Self-Tracking Is Just the Beginning for Wearables Applications
Do you have any bad health habits you’d like to get rid of? Smoking? Overeating? Slouching? Too much wasted time surfing the internet? A wearable sensor may be in your future…
mHealth Comes to Patient Support Groups
If you are a patient and haven’t yet researched or joined a patient support community, you should.Communities exist for chronic cancer patients, chronic disease patients, rare disease patients and patients…
4 Tactics for Easing Physicians into the Age of Digital Marketing
Many newly minted physicians are anxious to promote their practices online, and can’t wait to learn about new ways to reach new patients. Many newly minted physicians are anxious to…
Dispatches from the 2014 American Telemedicine Association Conference
We just returned from the 19th annual American Telemedicine Conference in Baltimore, MD. We just returned from the 19th annual American Telemedicine Conference in Baltimore, MD. It was an amazing…
7 Best Blogs to Follow About Healthcare Legislation
The Affordable Care Act has generated more interest in healthcare legislation than any other single piece of legislation to have been enacted in decades. For the healthcare industry, the flurry…
5 Pitfalls Mobile App Developers Face with HIPAA Compliance
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law by Bill Clinton on August 21st, 1996. To put this in its technological context, HIPAA predates the first iPhone…
Doctors and Nurses in a Twit about Technology Destroying Healthcare
Every workday morning I spend 30 minutes or so reviewing my Twitter feed. By following a select group of top healthcare news observers and thought leaders, I find that Twitter works pretty…
Growth versus Volume in Medtech
One of the more interesting aspects of well-established markets that have significant volume in medical technology product sales is that the revenue and the caseload are sufficient to drive fairly…
The Doctor-Patient Relationship of Today
Providing others with healthcare is a very personal and important service. One important element in the healthcare field is the doctor-patient relationship. Providing others with healthcare is a very personal…
Practice Fusion’s Partnership with Merck, and Its Data Implications
Practice Fusion recently partnered with vaccine manufacturer and drug company Merck to launch an online healthcare portal for physicians called Population Health Management. Practice Fusion recently partnered with vaccine manufacturer…
