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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,…
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New App Developed for Young Adults Coping with Cancer
When diagnosed with cancer, it’s natural for a patient to focus on the physical treatments – surgery, radiation, chemotherapy – needed to beat the disease. But the emotional and mental health dimensions of a cancer diagnosis can be overlooked – feelings of anxiety, depression, loss, isolation, anger and more can interplay with illness, exacerbating a…
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BWHers Dive into the Shark Tank – And Emerge with Awards
On a recent spring evening, eight research teams from across the Brigham presented in front of a panel of scientific experts, donors and trustees and invited them to explore the brain with a neurosurgeon; envision a new animal model for heart failure; imagine a day when we can transplant an eye; watch a device that…
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At PULSE@MassChallenge Finale, Medumo announces strategic collaboration with Partners HealthCare to scale digital care navigation pathways
Medumo, a leading patient navigation platform, announced a new strategic collaboration with Partners HealthCare at the second annual PULSE@MassChallenge Finale. This relationship will scale Medumo digital care navigation pathways (CareTours™) in care access, patient encounter preparation and follow-up, and many other clinical or administrative areas across Partners institutions. Medumo CareTours™ use multilingual SMS, email, and…
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Creating a Simple At-Home Test for Male Fertility
Shafiee collaborated with the MGH Fertility Center to develop a smartphone-based microchip for at-home male infertility testing. Tests of the lab-based prototype show the smartphone semen analyzer identifies with 98 percent accuracy abnormal semen samples based on sperm concentration and motility.
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Building Better Apps for Better Care
The Brigham Innovation Hub connects the hospital community to the right resources to implement digital health projects that could benefit patients.“Our job is to connect the BWH community to the right resources to implement digital health projects, whether building their own apps or working with a startup to create one,” says Josie Elias, MBA, MPH,…
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A Nurse’s Innovation: “Virtual Monitoring” Increases Access, Decreases Travel
A nurse practitioner in the department of radiation oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boyajian manages the monitoring visits required for men who have been treated for prostate cancer. The good news for these patients is the high success rates for men who receive treatment. But they must follow-up regularly with blood tests to check…
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Safety Matters: Improving Hand Hygiene Practice
A team from the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub; Analysis, Planning and Process Improvement (APPI); Quality and Safety; and Infection Control are working to streamline the way hand hygiene data is collected and disseminated. Leaders will be able to use insights from these findings to guide conversations with individual members of their team. This will be…
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Field Notes from a First-Time HIMSS Attendee
In March, I joined a group of health care professionals in Las Vegas for the annual meetup of an organization some of you may have heard of: the Healthcare Information […]
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