HD Explorer, June 22nd, 2015
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The Health Data Exploration Project’s regular scan through the news.
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11 tech innovations changing medicine
Enormous technological changes in medicine and healthcare are heading our way. These trends have a variety of stakeholders: patients, medical professionals, researchers, medical students, and consumers. They are important because of the impact they will likely have on all of us at one time or another. Read more…
How Google will make billions from your blood pressure
Data is money. Alone, yours is virtually worthless, but pool all those fractions of a cent together and someone’s going to make a whole load of cash. And one of the biggest someones in that business is Google. Read more…
Mayo researchers: Digital tools reduce secondary cardiac illness issues
Smartphone apps, text messaging and other digital technologies can decrease recurrence of cardiovascular illness and help those with cardiovascular disease have a healthier life, reveals an in-depth analysis of research studies. Read more…
The Pregnancy Test of the Future is Flushable, Private, and Sustainable
The at-home pregnancy test was a huge innovation in women’s health, but it hasn’t changed much in quite some time. That might lead you to believe that its current form is flawless—well, far from it. Read more…
Shift – or get out of the way of the patient toward better healthcare
Healthcare has a change problem, or a drinking problem depending on whom you ask. Read more…
This cosmetics company is ready to cover your body in electronics
John Rogers has a patch on his forearm about the size of a quarter. It’s reminiscent of a child’s temporary tattoo meant to look like a miniature sand dollar. Read more…
FDA allows marketing of new device to help the blind process visual signals via their tongues
The Food and Drug Administration today allowed marketing of a new device that when used along with other assistive devices, like a cane or guide dog, can help orient people who are blind by helping them process visual images with their tongues. Read more…
Digital health, self-driving cars and flipping the script on clinical trials
Innovation in digital health won’t come in a gradual, incremental way, but rather through dramatic re-imaginings of care.
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To avoid digital health failure, we need to design for behavior
Patient engagement has been called the blockbuster drug of the century. In the booming frontier that is digital health everyone is trying to activate and sustain end users. Despite digital health funding and healthcare consumerism advancing at a faster-than-ever pace, abandonment statistics reveal that approximately 50 percent of people who start using a digital health device stop using it within six months. Read more…
Oculus Rift (consumer version): Hands-on
Though we were part of a lengthy interview session with Oculus VR last week, one thing we didn’t get to do then was actually use the headset. Today at E3 2015, we got our first hands-on with the consumer Oculus Rift. Read more…
The Internet of YOU: When Wearable Tech and the Internet of Things Collide
The recent Apple Healthbook and Google’s Android Wear combined with Motorola’s Moto 360 news are taking the wearable space to the next level. Apple Healthbook demonstrates the powerful insights about ourselves that wearables could deliver. Read more…
Wearable Tech Will Shift From Novelty To Norm In The Next 5 Years
Though predictions on ramifications varied, most agreed, “there will be a global, immersive, invisible, ambient networked computing environment built through the continued proliferation of smart sensors, cameras, software, databases, and massive data centres.” Read more…
Sally Okun explains the new research collaboration with the FDA
Patients’ lives and well-being often depend upon medical products approved and regulated by the FDA. But most of the information we see on safety labels comes from clinical trials, which aren’t typically representative of the actual populations of patients who will take the medication. Working with us, the FDA will be able to see the real-world impact of taking medications over time, which can help identify benefits and risks earlier. The FDA isn’t just talking about patient-centricity; they are partnering with us to work directly with patients, and give them a collective voice as part of the FDA’s surveillance system. Read more…
FDA taps PatientsLikeMe to test the waters of social media adverse event reporting
Online patient community PatientsLikeMe has found another partner for its massive repository of patient-generated data on health conditions and treatments, but it’s not another pharma company or retail pharmacy. Read more…
New Poll Shows Two-Thirds Of Doctors Reluctant To Share Health Data With Patients
The polling question was simple. “Should patients have access to their entire medical record ‒ including MD notes, any audio recordings, etc…?” For many, the response by over 2,300 physicians came as no real surprise. Read more…
A Wearable System That Could Track You Until You Die
When it comes to the human body, the sexes are not equal. Sure, men and women share a lot of parts, such as hearts and legs and lungs and breasts. But physiologically, their bodies respond differently to the same stimuli. Read more…
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