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AMC Health guarantees lower readmissions, prepares wireless monitor for inhaler use 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

AMC Health guarantees lower readmissions, prepares wireless monitor for inhaler use

Telehealth systems provider AMC Health is offering a money-back guarantee that its customers will see at least a 10 percent decline in hospital readmissions within 90 days of implementing AMC’s…

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Why it’s harder for health accelerators 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

Why it’s harder for health accelerators

Health-specific incubators and accelerators have been expanding and proliferating for the past two years, and they seem to be making an impact — Rock Health, for instance, recently announced that…

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Needed: Standardized outcome measures for patient-generated data 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

Needed: Standardized outcome measures for patient-generated data

In order to conduct meaningful clinical trials, it’s important to have solid metrics for tracking disease trajectories and patient experiences. Developing these patient outcome measures is the goal of PatientsLikeMe’s…

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What risks do docs who prescribe devices like AliveCor take on? 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

What risks do docs who prescribe devices like AliveCor take on?

If there’s one device that’s recently become a symbol for the promise — and potential pitfalls — of mobile health, it’s AliveCor Heart Monitor, formerly known as the AliveCor iPhone…

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CIO survey finds mobile-enabled healthcare a top trend 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

CIO survey finds mobile-enabled healthcare a top trend

There are more market research reports, survey results and industry metrics related to mobile and digital health floating around these days than in years past: Our recently published State of…

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BlackBerry gears up for comeback, will doctors follow? 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

BlackBerry gears up for comeback, will doctors follow?

Research in Motion (RIM) finally renamed itself “BlackBerry” after its signature product, even as it launched its much-awaited iPhone/Android competitor: the BlackBerry 10 operating system, touchscreen BlackBerry Z10 and keyboard-equipped…

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About that meta-analysis of mHealth efficacy studies 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

About that meta-analysis of mHealth efficacy studies

Technology moves too quickly for the world of academic publishing. That’s a long held belief by many but also a common topic of conversation among those working in digital health…

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Unique nature of healthcare holding back innovation, even with consumer demand 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

Unique nature of healthcare holding back innovation, even with consumer demand

Innovation almost by rule drives cost down in other industries, but not so much in healthcare. “Healthcare is unique in that every added feature increases the cost,” Dr. Diego Miralles,…

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Roundup: Predictions for digital health in 2013 150 150 Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI)

Roundup: Predictions for digital health in 2013

As the new year kicks off so, too, do the predictions for mobile and digital health. Pundits ranging from physician consultants and startup CEOs to investors and research analysts were…

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