We have been talking in recent posts about large healthcare tech companies that are changing healthcare. They play an essential role in the overall ecosystem, some bringing years of tested experience to their solutions. But the way healthcare serves patients is changing as we go through a transitional period into a new era of connected healthcare. The patient is becoming empowered with their ...

We have been looking at how the major technology companies are participating in the healthcare industry. Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon are all making significant investments in developing products and services for healthcare, especially as the fusion of clinical and consumer technology takes place. While most of the media attention focused on those four (sometimes called the "big ...

"My watch is saying I'm going into Afib, but it also says I've got that call in 5 minutes...what to do?!?!"

-the dilemma of an Apple Watch user-

I don't own an Apple Watch, but Apple is convincing many that wearable health monitors are the next cool must-have gadget. They have had massive success with their other products, but now there is a watch that can track and report personal ...

We have recently written about proposed rules that are intended to mandate interoperability between EHR systems and allow patients to let 3rd party apps use their health data. In the past ten years, since the meaningful use mandate, EHR vendors have raced to grab as much of the market as possible. They have walled their systems off from exchanging data with competitors to guard their share. ...

Messaging has become a popular form of communication in the connected world. We are in an era of increasing automation, and chatbots are becoming the new way that patients are getting answers and solutions for their problems. Other industries have benefited from the administrative time and cost-saving benefits of using chatbots to handle simple interactions. Through increased use, chatbots ...