Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Doctors are pushing Google Glass to its engineering limits
By Brian Dolan | 10:25 am | October 29, 2014
At Partners HealthCare's Connected Health Symposium last week, Beth Israel Deaconess CIO and SVP Dr.
Study: 8 percent of health system's patients portal messaged MDs at least once in 2010
By Aditi Pai | 10:45 am | October 08, 2014
Almost 37 percent of patients enrolled in a large academic health system's patient portal sent at least one message to a physician in 2010, according to a study of 49,778 patients who enrolled in the patient portal between 2001 and 2010.
Wearable Intelligence raises $8 million as Google Glass in healthcare grows
By Jonah Comstock | 09:58 am | August 25, 2014
Google Glass startup Wearable Intelligence, which, among other things, outfits Google Glass devices for use in hospitals, has raised just under $8 million, according to a report in Fortune.
Latest Apple rumors: HealthKit to work with Allscripts, iWatch store date
By Jonah Comstock | 10:29 am | August 13, 2014
According to a new report from Reuters, Apple's announced partnership with EHR provider Epic Systems may not be an exclusive one.
Halamka: Time is right for patient-generated data, care traffic controllers needed
By Jonah Comstock | 10:15 am | July 31, 2014
Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is gearing up to get data from patients' consumer devices like Fitbit, Jawbone UP, or Withings weight scale into their EHR, according to CIO and emergency room physician Dr.
Beth Israel launches pilot that lets patients read therapists' notes
By Aditi Pai | 09:53 am | July 08, 2014
Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has launched a pilot in which 700 mental health patients receive access to their therapists' notes on their laptop or smartphone, according to a must-read report in the New York Times.