The Business Case for Patient Engagement
I am sitting in on this session at HIMSS. Dave Chase is one of the thought leaders in how to turn “patient engagement” into a more integrated part of our healthcare delivery system. A big part of this...
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UHC’s Housecalls Summit – Leadership, Savings, Tears of Joy
This guest post is by Monica Alleman, a Nurse Practitioner, patient advocate, and passionate member of the Austin Health Tech community. Darn it! I swore I wouldn’t cry this year but there I was,...
View ArticleWhat did the Doctor say to the E-Patient?
Excerpt from an e-mail from TheTechnicalPatient, describing a recent medical visit: The doc at Seton asked me, “you are in medical right?” I replied “No, just an educated patient, and I write a...
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HIMSS 2013: A Recap
Panorama of the Expo center at HIMSS13: over 5,000 reps from nearly 1200 health IT vendors. Over the last few years, the annual HIMSS conference has developed a rap – too vendor-centric, too big on...
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The Future of Information-Driven Healthcare
This is a post by AHT’s own Nora Belcher. “Empowering Patients and Caregivers” session #DomoreHIT I had an amazing time as a panelist at Dell’s “The Future of Information-Driven Healthcare” think...
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Can Tech Help Improve Long Term Care?
Long-term care for the elderly is expensive – no two ways about it. What you might not know is that billed costs only represent the tip of the iceberg: The annual price tag for long-term care is now...
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App to “Target” Adherence
Mango, a new startup that graduated from the RockHealth accelerator program, has just signed a deal with Target to focus on improving adherence to drugs. Today is the first day of their launch on the...
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StartUpHealth’s Insights Funding Report (03/13)
StartUpHealth’s posted a great new summary of investment activity in the Heathcare space last month. The following is taken directly from their blog: Click on the image for the entire report There were...
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Social Media in Healthcare – Austin Leads the Way
There seem to be a lot of people who still don’t get it. Social Media is redefining what is possible in health care. We are still at the stage where early innovators – both in terms of patients and...
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1,000 Patients Complain
…about their doctor’s office visits. Consumer Reports surveyed the group to assemble the following chart. MedCityNews has a nice writeup of some startups that are aiming to address the problems raised....
View ArticleHackathon July 25-26 at athenahealth’s Austin office!
We want you to hack health care at the upcoming hackathon at athenahealth’s Austin office at Seaholm! As part of the More Disruption Please (MDP) program, this event aims to bring together smart,...
View Articleathenahealth Hackathon: The results are in!
Congratulations to Lindsey Kempton, Mandira Singh, Erin Trimble, Allison Canestaro, and the athenahealth team for putting together such a successful hackathon! It was awesome to see so many people...
View ArticleUpcoming Events in November for Life Sciences and Health Tech
We had a busy October and look to have another busy month in November, I look forward to seeing you at the upcoming events. November 5: MedTechTX 2015 - Hear from Keynote Speakers including Hugh...
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