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2018

Ways Mobile Apps Will Transform Healthcare

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Earlier this year Kaiser Permanente leapfrogged the industry when it made its entire electronic health care system – the most extensive electronic medical record offering in the world – available to its 9 million members via an Android app. The country’s largest medical organization quickly announced that the app had garnered more than 95,000 downloads. Kaiser patients now make appointments, check lab tests, order medicines, and communicate with their physicians from the palm of their hands. CEO George Halvorson asserted that accessing health information on mobile devices is becoming the “new norm.” The numbers support Halvorson’s prediction. Global sales of smartphones are expected to…

MedicSMS – First aid diagnosis and advice via SMS

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MedicSMS - SMS based first aid for the developing world. Inspiration For MediSMS, Our aim is to allow those in developing countries, with limited or no access to the internet, the same first aid information which is readily available to the world that has easy access to the internet. What it does MedicSMS empowers those in developing countries that have access to ordinary cell phones with the ability to obtain a first aid diagnosis and advice via SMS. Users simply text in their symptoms, and, using a combination of the Twilio and IBM Watson APIs, we translate the natural language…

Health Care – These are the next 5 digital health IPOs

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The healthcare system in the U.S. is a slow-moving, slow-changing beast, but it’s also riddled with inefficient parts that beg for data-driven reinvention. That’s created huge opportunities for startups — and some of them are already seeing the payoff. The Affordable Care Act and accompanying legislation like the HITECH Act have lit a fire under the movement to rethink they way we deliver and pay for healthcare. Accordingly, investment in the digital health space has accelerated in 2014; at the end of June it totaled $2.2 billion, already exceeding 2013’s total funding just halfway through the year. Motivating those investments: Digital health companies have…