By The Medical Futurist | April 9, 2019 How do you create a smart algorithm? Where and how do you get the data for it? What do you need for a pattern recognizing program to work well and what are the challenges? Nowadays, everyone seems to be building artificial intelligence-based [...]
By Jessica Kent, Health IT Analytics | April 8, 2019 mHealth data, extracted from wearable devices and patient monitoring tools, will play a critical role in powering artificial intelligence and analytics technology in the future, according to a recent analysis from Frost & Sullivan. The mHealth industry is expected to [...]
The Medical Futurist | April 6, 2019 What does being perfectly healthy mean? Not having any visible symptoms, hidden ones or successfully coping with any disease? Is it the opposite of being sick or more than that? How did the concept change throughout the centuries? Does it have a connection [...]
By Mackenzie Garrity, Becker's Hospital Review | April 5, 2019 After reporting a dip in net earnings for the first quarter, Walgreens plans to invest $300 million in digital health to make up for the losses, according to Digital Commerce 360. The drugstore’s net earnings dropped to $1.156 billion from [...]
By Benjamin Harris, Healthcare IT News | April 5, 2019 At Renown Health, genomic testing and remote consulting meet for what's billed as a first-of-its-kind population health initiative. Home genetic testing kits have been popular for a while and with a variety of retail services now available, it is easy [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | April 4, 2019 Amazon’s Alexa is now HIPAA-compliant, and selected healthcare providers aren’t wasting time developing mHealth platforms for the smart speaker. Among the participants in Amazon’s invite-only healthcare program is Boston Children’s Hospital, which is configuring Alexa to enable patients recovering from surgery [...]
By Sy Mukherjee, Fortune | April 3, 2019 Few technologies in the past few years have fed the health care hype machine like artificial intelligence. A.I. isn’t just some shiny object to feed futurist dreams—it’s critical to building a better health system and understanding health across a wide population, argues [...]
By Conor Hale, FierceBiotech | April 3, 2019 The FDA has begun to reconsider how it reviews and approves medical devices that employ artificial intelligence and to learn from data to adapt their care. The agency hopes a tailored regulatory framework will help promote the development of machine-learning devices and [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | April 3, 2019 After one year, the DISCover Program has gathered observations from more than 10,000 people living with chronic pain. Many are using mHealth tools to track their daily health and wellness. A national research project focused on people living with chronic pain [...]
By Erin Dietsche, MedCity News | April 2, 2019 Rock Health's latest report found that in the first quarter of 2019, $986 million was invested across digital health deals, which is a little more than half the amount that was raised in Q1 2018. Rock Health’s latest report found $986 [...]
