Mobile devices like smartphones and tablets may help nurses to diagnoses patients with chronic health problems such as obesity, smoking and depression (in both adults and children) with the use of a...
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg has announced her resignation from the agency’s top post just days after kicking off President Obama’s “precision...
Predictive analytics, wearable devices, mHealth, and aggregation of big data through the “Internet of Things” are among the biggest technologies that will continue to revolutionize not only...
Fitness trackers and smartphone mHealth apps have been enjoying a huge surge in popularity as shiny new technologies attract the consumer eye, but physicians are still not sold on the benefits of...
Healthcare is starting to get more personal. As the finance and entertainment industries have become on-demand, consumer-driven fields in the recent past, healthcare, too, is moving away from being...
There might be a great deal of anticipation about the explosive growth of healthcare analytics in 2014, but 2013 was no slouch when it comes to technological advances and improvements in care quality,...
This year’s Health 2.0 San Francisco Codeathon harnessed the power of the successful Blue Button data sharing initiative to bring a new suite of patient-facing tools to fruition in 36 hours or...
Healthcare providers are searching for all the help they can get to dodge financial penalties for preventable readmissions, insufficient quality of care, and a lack of patient engagement, and...
