News

A new way of 'tagging' the EHR
By Eric Wicklund | 10:41 am | September 24, 2015
A tech partnership is promoting an RFID platform for linking clinicians to their patients and medical records in the hospital.
Text messaging reduces cholesterol, blood pressure, BMI in heart disease patients
By Jonah Comstock | 09:03 am | September 24, 2015
CliniCloud raises $5M for smartphone-connected medical kits
By Aditi Pai | 08:13 am | September 24, 2015
Momentum builds to reimburse all telestroke services
By Eric Wicklund | 10:56 am | September 23, 2015
Medicare currently reimburses for telestroke services if they're located in rural parts of the country. New legislation would end that restriction and support care in urban and suburban areas as well, potentially saving thousands of lives and billions of dollars.
Digital health and the power of the patient
By Kaiser Health News | 09:33 am | September 23, 2015
In a Q&A with Kaiser Health News, Eric Topol talks about using technology to change the dynamic between the patient and the doctor
Researchers get $166K grant for smartphone-connected sickle cell disease monitoring system
By Aditi Pai | 09:04 am | September 23, 2015
Joslin Diabetes Center to pilot test mobile app for Type 1 patients
By Jonah Comstock | 09:02 am | September 23, 2015
AstraZeneca releases preclinical data for 50 drugs, crowdsources new drug combinations
By Aditi Pai | 03:53 am | September 23, 2015
Whoop, a wearable for athletes, raises $12 million
By Jonah Comstock | 02:38 pm | September 22, 2015
Cigna shares some data from its wearable device randomized control trial
By Aditi Pai | 12:43 pm | September 22, 2015