Technology

Packaging by itself is an adherence technology and will revolutionize data collection on adherence, but the future will find this technology part of the greater plecosystem using a virtual health assistant as the "air traffic controller.

One of the reasons may be that health plans primarily have access to retrospective information rather than real-time information, unlike providers, and they also have to consider other factors such as a member's health indicators, plan, deductible, and family structure.

Conducted by Harris Poll, an interesting survey finding points to "employees" in general as the biggest insider threat to data security.

The study, conducted by the Global eHealth Unit at the Imperial College London, has found that the majority of insulin dosing apps are unreliable and put patients at risk of getting incorrect doses of insulin. Does this demand an FDA oversight of the apps?

The database will allow consumers, healthcare providers, and product manufacturers to access information tracked on medical devices, with the end goal of improving patient safety, improving device postmarket surveillance, and facilitating medical device innovation.

Carolinas HealthCare System monitors ICUs in 10 of its hospitals from a command center near Charlotte. The command center is staffed 24/7 with a rotating crew of 7 to 9 nurses and doctors who specialize in critical care.

Insurers are expecting broad adoption of wearables by their industry within the next 2 years, according to a report from Accenture.

A one-minute look at managed care news during the week of May 4, 2015, including global cancer drug spend, movements in telehealth, and changing behavior to reverse poor health.

A year and a half ago, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla made headlines when he stated at a conference that in the next decade "data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together."

Behavior, including adherence behavior, are the keys to improving outcome in a variety of diseases. We must rethink our adherence strategy by using Intelligent Engagement to control the plecosystem of adherence technologies.

Dr David Blumenthal, president of The Commonwealth Fund, provides a glimpse into his prediction of healthcare in 2030.

MNsure's chief executive announced his resignation Monday, paving the way for a third leadership shakeup at the beleaguered agency in less than 2 years.

A study published in in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that maintaining electronic health records for ischemic stroke patients did not improve health outcomes or care quality in the 1236 hospitals evaluated between 2007 and 2010.

Senate health committee leaders are launching an effort to help realize the promise of electronic health records to increase quality of care.

Between November 2014 and January 2015, The Commonwealth Fund conducted an online survey of innovation centers affiliated with healthcare organizations to learn about their potential role in promoting health system transformation.

Accessing patient information in a health information exchange system during the 30 days after hospital discharge reduced the odds of readmission, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Despite a general sense that engaging in big data analytics is important for success in the current health information technology landscape, 51% of organizations do not truly know what kind of data-or how much of it-they need to collect

WHile CMS is trying to lighten doctors' loads to help them cope with mandatory patient engagment requirements, patient advocates are unhappy with the proposed changes.