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How an avid gamer is helping UnitedHealth cut costs, make members healthier

Arrianne Hoyland, 33, likely didn’t imagine that her passion for video games would one day find an outlet in her profession. And yet that is exactly what happened at her corporate IT job at health...

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Digital startup HealthTap now allows doctors and patients to endorse skills,...

Digital health startup HealthTap began as a way to reduce the barriers between doctors and patients. The goal was (and continues to be) that HealthTap would connect people looking for reliable health...

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45% of health pros with smartphones have downloaded 50-plus apps but only use...

Many doctors with smartphones are downloading mobile medical apps, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are using them equally. In fact, this infographic, based on a September 2011 survey,...

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More than half of smartphone owners, or 45 percent of all U.S. adults use...

A new report from the Pew Internet Project has found that more than half of smartphone owners have used their phones to search for health information in the past year. They comprise 45 percent of all...

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America, the land of mhealth opportunity (video)

The American mobile health app landscape is perceived as an open market for innovation. Yet the lack of any particular oversight or regulation specific to mobile health means there is a wide variety of...

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Get an ECG now on your iPhone courtesy of newly approved device/app from...

Move over mobile medical apps. A new device and app is taking the mhealth capabilities of the iPhone to a whole new level. San Francisco-based AliveCor announced Monday that it has received clearance...

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10 Healthcare Trends to Watch in 2013

  1.      ICD-10 Transition October 1, 2014 seems like a very long time from now.  While predominantly impacting hospitals and payers, the impact of the change to a new classification scheme will be...

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What is the profile of an average mobile health user? Health marketers listen...

With the rising popularity of mobile health app and mobile health use, marketers are keen to know who it is that is using these digital tools to monitor their health. The infographic below, courtesy...

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Dublin startup accelerator HealthXL on final leg to select 10 healthcare...

Dublin startup accelerator HealthXL will be swinging by Minneapolis Tuesday in its global hunt for 10 companies/entrepreneurs whose technological ideas have the potential to disrupt the world of...

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California startup simplifying how doctors return after-hours calls raises $1.2M

San Francisco-based Ringadoc, which aims to provide doctors an easy way to return patient calls that come after hours, announced Tuesday that it has raised $1.2 million in a seed round from Founder’s...

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Physicians’ websites are more “electronic brochures” than online health...

A new survey finds that doctors’ websites are woefully lacking when it comes to serving patients. No surprises there – after all, the most commonly used technology in a doctor’s office is still the fax...

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IT firm’s app adapts consumer facing digital multimedia notebook for the...

One of the most consistent complaints INADEV Corp. CEO Ferhan Hamid has become accustomed to hearing from physicians and other healthcare professionals is why can’t consumer apps be adapted for...

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Boston-based company gets FDA clearance for noninvasive monitor aimed to help...

Reflectance Medical, Inc. has received FDA 510(k) clearance for a noninvasive device that could help clinicians determine whether a patient is in shock or pre-shock or has tissue acidosis in real time...

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Could this study finally settle one mHealth, data-sharing debate?

Dr. Eric Topol The push for regular interaction between patients and doctors, for mHealth and for data transparency has only begun. But the results from Scripps Translational Science Institute‘s...

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Verizon gets its first FDA clearance for remote-monitoring tool for chronic...

With the remote-monitoring market projected to reach $296.5 million by 2019, more companies see the value in developing a product for this market, including telecommunication companies. Verizon...

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Cardiocom acquisition shows Medtronic is serious about expanding from devices...

When Medtronic announced its acquisition of Cardiocom  earlier this week,  it was a big (and loud) move in shaping the company’s “now we’re a healthcare service provider”  strategy. But Cardiocom  only...

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Will the Neil deGrasse Tyson of medicine please stand up?

There are many inspirational names in modern-day healthcare and, partially due to reform, room for even more. But a commenter on Reddit posed the question of whether there is anyone who is as...

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How much does it cost to replace the battery in a defibrillator? Super...

If you don’t follow Hugo Campos (@HugoOC) on Twitter, you probably should. He’s changing the way at least one of the big medical device companies–Medtronic (MDT)–thinks about sharing data with...

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Data scientist tests 21 sensors and still can’t find a good one

At the Privacy Identity Innovation conference in Seattle last week, Liz Gannes of All Things D met Rachel Kalmar of Misfit Wearables. Kalmar is a data scientist and a one-person focus group for 21...

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Will FDA step in with lab development tests?

In her speech at Advamed 2013, FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg said a new challenge will be regulating in some way lab development tests. Now, LDTs are left to CLIA, which, Hamburg said, does not...

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