Earlier this month the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple revealing an invention that could one day play a part in Apple’s Health Platform through HealthKit. Today Apple’s Health app gives users an easy-to-read dashboard of your health and fitness data. But HealthKit is also behind new hospital systems like the one from Ochsner Health System, the largest not-for-profit academic medical center in the Gulf South which uses iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch to further its mission of innovation in healthcare
New York-Presbyterian Expands its Telehealth Platform to Providers, Patients
The telehealth platform is the latest in a series of digital health initiatives for NYP, long considered one of the nation’s top mHealth-enabled systems. The six-campus health system which launched its own “innovation space” some two years ago, and now offers such services as a text-messaging platform for patients undergoing surgery (and their family and friends who want quick updates) and a mobile app – already in its third iteration – that helps users find any physician in the health system, get directions, access the health system’s Twitter feed for the latest news, get information about NYP services, and use the online payment system to pay bills.
Mayo Clinic, Thomas Jefferson transform telehealth and virtual care to redesign the patient experience
Thomas Jefferson is among the vanguard of hospital systems re-engineering telehealth and virtual care platforms to improve the patient experience. The Mayo Clinic, Ohio Health, and Hospital Corporation of America are also undertaking similar turn-around initiatives.
An angel on my shoulder: Mobile telemedicine for nursing homes
Zeriscope is an enterprise-grade, hands-free, mobile-first, multi-sensor SaaS (Software as a Service) platform. Nurses empowered with a Zeriscope-enabled mobile device are able to stream their point-of-view from a tethered camera system in real-time, high-definition video, with advanced sensor streams such as Bluetooth stethoscope audio.
Health execs, IT leaders, docs differ on telehealth drivers
While telehealth has long been a growing sector of the health IT industry in the U.S., the massive surge of newly insured Americans under the Affordable Care Act has thrust the industry into the spotlight, and telehealth is now more of a “must have” than a “nice to have” for patients, hospitals, physicians and other providers.
FCC launches mapping tool to explore link between health, broadband access
Zip code is often the best indicator of health outcomes, so in the age of digital health, it’s no surprise that those isolated from physical healthcare hubs are often also isolated from the technology that could fill those gaps. That’s why the Federal Communications Commission’s Connect2Health Task Force has launched a new mapping to tool that will try to identify where broadband could be maximized to improve access to health care.
How a Boston blizzard kickstarted telehealth at Massachusetts General
Most Bostonians look back on the blizzard of late 2014 less than fondly. But there was a silver lining for Massachusetts General Hospital, which found in the snowstorm the perfect test case for its then-fledgling telehealth program.
New RI law requires health plans to cover telemedicine services
Legislators in Rhode Island passed the Telemedicine Coverage Act, which requires commercial health insurers to cover telemedicine services to the same extent that services are covered via in-person care.
Telemedicine Is Convenient … But More Importantly It Saves Money
Telemedicine may be here to stay. Not so much because it’s convenient. Or even that patients want it. Its biggest selling point may be that it saves money.
Telehealth technology helping to ease VA Clinic backlog
Appointment wait times have been a big concern for veterans in Colorado for many months, but now the Colorado Springs Veterans Affairs Clinic says technology is helping to decrease their backlog.