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Users implanted with Synchron’s BCI will be able to control iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro with their thoughts without physical movement or voice commands.
The Apple Health Study will use data collected from Apple devices to examine the relationship between physical and mental health and wellbeing.
This week's top stories include projections that hospitals could lose $54 billion this year, Apple looking to add a feature that could detect potential mental illness, and a link found between ransomware and increased mortality rate.
Monthly Update: HIMSS Media Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock recaps some of August's top healthcare stories, including HIMSS21 and HIMSS21 Digital highlights, and an increasing number of vaccine mandates for healthcare and tech companies.
This week's top stories include UnitedHealthcare re-examining a policy that allows it to deny ER claims, Apple unveiling walking stability assessments for the iPhone, and Mount Sinai catering to patients with limited English proficiency.
This week's top stories include a plea to increase efforts to collect ethnicity data when administering vaccinations, and Apple and the University of Michigan sharing the first results from the Apple Hearing Study.
Back in June, Apple announced that sleep tracking was finally coming to the Apple Watch. But it's not just tracking: It's a whole sleep experience. In this video, HIMSS Media Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock tries it out.
Apple has included for the first time in its Apple Watch Series 6 a blood oxygenation sensor. In this video, HIMSS Media Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock demonstrates how the new health tracking feature works.
This week's top stories include Apple and the VA working to get iPads into the hands of veterans, the latest Apple Watch measuring blood oxygen and a dip in the hospital CEO turnover rate.
This week's top stories include hospitals scrambling to comply with the requirement to submit data to HHS, and Google and Apple's contact tracing app leaving the door open for tracking user locations.