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Tech giants and repatriated cash, more health acquisitions in 2018?

January 2, 2018 By HealthIsCool 54 Comments

Tech giants and repatriated cash, more health acquisitions in 2018?

Tech giants made a lot of money in 2017. Through most of the year, the five tech behemoths (FAANG) led the market with an average gain of almost 50% year to date. Tech giants also have massive cash reserves, most of which are stockpiled overseas. Where will tech giants spend ...

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Filed Under: 1, EHR, healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, PHR Tagged With: AI, alphabet, amazon, Apple, CHR, Comprehensive Health Record, deep learning, EHR, Facebook, healthcare acquisitions, healthcare startups, Microsoft, Omada Health, overseas cash stockpiles, repatriated cash, tech giants

Move health data forward challenge: Giving patients control

May 19, 2016 By HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

Move health data forward challenge: Giving patients control

Giving individuals control to share their health data is one of the biggest challenges in healthcare. "Individual control of personal health data will 'tear down the wall' that's blocking health care transformation," according to Sumit Nagpal, CEO of LumiraDx. He says that if ...

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Filed Under: 3, EHR, healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare Standards, Integration Insights, Interview, Patient Engagement, PHR Tagged With: API, Caroline Coy, developers, health data, HEART WG, interoperability, Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, ONC, ONC Challenge, PGHD, RESTful API, Standards

Wearables: Just What the Doctor Ordered

March 12, 2015 By Kevin Riddleberger 2 Comments

Wearables: Just What the Doctor Ordered

Industry talk of wearable health and fitness tracking devices has escalated from buzz to fever pitch. Whether we’re a developer, researcher, entrepreneur, clinician, or educator, each of us with skin in the game is discussing the many benefits of wearables and sensor technology – ...

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Filed Under: e-patient, Patient Engagement, PHR, telehealth Tagged With: "Quantified Self", iTriage, wearables

Learning about Usability from Accessibility: Exploring PHRs with Dean Karavite

October 16, 2014 By HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

Learning about Usability from Accessibility: Exploring PHRs with Dean Karavite

Industrial designer Marc Harrison suffered a brain injury while sledding when he was 11-years old. The injury and years of rehabilitation would provide Harrison with insight and inspiration for his future work in industrial design. Harrison would go on to develop the ...

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Filed Under: e-patient, EHR, healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Patient Engagement, PHR Tagged With: "A Web for Everyone", "Accessible Designs for Personal Health Records, "extreme users", "Just Ask", "people with disabilities", accessibility, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Dean Karavite, design, disabilities, EHR, ePatient, IDEO, PHR, podcast, Shawn Henry, usability, Whitney Quesenbery

Privacy and Google Glass: Where’s the Line?

July 10, 2014 By Deepika Patel Leave a Comment

Privacy and Google Glass: Where’s the Line?

Google. Is there ever a moment when we don’t use a Google service? Whether we are searching for a new recipe to locating directions when lost to sharing documents and pictures with friends and family, Google is there for us. So what can Google do for us when it comes to health ...

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Filed Under: mHealth, PHR Tagged With: Google Glass, HIPAA, Patient Privacy, patient rights

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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