Massachusetts eHealth Institute

As digital becomes the new norm in healthcare, how is patient safety being considered?

By Laura Lovett 03:32 pm January 29, 2020

Patient safety is an age-old concern in the healthcare industry. However, as the latest tech-enabled tools begin to emerge in medicine, new questions around patient safety begin to arise as well. “When we think about the use of these tools in healthcare, we think about what is the same and what is different [from traditional care],” Jennifer Goldsack, executive director of the Digital Medicine...

Survey: 70 percent of caregivers say tech plays no role or a minor role in their work

By Jonah Comstock 05:29 pm June 27, 2017

A new survey of 700 non-professional family caregivers finds that just 30 percent say technology plays a major role in their caregiving. Forty-two percent say technology plays a minor role, and 28 percent says it plays no role at all. The survey was conducted by the Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI) to provide some guidance for digital health companies looking to $470 billion per year home...