by Mollie McDowell | Jun 18, 2015 | For Entrepreneurs
The iHub team in front of their soon-to-be headquarters Brigham and Women’s, the world-renowned 793-bed teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, which saw over 62K ER patients last year, has a long history of innovation in healthcare—including conducting the first...
by Mollie McDowell | Jun 15, 2015 | Rock Weekly
June 15, 2015 Or is medicine impeding the use of technology? Last week, the AMA delayed setting telemedicine guidelines, even though virtual visits continue to gain steam. And while 78% of office-based physicians use an EHR, 70% don’t believe it was worth it. Bob...
by Mollie McDowell | Jun 8, 2015 | Rock Weekly
June 8, 2015 Digital health kicked off the month of June with its third IPO of 2015: Evolent Health, which earned a pretty $195M in its first day of trading. And in Googleverse news: the tech giant is expanding its Baseline pilot to define human health, Sergey...
by Mollie McDowell | Jun 1, 2015 | Rock Weekly
June 1, 2015 What takes up 50% more of a doctor’s time than caring for patients, was supposed to save $77B for healthcare, just got a funding boost from CMS, and had sweeping changes proposed from AMIA last week? The EHR. A valuable tool or a total disaster?...
by Mollie McDowell | May 26, 2015 | Rock Weekly
May 26, 2015 Let’s talk about robots. They’re hyper-accurate, cost-saving, depression-diagnosing—even cute. Regardless of the debate about robots vs. humans, one open question in healthcare remains: if algorithms and robots are more accurate than a human doctor,...
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