Medscape

Medscape | May 13, 2019

Healthcare is only one of several factors that affect longevity in the United States, a new study reaffirms. Behavioral and social factors have much more influence.Robert Kaplan, PhD, and Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, from Stanford University School of Medicine's Clinical Excellence Research Center in California, tested how much healthcare affects the risk for premature death using four different research methods and data sets....

Health Technology, Future of Healthcare

Medscape | March 09, 2023

On March 08, 2023, WebMD Health Corp., a subsidiary of Internet Brands and a provider of information services for healthcare professionals and consumers, announced that it had acquired Grupo SANED, the Spanish market leader for medical and health information services. Grupo SANED is an industry pioneer for scientific communications, clinical news, medical education, and regulatory advice. The acquisition expands Medscape's presence among healthcare professionals in Spain to ...

medscape | July 04, 2019

Apple has announced that it will allow any US healthcare organization with a compatible electronic health record (EHR) to register with its mobile Health Records feature, according to a tweet from Ricky Bloomfield, MD, Apples clinical and health informatics lead.This will allow patients to securely and privately download their EHR data to a personal health record (PHR) on their iPhone after presenting their credentials to a practices or a hospitals patient portal....

EHRIntelligence | January 16, 2020

Eighty-four percent of EHR users are dissatisfied with the technical service and basic software account support from current EHR and HIT vendors, according to a 2020 Black Book Research survey. Since the HITECH Act was signed into law in 2009, EHRs have not only been more prevalent, but they have continued to change and evolve. However, technical service from EHR vendors hasn’t kept up with the constant change, according to high-level hospital tech managers. Healthcare software support is ...