Virtual Care

The company's name will now appear on Withings smart scales and wearables. The devices and the app combine to form an "ecosystem" that Nokia hopes will provide "a 360-degree view of their well-being."

In the name of an “efficient, risk-based approach” to regulation in order to “promote health” through innovation, Gottlieb detailed a number of initiatives underway or soon to be.

"If this were a drug that had a survival advantage of this magnitude, it would be retail priced at hundreds of thousands of dollars."

Of all of the conditions that technological innovation has the potential to mitigate, assuage, and aid, vision loss leaves plenty of room for the novel and life-changing.

In the second part of an interview with CMO Daniel Lace, the doctor turned the conversation to how he defines value-based care.

The CMO of Leaders in Medicine sat down with Healthcare Analytics News for a ranging interview focused on value-based care and innovation.

Recent reports of a new team at the FDA that will try to match healthtech's pace of innovation mesh with previous writings by the Administration's recently-appointed head, Scott Gottlieb.

When it was a mere "online bookseller," Amazon invested in 40% of an online pharmacy that didn't quite pan out. Now the preeminint online retail giant, the company is believed to be taking another look at the complex industry.

SCIO Health Analytics' Chief Evangelist argues for the use of analytics to prevent complications and provide true value-based care.

No matter how they safeguard, it’s not a question of whether health systems will suffer a breach but rather when, according to many experts.

electroCore's device provides mild electrical stimulation to the vagus nerve in order to alleviate headaches.

The Project ECHO programs in New Mexico seek to use mass specialist-to-primary teleconferencing to improve treatment of conditions like diabetes across a vast, rural state.

Equipped with the pancreas and a Fitbit, the children successfully maintained good blood sugar levels despite elevated activity.

The review included nearly 30,000 young patients and found a "small, but significant" effect of mHealth as a viable modality in their treatment.

In the second part of our interview with CCHP director Gutierrez, he speaks about how telehealth policy is evolving nationwide.

"We have to change that dynamic and think about the consumer at the center of the healthcare system," Mario Gutierrez says.

A wide reach and vast accesibility allowed the researchers to see nationwide data and detect trends, but the program suffered from the same natural enthusiasm decay that any mobile app does.

Respected surgeon pens plea in Annals of Surgery urging increased use of electronic prescribing platforms to stem the tide of opiate misuse.

"It’s a constant theme we'll be talking about continuously," Hart says. "Patients are saying "we need this support" and yet very few providers are delivering it. "

Though a preliminary study, the new smartphone-controlled armband performed well in patients with serious migraines.

Two recent reports from the Urban Institute examined trends in the proportion of adults with medical debt, and whether such trends related to the citizens' confidence in their own financial literacy.

IBM Health and Medtronic have teamed up to create a patient-facing mobile technology with a one-on-one coaching component, to help patients better manage their diabetes while at home.

At HIMSS 2017, Patricia Sengstack led a conversation peppered with allusions to books and films from recent memory, bringing a certain levity to the weighty and important topic of patient safety. IT can help enormously, but also create problems of its own.

At HIMSS17 in Orlando, Florida, HCA News spoke with Ashish Sharma, Chief Marketing Officer at Spectralink. Spectralink's communications technology is nearly ubiquitous in hospitals, and Sharma discussed the move from simple, utilitarian devices to the creation of new, integrated touchscreen units.

Social media represents a huge opportunity to improve patient communication and care but comes with a variety of added risks and compliance hurdles that must be addressed.

The University of Texas Southwestern launched a comprehensive and successful Accountable Care Organization with significant savings using the help of data analytics and a series of customized dashboards and reports to elicit physician engagement and buy-in

“I think we’re agreeing, but in a way that sounds like we disagree."

John Gallagher, Senior Innovation Consultant at Simpler Consulting, offers potential complications that could doom population health efforts: "The business of care delivery must change."

The app maker announced results from a study that reinforce the potential of telehealth as a tool to help patients manage blood sugar.

With its slice of the wearable fitness monitor market negligible, Jawbone has accused Fitbit, its former competitor in the consumer space, of stealing trade secrets. A hearing is scheduled for later today.