By Kevin Truong, MedCity News | May 23, 2019 The product (codenamed Dylan) is being developed by Amazon's hardware development team Lab126 and its Alexa division. Designed to be worn on the wrist, the device seemingly has a form factor similar to a smartwatch. Amazon has a health-oriented wearable in [...]
By Jackie Drees, Becker's Hospital Review | May 23, 2019 Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield named six digital health startups as finalists in the companies' first-ever joint innovation challenge. The six companies will compete for a $50,000 prize, which will support the winning company's research and product development. [...]
The Medical Futurist | May 23, 2019 Could a chatbot, an online community, or a telepsychiatry solution offer meaningful help for people who are fighting mental health issues? Could virtual reality, artificial intelligence, or genetics appear as elements of assistance in the toolkit of medical professionals in the fields dealing [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | May 23, 2019 A bill introduced this week seeks federal funding and technical and training support for the Project ECHO telehealth model, now being used in dozens of states to help rural providers improve care management for their patients. A new bill before the [...]
By Andrea Park, Becker's Hospital Review | May 23, 2019 Within the next decade, healthcare will see emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, predictive analytics and blockchain spurring billions of dollars in value increases, according to a new McKinsey & Company report on this tech-driven "era of exponential growth." [...]
By Greg Slabodkin, HealthData Management | May 22, 2019 With the rapid growth of digital health solutions, there is a serious need for an objective, transparent and standards-based framework to evaluate these healthcare products. That’s the contention of researchers from the Johns Hopkins University schools of medicine, public health and [...]
