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The Call for Entries for the 2018 eHealthcare Leadership Awards is now open. This leading awards program, which draws some 1,000 entries, exclusively recognizes the very best websites and digital communications of healthcare organizations (both large and small), online health companies, pharmaceutical/medical equipment firms, agencies/suppliers, and business improvement initiatives. These awards highlight the role of Read More
This leading awards program, which drew over 900 entries last year, recognizes the very best websites and digital communications efforts of healthcare organizations, online health companies, pharmaceutical/medical equipment firms, suppliers, and business improvement initiatives. Now in its 18th year, the awards program is presented by Plain-English Health Care, publisher of eHealthcare Strategy & Trends and Read More
The Podcast Consumer 2016 survey reports that 57 million Americans ages 12 and up listened to a podcast within the past month, up 24 percent from 2015. As recently as 2013, only 42 percent of survey respondents who identified themselves as podcast listeners accessed podcasts from a mobile device; in 2016 that number has jumped Read More
// By Jane Weber Brubaker // The growth rate of podcasting, a term coined more than 10 years ago, is accelerating today. Demand for all types of digital content is growing because mobile devices make it easy and convenient to access it. Additionally, consumers have grown to expect on-demand access to content at a time Read More
Ask the Expert, with Scott Mowery, Director of Digital Services at Cleveland Clinic // By Jane Weber Brubaker // Scott Mowery, Director of Digital Services at Cleveland Clinic, presented at HCIC 2015. His background in e-commerce intrigued us. We wanted to know how it shaped his approach to digital marketing in healthcare. We also wanted Read More
// By Andy Gradel // My father spent practically his entire career working for the same company. With the change of our workforce from a production-driven economy to a service and information-driven model, staying with the same company more than a decade has become more and more rare. In fact, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Read More
Chronic diseases cause 70 percent of deaths in the U.S., and hypertension is one of the most pervasive chronic diseases. “A third of all adults in the U.S. have it,” says Dr. Richard Milani, Ochsner Health’s Chief Clinical Transformation Officer. “Only half of adults with high blood pressure have it under control. It’s a big Read More
The results of an Economist Intelligence Unit survey, commissioned by Marketo, indicate that 99% of marketers plan to invest in marketing technologies in the next year. Here are other key findings: Impact on Revenue Of the B2C marketers surveyed, more than half (55%) feel that their marketing departments are regarded as little more than a Read More
MyDigitalLife Last year the digital seesaw tipped irrevocably in the direction of mobile. As of January 2014, online users spent more time per month accessing the Internet through mobile devices than desktop computers. And when using mobile devices, they were far more likely to engage with mobile content using apps, not their mobile browser. Health Read More
Peter Hudson and Wayne Guerra, emergency room physicians at Centura Health in Denver, saw that patients would often show up with minor problems that could have been treated at another type of care setting, and at a lower cost. They were inspired to create a mobile app, iTriage to give people tools to understand their Read More
MyDigitalLife iTriage is a mobile health app for consumers gaining wide acceptance from providers as health systems move toward population health and value-based care. Created in 2008 by two Denver-based ER physicians, Peter Hudson and Wayne Guerra, iTriage has been downloaded by 14 million consumers from the iTunes and Google Play app stores, where it Read More
Google Maps Street View Offers Imagery of the Past You can now see street views that go back to 2007, which include scenes at different seasons and at night. If you see an hourglass in the upper left corner of a street view, it means that past imagery is available. About 12 million miles of Read More
Travel Insurance With summer vacations just around the corner, some thought about travel insurance is in order, especially if you are planning an expensive trip or going to an exotic destination. Insurance coverage options generally fall into three broad categories – trip cancellation, emergency medical care, and medical evacuation to a healthcare facility, with the Read More
Your Mental Age You have no doubt heard about apps that will reveal your “heart age” or your “real biological age,” compared with your chronological age. But if you are an active, physically fit professional, the bigger question is your mental age. With responses to six simple questions at www.whatismymentalage.com, you will quickly have a Read More
Yes, You Can Repair a Cellphone I wish I had known about repair services before I replaced my daughter’s cellphone twice – once when the screen had severe cracks from the phone being dropped and stepped on, and once when the battery just quit. There are indeed companies that will repair cellphones that have screen Read More
Determine Your Fitness Age Quickly Measurement of your aerobic fitness level can be difficult, if not impossible, on your own. But researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology came up with a simple, low-tech way to estimate your “fitness age,” which is how well your body functions physically relative to how it should Read More
Productivity Apps That Are Fun For many, a key 2014 New Year’s resolution is to become more productive. An app can assist while also offering some fun along the way. The Any.do app is a simple list maker with all the tasks people require, such as setting priorities, establishing reminders, and getting a push each Read More
Games to Make Exercising More Fun We all know how important it is to spend time at the gym staying fit, but would we call this time fun? Some smartphone apps can turn exercising into a game and make the experience more enjoyable. With Fitocracy, users get points based on specific exercises and their intensity Read More
Help Finding Things If you lose or misplace your belongings, apps can help you find them. Place an electronic tag on your wallet, car keys, or anything else that tends to disappear regularly and you can locate it with a smartphone app. The tag sends a signal up to 150 feet. If you believe a Read More
Reference Source with a Click How often do you use Google to learn more about something in an online article, such as the location of a town, a person’s background, or the definition of a word? Rather than leave the Web page, get the browser add-on from Curiyo. Once installed on your computer, Curiyo identifies Read More
Eyeglasses Online Afraid to buy glasses online even though you could save a ton of money? Now Glasses.com has come out with an app that uses 3Dfit technology to allow consumers to accurately see how frames look and fit without stepping into a store. Available currently only at the iTunes app store.
Track Your Fitness Regimen Fitbit, which tracks your steps, calories burned, and other metrics, has been on the market for a number of years. This great little device is now available in different colors and designs and can send information to smartphones as well as computers. The latest versions, the Zip and the Flex, are Read More
An App to Relax By Is there anyone out there who isn’t stressed or anxious over work, family, or just life in general? There are a number of smartphone apps designed to reduce all your anxieties, as detailed by Judith Newman in the April 5 issue of The New York Times. Most of the apps Read More
When You Prefer Pen and Paper If you like to take notes for future reference and prefer to write rather than type into a digital device, then get the Targus iNotebook. The Targus tool and an iPad work hand-in-hand. With an iPad close at hand, you write with a special pen on one of the Read More