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BWH Asthma App Sustains Patient-Provider Communication Between Visits
For patients with moderate to severe asthma, it’s not uncommon to see a pulmonologist or allergist for routine follow-up appointments at three- to six-month intervals. But a lot can happen […]
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Getting Back to Face Time: AI Tools that Help Reduce Physicians’ Computer Use
Just as computers have propelled major advances in modern medicine, their presence has also become a significant burden. That’s because the amount of time physicians now spend on the computer […]
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iHub Celebrates 5 Years of Innovation at the Brigham
On Sept. 12, more than 200 clinicians, scientists, staff and entrepreneurs commemorated the fifth anniversary of the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub (iHub) during a celebration of innovation and digital advancement […]
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Running and Championing Digital Health Accelerators
Some of you will know that HealthXL started life as an accelerator of early stage digital health companies. It was the hardest thing we have ever done and hats off […]
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Former Brigham and Women’s iHub employees talk innovation trends
Former iHub employees talk consolidation, patient engagement, and transparency in digital health innovation Founded in 2013, Brigham and Women’s iHub, an innovation organization inside of the hospital, has seen half […]
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Persistent Systems Acquires Herald Health™, Transforming Healthcare Data Overload Into Clear and Actionable Insights
Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT) today announced the acquisition of Herald Health™, a start-up created to transform the data overload swamping healthcare professionals into clear and actionable insights. Born out […]
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Iron Man Meets iHub: Resident Follows His Superhero’s Path to Innovation
When I walked into the iHub Open Innovation Studio on my first day, I was transported into a Silicon Valley-like workspace. The walls were bright blue and green. Large white […]
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Patients and Patience Drive Successful Innovation
Using a participatory design approach with patients and care providers “I want to build an app.” This is how many conversations start at iHub. As an Innovation Strategy Manager, my […]
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The Tools to Transforming Health Care
HOW CO-FOUNDERS OF HERALD HEALTH LEVERAGED THEIR FRUSTRATION, KNOWLEDGE AND CONNECTIONS TO POSITION THEIR PRODUCT FOR SUCCESS Believe us when we say we know that navigating the health care space […]
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Five lessons on innovation from Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals
Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the approach to fostering internal and external innovation is deliberate, thought out, and informed by years of experience. At HXD 2018 in Cambridge yesterday, Julia Jackson, managing director of Massachusetts General’s Healthcare Transformation Lab and Josie Elias, program manager for Brigham’s Digital Health Innovation Guide, broke down some of the most important lessons they’ve learned.
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