Comparing Traditional Blood Pressure with a Mobile Health Application
Collecting personal health data through self-trackers, smartphones and other wearable technology can potentially impact a person’s health. Understanding how such data are captured and analyzed is important for patients who are using personalized data to monitor their health.
Electronic Records with Tablets at the Point of Care in an internal Medicine Unit
There are many benefits of nursing professionals being able to consult and record electronic clinical histories (ECH) at the point of care. It promotes quality and patient security, communication, continuity of care and time dedicated to documentation.
Nurse Entrepreneurs and How to Make an Innovative Idea Reality
Pulling from her own experience as a nurse entrepreneur, our guest writer and winner of NursePitch, shares five key components to implementing a successful innovation.
Consumer Perspectives on Telehealth and Virtual Healthcare Survey Highlights
Navigate the new world of virtual healthcare with seven key insights from the Accelerate Health Consumer Telehealth survey.
Revenue-Based Analytics Inform Clinical Operations and Enhance Health Equality Case Study
Learn how one health system used analytics to shift clinical operations, patient and staff scheduling, revenue cycle activities and population health initiatives during COVID-19.
Accelerating Health Citizenship
This episode of the Accelerate Health Podcast discusses the concept of health citizenship—how health and the other activities we pursue as citizens are deeply intertwined, and that economic circumstances and other social determinants have major impacts on health outcomes.
Accelerating Global Health
This episode of the Accelerate Health Podcast discusses a wide range of global health challenges with Andrew Trister, MD, PhD, of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Importance of Social Determinants of Health in Determining the Right Clinical Interventions White Paper
Our guest writer illustrates how clinician knowledge of a patient’s social determinants of health can allow for earlier, more targeted clinical interventions.
The Role of Innovation in Advancing Public Health Disease Investigation and Contact Tracing During a Pandemic Report
A global look at the efforts to implement contact tracing in the fight against COVID-19.
The Future of Pharmaceutical Innovation
We sat down with Chris Boone, PhD, vice president, global medical epidemiology and big data analysis, Pfizer Inc., and HIMSS20 Pharma Forum speaker, to discover the latest pharmaceutical trends.
How Connected Health Apps Can Support Aging Populations
The consumerization of healthcare has transformed how health and wellness can be achieved for all individuals, especially elderly individuals who want to maintain their independence longer in life. Thanks to smartphone solutions like connected health apps, that goal is more attainable than ever.<...>
The Top Three Benefits of Telehealth
Health happens everywhere—so why only offer it to patients in one place? By tapping into the benefits of telehealth, both patients and providers can benefit from less costly and more convenient and accessible care.