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The Wild, Wild West of health apps: Can the FDA restore order without...
"Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show poster (cliff1066-TM/Flickr) The business of smartphone health apps is growing exponentially. Here at Children’s, I coordinate and supervise a team of software...
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Could texting patients reduce hospital readmissions? Thinking through an...
(Lars Plougmann/Flickr) Your child has been in the hospital and it’s discharge day. It’s a chaotic scene: You’re trying to take care of him and maybe his little sister who keeps running down the hall,...
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Learned helplessness: Millennials and electronic medical records
Is healthcare IT ready to grow up? (N Kasp/Wikimedia commons) As I read more about the Millennials, the generation to which I myself belong, I’m starting to see a connection between their attitude...
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Disrupting health care: The unique challenges facing health tech entrepreneurs
Inventions need a little extra incubating to make them attractive to health care. Jenna Rose is director of Healthbox, a platform that brings together entrepreneurs, strategic partners, industry...
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Enhancing patient / care team interaction with an iPad “passport”
In just a 24-hour period, patients in the hospital typically see a variety of doctors, nurses, x-ray technicians and other medical professionals, and undergo a plethora of diagnostic tests—without an...
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Hacking pediatrics: Improving the patient experience
Michael Docktor, MD, is director of Clinical Mobile Solutions at Boston Children’s Hospital and a pediatric gastroenterologist with a research and clinical interest in inflammatory bowel disease. How...
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Solving patient engagement: It’s about the data
At the start of today’s National Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards 2013 panel on patient engagement, healthcare journalist Carey Goldberg offered up a personal anecdote about engagement— or the lack...
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DisCo: Keeping in touch with families after discharge
Kelly Dunn, a pediatric nurse practitioner in Medicine Patient Services at Boston Children’s Hospital, is primarily focused on helping families with hospital discharge and improving patient throughput....
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cTAKES: Turning clinical notes into knowledge
My mother often says that my handwriting is so bad I should have been a doctor. Luckily, digital systems like electronic medical records (EMRs) and computerized pharmacy ordering systems have largely...
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Patient-generated health data: Is health care ready to absorb it?
Israel Green-Hopkins, MD, is a second-year fellow in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and a fierce advocate for innovation in health information technology, with a passion for...
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