by CMAJ News | Oct 10, 2019 | Archive, Latest, Tim Lougheed
How “digital therapeutics” differ from traditional health and wellness apps Tim Lougheed | Bath, Ontario | October 10, 2019 Digital therapeutic products are more sophisticated than simple health tracking apps. The term “digital therapeutics” may sound like Silicon...
by CMAJ News | Aug 27, 2019 | Archive, Latest, Tim Lougheed
Video games bring new aspects to medical education and training Tim Lougheed | Bath, Ontario | August 27, 2019 In the United States, doctors can earn continuing medical education credits by playing educational video games on their smartphones. A teenager sitting on a...
by CMAJ News | Jun 13, 2019 | Archive, Latest, Tim Lougheed
How American EMRs came to dominate Canadian health care Tim Lougheed | Bath, Ontario | June 13, 2019 A handful of American EMR vendors control 90% of the Canadian market. Doctors and hospital administrators in Nova Scotia are still scratching their heads over how the...
by CMAJ News | May 8, 2019 | Archive, Latest, Tim Lougheed
An electronic fly on the clinical wall: voice-recognition AI in medicine Tim Lougheed | Bath, Ontario | May 8, 2019 Voice-recognition software could enable patients to have a record of everything discussed at medical appointments. Like many adult children of...
by CMAJ News | Feb 27, 2019 | Archive, Latest, Tim Lougheed
Time to embrace the promise of virtual health care Tim Lougheed | Bath, Ontario | February 27, 2019 The technology to conduct virtual primary visits is secure and widely available. S ometimes receiving primary care is onerous for patients. Carving time out of busy...
by CMAJ News | Jan 16, 2019 | Archive, Latest, Tim Lougheed
The challenge of implementing a patient-centric EMR Tim Lougheed | Bath, Ontario | January 16, 2019 High-tech giant Apple wants to bring the EMR to the iPhone. D r. David Chan expressed amusement that high-tech giant Apple is courting the United States Department of...
