The following is a guest blog post from Seth Berkowitz, MD, who authors many of the innovative apps in the BIDMC Crowdsourcing program: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, has developed BIDMC@home, a new app for engaging patients using Apple’s CareKit and ResearchKit frameworks and the HealthKit API. The app provides a flexible framework to help patients manage their health from home, as directed by their physicians. The app will be piloted in several specific patient populations and will eventually be offered to BIDMC’s entire network of over 250,000 patients...
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Beth Israel's CareKit App Leverages FHIR for Patient Engagement
By John D. Halamka, MD, and Seth Berkowitz, MD | November 23, 2016
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Drugs Companies Buy NHS Patient Data, Register Reveals
James Edgar | The Telegraph | April 3, 2014
Some of world's biggest pharmaceutical companies have bought NHS patient data, a new register has revealed. Drugs corporations including Bayer, Baxter, AstraZeneca and Roche are among dozens of private firms sold information, as well as Bupa, the healthcare provider.
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Open mHealth Popular Standard (Part 1)
Andy Oram | EMR & EHR | December 1, 2015
If standards have not been universally adopted in the health care field, and are oftenimplemented incorrectly when adopted, the reason may simply be that good standards are hard to design. A recent study found that mobile health app developers would like to share data, but “Less progress has been made in enabling apps to connect and communicate with provider healthcare systems–a fundamental requirement for mHealth to realize its full value in healthcare management.”Open mHealth faced this challenge when they decided to provide a schema to represent the health data that app developers, research teams, and other individuals want to plug into useful applications. This article is about how they mined the health community for good design decisions and decided what necessary trade-offs to make.
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Startup Strategy: HIT And Device Entrepreneurs Name 2014 Risks And Opportunities
Staff Writer | MedCity News | February 12, 2014
While healthcare reform is well underway, a true shift in care delivery and economics appears to be more of a looming threat than a proven reality. The question remains: How do you manage and grow a successful business in the dynamic environment of today while positioning for the future? Read More »
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