Tag: mobile

Cardinal Health announced this week that it had launched a new platform aimed at addressing medication adherence challenges.   The platform, which the company is calling Outcomes, combines several existing businesses to deliver tools for medication therapy management, digital patient engagement and telepharmacy. “Outcomes is the latest example of how we’re developing and investing in

Amazon’s app-based healthcare service for employees, Amazon Care, will soon launch throughout the country, Insider reported this past Friday.   Although it is currently only available to the tech giant’s Washington-based employees, sources told the outlet that Amazon Care is gearing up to offer the service for the rest of its U.S. workers.   It

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City has had a serious challenge throughout 2020: to keep in touch with patients who do not have COVID-19 during the pandemic. THE PROBLEM At the beginning, during the first surge, people were too scared to get out of their homes – let alone come to the hospital –

Teladoc Health filed a lawsuit against Amwell on Monday, accusing the rival virtual care company of patent infringement.   In the suit, filed in federal court in Delaware, Teladoc said several of Amwell’s products – including some of its telemedicine carts, the Horus HD Digital Scope System and the Thinklabs One Digital Stethoscope – infringe

New Kent-led research shows that popular mobile phone games could provide a new tool to help doctors spot early signs of cognitive decline, some of which may indicate the onset of serious conditions like dementia. Investigating the link between patterns of tap, swipe and rotational gestures during mobile game play and the users’ cognitive performance,

Back in 2016, Dr. David C. Koronkiewicz, medical director of quality at the Goshen Health Center for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, was tasked to research vendors for a secure messaging application to be used by the medical staff. In the early phases, it was established that nursing administrators were interested in investigating IT that could

As the healthcare industry undergoes a wide-ranging digital transformation, mobile applications are proving to be a hit with patients. What happened? This is the chief finding of a survey of 550 U.S. consumers commissioned by mobile device management specialist SOTI. The survey also found more than half of U.S. physicians (57 percent) offer their patients

Anyone paying attention is aware of the app explosion happening in healthcare today while questions persist about just how useful so many digital therapeutics actually are in a clinical setting. Work at Mount Sinai, however, is showcasing the promise of digital tools and apps. Mount Sinai started by constructing a patient design group while developing a

Most parents would agree that one of the of the biggest modern parenting challenges is monitoring a child’s online activity. A new study appearing in the Journal of Child and Family Studies found that parents spend more time talking with kids about the mechanics of using their mobile devices than they do about what their

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a life-threatening disease transmitted by the bite of a sand fly. Between 3,700 to 7,400 people in Ethiopia are infected annually, particularly in the northern, agricultural regions with favorable climate and environment to sand fly vectors. A study published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases by Rebecca Coulborn from Epicentre, France, and

InterSystems has announced a new data and collaboration platform to enable application developers to more easily and efficiently access health data. The aim is to help healthcare organizations be more agile and effective in creating and scaling innovative apps. WHY IT MATTERS Healthcare is generating more digital data than ever before, but the enormous volume

Health IT vendors do best when they have a deep understanding of the unique needs of their clients: the physicians, nurses and patients whose experience is shaped by the technologies they develop. Smart companies understand this, and many are making it a priority to fill their leadership positions with top talent drawn directly from hospitals

Mobile health applications (apps) for improving diagnostic decision-making often lack clinical evaluation, but one app that has undergone testing by researchers is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention PTT Advisor. In a recently published study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and the CDC evaluated