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By Tom Sullivan | 12:14 pm | February 20, 2015
Healthcare organizations willing to break the tried-and-true approach to acquiring IT products are creating applications that are more closely aligned with their needs. And potentially getting equity in a successful startup.
By John Andrews | 11:17 am | February 19, 2015
"There's an app for that" may be an effective marketing phrase, but don't expect hospital security officials to appreciate it. The proliferation of devices and the apps that drive them is one of healthcare's biggest security concerns.
By Frank Irving | 04:38 pm | February 17, 2015
An emerging series of navigator apps will help physicians and patients work together from diagnosis through care milestones.
By Mike Miliard | 12:15 pm | February 17, 2015
To help patients who are deaf and hard-of-hearing, or who have limited English proficiency, Yale-New Haven Hospital will deploy several dozen touch-screen units to offer on-demand video remote interpreting services.
By Mike Miliard | 11:26 am | February 13, 2015
Despite ubiquitous information technology, patients and physicians still overwhelmingly rely on "tried-and-true" modes of communications, such as phone calls and in-person consults.
By Mike Miliard | 12:32 pm | February 10, 2015
With a combination of vendor-developed and homegrown apps, Penn Medicine has a varied mobile device landscape -- that poses challenges for security, but offers opportunities for smoother clinical workflow and improved outcomes.
By Scott Tharler | 05:35 pm | February 09, 2015
You might recognize her as @MandiBPro. But did you know she used to be a wedding singer? Learn more about her new life as an analytics lead at Dell, the ways she works on a treadmill and how she morphed into a computer geek.
By Eric Wicklund | 11:17 am | February 08, 2015
Developers who translate clinical voices into health records are expecting big breakthroughs this spring in natural language processing.
By Tom Sullivan | 05:15 pm | February 02, 2015
PatientSafe plans to unveil at HIMSS15 new clinical communications client-server software that clinicians access via a ruggedized iPhone to enable mobile care coordination.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:32 am | December 31, 2014
The year 2014 goes down in history as a breakout year for digital healthcare, according to a recent report from StartUp Health, whose stated mission is to help 1,000 health startups reimagine and transform healthcare over the next 10 years.