The Future of Medicine Is in Your Smartphone
Medicine is next. With innovative digital technologies, cloud computing and machine learning, the medicalized smartphone is going to upend every aspect of health care.With the smartphone revolution, an...
View ArticleThe Surprising Role That Social Media Can Play in Healthcare
For the vast majority of us — more than 80 percent of folks in the United States — social media is an integral part of our daily routine.Dominated by giants like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, social...
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Doctor Visits Are So 2014
Photo by US Army Africa There is nothing worse than being sick—except, perhaps, having to go to the doctor when you’re sick. By the end of this ordeal, you’re pretty sure that visiting the doctor has...
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How to Market Security to Gain Health Care Customers
Health care providers that ignore consumers’ rising privacy and security concerns could be missing an important selling point for potential enrollees, says Robert Siciliano, CEO of...
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Harvard Contest Aims to Find, Spread Innovation
A fascinating new Harvard University contest seeks to recognize “positive deviance,” or pockets of excellence, in the healthcare industry and propagate them as far and wide as possible. The contest...
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New medical technology poses safety problems if users not trained properly |...
In 2013, a patient admitted to Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Ill., did not receive his previously prescribed psychiatric medicine for nearly three weeks during a hospital stay...
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Four takeaways from hearing on the attorney general settlement with Partners...
William Matlack, division chief of the antitrust division for the attorney general, stands as he speaks to Suffolk Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders about the reasoning behind the settlement...
View ArticleCastlightVoice: Can Telemedicine Disrupt The Pricing Model For Employee...
When Qualcomm added telemedicine to its employee benefits package in 2012, it was hoping to cut costs and improve care. Today, almost two-thirds of Qualcomm’s telemedicine users indicated they had...
View ArticleHealthcare Predictions For 2015
Begin: WordPress Article Content We felt small tremors in 2014 of the seismic changes underway. In 2015, I predict five changes to the core of the U.S. healthcare system: insurance, pharmaceuticals,...
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Will 2015 deliver the promise of telemedicine?
The big winner in the rise of telemedicine is the patient. Many companies offer to connect patients to doctors via video calls. As these devices become more accessible, patient treatment can begin...
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