Misfit Wearables announced that it is once more pushing back the shipping date of its crowd-funded Shine tracker, and that the device will no longer support Android at launch. Supporters of Misfit’s $846,000 Indiegogo campaign this past January will now have to wait until mid-July for their trackers...
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Rather than isolating doctors, emerging technologies promise to be fundamentally enabling, allowing doctors to redefine and strengthen their relationships -- with patients and with colleagues. The result: a new sense of connection and meaning. Read More...
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I just spent a week in Boise, learning how Healthwise creates health educational materials . If you haven’t heard of either Healthwise or Boise, this is quite understandable ! It’s a little known secret that Healthwise is the world leader in creating high quality health educational materials – content...
No Will Google Glass Replace the Stethoscope? One of the biggest trends for 2013 is wearable technology . Although the idea of wearing a device might make the average person feel like a cyborg, we are used to seeing doctors wearing devices. read more Read More...
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The following event was Streamed live on Feb 12, 2013 via Google + Hangout Read more about it here . Read More...
ONC's Chief Scientist Doug Fridsma "hangs out" today at 12:30 p.m. EST ONC will host its first ever Google+ Hangout today at 12:30 EST. Doug Fridsma, ONC's Chief Science Officer and Director, Office of Science & Technology, will be chatting with healthcare IT thought leaders about...
One of the greatest difficulties which IVF patients face is - How do I select the best IVF doctor for my IVF treatment. This is a major decision , and is fraught with a lot of uncertainty. Most patients will ask friends and family members for recommendations ; some will trust their family doctor to refer...
Earlier this month, when Google updated one of its premiere Android applications, it quietly added a personal activity tracker.
Google Now is an Android-only app that uses Google services to smartly deliver users various kinds of information to help them throughout their day – without them having...
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The Radiological Society of North America’s Annual Meeting (RSNA) is a big event, located in a bustling city. Attendance at last year’s meeting was up 2% to over 59,000 attendees and is expected to increase again this year. The Chicago economy will get...
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Google your name. The first results will likely be physician finder sites like RateMDs.com, Health Grades or Vitals, or broad-based service finders like Yelp or InsiderPages. The reviews can be critical to your success as a doctor in today’s world, regardless of whether they are true or not. read...
A new report from Juniper is the latest in a flurry of forecasts about the role that smart wearable devices, or wearables, are going to play in the mobile technology market over the next few years. Juniper says wearables will be a $1.5 billion market by 2014, up from just $800 million this year.
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