By Jessica Kent, HealthIT Analytics | August 28, 2019 As part of a four-year NIH study, Baylor College of Medicine has createdguidelines for future efforts in precision medicine that aim to deliver personalized care. NIH’s Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE III) program coordinated activities at 11 clinical participant enrollment [...]
By Nathan Gunn, Contributor, Fierce Healthcare | August 28, 2019 The U.K.’s National Health Service announced in July a partnership with Amazon’s Alexa, giving the digital assistant permission to provide medical advice. The goal of this partnership is to reduce stress on providers by helping patients get the medical information [...]
By Heather Landi, Fierce Healthcare | August 28, 2019 Wearables company Fitbit is deepening its reach into healthcare with a new premium subscription service for users that offers coaching and personalized insights mined from the health data it collects from 27.3 million users. At an event in Manhattan Tuesday, Fitbit [...]
By Jaya Prasad, Contributor, Forbes | August 28, 2019 Wasteful spending constitutes an estimated 34% of U.S. healthcare, exceeding $1 trillion annually, and can be attributed to factors such as prevention failures, duplicate services, and over-treatment that could be eliminated without impacting patients. We are operating within a healthcare system [...]
By Jackie Drees, Becker's Hospital Review | August 27, 2019 Two-thirds of American consumers say they are open to using telehealth instead of an in-person healthcare appointment, according to a recent American Well survey. For its 2019 Consumer Survey, telehealth platform American Well commissioned Harris Poll to perform an online study [...]
The Medical Futurist | August 27, 2019 Diabetes management went through a radical transformation in the last years due to technology: the diabetes patient community found a strong voice online, continuous glucose monitors are taking the place of finger pricks, digital patches and insulin pumps make the dosage of insulin [...]
