by jsopher | Dec 28, 2016 | Technology & the Internet
The alarm on your smartphone buzzes next to your bed. You get up, check your FitBit to see how many hours of sleep you logged, then pull up your calendar on your Apple watch. “Alexa, what’s today’s weather report?” you ask your Bluetooth speaker. As you’re using your...
by jsopher | Dec 21, 2016 | Emerging Technology & Trends, Technology & the Internet
In the first half of 2016 alone, there were 263 health data breaches, reports Healthcare IT News. The number of individuals affected by a protected health information breach skyrocketed from less than 600,000 in 2010 to just under 112 million in 2015, according to the...
by jsopher | Dec 1, 2016 | Patient Engagement, Technology & the Internet
The hottest fitness app of 2016 wasn’t intended to be a fitness app at all. A week after Pokémon Go launched in July, it had an estimated 7.5 million downloads, reported MobiHealthNews. And on average, users were spending twice the amount of time engaged with the...
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by jsopher | Jul 7, 2016 | Practice Pearls, Technology & the Internet
We predicted that virtual reality (VR) would be a trend in health care in 2016, and it looks like we were right. Some are calling this “the year of VR,” thanks to the wave of new, relatively affordable devices now available. Market research firm IDC projects that...
by jsopher | Mar 10, 2016 | Practice Pearls, Technology & the Internet
It may not surprise you to know that 90 percent of Americans own a cell phone, according to the most recent data from Pew Research. Of that number, 64 percent own a smartphone, giving them easy access to the hundreds of thousands of Android and iOS mobile apps...
