By Heather Landi, Fierce Healthcare | April 17, 2019 Consumer electronics giant Best Buy is reiterating its interest in the healthcare space with a new retail partnership with Tyto Care, the maker of an at-home medical exam and telehealth device kit. Best Buy plans to sell the company’s Tyto Home product on its [...]
By Adam Istas, DIA Global Forum | April 2019 Rapid advances and increasing availability of digital technologies are slowly beginning to disrupt drug development and healthcare delivery. From streamlining clinical research processes such as patient recruitment, informed consent, and monitoring, to enabling to real time data collection to help guide [...]
By Jackie Drees, Becker's Hospital Review | April 12, 2019 Seventy-eight percent of healthcare professionals expect health IT companies to "somewhat," or "significantly," increase by 2020, according to Venrock's 2019 Healthcare Prognosis report. In March 2019, Venrock surveyed more than 250 respondents from health IT startups, healthcare providers and insurance companies, [...]
By Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News | April 9, 2019 From brain-computer interfaces to nanorobotics, a new report from Frost & Sullivan explores leading edge developments and disruptive tech. A new study from Frost & Sullivan takes stock of some of the rapid-fire developments in the world of patient monitoring, [...]
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 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 [...]
