Health Catalyst: Solving Data in Healthcare
Health Catalyst is a rare story of success in the difficult area of cataloguing and translation of healthcare data into actionable insight.
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CrowdMed, a virtual Dr. House
CrowdMed is an online platform that connects patients with difficult medical conditions to a medical community that uses its collective intelligence to find the right diagnosis. When a patient has a rare condition or non-specific symptoms, getting an accurate diagnosis […]
Apple ResearchKit – Crowdsourcing Medical Research
Apple ResearchKit – Crowdsourcing Medical Research. Is it a good idea by Apple? Why is Apple well positioned to deliver such a framework? Has it been successful?
ZocDoc: Finding a doctor when you need one!
Patients wait an average of 24 days to schedule an appointment with a doctor in U.S. cities. This is a 30% jump from 2014 and has been driven by doctor shortages, aging baby boomers, and greater insurance penetration (thanks to […]
BenevolentAI: Revolutionizing drug discovery using Artificial Intelligence
It takes over $2.5B and 10 years to produce one drug. Artificial Intelligence has the power to halve each of that. Enter, BenevolentAI.
da Vinci Xi – Surgical System: Advancement of minimally invasive surgery
Application of virtual reality in medical surgical practice
Deepstream VR: Using Virtual Reality to alleviate pain
Deepstream VR is creating virtual reality games and tying them up with biofeedback sensors to develop experiences which help patients surmount pain. This has the potential to not only reduce pain effectively but also reduce opioid addiction.
Augmedix: Humanizing Healthcare Through Google Glass
Augmedix is using Google Glass and its own remote scribe service to humanize the doctor / patient relationship
Health Insurance Reimagined: John Hancock’s Vitality (Using Data to Promote Health)
John Hancock introduces a program called Vitality, which rewards consumers for healthy behavior based on data collected by Fitbit.
Propeller Health: Using Data to Help Patients Manage Their Respiratory Health
Propeller Health helps patients manage their asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with a 'smart inhaler' sensor attachment linked to a data-driven mobile app,