about cybersecurity, the digital transformation and big ethical questions, but it all orbits around risk.
Closing the Knowledge Gaps in Care Gap Management
How healthcare organizations can succeed in population health management.
CMS Says Revisions Will Bring Healthcare Innovation to Patients
By updating Medicare’s Program Integrity Manual, groundbreaking therapies and medical devices could be more likely to be covered, the insurer says.
Is Digital Health the Future of Healthcare?
How tech can help patients and clinicians reap the benefits of an improved, sustainable and proactive healthcare system.
New App Uses 3D, Animations to Track Chronic Pain
GeoPain also enables clinicians to analyze the data and even make predictions.
6 Top Takeaways from Health 2.0 for Healthcare Leaders
Health-tech KOL Janae Sharp serves up advice for cutting-edge healthcare leaders.
5 Looks at Health Tech's Potential and Limitations
What does it mean when EHRs pose problems and possibilities? Or when a company can improve health but risk privacy?
Natural Cycles Is the First FDA-Approved Contraception App. But It's Not for All Women
Is it OK for digital health tools to exclude vulnerable populations?
Fitbit Launches New Enterprise Health Platform to Drive Behavior Change
Fitbit Care uses health coaching and personalized digital health interventions. It also provides health systems, insurers and employers with enterprise-level data.
What Will Humana's New Analytics Center Tackle?
Humana will hire as many as 250 people to staff an analytics center in Boston, but the company is still nailing down the details.
Can a Scalable Model for Improving Community Health Emerge from the Desert?
A group in Utah wants to improve social determinants of health in two cities — and then everywhere else.
AI's Role in the Push for Suicide Prevention
Data, access and money challenges face mental healthcare, but there is some promising new tech.
Lyft Strikes Patient Ride Deal, Expanding Healthcare Footprint
This is the startup’s latest step into the care continuum.
How the FDA Is Trying to Promote Med-Tech Innovation
It’s all about insurance coverage and scientific rigor.
Wearables Spotlight Health Challenges Facing Medical Residents
Real-time data suggest interns lost three hours of sleep per week.
Baby Boomers and a Physician Shortage Could Hammer Healthcare. Can Telehealth Help?
How new models can help healthcare in a moment of crisis.
The Numbers Behind the First FDA-Approved Autonomous AI Diagnostic System
IDx’s tech brings diabetic retinopathy detection to primary care.
Why High-Tech, High-Touch Healthcare Is Crucial for Delivering Patient Value
Digital solutions can’t solve this problem without some help from humanity.
AI Can Help Doctors Diagnose Tricky Mood Disorders Like Bipolar 1
The new tech can also help detect major depressive disorder.
Wearable Technology Is the Future of Healthcare
But its success requires a long-term vision.
Podcast: Why We Need to Discuss Gene Editing and Ethics
Data Book explores consent through the story of Henrietta Lacks and talks germline editing with Marcy Darnovsky, Ph.D.
Most Breast Cancer Studies Don't Address Race or Socioeconomic Factors
Why that’s a big data problem for population health.
ICD-10 Change Aims to Streamline Social Determinants of Health Documentation
The old rule led to the valuable codes being underused.
Fitbit Shows Promise in Tracking Performance, Predicting Cancer Outcomes
Cedars-Sinai and Johns Hopkins researchers performed the wearables study.
Digital Health Isn't a Technological Revolution. It's a Cultural One.
Why healthcare is looking at the digital transformation the wrong way.