It's hard to overstate the impact Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56, has had on technology for the past 30 years. In hardware, software, communications and design, Apple's contributions have been incalculable – not least in healthcare.
The online reactions last night – with many responses no doubt tapped onto iPhone screens or typed into MacBook Pros – attested to the far-reaching...
Clarimed, a new healthcare rating agency offering independent information and reference tools, has launched its new online service at the Health 2.0 conference. The site features analytical insights into medical devices, diseases, procedures and manufacturers.
Founder and CEO Nora Iluri points out that other industries with complicated products, such as cars and mutual funds, have rating agencies...
GE has launched a new initiative aimed at accelerating cancer innovation and improving care for 10 million patients around the world by 2020. As part of Thursday's announcement, GE is sponsoring a $100 million open innovation challenge to identify and bring to market ideas that advance breast cancer diagnostics.
As part of its healthymagination initiative, GE's Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt,...
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – In what its CEO bills as a development that "could finally drive global usage and adoption" of the technology, drchrono, which makes electronic health records for iPads, received meaningful use certification as an ambulatory EHR earlier this summer.
Its certification, from San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based InfoGard Laboratories, an ONC-...
Researchers at the University of Missouri have found that two devices commonly used for video gaming and security systems are effective in detecting the early onset of illness and fall risk in seniors.
The Mizzou researchers have long been using motion-sensing technology to monitor changes in the health of residents at TigerPlace, an independent living community in Columbia. Now their findings...
The American Medical Association has named the finalists of the 2011 AMA App Challenge. AMA members can vote for their favorite app idea for the month of September.
Earlier this year, physicians, residents and medical students nationwide were invited to submit their app ideas for a chance to have the AMA develop it. Out of the hundreds of submitted ideas, 10 have been selected as finalists.
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Aiming to single out high-potential health IT startups and help enable their "rapid development and growth," Healthbox is a new accelerator program that offers support for seed-stage companies that can chart the "complex transition into the digital age."
Healthbox will officially launch in January 2012 with an inaugural class of 10 startups. For three months, these teams will share collaborate in...
Rubbermaid Medical Solutions has launched a new Innovation Center and updated testing facility. The center highlights the evolution of medical carts and offers end users an opportunity to see how different EHR solutions can be utilized in a hospital environment.
Coupled with a dedicated testing facility, Rubbermaid Medical Solutions is able to test products and technology in a simulated...
Just three weeks after its iPad-native EHR made news for gaining ONC-ATCB-certification, drchrono has launched an iOS app to replace paper-based patient check-in.
Company execs say the OnPatient app can be downloaded to the iPad for free and integrated into a medical practice as a standalone application – the patient check-in software also integrates with with the drchrono's iPad EHR.
“The...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – The news wasn’t a surprise. By the time it was confirmed, it had been rumored for months. Still, it was a sad day.
Google Health, having failed to catch on like so many of the IT colossus’ other projects, announced that it would go dark on Jan. 1, 2012.
The personal health record did not have “the broad impact that we hoped it would,” wrote Aaron Brown, senior product...
