This year the Summit of the Southeast’s audience had the pleasure to listen to and be part of Bioscape Digital’s approach to engaging patients and solving the most critical patient-provider problems. On Friday October 30th, Stuart Bracken, Co-Founder and CEO of Bioscape, delivered a presentation titled “Health IT Enabling Patient Engagement”. The core premise of
Technology in Healthcare
23Sep
Tech that Reduces Health Disparities
Concerned that food stamp users lacked the opportunity to buy fresh vegetables, the anti-hunger group Just Harvest decided two years ago to take credit card machines to local farmers markets that were operating on a cash basis. Besides credit and debit cards, the machines accept the state-issued Electronic Benefit Transfer cards holding food stamps. “As
14Sep
HealthIT says “hello” to Qualcomm
The San Diego-based healthcare spinoff of Qualcomm, whose 2net hub gathers and organizes data from medical-grade devices in homes and other locations outside the healthcare setting, has acquired Capsule Technologie, whose focus is on gathering data from devices inside hospitals, clinics and other healthcare sites. “We now have the largest ecosystem of connected medical devices with
22Jul
Wearable Health Technology – A sneak-peek into the the future of healthcare
On June 29 2007, Apple made its mark on the world with a revolutionary innovation – the iPhone. Eight years later, the iPhone continues to dominate the market and could once again rock the consumer market with the Apple Watch. Many experts believe that the Apple Watch could be the catalyst for Wearable Health Technologies
14Jul
Active Healthcare Involvement Leads To Lower Costs
Many patients are often uncertain of how to acquire, process, and understand fundamental healthcare information and services. In many instances, patients may lack the knowledge of their medical condition. Furthermore, the American health care system often overlooks the needs of patients and medical practitioners may not provide sufficient information which patients require in order to
02Jul
How have EHRs impacted our visit to hospitals and clinics?
Have you ever come across the term “EHR” in hospitals and clinics and how does that affect you? EHR (Electronic health record) is an electronic version of patient’s medical history. They are real-time, patient-centered medical records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users. Our world has been radically transformed by digital technology
23Jun
Scotland Memorial implements ER tablets
LAURINBURG — Scotland Memorial Hospital, in partnership with Bioscape Digital & ER Express, has launched a tablet solution to enable patients to give feedback to the hospital, understand their financial options under the Affordable Care Act, and learn more about their health conditions right from the emergency room. Patients who visit Scotland Memorial’s Emergency Department
18Jun
Bracken, Serial Disruptor on School for Startups Radio
Have you ever wanted to set up your own company and want to know more about how to get started? You would definitely have to tune in to School for Startups Radio! Being a serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, speaker and award winning radio host, Jim Beach has interviewed numerous Shark Tank winners, judges, billionaires, best-selling authors
28May
EHRs Improve Support for Analytics, Research Shows
Many health care organizations are using electronic health record systems to support their data analytics capabilities, according to a survey by HIMSS Analytics, Health Data Management reports. For the survey, researchers reviewed the HIMSS Analytics data warehouse and polled 189 health care organization officials, the majority of whom were director or c-suite level executives. Results were compared with a similar
30Apr
Teladoc’s antitrust suit against the Texas Medical Board will test the limits of recent Supreme Court precedent
A very important Supreme court ruling is becoming a gamechanger for telemedicine. A company named Teledoc feels the Texas medical board is proventing them from moving forward with getting their prescriptions from a video chat with the doctor, rather then go to the doctor at the hospital and/or their office. Teladoc CEO Jason Gorevic said in a statement. “We can’t
