Jonah Comstock
Connected Health
The three-day event, during October in Boston, will include cutting-edge technologies such as social robots, voice interfaces and digital therapeutics.
MACRA
The rule would mean the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will pay doctors for telemedicine visits as well as evaluation of images and videos.
Compliance
The new guidance suggests that new KPI standards in 12 categories to allow companies to test regardless of whether they already have a device on the market.
Mobile Health IT
The patent description is a tweak on the standard-of-care inflatable blood pressure cuff, built into a wearable that might be smaller, connected and sport a touchscreen.
Electronic Health Records
The Health Records API allows developers to create apps that can, with permission, use data from electronic health records to help patients manage care.
Electronic Health Records
Stanford Medicine, Scripps, Partners Ochsner Health, Vanderbilt and Duke University are among the hospitals launching the Apple Health Records March 29.
Connected Health
Use of telemedicine has gone up as well, but not as dramatically, respondents say.
Telehealth
Shannan Moynihan, MD, deputy chief of space and occupational medicine, explains at HIMSS18 how telemedicine is used aboard the International Space Station.
Privacy & Security
Judges impressed by the company’s security tech, which uses APIs to connect medical devices.
Mobile Health IT
Leaders from UnitedHealthcare, Fitbit and Castlight agree that wearable technology is having a dramatic effect on employee motivation.