Telehealth and virtual care have advanced leaps and bounds in 2020 and 2021, but there are still many ways in which the technology is inefficient or inaccessible, at least compared to what it could be. Host Jonah Comstock welcomes Dr. Daniel Kraft, founder and chair of Exponential Medicine, to talk about what the future might hold for telehealth and virtual care.
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While the world has been glued to Elizabeth Holmes' trial, the digital health startup world hasn't given up on the original dream of Theranos: convenient, accessible, low-cost blood testing available at retail locations in the community.
In today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock checks in with David Stein, CEO of Babson Diagnostics. The company has developed a low-volume blood test that can be...
In the second episode of "Industry Voices", we talk to a range of healthcare changemakers encountered at HLTH in Boston last month about health equity. Is the industry's attitude toward this important topic changing? Is it changing fast enough? And what steps and attitudes will be necessary to make the future of healthcare an inherently equitable one?
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In a field changing as quickly as healthcare, ongoing training and education are essential. And just as it did with telehealth and physician collaboration, COVID has helped accelerate work that was already going on in remote medical education. In today's episode of HIMSSCast, we will talk to two startup founders working on remote workforce training from different angles. First, host Jonah...
In the final podcast in our Virtual Care paradigm series, we look at how virtual care for mental health can benefit not only patients, but also physicians themselves, who face many barriers to mental health care and as a result suffer from high levels of stress, burnout, and even suicide. To discuss this issue and its potential solution, host Jonah Comstock is joined by Kavi Misri, founder and...
The CDC's Diabetes Prevention Program is one of the first lifestyle- and behavior-based interventions to be proven, in a large clinical study, to be more effective than a comparable drug (in this case metformin). Digital implementations can make the DPP more accessible and more scalable, and a number of digital health companies have been tackling this for the last few years.
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Last week, a database that was not password protected exposed more than 61 million records containing data from fitness trackers and wearables, including Apple HealthKit and Fitbit. On today's HIMSSCast a team of HIMSS Media editors – host Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett, MobiHealthNews Senior Editor Emily Olsen, and Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard –...
2020 was the year that Zoom entered our vocabulary as a verb meaning "to video chat." For Zoom it was the year that their customer base exploded, including in the healthcare space. It was a year of validation for the then nine-year-old tech company, but also a year of the sorts of challenges that come from rapid, unexpected scaling.
On today's HIMSSCast, Zoom's Head of Healthcare, Heidi West, ...
Host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett welcome Heather Mack – former MobiHealthNews Associate Editor, and now the head of content and editorial and Greylock Partners – to look back at another serious funding quarter for digital health and identify some of the trends that drove investment.
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For the past several months, Healthcare IT News Features Editor Bill Siwicki has been writing a series on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic for hospitals throughout the U.S. For this installment of HIMSSCast, Bill and host Jonah Comstock are joined by Paul Coyne, NP, clinical practice and chief nursing informatics officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Joe Fisne, associate...
