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Mobile health systems and devices

• Telemedicine pediatrics is focus of new telehealth provider offering

  The Nemours children's health system is offering pediatric telemedicine services for out-of-state patients as part of the new American Well telehealth exchange. Continue Reading

• Apple Watch tracking app guides CEO of health IT firm on fitness runs

  The CEO of a secure clinical communications vendor uses his Apple Watch to track fitness runs, but is moving slowly on his company developing its own app for the watch. Continue Reading

• Mobile ultrasound scanner joins ecosystem of connected health devices

  As mobile devices in healthcare proliferate, clinicians are using mobile diagnostic tools, like hand-held ultrasound scanners, to provide care outside of traditional hospital settings. Continue Reading

• Investor steers venture capital for healthcare to proven technologies

  In choosing investments, a health IT venture capitalist looked for technologies with proven outcomes, not just pilot studies, notably in population health. Continue Reading

• Mobile may be key to addressing top healthcare business goals

  Mobile technologies may be the key to helping healthcare CIOs achieve top-of-mind business goals. A recent survey of over 100 health IT leaders found that the three main initiatives healthcare CIOs ... Continue Reading

• PR exec uses fashionable wearable technology to help stay fit

  Wearable health technology can sometimes look clunky, but it becomes more fashionable in this incarnation on a Boston PR exec's wrist and helps her stay fit in style.Continue Reading

• Hospital IT must manage, secure remote patient monitoring devices

  With more physicians prescribing wearables and other remote patient monitoring technology to patients, hospital IT must be aware of security and management challenges.Continue Reading

• Interactive healthcare video platform designed to engage patients

  A healthcare video company uses data analytics and goal tracking for video and app-based platforms to engage patients and enhance corporate wellness programs.Continue Reading

• Physician fits bracelet wearable into fitness and fashion

  A cardiologist and medical adviser to health IT startups sports a bracelet-style wearable from Jawbone for workouts and her job and says wearables in healthcare are here to stay.Continue Reading

• Smartwatch activity tracker aids mHealth researcher with run regimen

  A medical school professor and mHealth researcher depends on her smartwatch wearable for tracking training runs, but doesn't use other smartwatch features.Continue Reading

• Telehealth technology in sight, even for old-schoolers, expert says

  Digital health evangelist Nick Adkins says telemedicine technology and services work well now, and even hospitals are getting into bringing care to patients where they are.Continue Reading

• Nick Adkins is a promoter of digital health with unique personal style

  Always wearing his trademark kilt, Nick Adkins is a colorful, passionate health IT personality and self-described digital health evangelist with a focus on video and telemedicine.Continue Reading

• Wearable activity tracker helps health IT analyst train for marathons

  After trading in a budget wellness band for a high-tech Fitbit, a health IT analyst finds the new wearable helps him train more efficiently for marathons.Continue Reading

• Epic EHR installation a challenge for Massachusetts hospitals

  Challenges of Massachusetts hospitals' adoption of an EHR from Epic Systems Corp. and a federal health privacy official's Fitbit experience discussed in HIT Squad podcast.Continue Reading

• Health consumerism will drive future of healthcare, expert says

  As hospitals recede as the dominant focal point of healthcare, the consumerization of health is empowering people with access to their own health records and patient engagement.Continue Reading