Kal Patel, M.D., is CEO and cofounder of BrightInsight. He has over 20 years of experience in pharma, medtech and regulated digital health. Like many others, the pharmaceutical industry tends to focus ...

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center started developing the idea for a patient and family experience mobile phone app in 2016, after receiving some negative feedback from patient families.

The lack of information and the inability to communicate with family members became more disheartening over the last several months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the most harrowing ...

Patient education app improves medication adherence among heart stent patients A tablet software application called MyIDEA (My Interventional Drug-Eluting Stent Education App) improved proper ...

Use of a novel "shared decision-making tool" resulted in a higher rate of patient satisfaction over the decision on whether to take oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (AF ...

Navigating the healthcare system often requires using different websites, mobile apps and phone calls to find providers and make appointments. It can also mean quite literally navigating from your ...

Pharma companies are dropping the ball when it comes to digital apps. Minimal marketing efforts and mediocre apps just aren’t enough to attract patients, WeGo Health executives said recently. After ...

In an era where Disney and Netflix can create digital apps that meet the very specific individual expectations of a user, healthcare consumers naturally expect a similar seamless and high-quality ...

Through the use of eHealth application ikHerstel, patients recover from major abdominal operations 30% faster than patients who do not use the app. That is the main conclusion of research led by ...

Update: HIMSS20 has been canceled due to the coronavirus. Read more here. Pamphlets and binders are old hat when it comes to take-home patient education. Instead, a growing number of providers are ...

Dartmouth medical student Nsomma Alilonu and Professor Thomas Thesen test the interactive voice component on their AI Patient Actor app, which allows students to practice talking to a simulated ...

2023 JAN 02 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journalists report that a patent application by the inventors Ovalle, Wernher ...