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Picture this: Carle Health gains sizable rewards with enterprise imaging system

Healthcare It News

As an IT leader, physician and engineer, he believes medical technology – when designed with the end user in mind – can dramatically increase clinician engagement, quality care and workflow efficiency. "Patients now can see their medical images alongside their doctors' reports.

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Doctors’ Recommendations Are Top Motivators for Consumers Who Buy Digital Health Devices: Trust and Health

Health Populi

Most consumers using digital health devices felt more trust in the technology when coupled with doctors’ office reviews — another lens on the importance of trust-equity between patients and physicians. for trust/honesty as nurses, doctors, and pharmacists). for trust/honesty as nurses, doctors, and pharmacists).

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Health Populi

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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A Concerning Gap in Cybersecurity for Medical Technology

Health Populi

It’s important to note that 79% of consumers support the idea of medical devices and sensors that immediately transmit significant changes to peoples’ doctors, as the bar chart from Unisys’s consumer survey data illustrates. Risk management for cybersecurity in healthcare touches finance, quality and reputation alike.

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‘I Can’t Breathe’: Racism in Medical Technology

Bill Of Health

The racial justice uprisings and the COVID-19 pandemic have inspired advocates, scholars, and researchers to examine the assumptions about race that have embedded themselves into these tools — the medical technologies we use to measure if, and how, a person is breathing and absorbing oxygen.

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Osteoboost: FDA-Cleared Wearable Device for Osteopenia Treatment Open for Pre-Orders

HIT Consultant

– Osteoboost is a prescription wearable medical device, worn low around the waist, that delivers targeted vibration therapy directly to the hips and spine – areas most at risk of debilitating osteoporotic fractures.

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Digitalization in healthcare empowers patients

Healthcare It News

By providing ready-made, suitable selection and processing applications, innovative medical technology providers can help healthcare institutions prevent the kind of “filter failure” This occurs when the data that is available is not properly assembled and structured in a comfortable format [4].