Mobile might hold key to patient engagement in MU Stage 2
When Stage 2 of the federal electronic health records (EHR) incentive program known as meaningful use begins in October (for hospitals) and in January 2014 (for physicians), compliance for the first...
View ArticleKaiser Permanente tapped 100Plus for health app for employees
At HIMSS13 this week, Kaiser Permanente had its suite of smartphone apps on display at its booth on the exhibit hall show floor. In the mix was an app called Hopp2IT, which turned out to be a white...
View ArticleMobile slowly becomes a path to health information exchange
Interoperability clearly was one the main themes at the just-concluded Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in New Orleans. Probably the biggest...
View ArticleKaiser Permanente’s Dr. Yan Chow: Workflow is the barrier for telehealth
Underserved communities in the U.S. stand to benefit greatly from telehealth and mobile health technologies, but only if clinicians adjust their workflows to include remote care, payers start offering...
View ArticleFewer doctors, more cameras to spur teledermatology
Medical peripherals can combine with a smartphone to create the function of an ultrasound machine, an EKG reader, or an otoscope, to name just a few diagnostic devices. But without buying anything...
View ArticleKaiser Permanente launches open health API with facility info, self-tracking...
Integrated health system Kaiser Permanente is launching an open API, called Interchange, that will enable developers to use publicly available information from Kaiser Permanente in their own apps....
View ArticleKaiser talks up monkey game, talks down EMR integration
When Kaiser Permanente debuted its Interchange platform API initiative last month, the company made it clear that they would not be feeding patient health information into third party apps or devices...
View ArticleEight ways the Microsoft Kinect will change healthcare
We never really know where the next game-changing innovation will come from. The smartphone started out as just that — a smarter phone. But when Apple opened up its API to developers, that open source...
View ArticleAtHoc launches emergency alert system for home health caregivers
A company with a background in emergency alerts and crisis communications is entering the commercial healthcare market by adapting a system previously designed for government operations and by...
View ArticleReport: Clinical apps look promising for asthma, diabetes, but questions persist
Mobile apps for clinical management have tremendous potential to help providers and patients to manage chronic ailments together and to expand access to care. However, lack of interoperability with...
View ArticleKaiser Permanente backs DreamIt Health’s next class
Correction: A previous version of this story identified this as DreamIt’s third class, rather than it’s second. DreamIt Health, a relative newcomer to the digital health incubator scene, has proven...
View ArticleIn-Depth: A brief history of digital patient engagement tools
Without a doubt patient engagement is one of the more important trends in healthcare and health IT right now. Over the past few years the tools that look to enable patient engagement between providers...
View ArticleKP discharge app is early step in future care vision
Three new Kaiser Permanente hospitals will be opening soon in California and will roll out the Journey Home Board, a tablet application that serves as an outpatient education and engagement app. The...
View ArticleFormer Healthline CEO launches digital patient engagement startup
Portland, Oregon-based GreenField Health, a subscription-based primary care clinic, has agreed to pilot Conversa Health’s digital patient engagement platform to try out the startup’s “digital...
View ArticleNine northwest health systems agree to make patient access to physician notes...
Nine health systems and organizations in Washington and Oregon — representing more than a million patients — have pledged to open up physician notes to patients via electronic medical records by the...
View ArticleKaiser Permanente app passes 1M downloads
Two days after Apple announced a major health tracking partnership with the Mayo Clinic, another big name healthcare provider — Kaiser Permanente has announced that its flagship app, also called Kaiser...
View ArticleKhosla and Google’s founders talk healthcare, Ginger.io, WellDoc
During a fireside chat at the annual Khosla Ventures CEO summit, investor Vinod Khosla talked to Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin about Google becoming a health company one day. As David...
View ArticleNearly half of Kaiser Permanente’s members use My Health Manager
Around 4.4 million members in health system Kaiser Permanente’s 9.1 million member network are using Kaiser’s online health management platform, called My Health Manager, according to a Kaiser’s 2013...
View ArticleKP CEO: Future care will be lifelong, patient-driven, and distributed
Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard Tyson believes three major trends are driving changes in the healthcare system, he said during his keynote on the final day of the Health 2.0 event in Santa Clara,...
View ArticleBessemer, Kaiser Permanente help Rock Health invest up to $250K in later...
Rock Health has raised its third fund and will up its contribution to new companies from $100,000 to $250,000, the company announced this morning. The lead investors in the fund are Bessemer Venture...
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