World's First Mobile App For Complete Family Health Care Premieres In Austin
Medici October 17, 2016Original URLMedici, an Austin-based company with leadership from Johns Hopkins, Amazon, eBay, McKinsey, KPMG and others officially launches its health care service. Medici...
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Why There Will Never Be an Uber for Healthcare
You should walk away from anyone who says there can be an “Uber for healthcare.” It is the equivalent of someone saying they “have a bridge to sell you.” Or, more precisely, it shows a complete lack of...
View ArticleSurgical Robots to Provide Open-Source Platform for Medical Robotics Research
In a basement on the University of Washington campus perch seven identical robots. Named Raven, each has two winglike arms that end in tiny claws designed to perform surgery on a simulated patient.Read...
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Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.
Johns Hopkins Medicine May 3, 2016Original URLAnalyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year...
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Rise of Drones for Medical Supply Delivery
This is not going to all be about getting your books, or your socks, or even your new HD television faster. It is going to impact many industries -- including health care. And that impact has already...
View ArticleQuality Matters: "Hospital at Home" Programs Improve Outcomes, Lower Costs...
Hospital at home programs that enable patients to receive acute care at home have proven effective in reducing complications while cutting the cost of care by 30 percent or more, leading to...
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Medical Health Records on iPhone Now Available to US Veterans
Apple November 6, 2019Original URLHealth Records on iPhone brings together veterans' hospitals, clinics and existing information on the Health app to make it easy for them to see their medical data...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Releases 'Open Source' Suite for Automated Global Electronic...
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) have released the Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance (SAGES)Read...
View ArticleInaugural Blueprint Health Startups Pitch Investors On Disrupting Health...
Nine startups demo’ed today at Blueprint Health, the health-tech startup incubator nestled in a Soho office that opened its first session in January.Read more in the full article.read more
View ArticleHow Superbugs Hitch A Ride From Hog Farms Into Your Community
Factory-scale farms don't just house hundreds of genetically similar animals in tight quarters over vast cesspools collecting their waste...And when you dose the animals daily with small amounts of...
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Healthcare: We Get What We Pay For
Politico (Dan Diamond) had two great pieces last week -- one on how tax-exempt hospitals benefited from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) while cutting charity care, and the second on how the Cleveland...
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Good Ideas From Unexpected Places: Thinking Creatively for Healthcare Innovation
How about this: in Harvard Business Review, two leaders at Johns Hopkins suggested that hospitals could learn something about buying equipment from -- drum roll, please -- the airline industry. You...
View ArticleEbola Can Attack From Hazmat Suit Surfaces
Over 120 health care workers have died in the Ebola outbreak. Now, doctors are warning each other to be ever-vigilant in precautions, down to how to take off protective gear at the end of a...
View ArticleDirect Secure Messaging Makes Big Impact In Chicago Behavioral Health Community
Individuals with serious mental illnesses are 2.6 times more likely than the general public to develop cancer and nearly twice as likely to end up in an emergency or inpatient department with a serious...
View ArticleApplying The Lessons Learned In Other Industries To Health Care
While grappling with the costs and imperfections of our health care system in recent years, a multitude of experts in the field found it useful and enlightening to compare health care to a variety of...
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