Radar HealthTech

Summary: "Predictive modeling offers the potential for healthcare organizations to improve service delivery and patient outcomes — but what’s required for effective deployment?" Article written...

Summary: "Author’s Note: This paper was originally completed for publishing in early 2020 prior to the major outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. We believe that the COVID-19...

Summary: "In the healthcare sector, businesses must abide by the HIPAA (US), HDS (FR) and others regional guidelines set by federal compliance regulations and protect the privacy of patient records;...

Summary: "In today’s ever-changing technological environment, healthcare organizations are expected to constantly advance their technological capabilities to improve their clinical processes further...

Summary: "Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms which can provide faster diagnosis and treatments for clinicians are to be developed as part of a new partnership." Article written by  Hannah Crouch...

Summary: "Did you know that nurses spend an average of 72 minutes per shift searching for equipment? In an eight-hour shift, that's more than 10 percent of their time. In addition, the average...

Summary: "Many of us in the technology field are reflecting on how we can help build a stronger, more resilient future for healthcare. As the industry focuses on digital transformation, there is a...

Summary: "Even before the pandemic made telehealth a hot topic, people with minor urgent health needs had started to turn to companies that offer on-demand video chats with physicians that they...

Summary: "Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform how healthcare is delivered. A joint report with the European Union’s EIT Health explores how it can support improvements in...

Summary: "While telehealth use soared last year, the biggest increases were among adults living in metropolitan areas with low poverty levels, according to research published in the American Journal...

Summary: "Telehealth and virtual consults are changing how medical care is delivered. Artificial intelligence is integral to improving these experiences for both the doctor and the patient" Article...

Summary: "Experts at CES 2021 discuss how to overcome the barrier to trust in something that is hard to understand and visualize." "By this point in time, artificial intelligence and machine...

Summary: "Melbourne-based Zed Technologies shows how Australian digital health ideas can accelerate overseas growth. With a cloud-based service, the company has partnered with an Indonesian med-tech...

Summary: "After a two-year investigation, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has made 148 recommendations to overhaul Australia’s aged-care system. Summarising the...

Summary: "Data today has earned tremendous importance in every field, and the healthcare sector is no different. The healthcare industry is also adopting various digital solutions and moving towards...

Summary: "At its best, the healthcare system is designed to center a patient’s needs and keep them at the heart of every practice. This is done, of course, through the management of human, medical...

Summary: "Telemedicine finally met its moment over the past year, and it’s one of the few parts of pandemic life that anyone wants to keep." Article written by Sam Baker 27|02|2021...

Summary: "Interoperability, the ability of Health Information Exchange (HIE) between various systems, devices and applications benefits both, providers and patients. Interoperability within an...

Summary: "Healthcare interoperability is evolving, but it is not keeping pace with industry needs. New federal and state policies, as well as advancements in technology, that focus on data...

Summary: "Sensyne Health has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm which will support real-time operational and clinical patient management." "The British AI company’s SYNE-OPS-1...

Summary: "5 Technology Trends to Look at for 2021" "The pandemic has accelerated the era of digital health. Tech advances combined with rapid transformation and adoption in healthcare has given rise...

Summary: "La protonterapia es un tipo de radioterapia en la que se usa una haz de protones para irradiar el tejido afectado por un tumor, logrando una precisión mucho mayor" "Cataluña tendrá el...

Summary: "A new whitepaper coauthored by researchers at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence examines the ethics of AI in surgery, making the case that surgery and AI carry similar...

Summary: "Across the country and around the globe, digital innovators are helping us deliver our commitment to the digital transformation of health and social care, to bring benefits to patients,...

Summary: "En abril del año 2016 la OMS, en su asamblea general, presentó un documento sobre cómo orientar los servicios de salud, para que sean integrados y centrados en la persona. Se trata de...

Summary: "Using natural language processing, Digital Owl extracts information from hundreds to thousands of pages of electronic medical records. The data is presented chronologically, allowing users...

Summary: "Blockchain technology has fast become one of the tech concept giants of today. Anyone with basic digital wherewithal has heard it at least a dozen times, though they might not always...

Summary: "Confidence in digital health technologies’ and tools’ potential continues to progress as health systems continue to invest in a more digital health care experience – focusing on connecting...

Summary: "Many security leaders view regulations and internal processes designed to manage and secure data as red tape that hampers innovation. Nothing could be further from the truth." "Protecting...

Summary: "A patient's medical history includes years of data reflecting their medical conditions, co-morbidities, medications, laboratory results and additional information related to their health...

Summary: "Confidence in digital health technologies’ and tools’ potential continues to progress as health systems continue to invest in a more digital health care experience – focusing on connecting...

Summary: "Artificial intelligence has disrupted every industry under the sun and healthcare is no exception. There are countless ways in which AI is transforming medtech, which explains why the...

Summary: "Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration presented the organization’s first Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)- Based Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) Action Plan....

Summary: "User engagement with digital health interventions is a primary challenge faced by the industry today. A growing body of evidence has demonstrated that digital health interventions...

Summary: "Amid all the uncertainties, the biopharma industry has faced disruptions of its own. As in many sectors, it has prioritized keeping employees safe, made shifts to remote working, and...

Summary: "Software that monitors astronaut health in space now monitors high-risk patients at home." "When chronic pain flares, the trip from your door to the doctor’s office can seem as difficult...

Summary: "Digital health and mobile health apps have been a hype topic, ever since Apple’s App Store began the app-craze in 2008. The initial hype about mHealth has now cooled, which is good news in...

Summary: "Machine learning algorithms are powerful because they can process far more data than the human brain can consume; but sometimes, algorithms can make a mistake. Learn how a concept...

Summary: "Building a successful digital health business involves several strategic steps, as illustrated through the lens of six digital health start-ups." "Established companies in the life...

Summary: "The pandemic spurred many health and human services providers to embrace digital. Now action is needed to maintain progress. Pre-pandemic, many health and human services providers were...

Summary: "A pilot led by NHS Digital and the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) is set to collect data on privately-funded care from independent hospitals. The testing phase of the...

Summary: "The video visit has been one of the gifts of the otherwise merciless pandemic. As a physician, I’ve loved seeing patients access care so conveniently: Elderly patients who don’t have to...

Summary: "Attendees of the Virtual Engineering Week keynote, “Mayo Clinic 2030: Hospital of the Future,” got a glimpse of healthcare’s future. Mark Wehde, chair, Mayo Clinic Division of Engineering,...

Summary: "In the wake of Covid, doctors and designers are radically adapting their thinking about what a hospital can be and what it should deliver." Article written by Laura Spinney 02|01|2021...

Summary: "I am far from a gamer — aside from some serious Mario Kart skills from my childhood that resurface when my brother and I are home for the holidays. But like most health-conscious people...

Summary: "En una mesa redonda, los directores de información de los principales sistemas de salud convinieron en que las tecnologías digitales debían desempeñar un papel importante para hacer frente...

Summary: "Measuring digital maturity has its advocates and detractors and interest in measuring digital maturity inevitably waxes and wanes, but it does seem to be at the forefront of people’s minds...

Summary: "A report from GAO and the National Academy of Medicine assesses the AI healthcare landscape and signals regulatory oversight may emerge down the road." Article written by  Mandy Roth...

Summary "The rapid deployments and transition towards adopting virtual health services are immensely attractive to hackers looking to take advantage of the disarray of starting a large-scale digital...

Summary: "If the coronavirus pandemic and Europe-wide lockdowns taught us one thing, it is just how reliant we all are on digital technologies – including for our own health, and that data was in...

Summary: New AI technology has been launched to allow healthcare clinicians and medical students to hone their skills remotely, minimising the need for in-person training during the pandemic....

Summary: The device can be easily put together by users and can generate solar energy even in cloudy conditions Article written by Katrina Lane 08|12|2020 Source:Spring...

Summary: "After decades of low digitisation, an ever-increasing universe of technologies are disrupting the way we plan, design, and execute healthcare projects. Our London-based...

Providence health system is using an artificial intelligence solution to alleviate clinician burnout and improve the care experience. Article written by Jessica Kent 23|11|2020 Source:Health IT...

Summary: Our world is run by apps. We’re glued to our smartphones day in day out, and if it’s not a smartphone, it’s a smartwatch, or smart sneakers, smart doorbell, or smart… you get the picture....

Summary: The European Commission has launched an €8 million project that aims to use the Internet of Things (IoT) to increase and enhance the remote care provided by hospitals. Article written...

Summary: "Doctors often make life-changing decisions about patient care based on algorithms that interpret test results or weight risks, like whether to perform a particular procedure....

Summary: The large hospital and outpatient care provider CommonSpirit Health is partnering with the startup behavioral health company Concert Health to create a new model of primary medical care...

Summary: This was enabled thanks to an FCC COVID-19 grant that supplied all physicians with new laptops that feature HD webcams and processing power for seamless video visits. Article written...

Summary: Digital health venture KareXpert has built a new cloud-based platform with built-in electronic health records (EHR) that will enable hospitals in India to go paperless.  Article written...

Summary: It wasn’t just technical work but also significant social and emotional labor that turned Sepsis Watch, a Duke University deep-learning model, into a success story. Article written...

Summary: Computer scientists and clinicians are trying to reduce fatal medical errors by building “ambient intelligence” into the spaces where patients reside. Article written by  Tom...

Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has millennials worried—and that has them planning to buy more prescription drugs in the future, new research finds. Article written by Constantine Buhler 04|08|2020...

Summary: We look at the role of the smart hospital, according to global firms Siemens, McKinsey and Accenture. Article written by  Henry Menear 01|05|2020...

Summary: AI, design thinking, robotics and big data have made a splash across all industries, but perhaps their greatest impact is in healthcare.  Article written by  Blake Morgan 12|03|2019...

Summary: In a bid to improve its telehealth capabilities, NewYork Presbyterian-Hospital has engaged Royal Philips to provide remote patient monitoring software, as new telemedicine solutions...

Summary: Por primera vez en la Argentina, implantaron una válvula aórtica con planificación virtual Article written by  Unknown 10|01|2019...

Summary: El año 2013, el Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona planificó por primera vez una intervención de cirugía oncológica compleja con impresión tridimensional para un paciente pediátrico. Desde...