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Roundup: Strep throat screening app, fitness app data management
This week in digital health, 34 teams were announced for the Tricorder X Prize, the Center for Connected Health was awarded a grant from McKesson to develop a chemotherapy self management app, and...
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51 digital health metrics in 2013
The year is drawing to a close, and as some take the time to look back on personal highlights, we've taken the time to compile some mobile health highlights, mostly through numbers. While bigger...
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Text message interventions work best when they're tailored
Columbia University's Frederick Muench Text messages have been proven several times to be a positive medium for improving health outcomes. Text message intervention studies for smoking cessation,...
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CES: Mobile health has a lot of power, but it's raw and new
One goal of mobile healthcare technology is to move care outside the walls of traditional settings such as hospitals and physician offices. The shift certainly has begun, but it is far from...
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Users engaged more with cancer-focused Facebook pages than other health pages
Researchers from Harvard and Stanford have published a paper in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) that explores how much public data exists on Facebook about several popular health...
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Viewing patient engagement through the lens of pathology
The key to cracking patient engagement isn't better kinds of technology, it's understanding patients better. That was the theme that emerged from a panel discussion at the Partners Healthcare Connected...
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Partners HealthCare app to help health startups better understand patient,...
Dr. Joseph Kvedar Recently quite a few big name companies, including Apple, Samsung, and Google, have launched digital health-focused products and services. While this entry into the digital health...
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Why Partners and Daiichi Sankyo partnered on an AFib remote patient...
Greg Barrett, VP Marketing and Managed Markets at Daiichi Sankyo The partnership between Daiichi Sankyo and Partners HealthCare's Center for Connected Health to bring mobile device monitoring to...
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Penn Medicine, Independence Blue Cross talk patient engagement strategies
Personalized medicine was a hot topic at the BIO conference in Philadelphia, but in a session on digital health and patient engagement, payer and provider panelists also talked about how, in order to...
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Pharma's next step is digital health as a therapeutic
Dr. Joseph Kvedar Pharmaceutical companies are just beginning to think of digital health offerings as therapeutics, Dr. Joseph Kvedar, the vice president of Connected Health at Partners HealthCare,...
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