Imagine for a moment that your allergies have been troubling you for the past few days. What do you do? Complain on Facebook? Probably. Make an appointment with your doctor? Maybe. Talk to a virtual doctor on your iPad? Never. Well, soon you will. A company called Geppetto Avatars is about to tur...
It’s been a few weeks since Apple’s announcement about its Health app, the consumer electronics giants’ new dashboard for capturing health data; and HealthKit, its foray into establishing a healthcare integration platform for wearables and other sensor-generated data. In February, Optum’s acquisi...
Ongoing changes in technology transform medical products – and the ways that both patients and health care providers learn about those products. In today’s world, in addition to traditional sources of medical product information, patients and health care providers regularly get information about ...
Patient digital behaviours
E-santé, télédiagnostics... le numérique nous fait basculer dans une logique de prévention renforcée. De quoi alléger les coûts pour la sécurité sociale ? Trois experts du secteur en débattent et présentent les initiatives de santé connectée de leurs organismes respectifs.
A new survey conducted in May 2014 in the US shows that 85 percent of respondents would publicly share their health experience on social media to support others with the same disease.
