Mobile

Baystate Health takes aim at click fatigue with mobile-optimized workflow tool.

For starters, secure C-suite support: It's not enough to listen to employees and departments when planning mHealth initiatives, IBM says.

CareChats enables conversations with patients about their condition management, provides encouragement and education, and sets health goals.

CEO Stephen Lieber said the move will help speed the time for cutting-edge health IT products to reach the market. 

The company will use the money to advance its security, regulatory and compliance functionality for healthcare customers.

Company says it sees mobile health systems as some of the most valuable real estate in healthcare.  

Even though emergency room professionals are providing video visits, the AnywhereCare app is actually intended for non-emergency ailments such as sore throats and respiratory illnesses.

Rather than only looking at how the technology reduces costs and improves outcomes, researches focused on related time, transportation and environmental factors. 

The IT consultancy also said IoT will skyrocket to $1.3 trillion and predicted that wearables are poised to pick up steam again.

With a new acute-care deployment, in addition to cloud-based migration of its ChartLogic outpatient EHR, practice management and patient portal technology, "the future of healthcare IT is in cloud-based applications," says Medsphere's CEO.