The "e-patient" movement seems to be accelerating. At the beginning of 2013, patient advocacy group the Society for Participatory Medicine hired its first-ever executive director. As the year draws to a close, a new book shows how engaged and empowered patients have been successful in "care hacking" the convoluted healthcare system and suggests how developers of digital technologies can prosper...
Growing pains and other hiccups in the sharing of data with patients doesn't mean healthcare providers should stop trying to make information more accessible to consumers or that people should stop demanding to be more at the center of their own healthcare, a well-known advocate of participatory medicine told an audience of medical informatics professionals.
Keynoting the opening session of the...
Data liberation advocate Hugo Campos has scored a small victory in his ongoing battle to gain access to potentially life-saving data generated from the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in his chest. Campos now gets XML files of reports from his defibrillator after device manufacturer Medtronic agreed to supply Campos' doctors at Stanford Hospital & Clinics with a script to run in...
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The final results from a yearlong study of how patients and their primary care providers...
Happtique, a healthcare-focused appstore, announced plans to create a certification program that will help the medical community determine which of the tens of thousands of health-related mobile apps are clinically appropriate and technically sound. The company has tapped a multi-disciplinary team to develop the "bona fide mHealth app certification program" within the next six months. The program...
This week I presented as part of the Mobile Health track at the ePatients Connections conference in Philadelphia. The track's chair was the inimitable Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, a noted health economist and commentator. Sarasohn-Kahn kicked off the afternoon with a sweeping presentation that covered a number of important aspects of the mobile health landscape. Below are a few excerpts from her...
During the past two days the mobihealthnews team has been covering the Health 2.0 conference here in Boston, MA. For those readers who were unable to make it to the show we also put together a quick photo essay that includes just some of the speakers and panels that were on-stage at the event this past week.
Click here to scroll through the photos we captured at the Health 2.0 event that took...
A.D.A.M. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Alan Greene (right) amused the audience and ACOR's Gilles Frydman (left) by referencing Thomas Jefferson half a dozen times during a plenary session on Wednesday here at Health 2.0 in Boston.
Sensei CEO Bob Schwarzberg demonstrates his company's latest iPhone application, My Diabetes Guide.
A.D.A.M. CEO Kevin Noland demonstrates his company's latest iPhone...
