The Stanford University School of Medicine has launched a Center for Digital Health which will help support greater efficacy data for digital health tools by providing Silicon Valley companies with opportunities to develop test and implement new tools in collaboration with the university
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Apple wants the iPhone to be the central bank for storing medical information
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Eli Lilly and Company has developed an app for people living with Type II diabetes who use Trulicity, the company’s once-per-week injectable diabetes medication that also works with a click-activated pen. The app, which has been fully functionally since September, is currently available free on iOS to anyone with a Trulicity prescription.
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A Redwood City, Calif. startup called Neurotrack Technologies Inc. has created a brain health app that is helping scientists unravel the mysteries of memory, and work to find a cure for Alzheimer’s.
Its simple browser-based app screens users for signs of cognitive decline based on their eye movement as they watch a few images presented on their screens. These tests used to take about 30 minutes, and were available only at the doctor’s office using hugely expensive equipment.
Neurotrack has been able to shrink their scans down to a 5-minute, home-based process thanks to technological advances around eye tracking technology, data analytics, machine learning and computer vision, according to the company’s CEO and cofounder Elli Kaplan.
Prior to forming Neurotrack in 2012 with her cofounders, neuroscientists Stuart Zola, Elizabeth Buffalo and Cecelia Manzanares, Kaplan worked in the White House and at the United Nations on global development and health programs.
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Ask a set of healthcare professionals about the future and they’ll answer: “Mobile.”
Mobile technology is nearing ubiquity in America; a Pew Research report shows 64 percent of all adult Americans own a smartphone, and ownership rates among millennials reach above 80 percent. It’s clear that to stay relevant and access the next generation of patients, the healthcare industry must innovate its mobile efforts.
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Plenty of apps can help people track their daily activities, monitor their health, and set exercise reminders. But when entrepreneur Jeff Dachis was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes nearly three years ago, he couldn’t find any health software that truly helped him adjust to the new lifestyle his condition requires.
“[Medical apps] are usually written by people who have no sense of user experience, and are driven in a lot of ways by fear,” says Dachis. “For a data driven disease like diabetes, you really need all of the pieces of the puzzle in one place.”
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Roche has bought Vienna-based diabetes management platform mySugr for an undisclosed price, the Swiss drugmaker said on Friday, joining a crowd of companies expanding app-based digital health services.
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Theres no doubt about it the Apple Watch is a hit While Apple has not disclosed sales numbers smart money has the device now in its second generation at over 25 million units sold That not only means the watch is a scorcher that is now beating the initial trajectory of the iPhone but recent estimates also crown it the worlds top-selling fitness device outpacing dedicated fitness trackers from the likes of Fitbit in regards to market share The Apple Watch has generated more revenue since its debut than the entire Swiss watch industry during that period of time which is an incredible achievement
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Target has plans to launch a new digital health initiative next month online and in 500 of its 1,793 stores. Beyond knowing the stories will offer a new section for health devices, details on what, exactly, the launch will entail are scarce. One device that will be included is Quell, an FDA-cleared and smartphone-connected wearable for treating chronic pain from Waltham, Massachusetts-based Neurometrix.
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More than a decade ago, when most people were still using not-so-smart mobile phones, the first human genome was sequenced. It cost $3 billion. In the time it took for smartphones to become the essential consumer technology, DNA sequencing rapidly evolved from a costly, uncommonly used process into a quick, reliable, relatively cheap and widely used predictive tool to give insight on disease risk and personalized treatment.
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When monitoring heart rate skin temperatures activity and other physiological data biometric-sensing wearables are also tracking important indications of abnormality associated with infection inflammation or even insulin
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A six-page report published in September by the established UK medical journal Lancet provided some shocking figures about maternal mortality in India. It revealed that in 2015, there were more than 45,000 deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth in the country. This figure accounts for 15% of such casualties worldwide. A crippling lack of maternal health care services and skilled birth attendants has lead to India missing its millennium development goal of reducing the maternal mortality rate by three-quarters.
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The device includes a small sensor, placed just beneath the skin of my belly, and displays my blood glucose levels right on my Apple Watch.
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While digital health doesnt have as big of a presence at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as other industries there were a fair number of wearables apps and sensor-enabled tools showcased There were also several partnerships announced which you can read about here
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Startups are building mobile-centric platforms across categories including pharmacy delivery mental health and diabetes management
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Apple periodically features groups of apps in its app store for particular use cases and audiences Under Apps for Patients in its Medical section the company highlights these 24 personal care apps which range from well known apps like WebMD and Mayo Clinic to some more under-the-radar options Some apps apply to people living with particular conditions while others provide lifestyle help for anyone Read on for Apples 22 picks for personal care apps Mayo Clinic
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One of the fast-growing companies I profiled for Healthcare Informatics Up-and-Comer list of companies for 2017 is San Francisco-based Augmedix, which that has developed a physician charting solution using Google Glass. Before entering the exam room, a doctor dons Google Glass and then proceeds to talk with patients, rather than typing into a computer screen. A remote scribe fills out forms, health history, lab orders, prescriptions and more for the physician to sign off on.But charting isnt the only way that Google Glass is being put to use in healthcare. In remote areas of Saskatchewan, nurses and general practitioners are donning Google Glasses so that specialists in a tertiary care centers, such as the one in Saskatoon, can diagnose and triage patients. A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Ivar Mendez, M.D., who heads up the Department of Surgery at the University of Saskatchewan and Saskatoon Health Region, about this pilot project.
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If you are writing content, you may think that issues related to mobile devices are not something you should be concerned with. Readers using small screens interact with the content you write in a different way. You will need to learn some best practices for mobile content writing to begin to engage with this new and growing audience.
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The era of Quantified Self (a term coined in 2007 by US WIRED founding executive editor Kevin Kelly) is relatively new The first Fitbit digital step counters launched in late 2009 and weve since seen an explosion of various wearables apps and digital health devices all riding the exponential wave of smaller and cheaper mobile-connected and app-ified sensors and computing
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Shipments of the activity tracking wearable Fitbit are up 25.4% this year, signalling more and more of us want insights into our exercise, eating, weight and sleeping patterns.
As we begin to generate our own health data, our relationship with our bodies will change, and the way we understand and seek healthcare will be transformed.
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