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Vanessa Mason, director of the Institute for the Future, discussed areas of opportunity for health technology and the pitfalls of bias when innovating. 

At HXD 2019, a team from Kaiser Permanente described their efforts to build and populate a mental health app ecosystem for their clinicians.

An exploratory whitepaper dropped yesterday lays out a framework that the FDA hopes to present in a future draft guidance.

The Loop System continuously collects and analyzes health data to warn providers of potential deterioration. The company says it has already inked a deal with a major health system.

A multicentre trial of their system will start this week in the south of England, according to the company.

Doctors already using the DrChrono system will be able to see their patients via an HD, HIPAA-compliant smartphone video. 

According to Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, director general of Israel's Ministry of Health, the country is pushing towards preventative and personalized medicine.

A new meta-analysis published in JMIR revealed that while fitness apps modestly increase physical activity, the average observed step count between app users and nonusers did not reach statistical significance.

Although still far from being tested in humans, the technology could serve as a replacement to blood draws.

The new platform gives patients tokens for showing up to appointments, answering surveys and completing other health-related activities.