By Christina Farr & Eugene Kim, CNBC | May 10, 2019 KEY POINTS Amazon has built a team within Alexa to dive more deeply into the health-care space. Members include Missy Krasner, a former Box health executive, and veteran engineer Larry Ockene. The group wants to eventually provide services to [...]
By Juan Pablo Segura, Co-founder of Babyscripts, HIT Consultant | May 8, 2019 The results are in. A 2019 PEGA survey asked 2,000 U.S. consumers how they felt about recent trends in healthcare, and the response was overwhelming — they want a personal touch, and they want it digital. Not [...]
The Medical Futurist | May 4, 2019 The next telecommunication revolution is just around the corner: the promises of high bandwidth, low latency and low-power-low-cost of 5G will open the gate to a flood of new inventions and the implementation of ideas, which are already long in the public consciousness [...]
By Jonah Comstock, MobiHealth News | April 30, 2019 In Jane Sarasohn-Kahn's new book, she argues that we must make the move from health consumers to health citizens. When we talk about health consumerism or the consumerization of health, the topic encompasses a lot of disparate ideas. In her new [...]
By Laura Lovett, MobiHealth News | April 23, 2019 Last night at a Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs event, industry players discussed the ins and outs of how to validate a digital health product, regardless of funding. Once a promising futuristic industry, digital health is merging into mainstream medicine. Now in [...]
By Fred Donovan, HIT Infrastructure | April 17, 2019 The American Medical Association (AMA) and student-run biotech incubator Sling Health are expanding their joint efforts to include physicians in health IT innovation to improve clinical workflows and patient care. The two organizations are compiling insights from physicians in their clinical problem [...]
