The days when healthcare professionals could depend on word of mouth to boost their public image are well behind us. Today, the internet is used far more often for users to share their negative experiences than their positive ones. As a result, healthcare professionals must be especially vigilant about protecting their online reputation and responding to those who have left negative reviews. …

Apple has always been known to spark evolutions in the app development field; and this time, it is bringing a boon with Health Records API for developers. iOS 12 has brought a revolution to the mobile app world and healthcare. It carries an exciting new feature allowing access to health records with HealthKit. Before this, in iOS 11.3, they offered …

Clinical decision support system (CDSS), an early entrant to healthcare IT, can reduce mistakes in medication administration, encourage practice standardization, and reduce duplication or unnecessary performance of diagnostic tests.  When neatly integrated into an electronic health record platform, CDSS can facilitate evidence-based clinical decisions. Built on a backbone of algorithms, rules and alerts, CDSS is a cornerstone of patient safety, …

Last week I wrote about howfederated groups of investors help de-risk innovations in the Venture Development Lifecycle (VDLC). Yesterday I elaborated on how entrepreneurs can understand risk through various funding cycles. One of the most important investors we didn’t talk about in the VDLC was the strategic investor (what I like to call the mission-driven investor) . Mission-driven strategics view risk differently and entrepreneurs should create investor journey …

The global smart home healthcare market is exploding as more medical devices are designed for use wherever the patient is, including at home. A report by Research and Markets predicts sales of these devices to reach $30 billion by 2023, up from $4.5 billion in 2017. Fall prevention and detection devices hold the largest share of the market, which is expanding to include safety …

People with developmental disabilities are more likely than the nondisabled to encounter problems with Ontario’s health-care system regardless of age, sex or class, a new study suggests. The research from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences found the developmentally disabled were significantly more likely to die young, languish in hospital without plans for appropriate aftercare, spend time in long-term care, …

Tasked with taking care of one of our most vital senses, Vladimir Zhirnov, Global Sourcing and Procurement Director of Supply Chain & Transport at Essilor, is ensuring the company’s supply chain is up to the challenge 80% of the sensory information that the brain receives comes via sight, making vision one of our most important senses. However, our eyes are …

The health care industry is expected to sustain stable growth over the next decade for a variety of reasons. Advances in medicine have prolonged the average lifespans of most people, requiring more health care treatments over longer terms. In years past, once people turned 65 and enrolled in Medicare, they were expected to live another 10 to 20 years. Today, …

Drug addiction is a terrible disease with devastating effects to an individual and those surrounding them. It’s heartbreaking to watch your loved battle addiction and it’s difficult because you have to gauge your words. You don’t want to anger nor distance yourself from them, thus making it difficult to raise addiction topic. Addiction is complicated; thus, you need to take careful …

With robotics, automation, new processes and more, UCSF Health is setting new standards for healthcare with its innovative supply chain. UCSF Health is at the forefront of healthcare innovation but, behind the scenes, the group’s Medical Center supply chain team are keeping the cogs turning so it can focus on delivering the state-of-the-art care it is known for. UCSF Medical …