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APAC to double down on home hospitalisation, tech-enabled preventive care

Healthcare It News

Home hospitalisation, tech-enabled preventive care, and genomic data-driven personalised care are some of the emerging trends in care in the Asia-Pacific region. " Prof Lee also noted the "rapid advances" in wearable health technologies, which have allowed people to get a hold of their physiological data.

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Harnessing Health Technology and Precision Data to Transition to Proactive Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Improving Health Tech Experiences to Utilize Data from Underprivileged Groups Despite the promising outlook, health technology still grapples with low adoption rates, particularly among demographics with higher risks of health complications, such as heart disease patients.

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Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologies

Healthcare It News

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. But even more troubling, many Americans are unaware of their health status.

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AI Tops ECRI’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2025

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – ECRI , a non-profit organization focused on healthcare safety, has released its annual Top 10 Health Technology Hazards report for 2025. Unmet technology support needs for home care patients: Challenges in using complex medical devices at home.

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The Latest Health Technology Vision and Consumer Behavior Insights From Accenture

Health Populi

Two new reports from Accenture update our understanding of the changed health consumer in the context of both “home: and the health care ecosystem. The 2020 tech vision for health is summarized here, tying to Accenture’s previous two years of forecasts.

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Alexandra Hospital leverages cloud-based service to help patients avoid preventable chronic disease

Healthcare It News

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. ON THE RECORD.

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ECRI Unveils Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2024

HIT Consultant

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. These systems offer a range of capabilities (e.g.,