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 Jessica Davis, Health IT Security | April 3, 2019 With its HIMSS19 release of the information blocking rule, the Office of the National Coordinator set the ball in motion on greater interoperability in the healthcare sector. But as some health stakeholders have pointed out, greater data sharing may also [...]
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 [...]
Press Release - The Graduate School at UNC, Chapel Hill | April 3, 2019 The Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce that it will partner with DHIT, a non-profit education and research institute established to support communities through the process of [...]
