Eric Wicklund
The two tech giants are beginning work on a platform that would make Google's enhanced glasses fit snugly on the noses of clinicians in several settings, from the operating room to the accident scene.
The Health RADAR, developed by Cambridge-based Nanosym Diagnostics, can detect any disease with a genetic fingerprint from a single drop of blood or saliva within an hour. And it can be done without a lab, trained specialists, electricity or running water.
The Center for Internet Security wants to develop a set of guidelines, endorsed by device makers and healthcare providers, to ensure that medical devices like pacemakers and insulin pumps can't be hacked or compromised.
In their first joint venture, athenahealth and Epocrates have developed an app that allows clinicians to identify known local bacterial infections based on their patient's location, then determine a best course for treatment.
With an app developers challenge and 13 new partners in its healthcare vertical, California-based Box is looking to develop mHealth solutions to the provider-patient communications dilemma. And it's partnering with one of the nation's largest healthcare networks to get this job done.
The Go You Cigna Marketplace, unveiled this week at the Health 2.0 conference in California, is the latest effort by an insurer to offer a platform of relevant - and certified - apps for its members.
Newton-Wellesley Hospital is one of the first in the nation to use the EarlySense System, which uses a sensor placed under the mattress to record heart and respiration rates and patient movement.
In an effort to combine fashion sense with wearable sensors, a California entrepreneur has unveiled a stylish headset that also gathers breathing sounds and other biometric data
In an interview with mHealthNews, the outgoing National Coordinator for Health IT says his office has made great strides in pushing mobile health onto the national stage.
The FDA's final guidance on the regulation of mobile medical apps, released on Monday, clarifies what will and won't be governed by the agency and gives consumers a forum to ask questions and see examples.