Category: eHealth
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Secret no more: Google reveals contact lens glucose monitor
Google has unveiled contact lenses designed to monitor and measure glucose levels in tears, potentially replacing the self-administered blood tests from finger pricks that diabetics must endure on a… read more …read more
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Wireless adhesive patch challenges Holter heart rhythm monitor
For more than half a century, physicians have relied on a portable device called the Holter monitor to record patients’ heart activity as they go about their everyday activities. However,… read more …read more
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Patients using telehealth services to hit 7 million by 2018
The number of patients worldwide using telehealth services will rise from less than 350,000 in 2013 to roughly 7 million in 2018, according to a new report published by IHS Technology. read more …read more
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4 strategies for engaging patients using digital technology
Seeking to relieve some of the physicians’ fears, Project HealthDesign, a research program funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, had teams test the incorporation of patient-generated, digital information into clinical care, a study published in the Journal of Participatory Medicine reported. read more …read more
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CIOs gauge decade of health IT headway
The healthcare IT industry just marked the 10-year anniversary of then President George W. Bush’s call to action – in his 2004 State of the Union address – to finally transform a paper-mired healthcare system into a digital-age industry that operates more like other sectors of the economy. As we look back on 10 years,…
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Telestroke proves itself a money saver
Telemedicine programs may help extend higher quality care to patients living in more rural areas, but the cost to implement and maintain the technology and services is also a serious consideration. So seeing financial savings, then, from telehealth patient treatment is important to help offset those expenses. According to a new study by Mayo Clinic…
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The end of net neutrality: How telemedicine, mHealth companies will fare
On the heels of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision this week to end net neutrality, what will happen with mHealth? read more …read more
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7 health innovation projects to share $2.2 million prize
Seven projects will split $2.2 million from the Miami-based John S. and James L. Knight Foundation–which supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism and advance media innovation–as winners of the Knight News Challenge: Health, the foundation announced Tuesday. The objective shared by each of the projects will be to “harness the power of data and…
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Despite lagging on ICD-10 efforts, physician practices upbeat
Physician practices are still behind schedule in terms of preparation for ICD-10, yet generally are optimistic about readiness for its implementation on Oct. 1, 2014, according to a recent survey conducted by medical claims clearinghouse Navicure. read more …read more