Technology

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Conventional wisdom has it that investment in medical technology is down. I don’t buy it. I have seen the emergence of so many new medtech companies, even since the Great Recession of 2008. I have witnessed hundreds of millions of dollars flow into medtech.[read more]

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How to find the fitness app that best suits your needs? We compared features, user ratings, and affordability to bring you the top five iPhone apps for tracking your health—because we think seeing your progress makes it easier to stick to your goals.[read more]

Health IT

AsseSSOnce provides users with one clinical desktop solution that layers over all existing applications. It is capable of working across desktop, laptop and tablet devices and creates a virtual desktop that allows session persistence from the office, to the patients’ bedsides, to the outpatients’ clinic.[read more]

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The challenge with ACA is to make it a financially sustainable business model. The same applies to Integrated Health Systems. The further growth of HIS will be at the expense of the present individual, and small medical groups. Eventually, the IHS will provide the most efficient administrative and clinical organization.[read more]

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Meeting with the surgeon, radiation oncologist and medical oncologist together and regularly to receive a single, unified approach is an important and critical element to receiving the best possible outcomes, as is working with a palliative care team beginning shortly after diagnosis.[read more]

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Last month I spoke at the first CIS Qatar International Conference in Doha Qatar; the program was focused on implementation issues and what it takes to realize the benefits of EMR adoption. My topic was the Importance of Enterprise Wide Medical Device Integration in CIS workflow.[read more]

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The FDA launched an impressive patient network website this month, after nearly four years of research, focus groups, usability testing and more. The twin goals for this website are promoting the educational mission of the FDA, and promoting opportunities for patient advocacy within the FDA.[read more]

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The intersection of social media and patient interaction can be busy and confusing. “Online technologies present both opportunities and challenges to professionalism,” the American College of Physicians (ACP) observes. A new position paper offers these primary points for physician guidance.[read more]

patient engagement podcast

A conversation with Carestream’s Julie Weidman, marketing manager for the U.S. and Canada, and Cristine Kao, global marketing manager for the company’s Healthcare Information Solutions (HCIS) division. The two dive into the trend of patient engagement and medical professionals’ opinions on this trend.[read more]

We all know healthcare is massively broken, we know that we are light-years behind every other industry, we still use fax machines, we still use pagers, and we still ask patients to courier their own documents and images. But there is a glimmer of hope at the end of a long, dark, technology disengaged tunnel.[read more]

Jintronix began as an undergraduate project of Justin’s while he was at MIT. As is the case with many successful companies, the idea was inspired by a personal experience. Justin’s dad suffered a stroke and required rehabilitation, including physical therapy. As Justin helped his dad with his recovery, the idea of utilizing virtual technologies for physical therapy was born.[read more]

There is one thing clear about Lap-Bands: it is taking care of the patients after surgery, teaching them how to use the band, that is critical in how it is used. There have been a number of reports in the literature about centers that have removed bands, didn’t have the results with the bands that many others have reported, and felt that their results with the band must be global results. Those results are in stark contrast to Lap-Band surgeons who use the band a lot, who have great results with their patients, who see their patients often.[read more]