Technology

In this video, : Jim Hansen, vice president and executive director of Dossia Consortium, discusses his vision of how health 2.0 tools can enhance the doctor-patient relationship.

In this video, Aaron Blackledge, MD, founder of Care Practice in San Francisco, discusses founding his practice as a model for young, tech-savvy doctors.

Join us February 29th for the second edition of the 2012 HCPLive Webinar Series. We’re working with our friends at Health 2.0 to bring you an exciting and packed show that will focus on innovative tools for physicians including products that transform and aid in everything from scheduling to follow-up.

What better way to pay for school than to create an innovative health-related mobile application? An ongoing contest sponsored by the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering offers students pursuing degrees in health, engineering, and computer science the opportunity to do just that—and is offering a top prize of $10,000.

In this video, Roman Nowygrod, MD, FACS, professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, discusses advances in imaging technology such as ultrasound, CAT scans, and MRIs that allow for minimally invasive diagnoses.

BodyWave, the biofeedback device which measures brainwave activity through the body’s extremities, could train children with ADHD to focus when used in conjunction with interactive computer games.

The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was deemed a success in all areas of technologic advancement, especially within the health sector via the Digital Health Summit.

Hospitals looking to be prepared for a sharp increase in patients during flu season may be better off monitoring trends in Internet search traffic than waiting for lagging government reports to arrive, Johns Hopkins University researchers report.

'Doctor in Your Car' helps drivers monitor health and wellness while in their cars.

On January 5, Becker’s Orthopedic & Spine author Rachel Fields posted a list, “40 of the Most Powerful People in Healthcare.”

In hospitals and other medical settings, any surface touched by multiple people can serve as a medium for spreading viruses and bacteria—even a computer keyboard. That’s where the Vioguard self-sanitizing keyboard, which was approved for use in health care settings last week by the FDA, comes in.

Hospitals are increasing their use of cardiac monitors to detect heart rhythm abnormalities and reduce staffing needs, but this may end up inadvertently harming patients, a report in the Boston Globe suggests.

Dr. Sanjoy Paul leads the Accenture Technology Labs in India. At this year's mHealth Summit, Dr. Paul spoke about the challenges of collecting clinical from rural areas of India and how that data can be used to perform an instant diagnosis.

As the year comes to a close, one cannot help but reflect on the astounding technological advancements made in 2011, particularly since such progress has greatly benefited the medical industry.

One of the featured applications at this year's mHealth Summit was OnWatch, a mobile application designed to ensure the safety of women on college campuses. In this video, creator Jill Campbell talks about the usage of the app, which won the Obama administration's "Apps Against Abuse" contest.

In this video, Chris Fey, founder, CEO and chairman of US Preventive Medicine, and Joe Theismann, world-championship winning quarterback and US Preventive Medicine spokesperson discuss the importance of preventative health and speak about a new app called Macaw.

In this video, Kabir Kasargod, part of the Wireless Health Business Development team at Qualcomm, speaks about partnering with U.S. Preventive Medicine's Prevention to develop new mobile application services in health care.

Over the past few years there has been an increasing amount of mobile technologies that enhance the ability to access public health information and improve the delivery of health services to the public at large, as well as to health care professionals. The ubiquity of cell phones makes SMS text messaging the natural platform to deliver these interventions.

Healthcare is experiencing a myriad of changes in the administrative, legislative and technology pillars, with each contributing to the dynamic as we know it.

Annual worldwide downloads of mHealth apps will be 44 million next year and reach 142 million by 2016, predicts a report released earlier this week by UK-based Juniper Reports.