Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

” The DiGA initiative, created under the 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (DVG), means doctors can prescribe apps to the 73 million German citizens covered by public health, with costs reimbursed through health insurance. All healthcare is really within the responsibility of the members states. ON THE RECORD.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 31, 2024

What You Should Know: – ECRI , an independent healthcare safety organization, has released its annual Top 10 Health Technology Hazards list for 2024 , highlighting critical safety concerns for healthcare providers and the medical device industry.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 12, 2023

David Smith, President at ilumivu There’s an ongoing debate regarding the role that consumer health technology , like wearable health devices (i.e., Because this is a relatively new technology, the scope of its potential impact is, at present, only scraping the surface. What are the drawbacks of health technology?

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

" Prof Lee also noted the "rapid advances" in wearable health technologies, which have allowed people to get a hold of their physiological data. In managing volumes of data that health systems can now tap into, empowering patients to become transparent with, as well as knowledgeable about their condition, is imperative.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 13, 2023

In a home visit, nurses wear the VR headset and are guided virtually by a doctor in a remote location. "Patients recover much better at home, but that’s only possible if we’re providing them with high-quality healthcare services right at their doorstep. Its rollout for home visits will follow soon.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These are just some of the AI health tech announcements we're watching unfold this week. The addition of Pentavere’s data abstraction and structuring capabilities will broaden HEALWELL’s therapeutic and disease indication spectrum offered to WELL’s healthcare providers, the company said in its announcement Wednesday.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 5, 2022

Advocate Aurora is building out its portfolio of technologies and services for its aging patients, including home health and hospice care. Remote patient monitoring is moving into the mainstream as more patients have acquainted themselves with virtual care during the pandemic and connected health technologies mature and evolve.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Alexandra Hospital has taken part in the launch of a new cloud-based digital health service in Singapore by telecommunications provider StarHub, together with its partners, health technology company ConnectedLife and Fitbit. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Some know they have a "target" on their backs and remain tight-lipped with their healthcare providers, said Liederman. According to one 2014 survey, 10% of patients distrusted health technology, Liederman said, but another recent survey found 87% of patients are unwilling to divulge all their medical information.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The latest report from Philips Future Health Index series attests to that, and to clinicians’ general recognition that telehealth has been crucial in the early phase of the crisis. Collaboration is a top priority for doctors. 53% of younger doctors said AI would have improved their pandemic experience.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 19, 2023

John Vivoda, Senior Director of Patient Strategy at Wolters Kluwer Health, Technology has drastically changed the way we consume information in our daily lives. That goes for healthcare information, too. Historically, a lack of patient empowerment has been a struggle in healthcare. According to the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 20, 2024

With new advancements in technology, patients are able to access medical marijuana and manage their dosage for safer long term use. In this article, we’ll talk about how technology is shaping the way people access medical marijuana. Telemedicine can help to bridge the gap between certain patient and doctor barriers.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Jeffrey Gladd, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Fullscript Today’s healthcare system is broken—mostly operating as a “sick care” system that too often manages disease or symptoms without regard for the interconnectedness of the human body or the factors that serve at the root causes of disease. With an estimated 129 million people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2019

This is consistent with a previous survey by PwC’s firm Strategy& conducted several years ago which asked consumers what industries they would trust to help them manage their health. Equal proportions (39-40%) of people said, “large retailers,” “digitally-enabled companies,” and “healthcare providers.”

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are no longer nice-to-have technologies for healthcare providers. They are mission-critical tools for addressing significant challenges many health systems and hospitals face today — from volatile patient volumes to ballooning labor costs and staffing shortages to low operating margins.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

doctors and nurses alike, are considering leaving their current role in the next two to three years. Elsevier first conducted research among doctors and nurses for the Clinician of the Future report in 2022, following up this year’s survey research online among 2,607 clinicians working around the world: Elsevier polled 365 U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 2, 2024

What You Should Know: – The global healthcare landscape is undergoing a transformative shift. Digital innovation, particularly the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) , is emerging as a powerful tool to improve access, quality, and affordability of healthcare worldwide.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

Laurie Orlov, tech industry veteran, writer, speaker and elder care advocate, is the founder of the encyclopedia Aging and Health Technology Watch website, takes this propitious moment to assess The Future of Wearables and Older Adult in a new report. For example, Devoted Health was the first MA plan to subsidize an Apple Watch.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 21, 2024

What You Should Know: – Digital diabetes management tools are failing to deliver meaningful health benefits to patients, according to a new evaluation by the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI). – The report casts doubt on the effectiveness of widely used digital diabetes management tools.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

“Seeing is not believing” when it comes to people seeing health information on social networks. Four in five people seeking healthcare information online in social media are concerned about the accuracy of that information served up. healthcare system and use of connected health technologies.

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Healthcare Leadership

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

One of the things I get to do is mentor and coach healthcare entrepreneurs. Lately, I have seen a lot of companies building technology to help people stay safe and recover at home. However, to make care-at-home possible, technology is needed to allow clinicians and care teams to monitor and connect with patients in their home.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

That AI-powered counsel can emanate from the digital health technologies, apps, and algorithms that people are increasingly using — choosing to do so on their own, as well as adopting new tools based on health care provider and wellness coach recommendations (or “prescriptions”).

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Alaina Victoria PT, DPT, Marketing and Sales Enablement Manager, OneStep Implementing remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) successfully holds the key to revolutionizing healthcare delivery, enhancing patient outcomes and care efficiency.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S. public health, as well.

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Medical GPS

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

From the exam room to the home, technology is transforming every facet of healthcare at a pace that’s both exciting and overwhelming. 1) We may not have Star-Trek’s hand-held bone or dermal regeneration tech, but with healthcare technology advancing at its current rate, we can’t be far from it.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative. has highlighted the huge demand for health technology solutions. CTA’s new Public Health Technology Initiative promises to be an important, impactful effort as a public-private partnership.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 7, 2023

Kayt Leonard, Global Health Care and Life Sciences Strategic Advisor at SAS We hear it every day, right? Articles and headlines touting “the healthcare industry is constantly evolving and changing” to be more consumer-focused and patient-centric. Getting information from one doctor to another? But is that really all that true?

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2023

Research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that the number of people who spend $100,000 or more each year on healthcare increased by 50% between 2013 and 2021. Nearly half of all annual healthcare spending in the U.S. Nearly half of all annual healthcare spending in the U.S. billion per year.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 9, 2023

Cristina Varner, Newfront, SVP National Life Science & Healthcare Practice Gone are the days when healthcare information was only available to us at the doctor’s office or through the office’s online portals, and that’s in part due to the rapidly growing popularity of wearable technology devices.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2018

Googling the words “disruption” and “healthcare” today yielded 33.8 “Disruption” as a noun and an elephant in our room has been with us in healthcare since the September/October 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review. This emerged out of Christensen’s 1997 book, The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2024

Only 11% of these app-receptive older consumers rely on doctor recommendations for health and wellness apps. Interested in what health and wellness apps could do, the top-ranked use for the tools would be for tracking fitness and physical activity among 55% of these older consumers.

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Nordic

JUNE 15, 2023

Headlines screaming “Technology is ruining doctors’ lives” are hard to miss. Despite this, the use of digital tools in healthcare continues to rapidly expand. Gone are the days when the average physician could leave discussion of the design and implementation of health technology in the hands of the few tech-savvy colleagues.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2023

In healthcare, where human interaction is critical, AI continues to ingrain itself within the patient-clinician relationship at a breathtaking pace. Now, we are seeing what many in healthcare view as an alarming trend: an increase in the automation of tasks previously done by human hands.

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Healthcare Leadership

MARCH 2, 2023

Human factors has been largely ignored by healthcare information technology over the past few decades. However, as staff challenges rock the healthcare industry, greater attention is being paid to the impact that technology has on staff. No where is this more the case than in healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

This includes massive acquisitions like Amazon and OneMedical, as well as deals like CVS Health and Signify. Big tech will make noise, not real change, with their forays into fixing healthcare. Big tech companies have not worked to improve healthcare from the inside out. Nate Fox, co-founder and CTO, Ribbon Health.

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