‘Smart fabric’ could store passcodes or I.D. in clothes
/A new kind of “smart fabric” can store data without any on-board electronics or sensors.
Read MorePartners Looks to Integrate mHealth Data Into the Clinical Record
/Partners Connected Health is expanding its mHealth platform to integrate data from consumer-facing devices and wearables, giving healthcare providers new pathways to remote monitoring and care coordination.
Read MoreMobile devices in healthcare may one day appear 'invisible'
/Ask health IT experts about the penetration of mobile devices in healthcare, and most will say the medical field is lagging behind other industries in using the technology.
Read MoreWearable gadget could shield your voice from hackers
/A security-token necklace, ear buds, or eyeglasses could eliminate vulnerabilities in voice authentication—the practice of logging in to a device or service with your voice alone.
Read MoremHealth Developer Warns Doctors, Patients About Hacking ThreatW
/In an mHealth industry first, a developer of digital insulin pumps is warning users that one of its devices could be hacked – with possibly fatal results.
Read MoremHealth Hacking Threat Prompts FDA to Issue Pacemaker Recall
/The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is issuing recalls for roughly 500,000 implantable pacemakers, saying the mHealth devices are susceptible to hacking.
Read MoreWhat Do Patients Want in Self-Management mHealth Apps?
/Patients, providers, and caregivers all must weed through the most valuable self-management mHealth apps as chronic disease management continues to go digital. Not all mHealth apps are created equal, and patients have opinions about which will be most effective in supporting their own care.
Read MoreLiveWell RERC Releases Amazon Echo Skill That Reads TechWatch and LiveWell News Blogs
/LiveWell RERC development staff recently released an Amazon Echo Skill that will read aloud the latest posts from our two blogs, TechWatch and LiveWell News. The new skill can be installed on the Amazon Alexa app and then utilized on any Amazon Echo product. The skill taps into the RSS feeds from our blogs and is called the LiveWell News Skill. Once enabled, saying the command “Alexa, what’s the news”, or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing,” will allow your Echo to read aloud the latest LiveWell RERC news feeds. A user will only get information if it has been updated within the past week. The LiveWell RERC developer of the new skill from Duke University, Leighanne Davis, says “The new skill will make the news feeds more accessible and convenient to a variety of users by providing speech output.”
Read MoreFDA's Digital Health Innovation Action Plan
/FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) puts patients at the forefront of our vision—we are driven by timely patient access to high-quality, safe and effective medical technology.
Read MoreAlibaba challenges Google, Amazon with new Echo-like device
/The competition in digital speaker-assistants is getting more intense, as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. unfurled an Amazon Echo-like device and fellow Chinese internet giants Tencent and Baidu prepare to develop their own.
Read MoreFDA Signals Shift in Digital Health Regulation
/The FDA recently announced a wide-ranging Digital Health Innovation Plan that will focus on cultivating discovery across the medical field.
Read MoreApp economy to grow to $6.3 trillion in 2021, user base to nearly double to 6.3 billion
/The global app economy will be worth $6.3 trillion by 2021, up from $1.3 trillion last year, according to a new report this morning from app analytics firm App Annie. During that same time frame, the user base will almost double from 3.4 billion people using apps to 6.3 billion, while the time spent in apps will grow to 3.5 trillion hours in 2021, up from 1.6 trillion in 2016.
Read MoreIs Apple iMessage HIPAA Compliant?
/Think twice before texting your patients and staff.
iMessage is a go-to technology for Apple users in the medical field because it so easily integrates into pre-existing office infrastructure. Using iMessage for office communication can facilitate quick conversations among office staff -- but when it comes to sending and receiving patient data, the question of whether or not iMessage is HIPAA compliant needs to be taken into account.
Read MoreGoogle I/O 2017 Updates on Disability, Accessibility, Assistive Technology (AT), and Emerging Technologies
/An experience to be remembered and referred to throughout the year, Google I/O 2017 lived up to its hype. Sessions, sandbox demonstrations, Code Labs, and Google expert office hours boasted topics on Android, machine learning, Internet of Things, the Google Assistant, Accessibility, and others. By giving accessibility the center stage for a variety of sessions, sandbox demonstrations, and expert office hours, Google has again shown the AT community its dedication to closing the gap in accessibility and usefulness of technology for people with disabilities. Google’s many technologies and products also show big implications for the disabled community to leverage throughout life.
Read MoreMore providers turn to IoT approaches to enhance patient care
/To improve the health of patients with chronic medical conditions, Ochsner Health System tapped into the Internet of Things.
Read MoreMultiuse data dominates 'Future of IoT' implementation
/The internet of things wave is here, and its promise of flashy new gadgets is quickly being overshadowed by its promising effects on both the enterprise and industry verticals. However, at the end of the day, Don DeLoach, former president and CEO of Infobright (it was acquired by Ignite Technologies in March 2017), knows IoT implementation is all about the data and how that data is being used.
Read MoreWhy IoT may be the next big target for ransomware attacks
/Ransomware has become one of the most serious cyber threats plaguing organizations. Today, healthcare and other types of organizations are trying to protect themselves from encryption viruses.
Read More21st Century Medicine: Where Big Tech Is Placing Bets In Healthcare
/Tech has already had a major impact on the healthcare industry in areas such as medical record systems, connected medical devices, telemedicine software, and a growing number of digital therapeutics startups that help patients manage chronic conditions at home. And over the last few years, the largest tech companies in the world have begun to bolster both internal development of healthcare products as well as their private market activity in the health sector.
Read MoreRoom for Improvement in Compliance Apps — Likely need more than just a reminder feature
/Doctors have been trying to get their patients to consistently take medications since the advent of medicine. Even Hippocrates described how some of his patients would feign compliance to his treatment plans. It may seem like a simple concept, yet achieving compliance has been elusive in modern medicine despite iterations of potential solutions. Complex factors make up the barriers for medical compliance, and it is unlikely that there is one catch-all solution. Using advancements in mobile health to address these issues could potentially decrease the morbidity and mortality of noncompliance.
Read MoreDevising new metrics for senior health with the smart home
/The U.S. healthcare industry is undergoing seismic changes brought on in large part by a growing greying population. Homebased care and connected aging with smart environments for seniors are gaining traction as pivotal solutions, with the number of skilled nursing homes in the country stagnating for more than a decade. Fortunately many seniors — 90% — prefer to age in place in their own homes.
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