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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Primary Care In February, Apple launched a new subsidiary company tasked with providing healthcare clinics to Apple employees: AC Wellness. They are rounding out this scenario with key executive hires from the healthcare industry with expertise in primary care for Medicare patients. But how easy will it actually be?

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Digital health is ready for its second act. Will it deliver on its promise to empower patients and providers?

Redox

And as a company leading the charge to improve interoperability, we’ve observed that some lessons learned in the startup world may help our healthcare industry go where it wants and needs to go faster and without the pain of earlier transitions. Laying the foundation for Health IT.

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

Google launched its standalone PHR, Google Health, back in 2008 as health IT began to gain traction through government incentives. PHRS, PATIENT PORTALS, AND INTEROPERABILITY HURDLES Standalone and tethered PHRs offer several of the same patient engagement benefits, and they also suffer from several of the same disadvantages.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). Back in 2008 at 3GDoctor we started offering the ability for Patients to use their mobiles to provide their own history to Doctors prior to a documented video consult: [link]. Authored by Ida Sim, M.D.,