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New York Digital Health Accelerator opens to packed house

Digital Health Startups with iMedicalApps
4 days ago by
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The New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA) held their coming out party on May 10th in NYC, hosting a packed house at TimesCenter, not to mention hundreds of interested onlookers via live streaming video. I had the opportunity to interview David Whitlinger, Director of the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC), about the program’s origin and how it will nurture the companies it selects. “… now you can have an entrepreneur who has a great idea for a software application, but [Read more]

Check out this week’s #mHealth Tweet Chat archive

5 days ago by
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This is the archive of the third #mHealth Tweet Chat that took place on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 9pm EST/8pm CST. We discussed how mobile technology has impacted physician communications, patient privacy issues, and physicians on social media.

Medigram app allows HIPAA compliant group text messaging between doctors

Apr 27, 2012 by
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Medigram aims to provide HIPAA compliant secure text messaging between healthcare professionals using iPhones,Android and laptops

Action and optimism from US CTO Todd Park at Healthbox demo day

Digital Health Startups with iMedicalApps
Apr 10, 2012 by
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Todd Park (@todd_park), newly appointed Chief Technology Officer of the Federal government, gave an inspiring keynote address at Healthbox investor day in Chicago this week. Park, co-founder of athenahealth in 1997, is clearly very passionate about entrepreneurs and a big believer in the entrepreneur’s ability to effect tremendous disruption through invention. There has never been a better time than right now to be an entrepreneur in American health care due to big shifts in the marketplace, specifically incentive change, and [Read more]

In depth live coverage of Healthbox digital health accelerator investor day #HBDemo

Digital Health Startups with iMedicalApps
Apr 09, 2012 by
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Live coverage of investor day at Chicago-based Healthbox digital health accelerator curated from Twitter.

Review article proposes a standardized approach for mHealth data security

Mar 22, 2012 by
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In a recently published article in Telemedicine Journal and e-Health, researchers from the National Center for Telehealth and Technology in Tacoma, Washington discussed the need for data security standards for mobile devices.

FaceTime is HIPAA compliant and encrypted, could change the way physicians and patients communicate

Sep 26, 2011 by
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Apple’s FaceTime is fully encrypted and HIPAA Compliant with WPA2 Enterprise security setting. This has several implications for its use in healthcare and the promotion of telemedicine.

Security risks in today’s mobile medical devices may threaten more than work productivity

Jul 12, 2011 by
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As the medical community becomes more electronically connected, the risk of loss of information, especially PHI, also rises.

iPhone Security Risks and How to Protect Your Data

Feb 11, 2010 by
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The iPhone and iPod Touch platforms have gained huge popularity with medical providers, with Epocrates saying over 100,000 physicians are actively using the medical reference app on their iPhone – and this was back in July of 2009. Many healthcare providers feel comfortable with the iPhone because of its fluid operating system, and the extra functionality it offers, in the form of games and a variety of other apps.  This added functionality is missing with more enterprise-based smart phones, such [Read more]