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Harnessing Health Technology and Precision Data to Transition to Proactive Healthcare

HIT Consultant

By combining this technology with new models like Oak Street Health, which is spearheading the redesign of preventative primary care , we can make the interaction between healthcare providers, patients, and technology frictionless. This can be done through both in-person and virtual settings.

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11 New Breakthrough Medical Technology Examples

Etactics

The Advanced Medical Technology Association reports that the United States is the largest medical device market in the world, attributing to over 40% of the MedTech market. Medical technology, or MedTech, proves to change and improve rapidly year by year. Table of Contents What is Medical Technology?

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Healthcare Cybersecurity: Fending Off The Rise of Cyberattacks

HIT Consultant

Third, the healthcare sector has undergone sweeping digitization in recent years, a process that’s accelerating with the deployment of AI and medical technology. Despite the profusion of healthcare cyberattacks, organizations in the sector are struggling to meet this challenge.

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OIG Warns Physicians About Entering into Arrangements with Telemedicine Companies

Sheppard Health Law

Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert warning physicians and other practitioners to exercise caution when entering into telemedicine arrangements that have certain suspect characteristics. The telemedicine company only furnishes one product or a single class of products (e.g.,

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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

Health Populi

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. We covered, The theory that telemedicine should increase health equity — where are we and what are the barriers to getting there? Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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

Health Populi

The vast majority of doctors are using electronic health records, and four in ten have adopted telemedicine in their workflow. Personalized medicine and robotic surgery have been adopted by fewer than 1 in 5 doctors, with AI and virtual reality still nascent technologies in everyday practice.

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3 Ways to Get Started With AR and VR Technology in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Jessica Rengstorf, Director of US Healthcare Strategy at Endava Augmented reality and virtual reality are innovative technologies that can provide tremendous benefits to the healthcare industry, bringing a deeper understanding of complex medical concepts to healthcare professionals and patients alike.