Data analytics startup Trayt is launching a new app that helps patients living with neurodevelopmental and brain disorders, as well as their caregivers, track behavioral and non-behavioral symptoms. The app has a comorbid rating scale, as well as measurements of how effective treatments are. It can also give progress reports and provides users with actionable insights.
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If you've ever had a mild concussion, your risk of developing Parkinson's disease goes up by 56 percent, a new study of more than 300,000 U.S. veterans suggests.
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The agency released a five-point plan outlining regulatory changes to bolster medical device safety, including requiring manufacturers ensure devices can be updated and patched.
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The device manufacturer acquired St. Jude Medical last year and has since been working to fix severe vulnerabilities found in its pacemakers. Abbott released its second and final round of planned cybersecurity updates to its pacemakers, programmers and remote monitoring systems to fix severe cybersecurity flaws in the devices.The patch will update the battery performance alert, allowing the device to monitor for abnormal battery behavior and automatically vibrate to tell the patient when something is wrong.The planned updates began last year, and the latest firmware update was approved by the Food and Drug Administration last week. The update applies to about 350,000 of Abbotts implantable cardioverter defibrillators and implantable cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators.
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Last Updated Apr 17, 2018Healthcare Technology Blogs List.The Best Healthcare Technology blogs from thousands of top Healthcare blogs in our index using search and social metrics. Data will be refreshed once a week.If your blog is selected in this list, you have the honour of displaying this Badge (Award) on your blog.
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The Food and Drug Administration appears to be taking a proactive and long-term approach toward improving medical-device safety. On April 17, the FDA released its Medical Device Safety Action Plan, in which regulators set out their goals for improving device safety, including tracking a product's safety throughout its life-cycle and catalyzing innovation that will make devices safer."Overall, this is a positive step to try to take proactive action to create a better environment for medical devices," said David Chou, chief information and digital officer for Children's Mercy Kansas City.
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Mayo Clinic researchers write in an AHIMA report that the process improvement technique could be brought to bear on electronic health record efficiency. Clinical documentation improvement has been a major focus of many health systems' value-based care initiatives. But getting to more efficient and more accurate charting, especially for providers using older electronic health record systems, is a tall task with no dependable template for successBut in AHIMA's Perspectives in Health Information Management, four experts from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine showed how their department the college's Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation used Lean processes for a redesign of an inefficient, first-generation EHR documentation system.The project was a success, at least with respect to a boost in productivity and staff morale.
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Virtual and augmented realities can help boost the confidence of teams caring for patients and in the operating room. Virtual reality and augmented reality have increasingly found their way into the operating room and 2018 may prove to be the year that VR and AR truly begin to influence care.Already, providers and researchers are testing how virtual reality can be used to manage pain in patients, but with the medical VR market set to explode from $8.9 million in 2017 to $285 million in 2022, according to ABI Research, new use cases are coming into focus every day.
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The new year is finally here! If one of your resolutions for 2018 is to stay on top of the latest healthcare technology and health IT trends, were here to help. Add these 10 blogs to your must follow list in the new year to track the pulse of the digital health industry.
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Many hospitals have at least a partially cloud-based IT system, and the benefits are numerous. You have less hardware to deal with, which means less time wasted waiting for new parts, and data is typically more secure and harder to steal.
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Congress has good proposals to improve election cybersecurity. Time to pass them.
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How often a person gets paid may affect their healthful choices, says WSJ Health Expert Lloyd Minor.
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Memories of classical ballet performances dance in Wanda Sihanath's head when she thinks about her childhood in Elgin, Illinois. She remembers balancing at the barre to Beethoven and pirouetting to Vivaldi.Even though it rarely affected her dance lessons, she also remembers being sick -- very sick.Sihanath, now 22, was diagnosed as a young child with the genetic blood disorder beta thalassemia. She was treated with occasional blood transfusions, which became monthly when she turned 14."I knew for a fact I was sick and I definitely wasn't normal like every other kid, but it never really personally affected me," said Sihanath, now a graduating senior majoring in biomedical engineering at Arizona State University.
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“Data Scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st century” – Harvard Business Review “140,000 to 190,000 unfilled data scientist positions by 2018“ – McKinsey “Expect a shortage of over 100,000 …
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Dignity Health's chief digital officer explains why he thinks Apple can succeed for population health and precision medicine efforts where other PHR launches have not. As a longtime collaborator with Apple since before it even beta-tested its Health Records project, live now at 39 hospitals San Francisco-based Dignity Health is in sync with the iPhone developer's vision, said Shez Partovi, MD."We had been working with Apple prior to their initial announcement for some time," said Partovi, chief digital officer and senior vice president of digital transformation at Dignity Health. "We'd been working with them for a while because we're aligned in our philosophies of empowering patients by giving them their data."As part of the Health Records launch, Dignity will leverage HL7's FHIR standard to securely move patients' health data from own electronic health record system to the iPhones of patients using iOS 11.3 enabling them manage meds, labs, allergies, conditions and more, and notifying them when the health system makes changes to their health information.
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NASA has contributed funds to and is currently co-running a new project that will use Ethereum blockchain technology to both automate spacecraft maneuvering while avoiding space debris.
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There are a lot of organizations betting on Apple's plan now it's time for you to weigh in on the idea. Other consumer-facing companies, such as Google and Microsoft, have developed personal health record products in recent years, with limited success. Google experimented with the idea but shut it down in 2011 while Microsoft closed down aspects of its HealthVault project earlier this year.Today, there are 39 health systems betting Apple's plan for personal health records will work where others didn't. Dignity Health's chief digital officer recently told us the reasons why he thinks it will. Now it's your turn to weigh in.
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The decision comes after city leaders asked the health system to wait one year before consolidating services to engage with the community and mitigate the impact of any final decision.
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The Food and Drug Administration has issued plans - some of which will require Congressional approval - for enhancing the safety of medical devices. Those include several proposals for advancing cybersecurity, including imposing new requirements on device manufacturers.
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A recent study estimates that as much as 80 percent of patient outcomes are related to factors outside of clinical care, such as patient behaviors, education and economic challenges. This finding is likely not surprising to providers who regularly face patients that do not follow care plans or do not understand how their lifestyle is negatively affecting a chronic condition.
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