Health Tech Insights

Breaking bad habits and creating new ones is an incredibly difficult task. In most circumstances, people only change when able to measure their progress against a baseline measurement. This is even more true when it comes to lifestyle changes – even if those changes are for the better. In our previous Emerging Health Technology Spotlight with Retrofit, we heard from Retrofit Weight Loss CEO Jeff Hyman. Now, we are talking to…

Potentially, one of the most dynamic technologies within the healthcare industry has to be the Electronic Health Record. In recent years, many have wondered how effective can EHRs be and do they make a difference. In today’s Emerging Health Technology Spotlight, hear from Terhilda Garrido, Vice President, Health IT Transformation & Analytics, of Kaiser Permanente as she chats with Health Tech Insights about her company’s recent study on the effectiveness…

One of the biggest issues facing the delivery of quality care is access to care. ZocDoc aims to assist in alleviating this issue by giving patients to a tool find highly rated doctors online and book appointments to see these doctors much sooner than the average national wait time. In today’s Emerging Health Technology spotlight, hear from Cyrus Massoumi, CEO and Founder of ZocDoc. Read on to hear more about about…

Keeping up to date on the latest medical news and research can be quite a hassle. Sometimes you wish there was a way to keep track of it with much ease. Introducing Docphin. In today’s Emerging Health Technology Spotlight, we had the chance to talk to Mitesh Patel, Co-Founder of Docphin, and hear more about his company’s platform, hailed by TechCrunch as “A Bloomberg for Doctors.”

One of the hottest areas in Health Information Technology definitely has to be the startup scene. With numerous health technology startup incubators like Rock Health, Blueprint Health, and the like, we are seeing more innovation, quicker than ever before. In today’s Emerging Health Technology Spotlight, we had the chance hear from Ming-Zher Poh, Co-founder and CEO of Cardiio, a recent graduate of RockHealth and hear more about the #1 Top Paid App…

Another study has come along to support the iPhone as a reliable tool for remotely reviewing medical images and assessing patients when a standard workstation is not available. This time, the Apple smartphone is proving its mettle in ophthalmology. Click here to read more

Cardiio has launched their first, much anticipated, biosensor that uses an iPhone or iPad camera to provide touch free heart rate measurements and related health predictions. The app, priced at $4.99, is beautiful, intuitive, and claims to accurately assess resting heart rate to within three beats per minute of standard medical pulse monitors. Click here to read more about Cardiio

Recently in the news, radiation being emitted by cell phones has been a hot topic in the news. Both Bloomberg Businessweek and CNN reported on the Government Accountability Office’s recommendation for the FCC to review and reassess standards for radiation exposure from mobile phone. For today’s Emerging Health Technology Spotlight, read on to hear more about a mobile application that encourages a healthy lifestyle for mobile device users by empowering…

Social media has become commonplace in many facets of our lives today. With it, we can interact with our family, friends, and pretty much anyone in less than a second.  In today’s entry in the Emerging Health Technology Series, we hear from Graham Dodge, Co-Founder and CEO of sickweather and learn more about how sickweather uses social media data to track diseases in real time.

Now that three generations of iPads have been released few naysayers can be found. As of December 2011, Apple has sold more than 63 million iPads worldwide and some analysts predict that Apple could sell another 48 million in 2012. With developers racing to the table with hundreds of thousands of new apps and as industries began to create workflow with tablet PCs in mind, the full impact of the…