By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | September 30, 2019 The FDA has given the green light to an mHealth wearable developed by Abbott to help people dealing with chronic pain. It's one of several devices that use targeted pulses of energy to help people manage pain. The US Food and [...]
By Bailey Bryant, Home Healthcare IT News | September 29, 2019 The race to move health care into the home is on, and a growing number of major retailers are officially in the running. In just about a week’s time, news broke that Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Amazon (NYSE: AMZN) and [...]
By Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News | September 27, 2019 During National Health IT Week, three experts put the focus on how digital technologies and smart care approaches are already transforming population health and helping address social determinants. As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a [...]
By David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times | September 27, 2019 When Amazon joined Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase last year in establishing a joint venture aimed at overhauling the U.S. healthcare system, people could only guess as to what the three corporate behemoths had in mind. The picture is now [...]
By Conor Hale, Fierce Biotech | September 26, 2019 A package of new guidance documents from the FDA describes what and how the agency plans to regulate as software designed to aid clinical decision-making—such as programs that provide documentation and diagnostic support or that call up medically relevant reference information and [...]
By Laura Seargeant Richardson, Med City News | September 26, 2019 These six components of customer experience serve as the foundation and lens through which providers need to audit and address patient experience. "A superior customer experience doesn’t just strengthen patient engagement — it also correlates to 50 percent higher hospital [...]
