Time for a heart-to-heart, about your heart. Over 84 million Americans are impacted by some form of heart disease. The good news is the power to reduce your risk is largely in your hands. Eating a well-balanced, nutrient-rich diet is one of the most effective...
Tag: digital health
Cyberchondria: what’s the real concern?
With all the attention being paid to excessive internet use, it is no surprise that many behaviors viewed as obsessive or compulsive before the internet now have internet equivalents. Hypochondria is the pathological condition of believing something is chronically wrong with one’s health. In the...
Bad air drives sufferers to HealthTap for answers
HealthTap is helping those suffering from grey skies full of bad air. Ever since Camp Fire erupted earlier this month, the air quality in the San Francisco Bay Area has gotten so poor that merely being there for a day is the equivalent of smoking 10...
HealthTap + Apple Health launches first of its kind digital health experience
Today, we released a first of its kind integration with Apple Health Records that patients and healthcare providers can use to sync health histories between HealthTap's secure, cloud-based Health Profile and Apple’s Health app. This makes it easier for practitioners to view and assess a...
Here comes the augmented patient
David Lazarus is the consumer affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He also has Type 1 diabetes. So he is the perfect person to keep on top of augmenting patients such as himself in innovative ways. In June, Lazarus wrote a column about cutting-edge...
Diabetes sees telemedicine accelerate treatment
Chronic diseases such as diabetes are taxing our healthcare system and the broader economy as well. A new Milken Institute report states that U.S. health care costs for chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease totaled $1.1 trillion in 2016. Diabetes...
Top 4 Takeaways Post HIMSS 2018
The HIMSS 18 Conference was an inspiring experience. With over 47,000 attendees and 2,000 businesses in attendance, understanding and reviewing the takeaways after the show is a necessary and effective way to ensure you gain and retain the most from the experience. What Were Some...
What will you see from HealthTap at HIMSS?
Health IT Connected To Compassion In today’s extremely fragmented health IT ecosystem, patients and providers are forced to use a long tail of nonintegrated “point” solutions. This results in high-friction and inefficient user experiences. Most health IT experiences are characterized by a poor consumer experience...