LifeSemantics teases pulmonary rehabilitation DTx
South Korean digital health company LifeSemantics is launching its digital therapeutics product that helps with the pulmonary rehabilitation of people with COPD.
The Redpill Breath DTx helps users self-rehabilitate their respiratory functions at home. It monitors their oxygen saturation and walking performance in real time, sends text alerts in...
Manage My Health adds patient diary feature for recording symptoms
New Zealand-based Manage My Health has recently launched a new diary feature on its patient portal to enable remote monitoring of patients' symptoms.
The My Health Diary function is where patients fill out information about their symptoms, including self-monitored blood pressure, oxygen levels, and other indicators like fever and...
Clinic to Cloud, a Sydney-based clinical and practice management software provider, has revamped its Patient Portal to improve patient experience.
HOW IT WORKS
Patients are now able to perform a variety of functions on the cloud-based system. These include booking appointments; viewing fees, invoices, and approved results from pathology and imaging investigations; and uploading referrals....
Digital health prescription platform Xealth and health IT supplier Cerner have announced plans to incorporate Xealth's technology into Cerner's EHR and patient portal.
By doing so, clinicians and care teams will be able to order and deploy more than 30 digital health programs supported by the Providence-St. Joseph Health spin-off's platform. The focus of these digital offerings includes chronic...
A study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association shows that in one patient population, use or non use of a patient portal had no statistically significant effect on 30-day readmissions or 30-day mortality. The retrospective analysis of more than 17,000 patients is interesting in that it's the first study of patient portals to look for effects on...
VisitPay, a Boise, Idaho-based healthcare payments startup, has raised $15 million in a round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Ascension Health, which invests on behalf of a number of health systems, contributed to the round as well. VisitPay also rebranded (it was formerly known as iVinci Healthcare) and announced a new customer, Intermountain Healthcare.
“Our cloud-based technology is in...
Day 1 of last week’s Health 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, California was a Provider Symposium, where innovation personnel at some of the nation’s large and notable health systems came together to speak about their experiences around innovation, big data, and patient engagement, among other topics.
Data isn’t enough: Machine learning, big data, and interoperability
One theme that emerged from...
Delivering personalized healthcare to a patient population of over 3 million is no easy feat. But Geisinger Health System was up for the challenge and approached it like any other large-scale organization looking to create tailored interactions with each person their system serves would: through customer relationship management (CRM) technology.
“What I mean is taking individual preferences,...
The CommonWell Health Alliance, a trade association of health IT companies that has been working for the last three years to establish data interoperability between its members’ technologies, announced today that a new healthcare stakeholder will now be able to access a patient’s data via CommonWell: the patients themselves.
“We started with clinics and hospitals. Now we’re live in rehabilitation...
A new survey, conducted by Nielsen and commissioned by the Council of Accountable Physician Practices, shows a gap in communications between how much doctors say they are prescribing technology and how patients report that interaction. Nielsen talked to 30,007 US consumers and 626 US physicians for the poll.
“This survey is evidence of the failure of American healthcare to provide coordinated,...
