Cleveland Clinic partnered with Google Assistant to allow users to receive health and wellness content directly from the digital voice assistant.
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Vocera, a clinical communication and workflow solutions provider, launched a new smartphone application that can sort through and prioritize patient-centric calls, secure messages and alerts in a single inbox for physicians.
The U.S. outranks the rest of the world in facilitating the growth of a digital business ecosystem, according to a new analysis from the Harvard Business Review.
Installing touch-button terminals throughout a hospital's emergency department provides an accurate depiction of real-time patient and clinician sentiment, a recent study from Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine suggests.
The University of California Los Angeles will use a grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to establish the UCLA Biodesign Hub for Medical Technology and Digital Health Innovation, the university announced Sept. 4.
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When looking for a healthcare provider, the majority of patients turn to the internet, with more than half searching social media to find providers, according to a new report from online reputation management firm Binary Fountain.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Catalyst, a New York City-based digital health consulting firm, announced the three finalists of their joint Social Determinants of Health Innovation Challenge.
Without taking physician feedback into account throughout development, a digital healthcare app or tool is all but destined to fail, according to Joshua Reischer, MD, an internist and CEO and founder of the Health Note patient information-gathering platform.
Rather than creating a single app to facilitate every possible healthcare interaction, providers should instead foster an "ecosystem" with their standard clinical app serving as a hub connecting patients to more specialized apps, according to a TechCrunch op-ed.
CMS launched a redesign of its online plan searcher amid growing use of mobile devices among Medicare beneficiaries, the agency said Aug. 27.