Like the SleepWatch app dashboard. Especially the heart rate monitor, which is pointing out that I need to bring down my average sleeping heart rate. Challenge accepted!
Like that it connects via API to the leading EHRs, and extracts the data into discrete elements.
Missing a few components, but it'll replace HealthVault for me.
Enjoyed the book. In summary, the book outlines 12 Tech Forces (Defined as verbs). that will shape our future. These verbs do seem pertinent to healthcare, like Cognifying (Adding AI), Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning. And the first and last ones, Becoming and Beginning, are the reasons why healthcare tech is so interesting to me... Enjoyed The Business of Blockchain by William Mougayar. There are two keys for me within the healthcare business blockchain. Data trust, data control and data sharing. Gives me great hope that one day I might actually be able to create, store and share my personal health information, without having to enter any data manually. And really like the concept of crytotech and cryptocurrency.
Encouraged with my Apple watch. While miles walked, sleep, heart rate are helpful, I’m looking forward to these devices to expand their capability, enabling me to track more physiological variables, and tying them to my health records. And, unfortunately, my record is still fragmented, and it’s difficult to make sense of the impact of the different chunks of information! Excited this market is growing - Global self-monitoring health technologies market – moved from $1.1b in ‘13 to $3.2b in ’14. (BCC Research) And it’s expected to grow to $18.8b in ‘19. This should drive more innovation and more data to play with! Excited to see Apple leveraging their consumer footprint to help medical researchers find and engage people in clinical studies, to help them make life-changing discoveries that benefit us all. And while I recognize it's self serving for Apple to provide ResearchKit in an open source software framework, it seems like this approach will make it easy for researchers and developers to create apps, revolutionize medical studies and transform medicine. With the acquisition of Razor Insights, it seems like athenahealth will help HealthcareIT cross the chasm and fully embrace cloud-based services for a healthcare enterprise. Reasons why this combination is encouraging: o Finally a single vendor cloud-based solution for the hospital and practice market. o athenahealth has FHIR by supporting the ArgonautProject. o RazorInsights targets the price sensitive CAH market. o Jonathon Bush's passion to change the healthcare industry*. Will be interesting to see if athenahealth can overcome the integration issues that have plagued other vendors, like Allscripts and McKesson (prior to the Horizon platform), etc. *Based on his book Where does it hurt? |
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