(Washington, DC – August 4, 2014) –  The 2014 edition of US News and World Report’s annual “Best Hospitals” issue hit the stands today, featuring Galileo Analytics Co-Founder Anna McCollister-Slipp in an article about the future of digital health. 85

Written by veteran journalist Elizabeth Gardner, the article discusses McCollister-Slipp’s use of digital health and wellness tools to manage her type 1 diabetes and the promise of these digital technologies to transform healthcare, as well as her frustration with a lack of data access and medical device interoperability and how that unnecessarily inhibits the devices’ value for patients.

In addition to McCollister-Slipp, the article features noted digital health experts, such as Dr. Eric Topol of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, Dr. Danny Sands of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Co-Founder of the Society for Participatory Medicine and Dr. Farzad Mostashari, former National Coordinator of the Office of Information Technology at the Department of Health and Human Services.

To read the full article visit www.health.usnews.com or click here: “Need a Diagnosis or Checkup? Your Smartphone Is On Call: Apps and handheld devices are revolutionizing care”.