Are Digital Smart Health Communities the Future of Community Care?
/Smart health communities are healthcare consumers' response to an increasingly community-based and digital medical industry.
Read MoreJust One in Five Consumers Trust AI-Generated Healthcare Advice
/Only one in ve consumers would trust AI-generated advice for healthcare, according to survey of more than 2,000 U.S. adults by The Harris Poll on behalf of Invoca.
Read MorePatients Ready to Embrace AI, Patient Engagement Technologies
/Forty-two percent of patients said they are comfortable with AI being a part of their docs' patient engagement technologies toolkit.
mHealth Apps for Chronic Care Struggle to Solve the Motivation Issue
/A new study finds that mHealth apps aren't being used by people with chronic conditions, either because they don't know about the apps or don't think they'll help.
Read MoreNFL players to use wearable device to monitor readiness to play
/Picture this: A television network during an NFL broadcast comparing the heart rates of star players doing the same workout -- or while they sleep. Say Tom Brady versus Cam Newton. Now picture being able to determine which player’s body was better prepared to play.
Read MoreDeveloping a Framework for Evaluating the Patient Engagement, Quality, and Safety of Mobile Health Applications
/Growing evidence suggests that health care is more efficient and effective when patients are actively engaged in their treatment. Engaged, or activated, patients collaborate with their providers, are treated with respect and dignity, receive information related to their care, and are involved in decision-making. Two separate reviews commissioned by the Institute of Medicine and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that chronic disease self-management and promotion of patient engagement are essential to successful care management programs targeting patients with high needs and high costs and are associated with improved quality of life, functional autonomy, and decreased hospital use.
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