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Apple faces new lawsuit over tech behind its heart rate monitor

By Laura Lovett 03:57 pm April 09, 2018

The suit filed by Omni MedSci claims Apple infringed on a patent-pending laser technology that measures physiological parameters including heart rate.

A screensnap of the Drchrono EHR.

DrChrono to offer Apple hardware leasing for physician practices

By Mike Miliard 01:35 pm April 02, 2018

The first EHR vendor to build a native app for iOS devices now aims to make it easier for small and large practices to customize personal hardware packages for their offices, including MacBooks, Apple TV and more.

A screenshot of Seqster's aggregation tool for Alzheimer's care. Credit: Seqster

For Alzheimer's center, startup links EHR, wearables, ancestry, genomics data in one record

By Bill Siwicki 01:11 pm April 02, 2018

Seqster's aggregation allows for improved care now, as well as the ability to pass on Alzheimer's care data to future generations of the family, opening up invaluable resources to the research community.

Aneesh Chopra, president of Care Journey and formerly served as White House CTO under President Barack Obama, will be speaking at the Dev4Health event on April 30.

Aneesh Chopra urges innovators to embrace 'Digital Hippocratic Oath'

By Laura Lovett 09:45 am April 02, 2018

The former U.S. CTO and speaker at the upcoming HIMSS Dev4Health event explains why innovators should include the perspectives of patients, clinicians and patients when building apps.

Phoenix Children's Hospital patient safety Allscripts

Phoenix Children's Hospital. Credit: Google Maps

A look inside the patient safety work Phoenix Children's is doing with Allscripts

By Mike Miliard 09:59 am March 27, 2018

Phoenix Children’s CIO David Higginson and Allscripts CEO Paul Black discuss why patient safety innovation demands attention to human factors.

ConcertoHealth replaces 73% of face-to-face visits with e-consults

By Bill Siwicki 02:11 pm March 26, 2018

Primary care physicians initiate completely digital consults with specialists, from within the health system's electronic health record.

Aneesh Chopra will be the Dev4Health event's opening keynote in Cleveland on April 30.

Aneesh Chopra to keynote HIMSS and Health 2.0 inaugural Dev4Health event

By Tom Sullivan 10:22 am March 23, 2018

Innovation conference to include breakouts focused on open APIs and the interface revolution, FHIR and the SMART toolbox, and developing technologies with the healthcare end user in mind.

Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, is among the Canopy Health providers. Credit: Google Maps

How Canopy Health reduced mobile app development costs by 70%

By Bill Siwicki 09:35 am March 22, 2018

After switching to a cloud-based Mobile Backend-as-a-Service platform and agile development tactics, the ACN can now launch an app for $148,800 – compared to $496,000 using the Waterfall methodology.

Special Report: The policies, processes and technologies to guard the IoT for healthcare

By Bill Siwicki 07:07 am March 15, 2018

Experts are anticipating the wrath of cybercriminals targeting the hundreds of thousands of IoT devices already deployed in 2018 and beyond.

VA study of wearables, AI shows promise for heart failure patients

By Bill Siwicki 02:43 pm March 12, 2018

The research evaluated how AI-based personalized physiology analytics could be applied to wearable biosensor data to predict when a patient might be at risk of hospitalization.