VA Medical Center

AdhereTech launches new bottle, sees 20 percent adherence boost

By Jonah Comstock 10:42 am October 28, 2015

AdhereTech, the New York City-based smart pill bottle company, has begun shipping the generation 2 version of its bottle to pharma and provider customers. The new version incorporates a number of changes based on user feedback that make it more robust, easier to use, and expand the reach of the company outside the United States. AdhereTech raised $1.75 million to develop the new bottle last year...

VA wants patients to help speed up diagnoses

By Brian Dolan 02:38 pm December 8, 2010

In less than a year the Veterans Affairs Medical Center hopes to enable its patients to use their own smartphones to "help speed up their diagnoses," associate chief of staff for informatics Divya Shroff told the Washington Examiner. Equipping the patient with access to the appropriate medical information is just the next step in a trial the VA has been conducting with mobile health firm mVisum...