The Advantages of Cloud Computing in Healthcare
Information Technology plays a vital role in maintaining the efficiency and effectiveness of today’s healthcare organizations. To support operational and clinical care needs, each facility’s infrastructure has been expanding in recent years to keep up. This need to scale won’t change anytime soon—companies are only becoming more dependent on technology for administrative, financial, and clinical […]
Facing the Fax: The U.S. Healthcare System Is in a State of Emergency
Recently, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) banned the purchase of new fax machines for its facilities. It also announced that it wants fax completely phased out by the spring of 2020. Roughly 8,000 fax machines are still being used in the country’s healthcare system, a figure that its Royal College of Surgeons has called “absurd.” […]
The Internet of Things Is Changing Consumer Healthcare for the Better
The Internet of Things (IoT) is causing ripples through various industries. Previously, we took a look at how IoT is transforming health tech for providers. In this post, we’ll examine the inverse side of this equation: IoT is also changing how consumers can utilize healthcare services for the better. A More Holistic Picture of Your […]
The Biggest Challenges to Healthcare IoT in 2019
Perhaps no other sector could benefit more from the Internet of Things (IoT) than healthcare. In fact, IoT development has already radically changed the landscape of the field. Doctors can now monitor patients’ chronic diseases continuously. With up-to-date and accurate data in tow, specialists can confer with one another across the world about difficult cases. But like […]
MedTech Startups Like EverlyWell Bring Lab Testing Home
https://staging.dogtownmedia.com/app-developers-austin/ As mobile app developers know, even if you have health insurance, getting blood work done can be expensive. The initial visit to the doctor’s office is inevitably followed by a bill from a clinical lab that sometimes adds up to hundreds of dollars. Fortunately, several mHealth startups are coming up with practical, money-saving solutions […]
Dogtown Media Champions Bipartisan CONNECT for Health Act
After seven years of promises to their constituents, House Republicans passed their repeal of Obamacare earlier today by a narrow vote of 217 to 213. To say that the bill is controversial is putting it lightly — for many Americans, it’s literally a life-or-death matter. But in this period of turmoil for the American healthcare […]
MedTech Startup Viz Diagnoses Strokes with Machine Learning
Strokes are an alarmingly common problem in America, but they are rarely handled properly, with only three out of every 100 stroke victims receiving the right care. Strokes strike fast and are tricky to diagnose, and because they are so difficult to identify and treat, they often leave the patients lucky enough to survive with […]
How Healthcare Apps Will Revolutionize the Medical Industry
App developers have solved a lot of problems in the last five years. Transportation? Uber. Travel? AirBnB. Banking? The list is too long to even start. One problem that the tech industry has been slow to tackle, however, is the healthcare industry. Fitness wearables are on the rise, and some on-demand house call services for […]