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...
How Patient Management Software Optimizes Patient Flow?
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...
8. 1 boom thing: Virtual care
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...
EHR Interoperability – Why is it Important?
Summary: "Interoperability, the ability of Health Information Exchange (HIE) between various systems, devices and applications benefits both, providers and patients. Interoperability within an...
Interoperability has to move from data exchange to data management
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...
How to Build a Strategic Digital Health Function within Biopharma
Summary: "Key takeaways on digital health from the 2021 JP Morgan Healthcare conference." "During the 2021 JP Morgan Healthcare conference, I had the opportunity to virtually sit down with Karan...
Sensyne Health launches AI algorithm for real-time patient management
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...
Adopting a Member-Centered Approach to Digital Health Management
Summary: "Payers have a real opportunity to play a meaningful role in the future of healthcare as an advocate for patients." "The coronavirus pandemic has proved to be a watershed moment for how...
Infographic: Essential Digital Transformation in the Medical Profession
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...
Cataluña contará con primer acelerador de protones público contra el cáncer de España
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...
How data can empower patients to personalize and improve their cancer treatment
Summary: "Cancer treatment is not one-size-fits-all. Thanks to medical advancements, people receiving a cancer diagnosis might have many potential treatment options, ranging from established,...
Transforming mental health outcomes with analytics
Summary: "Technology is fast becoming the saving grace in combating Australia’s growing mental health crisis. With at least six suicides a day, data driven techniques are now becoming critical in...
Telehealth innovation spurred amid COVID with virtual visits, wearable monitoring devices
Summary: "Telehealth is giving a whole new meaning to the term “house call” as the technology connecting doctor and patient is expanding to include primary care visits to cancer care." "While the...
Researchers examine the ethical implications of AI in surgical settings
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...
Humana joins with IBM Watson Health on AI tool
Summary: "Humana is also working with CMS on a demonstration program for a hospice benefit for MA members." "Humana and IBM Watson Health are joining forces on a new collaboration, one that will use...
A guide to good practice for digital and data-driven health technologies
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,...
5 estrategias para conseguir Servicios de Salud Integrados y Centrados en la Persona
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...
Digital Owl emerges from stealth with AI that analyzes and summarizes medical records
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...
Five Ways Blockchain Technology is Being Used in Healthcare Today
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...
Drivers of Digital Health Technologies – Improving the Patient Experience
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...
AI and APIs: The A+ Answers to Keeping Data Secure and Private
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...
Millions could benefit from genetic screening before prescribing, new research finds
Summary: "New research has found that millions of patients could benefit from genetic screening before being prescribed common medicines. The research, led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) in...
A new era for healthcare in your home
Summary: "Eligible South Australians can now receive hospital-level care from the comfort and privacy of their own home, with the rollout of the new My Home Hospital across metropolitan Adelaide."...
Women’s College Hospital developing virtual support for new mothers
Summary: "At the start of the pandemic, Heather Eldebs had been working with her doctor towards weaning herself off her depression medication. “We kind of looked at this whole adjustment we were...
Employing technology to drive better patient care and cost-savings
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...
Drivers of Digital Health Technologies – Improving the Patient Experience
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...
How AI Has Completely Transformed Medtech
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...
FIRST EVER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/MACHINE LEARNING ACTION PLAN BY FDA
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....
Engagement techniques for digital health interventions
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...
Biopharma 2020: A landmark year and a reset for the future
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...
Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle are working on digital vaccination records
Summary: "A coalition of health and tech companies, which includes Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle, is working on an initiative that aims to make it easier for people to access their COVID-19...
Artificial Intelligence for Astronauts Monitors Patients at Home
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...
7 Digital Health Trends We’ll Keep An Eye On In 2021 – The Medical Futurist
Summary: "Tech is often criticized for a culture of moving fast and breaking things. But what we saw this year was tech enabling bio and healthcare to move fast, to heal. We will always...
It’s Time to Heal: 16 Trends Driving the Future of Bio and Healthcare
Summary: "Tech is often criticized for a culture of moving fast and breaking things. But what we saw this year was tech enabling bio and healthcare to move fast, to heal. We will always need...
Chatbots in healthcare – interview with Thomas Schulz
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...
Pulling the Andon Cord: How health systems can empower frontline workers to transform AI with a lesson from the automotive industry
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...
Moving digital health forward: Lessons on business building
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...
Embracing digital: is COVID-19 the catalyst for lasting change?
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...
Moving digital health forward: Lessons on business building
"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 sciences,...
Simple Virtual Solutions Promote Senior Care Beyond COVID-19
Summary: "Renee Buckingham, president of Partners in Primary Care, discussed how telehealth and virtual care technologies are critical for her patient population. In a recent episode of Healthcare...
NHS Digital pilot will collect private hospital data
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...
It’s Not About Video. It’s About Always-on Triage.
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...
Get Ready for the Hospital of the Future
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,...
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare after COVID-19
Summary: "AI is on the front lines of the COVID-19 fight. It can play an even bigger role in healthcare afterward." "The Covid-19 pandemic put most of the world on pause for a year. Still, there is...
Hospitals without walls: the future of healthcare
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...
I tried ‘Supernatural’ and was surprised at how much fun a workout could be
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...
Lo que significa la pandemia para la transformación digital de la atención de salud
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...
Measuring Digital Maturity– where is the value?
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...
Artificial Intelligence: The Good, The Bad, and Potential Policies to Guide It
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...
Telehealth services come with sizable cyber risks
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...
How Remote Patient Monitoring Is Reducing Readmissions in 2020
Summary: "Remote monitoring is digital technology that collects biometric data (e.g., blood pressure, oxygen saturation, glucose levels) from a patient at one location, analyzes and interprets that...
Unlocking data and embracing digital technologies to transform citizens’ health and wellbeing
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...
Highmark Inks 6-Year Partnership with Google Cloud to Power Living Health Model
Summary: "Highmark’s Living Health model is designed to eliminate the fragmentation in health care by re-engineering the healthcare delivery model with a more coordinated, personalized,...
How mHealth Apps are Revolutionizing Healthcare | Codementor
Summary: "Researches show that the mhealth apps market is going to reach around $20 billion by 2021. But the market size doesn't showcase how much the healthcare system is growing. Innovation in the...
What One Health System Learned About Providing Digital Services in the Pandemic
Summary: "Even before the pandemic struck, Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare had been aggressively employing telehealth. During the pandemic, telehealth and other digital services have...
AI powered ‘virtual patient’ allows remote medical training
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....
SOLAR-POWERED STERILISATION OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT IN DEVELOPING NATIONS
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...
Amazon launches HealthLake, a platform for storing and analyzing health care data
Summary: Amazon launched Amazon HealthLake, a service that enables health care organizations to store, transform, and analyze up to petabytes of life science data in Amazon Web Services. Article...
The healthtech revolution: AI and healthcare construction in a post-COVID world
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...
New Google Health tool helps plan medical visits, rolling out to Search
Summary: Earlier this year, Google added a “COVID-19 alert” from the CDC to hospital and other healthcare provider listings. Google Health is now piloting a general tool to help plan your hospital...
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Clinician Burnout
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...
HOW DIGITAL HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY CAN REINVENT THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP
Summary: "Everything else in life has become accessible with the click of a button or a swipe on a phone — so why can’t the act of going to the doctor be just as convenient?" "As a surgeon of nearly...
Google Cloud unveils AI tools to help healthcare analyze unstructured medical text
Now available in public preview, the offerings are designed to help organizations and individuals pull clinically-relevant insights from large volumes of free text housed in medical records. Article...
How one healthcare system is empowering patients by enabling medical imaging access through the patient portal
The need for patients to access their medical images is nothing new. For decades, patients have transported images and files to a specialist who requests them. Gaining access to those images was...
Why Now More Than Ever Healthcare Needs To Go Digital
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....
How The Internet Of Things Can Help Hospitals Cope With Coronavirus
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...
How an Algorithm Blocked Kidney Transplants to Black Patients
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....
Spain’s Savana Medica raises $15 million to bring to the US its AI toolkit turning clinical notes into care insights
Summary: Savana,, a machine learning-based service that turns clinical notes into structured patient information for physicians and pharmacists, has raised $15 million to take its technology from...
CommonSpirit Health Links With Startup To Integrate Behavioral And Primary Care
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...
EHR-linked telehealth helps hospital surpass previous year’s visit adherence rate
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...
New platform launches in India to enable paperless hospitals
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...
How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths actually worked in the real world
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...
Smarter Hospitals: How AI-Enabled Sensors Could Save Lives
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...
Startup’s AI Platform Allows Contact-Free Hospital Interactions
Summary: Ouva’s AI-based system allows no-touch hospital interactions with automated patient monitoring, COVID-19 screenings, voice-activated assistants and more. Article written by Renee...
3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Change Healthcare
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...
Smart hospitals: the digital future of global health
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...
Healthcare Innovation – 10 Recent Examples Of Powerful Innovation In Healthcare
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...
NewYork-Presbyterian & Philips Partner To Enhance Its Telehealth Solutions
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...
Avance científico del Hospital Italiano: lanzan un tratamiento cardíaco “virtual”
Summary: Por primera vez en la Argentina, implantaron una válvula aórtica con planificación virtual Article written by Unknown 10|01|2019...
La Unidad de 3D consolida la planificación y simulación de cirugías complejas y ofrece servicio a todas las especialidades pediátricas
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...
Keeping Up with Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
Summary: The IoMT (internet of medical things) is dramatically altering the landscape of the industry, and the overall IoMT market is expected to grow from $41 billion in 2017 to $158 billion by...