Apple has announced the launch of the Apple Health Study, a new initiative aimed at exploring how technology can enhance physical and mental health. Conducted in collaboration with Brigham and...
Mass-produced wearable biosensors with printable nanoparticles
A breakthrough in this field comes from a team of engineers at Caltech, who have developed a technique to mass-produce wearable sweat sensors using core–shell nanoparticle technology. These sensors...
Proven app enhances type 2 diabetes control through healthy living
Type 2 diabetes is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases worldwide, and its incidence continues to rise. It is estimated that by 2030, 570 million people will be affected, increasing to 700...
Stroke recovery predicted with 93% accuracy, enhancing surgery decisions
Stroke remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, demanding innovative solutions to improve patient outcomes. Researchers at Ochsner Health, led by Dr. Hernan Bazan, have developed a...
Mount Sinai performs first AI-powered robotic BPH surgery
Mount Sinai Hospital has made history as the first in New York City to perform a procedure using the HYDROS™ Robotic System, an advanced technology designed to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia...
A wearable to track and understand perimenopause symptoms
While most reproductive health wearables focus on period tracking or fertility, identifyHer is shifting the conversation with Peri, a new device designed to help people monitor and manage...
Enhancing tuberculosis infection control with a digital risk scoring tool
The rise in tuberculosis (TB) cases in the United States has highlighted the need for improved infection control measures in healthcare settings. Patients suspected of having TB require immediate...
Novel ‘Scaffolding’ biomaterial improves bladder regeneration and function
A team of Northwestern scientists has developed an innovative electroactive scaffolding material that significantly enhances bladder tissue regeneration and organ function, surpassing current...
Proton’s device aims to help those with kidney disease and cut heart-failure risks
Chronic kidney disease and heart failure are conditions where potassium imbalances can have life-threatening consequences. While glucose monitoring for diabetes has become commonplace, potassium...
Researchers develop biodegradable electrodes that may help repair damaged brain tissue
Researchers from the University of Toronto have developed a groundbreaking biodegradable electrode that can stimulate neural precursor cells (NPCs) in the brain. This flexible device delivers...
Transforming Your Smartphone into a Hormone Analyzer
Eli Health, a pioneer in hormone monitoring technology, has unveiled a solution that transforms any smartphone into a portable, real-time hormone analyzer using saliva. Winner of the Best of...
Tackling undiagnosed atrial fibrillation with AI
Every year, atrial fibrillation (AF) contributes to around 20,000 strokes in the UK. Many of these strokes are preventable, but AF often goes undiagnosed, as it doesn’t always present symptoms. For...
World’s first affordable laser-based injection, showcase a needle-free future
FlowBeams, the creator of the BoldJet needle-free injection technology, is poised to revolutionize healthcare and dermatology. Unveiled at CES 2025, BoldJet eliminates the pain of traditional...
Smart glasses to enable vision for people with macular degeneration
Millions of people worldwide suffer from macular degeneration and other low-vision disorders, conditions that cause severe visual impairment or even blindness. For those affected, even simple tasks...
Glóbulos rojos universales producidos en laboratorio podrían permitir transfusiones ilimitadas
El suministro de sangre es un componente esencial en la atención médica, pero el sistema actual, basado exclusivamente en donantes humanos, enfrenta serias limitaciones. La dependencia de donaciones...
Desarrollan un modelo 3D para estudiar mutaciones en tejidos epiteliales
Un equipo de investigadores ha desarrollado un innovador sistema de cultivo en 3D, denominado "epitelioides", que simula el comportamiento de los tejidos epiteliales, como el esófago, en el...
YouShift: La plataforma que optimiza la gestión de guardias médicas
La gestión de los turnos y guardias médicas ha sido durante años una tarea compleja y manual, cargada de tensiones y dificultades para equilibrar las necesidades de los hospitales y las preferencias...
First-in-kind flowable collagen liquid fills tissue defects and voids
Soft tissue defects and voids resulting from injuries, diseases, congenital conditions, or tumor removals pose significant challenges for both patients and healthcare systems. Traditional treatments...
Nanofiber patch could make treatment for psoriasis more comfortable
Psoriasis, a chronic skin condition affecting 4-5% of the Danish population, is one of the most common skin diseases worldwide. It manifests as a red rash with white scales, which can vary in size,...
A drug-free approach to managing skin infections
Researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of California San Diego have made a groundbreaking advancement in the fight against bacterial infections. A collaborative effort between...
Algorithm automatically differentiates and counts cell types in bone marrow
The diagnosis of hematological diseases, such as leukemia and multiple myeloma, heavily relies on the analysis of bone marrow samples, a process that is still performed manually in most hospitals....
Avatar therapy eases distress from voices in psychosis patients
Auditory hallucinations, particularly in the form of threatening voices, are a hallmark symptom of psychosis. These experiences can severely impair an individual’s quality of life, leading to...
AI-powered wearable camera system detects medication errors
Medication administration errors are alarmingly common, with estimates suggesting they account for 5% to 10% of all administered drugs. These errors can lead to severe adverse events, affecting...
FDA approves first digital depression therapy alongside meds and psychotherapy
Until now, treatments for clinical depression primarily fell into two categories: psychotherapy and antidepressant medications. However, this year the U.S. FDA approved the first app-based therapy...
Lenovo launches AI avatar for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease
At Lenovo Tech World, Lenovo, in partnership with Innovations in Dementia, introduced “Alzheimer’s Intelligence,” a groundbreaking AI-driven project designed to support people living with dementia...
Antimicrobial bandage stops bleeding and reduces infection risk
Researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) have developed an innovative bandage designed to prevent fatal bleeding in life-threatening situations such as traffic accidents or workplace...
Innovative solution provides continuous, non-invasive ICU-level hemodynamic monitoring
Hemodynamic instability is the second most common cause of ICU readmissions, accounting for 31% of cases. These patients also face significantly higher hospital mortality rates. To address this, a...
A breathing exercise device for respiratory and sleep issues
WellO2, a pioneering Finnish company in respiratory health, has unveiled its latest breathing exercise device at The Pharmacy Show 2024. This innovative product is tailored for individuals seeking...
Respiree and Roche launch a pilot to simplify patient real-time monitoring
Respiree, in collaboration with Roche, is set to revolutionize patient monitoring across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region through a pilot program that integrates Respiree's vital sign monitoring...
Proactive heart failure management made easy with DIGITIVA
Heart failure is a chronic condition that affects more than 64 million people worldwide, and nearly 7 million in the U.S. alone. Managing heart failure is a complex challenge, often requiring...
Wearable technology delivers electrical fields that kill cancer cells
Lung cancer treatment has evolved beyond traditional methods like chemotherapy and immunotherapy, introducing novel approaches such as wearable technology. The FDA recently approved Novocure’s...
AI virtual voice assistant identifies complications after transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Aortic valve stenosis is prevalent, often requiring TAVI as a less invasive treatment option. However, many hospitals struggle to provide the necessary follow-up due to limited resources. To...
Fecundis, the startup improving infertility with male gamete technology
Approximately 180 million individuals worldwide struggle with infertility, and over 90% lack access to effective treatments. Fecundis, a pioneering medical technology startup based in the Barcelona...
A caregiver-designed app for Alzheimer’s support
Pharmaceutical company Otsuka Precision Health and Amalgam Rx, Inc. have announced the launch of Elevmi™, an intelligent digital application designed to empower caregivers of individuals with...
A biometric solution to enchance hospital patient management and safety
Heuristik, a health-tech startup, has captured attention at the Alhambra Venture event with its advanced patient identification and management solution. Leveraging artificial intelligence and...
Madrid creates the first virtual hospitalization unit for patients in residential care homes
Madrid has launched its first virtual hospitalization unit to provide comprehensive medical care to elderly patients living in residential homes, aiming to reduce unnecessary hospital transfers....
Real-time prescription tracking: A Win for patients and pharmacists
The NHS app, utilized by over 34 million people, is set to enhance the experience of patients and pharmacists alike with a new feature that provides real-time updates on prescription statuses. This...
Improving osteoporosis screening with advanced imaging technologies
Osteoporosis, a condition that affects millions worldwide, is often underdiagnosed and undertreated, leading to serious health complications. Every year, it results in approximately 37 million...
First CE marked medical device (class IIa) approved for the treatment of fibromyalgia in Europe
Remedee Labs, a French start-up specializing in non-pharmacological treatments for chronic pain, has achieved a significant milestone in the fight against fibromyalgia. The company’s innovative...
A digital therapy shows success in reducing migraine days
Migraine is a complex and debilitating condition that affects more than 47 million Americans,1 and is the second leading cause of years lived with a disability.2 For those living with migraine,...
A voice-based app could revolutionize early detection and management of depression trough voice
Depression, which affects over 258 million people globally, is not just an emotional struggle; it's a leading cause of disability and lost productivity. Traditional screening methods, such as...
First of it’s kind ‘ChemoPatch’ to stop pancreatic cancer returning
Pancreatic cancer is notorious for its low survival rate, with fewer than 7% of patients surviving beyond five years in the UK. Surgery remains the only potentially curative option, but about 75% of...
DeepWell’s FDA-cleared Kit transforms games into stress treatments
Imagine a world where your doctor prescribes video games as part of your treatment for stress. This is not a distant dream but a burgeoning reality thanks to Deepwell DTx, a Seattle-based company...
FDA-cleared device uses acoustic therapy to alleviate nasal congestion
Sonu, a groundbreaking acoustic resonance therapy device, is now available over-the-counter (OTC) for treating moderate to severe nasal congestion caused by allergic and nonallergic rhinitis....
Eyelid wearable can predict and alert to epileptic seizure
In a groundbreaking development in wearable technology, Blink Energy, an Israeli startup, has introduced a pioneering device that attaches to the eyelid to monitor blink patterns. This tiny patch,...
An innovative videogame to assess and correct visual dysfunctions in just twelve minuts
Vision is responsible for processing up to 85% of the information our brain receives, making it essential for daily activities, decisions, and interactions. However, when visual pathways malfunction...
AI uncovers hidden emotions of chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a slow-progressing cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, predominantly in older adults. Beyond the physical toll, over 20% of CLL patients suffer from...
3D-printed microneedles could streamline remote health monitoring
Access to quality healthcare remains a persistent challenge, particularly in underserved or remote regions where resources are scarce, and healthcare services are limited. One of the major issues in...
An implantable sensor could reverse opioid overdoses
In 2023, over 100,000 Americans succumbed to opioid overdoses, underscoring a critical need for timely intervention. Naloxone, an effective antidote, can save lives when administered quickly, but...
Treating radiation wounds with aspirin hydrogels
Radiation therapy is a critical tool in cancer treatment, but it often comes with the downside of damaging the skin, leading to painful injuries, infections, and chronic inflammation. Addressing...
Desarrollo y evaluación de una aplicación móvil para la recolección sistemática de PROs en personas con hemofilia
La hemofilia es un trastorno hemorrágico hereditario que resulta de la deficiencia o disfunción de los factores de coagulación VIII (FVIII) en la hemofilia A (HA) y IX (FIX) en la hemofilia B (HB)....
Nueva app para optimizar la administración de medicamentos en la UCI
La Sociedad Española de Farmacia Hospitalaria (SEFH), en colaboración con la empresa de tecnología médica BD, ha lanzado la aplicación "Guía de Validación Farmacéutica de Medicamentos en UCI",...
A best practice in hospital resource management through AI
In an era marked by inflation, talent shortages, and supply chain challenges, healthcare decision-makers must stretch their budgets more efficiently than ever. These pressures are driving some...
Predicting survival of dialysis patients on continuous renal replacement therapy using AI
A groundbreaking study led by UCLA has introduced a machine-learning model that significantly improves the prediction of short-term survival for patients undergoing continuous renal replacement...
IMPLANTABLE LED DEVICE USES LIGHT TO TREAT DEEP-SEATED CANCERS
Scientists at the University of Notre Dame have developed a wireless LED device that promises to revolutionize cancer treatment. This innovative device, combined with a light-sensitive dye, can be...
Step-length sensor monitors neurological disease progression
Researchers have developed a wearable step sensor to monitor the wellbeing of the elderly and patients with cognitive decline or neurological diseases. Reductions in step length are crucial...
Band-aid-like microlaser device measures glucose levels from sweat
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed an innovative plaster that can measure body biomarkers through sweat, offering a new non-invasive method...
Dynamic body scanner captures complete digital model of moving person
The Institute of Biomechanics (IBV) has developed an innovative dynamic scanning technology called MOVE4D, which promises to transform the study of muscle morphology and human movement. This...
Transformando la comunicación médico-paciente con IA
Sarai Suárez, experta en Comunicación Audiovisual y estudiante del máster en Salud Digital de la UOC, ha sido galardonada por su proyecto "Mejorando la comunicación médico-paciente con IA". Su...
FarmAlertas mejorará la seguridad de la prescripción médica en Madrid
La Comunidad de Madrid ha implementado un innovador sistema destinado a fortalecer la seguridad en la prescripción de medicamentos, tanto para pacientes como para profesionales sanitarios....
Eupnoos startup transforms airway disease diagnosis via acoustic biomarkers
Early detection of airway disease is an important public health priority with an urgent need for simple diagnostic tools that are easier to deploy than traditional spirometry. Eupnoos, an innovative...
Biohybrid microrobots, a drug-free solution for inflamatory boweI disease
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have made a significant breakthrough in treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) using cutting-edge technology involving microscopic...
Enhancing medication management through real-time clinical data
The Pharmacy Service at Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba has a robust history of developing technological tools to enhance medication management across various contexts. Several years ago, the...
World’s first FDA-cleared preservation device for donor pancreas transplantation
Summary: Paragonix Technologies, a pioneering force in organ transplant innovation, has unveiled the PancreasPak™ Organ Preservation System, marking a significant breakthrough in the field of...
Dawn Health and Merck collaborate on a digital solution for Growth Hormone Disorders (GHD) care
Summary: In a groundbreaking partnership, Dawn Health, a leader in digital health innovation, and global pharmaceutical giant Merck, are collaborating to develop a state-of-the-art digital solution...
Eye-tracking VR system revolutionizes MRI for young children
Summary: Researchers from King’s College London have developed an eye tracking technology that enables young children to engage in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) experiences during Magnetic...
Home-use leukocyte monitoring for infection detection in cancer patients
Summary: Heart failure is a serious condition where the heart struggles to pump enough blood to meet the body's needs, leading to symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, and swelling in the legs and...
InfuKids, the app designed to alleviate pediatric anxiety in day Hospitals
Summary: The Hospital Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona has partnered with Alexion, AstraZeneca's rare disease group, and Nixi For Children to launch InfuKids, an innovative project aimed at reducing...
AI automatically determines insulin dosing for improved blood sugar control in hospitalized patients
Summary: Managing blood sugar levels in hospitalized patients with complex dietary restrictions is a persistent challenge. These patients, who may be unable to eat normally due to conditions like...
Abbott gets FDA clearance for over-the-counter continuous glucose monitors
Summary: Abbott has announced the FDA clearance of two innovative over-the-counter continuous glucose monitors (CGMs): the Lingo and the Libre Rio. These advancements mark a significant shift in the...
UK pioneers a smart inhaler study to tackle childhood asthma
Summary: In a groundbreaking initiative, Leicester has launched a pioneering study using Adherium's Smart Inhalers to prevent asthma flare-ups among children and young people. This study, a first in...
Catalonia pilots a drone medical sample transport system
Summary: Catalonia is set to embark on a groundbreaking initiative, piloting the use of drones to transport biological samples, pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment between various healthcare...
Real time health outcomes monitoring for heart attack risk detection
Summary: Survivors of acute myocardial infarction (MI) face a significantly higher risk of experiencing new cardiovascular events, including cardiovascular death, compared to the general population....
Next-gen MR-guided ultrasound redefines incisionless neurosurgery
Summary: Essential tremor, a condition known by various names such as familial, idiopathic, or benign tremor, presents a significant challenge for those affected, often leading to uncontrollable...
Portable wheeze counting device monitors patient’s breathing in real time
Summary: The symphony of wheezing, crackling, and rumbling often foretells the onset of respiratory distress, signaling a call for immediate intervention. However, detecting these subtle cues can be...
New enhanced hydrogel for aneurysm treatment and progression halt
Summary: Aneurysms, abnormal bulges in blood vessels, pose a serious health risk, often stemming from conditions like atherosclerosis, infections, and inflammatory diseases. The chronic inflammation...
An smart wireless bladder implant for real time bladder monitoring
Summary: Millions worldwide grapple with bladder dysfunctions stemming from neurological, cerebral, or spinal issues arising from congenital conditions like spina bifida or acquired injuries...
Machine Learning para predecir las faltas de suministro de medicamentos
Summary: El uso de inteligencia artificial (IA) para prevenir la falta de suministros de medicamentos está emergiendo como una solución crucial en el ámbito farmacéutico. La escasez de ciertos...
Un asistente virtual que mejora la comprensión de los prospectos minimizando errores
Summary: Medi, el pionero asistente virtual del sector farmacéutico, ha llegado para transformar la manera en que los pacientes y los farmacéuticos interactúan con la información de los...
‘Adhan’: el uso de inteligencia artificial para prevenir faltas de adherencia
Summary: La adherencia al tratamiento médico es un factor crucial en el manejo efectivo de diversas condiciones de salud. Sin embargo, hasta ahora, la evaluación de la adherencia se ha limitado en...
SyntheMol’s, the AI against antibiotic resistance
Summary: With antibiotic resistance claiming nearly 5 million lives annually worldwide, the quest for innovative solutions has never been more urgent. In a groundbreaking endeavor, researchers from...
High-tech paint reduces surgeries for heart, dialysis patients
Summary: Vascular surgeons play a crucial role in combating cardiovascular diseases through revascularization procedures, aiming to restore blood flow to compromised regions of the body. From vein...
Abbott launches smallest implantable, rechargeable pain treatment system in Spain
Summary: Abbott has unveiled the arrival of its spinal cord stimulation system, Eterna, in Spain. Representing the world's smallest implantable and rechargeable neurostimulation system, Eterna has...
Implantable wireless sensor monitores inflamation leading timelier crohn’s disease treatment
Summary: Northwestern University scientists have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in medical technology with the development of the first wireless, implantable temperature sensor designed...
Klariva, a groundbreaking digital therapeutic for psoriasis, makes its debut in the German market
Summary: GAIA, a pioneering privately-held company, has unveiled an exciting update on klariva, an innovative digital therapeutic (DTx) poised to revolutionize the landscape of psoriasis treatment....
DrugGPT: new AI tool could help doctors prescribe medicine in England
Summary: Drugs constitute a fundamental aspect of medical treatment, yet errors in prescription and patient adherence pose significant challenges. Addressing these issues, a groundbreaking AI tool,...
FDA clears first digital therapeutic to treat major depressive disorder
Summary: The landscape of depression treatment is witnessing a groundbreaking shift with the recent FDA clearance of Rejoyn, a software app designed to modify behavior through structured lessons and...
Nvidia apuesta por las enfermeras virtuales mediante IA
Summary: En un mundo donde la tecnología avanza rápidamente, la atención médica no es una excepción. En un reciente evento, Nvidia, una empresa líder en tecnología, presentó una visión innovadora de...
A wearable device restores voice for people with vocal disorders
Summary: People suffering from voice disorders due to conditions like pathological vocal cord issues or post-laryngeal cancer surgeries face significant challenges in communication. Voice disorders...
‘A tu lado’, la app que acompaña a los pacientes con cáncer
Summary: Cada año, casi 300.000 nuevos casos de cáncer se diagnostican en nuestro país, dejando un impacto profundo en los pacientes y sus seres queridos. Para proporcionar apoyo digital a lo largo...
FarmaDepresC, una alternativa a través de IA para hacer frente al reto de la polimedicación
Summary: En un contexto donde la polimedicación representa un desafío creciente para la salud pública, el Grupo de Trabajo de Utilización de Fármacos de la Semfyc alerta sobre la necesidad urgente...
AIRE, EL PROYECTO DE TELEMONITORIZACIÓN DEL EPOC QUE DISMINUYE 75% LAS HOSPITALIZACIONES
Summary: el proyecto AIRE, impulsado por el Centro de Emergencias Sanitarias 061 y enmarcado en el Programa Operativo FEDER 2014-2020, emerge como un pionero en la telemonitorización de pacientes...
PK-PDrugs: La Herramienta Innovadora para Recomendaciones Posológicas Precisas
Summary: El Servicio de Farmacia del Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago (CHUS) ha sido galardonado por su innovador software R-evolución farmacocinética PK-PDrugs, premiado como Mejor...
Una ‘app’ que permite a los pacientes comunicarse directamente con la farmacia del hospital
Summary: En el año 2020, el Servicio de Farmacia del Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón introdujo eMidCare, una aplicación que revoluciona la comunicación entre pacientes y...
Virtual reality to improve chronic pain and central sensitization
Summary: Badalona Care Services (BSA) has launched a pilot in the organization's Primary Care, initially in the CAP Apenins Montigalà to develop and evaluate a virtual reality program. The goal is...
Un tratamiento respiratorio digital y entrenador de inhalación
Summary: La EPOC y el asma son enfermedades pulmonares graves potencialmente mortales y que predisponen a crisis. Además, son las enfermedades respiratorias crónicas (ERC) más comunes. Aunque no...
Inteligencia Artificial para mejorar la adherencia a la medicación
Summary: Según la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), hasta el 50% de los pacientes no siguen las indicaciones de sus facultativos, lo que puede conducir a resultados adversos e incluso a una...
AdherenciaMed, el servicio de adherencia terapéutica en la farmacia comunitaria
La falta de adherencia a los tratamientos médicos es un desafío común entre los pacientes con enfermedades crónicas, con causas que abarcan diversos factores. Abordar este problema de manera...
Amazon Alexa estrena una ‘skill’ con el objetivo de ralentizar el deterioro cognitivo de personas con demencia
Summary: El gigante tecnológico Amazon ha dado un paso significativo en el campo de la salud cognitiva al presentar su última innovación: la 'skill' Memoria para su asistente virtual, Alexa. Esta...
First over the counter use of a glucose monitoring technology
Summary: Aria CV, a pioneering medical device company based in Minnesota, has achieved a significant breakthrough in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension. The company recently announced the...
World’s first patient treated with new implantable device for pulmonary hypertension
Summary: Aria CV, a pioneering medical device company based in Minnesota, has achieved a significant breakthrough in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension. The company recently announced the...
Realidad virtual inmersiva para aliviar los efectos cognitivos de la quimioterapia
Summary: El impacto devastador de la quimioterapia en la calidad de vida de los pacientes es una realidad que ha desafiado a la comunidad médica durante décadas. Aproximadamente el 60 o 70% de las...
An AI tool to predict the evolution of patients with multiple sclerosis
Summary: A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Pablo Villoslada has resulted in the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool aimed at forecasting the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS) in...
Una nueva herramienta de aprendizaje automático que predice la evolución de los pacientes de TOC
Summary: El trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo (TOC) es una condición mental crónica que puede tener un impacto significativo en la vida diaria de quienes la padecen. La comprensión de su naturaleza...
An AI algorithm that predicts antidepressant response for depression patients
Summary: Depression, affecting millions in the U.S. alone, poses serious emotional and physical challenges, including symptoms like sadness, irritability, and in severe cases, suicidal thoughts....
China’s first blood delivery platform powered by drones
Summary: Shenzhen, China's tech hub, made a significant stride in healthcare logistics with the launch of the country's first blood transportation drone platform. Developed by the Shenzhen Blood...
A skin patch that monitors tumor size during cancer dare
Summary: Researchers at Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University have developed an innovative wearable patch capable of continuous monitoring of tumors beneath the skin. The patch, constructed from a...
An app that identifies medication suitability for food Intolerances and metabolic disorders
Summary: The University Hospital Infanta Leonor, has received recognition for its innovative project called "INTOMED." Developed by the Pharmacy Service in collaboration with the Biomedical Research...
A robot pill set to replace flexible tubes in endoscopies
Summary: The prospect of undergoing an endoscopy, a procedure involving the insertion of a flexible tube with a camera at one end that traverses the entire digestive system while continuously...
Abbott wins FDA nod for world’s smallest rechargeable deep brain stimulation system
Summary: Abbott has received FDA approval for its Liberta RC DBS (rechargeable deep brain stimulation) system, marking a significant advancement in the treatment of movement disorders. The device...
Wireless smart patch: Revolutionizing drug delivery on-demand
Summary: Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have unveiled a groundbreaking drug delivery system called the Spatiotemporal On-Demand Patch (SOP). Resembling a comfortable...
Danone partners with digital oncology company Resilience for better nutritional care for cancer patients
Summary: A Danone-commissioned Ipsos survey shows that 64% of European cancer patients experience nutritional issues, such as loss of appetite and nausea, leading to weight loss and malnutrition....
Microsoft launches AI Health Bot Copilot preview for healthcare copilot customization
Summary: In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), healthcare organizations are increasingly turning to AI solutions. The demand for GPT-powered copilots and virtual health assistants is driven by...
Needle-Free vaccination with ultrasound
Summary: Researchers at the University of Oxford have pioneered a needle-free vaccination technique using ultrasound technology. The method involves mixing vaccine molecules with cup-shaped protein...
Guided drug delivery via carbon-based magnetic gel
Summary: Researchers at the University of Michigan and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, have developed a groundbreaking metal-free magnetic gel that holds...
BeamO, an all-in-one thermometer, ECG and stethoscope
Summary: Withings has introduced BeamO, a four-in-one health monitoring device resembling a game stick, capable of functioning as a thermometer, electrocardiogram (ECG), oximeter, and stethoscope....
The chat connecting generation Z with mental health
Summary: Mental health has become a growing concern, particularly in Spain, where it ranks highest in Europe for adolescent mental health issues, as reported by Save the Children. The Confederación...
Rethinking stroke monitoring: new criteria urged as EEG activity falls short in assessing brain damage
Summary: A team of international researchers, including scientists from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has developed an optimized biomathematical technique for monitoring the precise...
A ‘smart urinal’ that analyzes and monitors hydration levels
Summary: The Quimiometry, Qualimetry, and Nanosensors Research Group at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), led by Jordi Ferré, has been exploring the application of biosensors for monitoring...
World-first handheld defibrillator could revolutionise access and save lives
Summary: When someone collapses in cardiac arrest, early recognition and prompt commencement of CPR combined with access to rapid defibrillation, provides the greatest opportunity for a positive...
guIA, un nuevo ChatGPT basado en Guías de Práctica Clínica
Summary: GuIA, la primera herramienta capaz de indexar Guías de Práctica Clínica y generar aplicaciones con Inteligencia Artificial (IA) al estilo de ChatGPT, ha sido lanzada por Luzán 5 Health...
SonIA: Una alternativa para resolver dudas en farmacoterapia a pacientes crónicos
Summary: Espacialistas en farmacia hospitalaria han desarrollado un chatbot inteligente llamado SonIA, un farmacéutico virtual, que interactuará con el paciente mediante lenguaje natural. Esta...
A digital health algorithm to guide antibiotic prescription in pediatric outpatient care
Summary: Bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was responsible for 1.27 million deaths in 2019, with the highest burden in sub-Saharan Africa. In Tanzania and many resource-constrained countries,...
Stretchable E-Skin for Robotic Prostheses
Summary: Engineers from the University of British Columbia and Honda have collaborated to develop an innovative e-skin for robotic prostheses, enhancing their ability to sense and interact with the...
Using computer vision to catch early-stage skin cancer
Summary: Melanoma, the most severe form of skin cancer, demands early detection to mitigate its rapid spread. Recognizing the limitations of the human eye, researchers at Johns Hopkins in...
Dispositivos tecnológicos para detectar y controlar la hipertensión
Summary: La hipertensión, una de las principales causas de muerte prematura a nivel mundial, afecta a alrededor de 1.280 millones de personas entre 30 y 79 años, de las cuales solo uno de cada cinco...
Tres aliados robóticos para atenuar los efectos del cáncer infantil
Summary: En España, alrededor de 1,500 niños y adolescentes son afectados por el cáncer cada año, la mayoría menores de 14 años. Para hacer más llevadera la difícil estancia hospitalaria de estos...
Algoritmo para asignar equipos quirúrgicos óptimos en un hospital
Summary: Un estudio llevado a cabo por un equipo de investigadores en ocho hospitales representativos de la atención secundaria y terciaria de Cuba han desarrollado un modelo computacional experto...
Huma and Merck Germany collaborate to deliver cancer care management tool
Summary: Huma Therapeutics and Merck Germany, have announced a partnership to develop a digital solution aimed at assisting cancer patients in understanding and managing their conditions and...
Bayer launches support tool for diabetic kidney disease
Summary: Bayer has introduced a digital patient support package in England called My Kidney Assistant to assist individuals with type 2 diabetes in managing kidney health and preventing the...
Takeda, Janssen join wearable maker to measure scratching
Summary: Exciting collaboration between pharmaceutical giants Takeda and Janssen with wearable device maker Actigraph. The project, DECODE, aims to validate a digital measure quantifying nighttime...
Hydrogel innovation promises diabetes breakthrough, ending daily injections
Summary: Diabetes affects nearly half a billion people globally, with a significant impact on health and economic costs. In the United States, 38 million have diabetes, and 97.6 million have...
AZerca, a virtual assistant to enhance COPD monitoring
Summary: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of death in Spain, affecting around 11% of individuals aged 40 to 80. COPD patients contribute significantly to...
A pricing scheme that links patient copays to adherence
Summary: Approximately 75% of U.S. patients face challenges in taking prescribed medicines due to factors like high costs, copayments, complex treatment regimens, and poor health literacy. The...
Stanza, the first digital therapeutic for treating fibromyalgia symptoms
Summary: Swing Therapeutics has announced positive results from its Phase 3 PROSPER-FM trial on Stanza, a self-guided smartphone-based behavioral therapy for fibromyalgia. The digital therapy is a...
These bionic tights make it easier for patients with MS to walk
Summary: Cionic startup developed a wearable technology embedded in clothing to assist individuals with mobility issues. The device, known as the Neural Sleeve, employs sensors to monitor gait and...
Researchers develop first wearable for continuous monitoring of body sounds
Summary: Northwestern University researchers have developed a noninvasive, continuous monitoring wearable that offer a dynamic assessment of lung health and other physiological functions, With...
An app to streamline the workflow during cardiac arrests and support professionals in critical situations, winner of the 5th edition of Jo innovo
Summary: The 5th edition of the I innovate innovation competition concluded during Innovation Week at CosmoCaixa in Barcelona. Sponsored by Siemens Healthineers and Alexion AstraZeneca Rare Disease,...
Samay’s AI-assisted wearable technology accurately diagnoses COPD
Summary: Samay, a US start-up based in the San Francisco Bay area, has released clinical data demonstrating the effectiveness of its Sylvee wearable device in accurately diagnosing chronic...
Spanish startup Pragmatech and HM Hospitals pioneer AI-driven antibiotic prescriptions, tackling resistance and reducing errors
Summary: Antibiotic resistance has become one of the main concerns for global health since the range of these available drugs is in many cases decreasing and the emergence of multi-resistant...
Researchers developing lateral flow test to detect brain tumours
Summary: Scientists at the University of Sheffield and Nottingham Trent University are developing the world's first lateral flow test to detect aggressive, recurring brain tumors. This test, similar...
The first woman to receive a neurally controlled bionic hand
Summary: More than two decades ago, a Swedish woman named Karin lost her right hand in a farming accident, causing her severe phantom limb pain. In 2018, researchers at the Center for Bionics and...
A wearable to manage Parkinson’s motor symptoms
Summary: Parkinson's disease is a rapidly growing neurological disorder affecting over 10 million people globally, leading to various motor symptoms due to neurotransmitter loss, particularly...
Needle-Free Blood Draw Technology Redefines Hospital Procedures
Summary: BD, a prominent global medical technology company, has introduced a new needle-free blood draw technology that is compatible with integrated catheters, aligning with its "One-Stick Hospital...
Revolutionizing Breast Cancer Care: Secure AI Predictions with ODELIA
Summary: The Ribera health group participates in a European research project, named ODELIA, which seeks to facilitate the massive analysis of patient data, thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to...
Curio DTx hits mark in postpartum depression trial
Summary: A digital therapeutic called MamaLift Plus, designed to assist women in managing mood disturbances after giving birth, has demonstrated its effectiveness in a randomized clinical trial....
Sensor monitors transplanted organs for early signs of rejection
Summary: Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a thin and flexible sensor that can monitor transplanted organs for signs of rejection, addressing the ongoing risk that transplant...
Revolutionizing Bladder Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment with BlaDiMiR
Summary: BlaDiMiR, a project of the joint unit CIEMAT and 12 de Octubre for the diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer, wins the Pfizer Award for the best health innovation...
IA para estudiar el impacto del dolor crónico en el cuerpo y el comportamiento humano
Summary: Un equipo de investigación de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y el University College London ha desarrollado un sistema de inteligencia artificial basado en aprendizaje profundo para...
A digital Pinching Test for assessing Multiple Sclerosis patients remotely
Summary: A multidisciplinary scientific team has developed an innovative tool for the remote assessment of upper extremity function in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). This...
New A.I. Tool Diagnoses Brain Tumors on the Operating Table
Summary: In a recent study published in the journal Nature, scientists in the Netherlands have harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) to assist surgeons in making critical decisions during brain...
Automatic detection of bipolar disorder episodes thanks to a wristband
Summary: Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that severely affects the sufferer, making it difficult to carry out everyday tasks and to interact with other people. Diagnosis and treatment of...
Facial Blood Flow Revolutionizes Health Vital Monitoring
Summary: Imagine a future where you can accurately monitor your health by simply scanning your face with your smartphone. The concept may sound like science fiction, but it's very much a reality...
Ochsner Health launches generative AI pilot for patient messaging
Summary: Ochsner Health, a nonprofit health network in New Orleans is launching a pilot program in which it will integrate Microsoft's Azure Open AI technology into its patient response service....
No more needles, an oral insulin medication could be on the horizon
Summary: nsulin, a life-saving medication for controlling blood sugar in diabetics, has been a breakthrough in treating what was once considered a deadly disease. However, its administration through...
Wearable patch wirelessly monitors estrogen in sweat
Summary: Caltech researchers have developed a wearable sensor that can monitor the hormone estradiol by detecting its presence in sweat. This innovation could make it easier for women to monitor...
Ovum Health and IBM partner to tackle infertility with AI
Summary: Fertility care provider Ovum Health has partnered with IBM to enhance its web and mobile app-based chat and scheduling solution using AI. Ovum Health's platform offers personalized support...
Sealant with integrated sensors rapidly detects leaks after stomach surgery
Summary: Researchers have developed a surgical sealant equipped with built-in sensors to detect leaks after stomach or bowel surgery. These leaks, a common cause of fatality following bariatric...
INBRAIN’s Breakthrough Graphene-Neural Therapy Offers Hope for Enhanced Parkinson’s Disease Treatment
Summary: INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, a health-tech company specializing in cutting-edge graphene-based neural technology, has received Breakthrough Device Designation (BDD) from the U.S. Food &...
This is the GPT Health Chat for asthma treatment
Summary: The Health ChatGPT, known as iaGEMA, is now a reality and is set to revolutionize clinical practice in the field of asthma prevention. Developed in collaboration with the Spanish guide for...
Pfizer crea un asistente virtual para acompañar y apoyar a los pacientes con Mieloma Múltiple
Summary: En 2023, se espera que aproximadamente 3,000 personas en España sean diagnosticadas con mieloma múltiple, convirtiéndolo en el tercer cáncer hematológico más común en el país. Este tipo de...
Click Therapeutics and Indivior Join Forces to Develop Digital Solution for Substance Use Disorders
Summary: Click Therapeutics, Inc. has joined forces with pharmaceutical company Indivior to create Prescription Digital Therapeutics for Substance Use Disorders. This collaboration holds significant...
Unlocking Personalized Diabetes Care: Abbott’s Bigfoot Biomedical Deal
Summary: Abbott is on the verge of acquiring Bigfoot Biomedical, a pioneer in diabetes technology management. This move comes after a longstanding collaboration between the two companies, with...
First device to monitor transplanted organs detects early signs of rejection
Summary: Transplant rejection can occur at any time after the procedure, and it's often asymptomatic, causing patients to live in constant anxiety. Furthermore, the current methods for monitoring...
Apple AirPods Could Soon Track Brain Activity
Summary: Apple has recently filed a groundbreaking patent for a new AirPod design that includes bio-monitoring electrodes capable of measuring electrical brain activity. This innovation could...
RESEARCHERS DEVELOPED A 4D PRINT PERSONALIZED “SMART IMPLANTS” TO TREAT BREAST CANCER
Summary: Researchers at Queen's University Belfast have introduced a groundbreaking use of 4D printing for personalized breast cancer treatment. In a first-of-its-kind approach, they've developed...
Diseñan un dispositivo basado en la física de microfluidos para predecir la respuesta terapéutica contra el cáncer
Summary Un equipo de expertos de la Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud de la Universidad de Barcelona y del Instituto de Bioingeniería de Cataluña (IBEC) ha desarrollado un dispositivo...
Un estudio demuestra que el uso de realidad virtual reduce el dolor de ingresados en UCI
Summary "Un estudio realizado en el Hospital de Bellvitge ha revelado que el uso de gafas de realidad virtual en pacientes de unidades de cuidados intensivos (UCI) conlleva una reducción del 25% en...
El Hospital General de Valencia evalúa una IA para monitorizar la insuficiencia cardiaca mediante la voz
Summary El Servicio de Cardiología del Hospital General de Valencia, en colaboración con la Sociedad Valenciana de Cardiología, está evaluando la aplicación HearOTM, la cual emplea biomarcadores de...
La FDA aprueba la solución inalámbrica de GE HealthCare para detectar el deterioro del paciente
Summary GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. ha obtenido la aprobación de la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de los Estados Unidos (FDA) para su innovadora solución de monitorización...
El Hospital de Fuenlabrada usará la IA para mejorar la calidad de vida de pacientes tromboembólicos
Summary El Hospital de Fuenlabrada está desarrollando un prototipo de servicio digital llamado Promete, basado en inteligencia artificial, para pacientes con enfermedad tromboembólica (ETE). El...
Deep learning para comprender cómo afecta el dolor crónico en el paciente
Summary Un equipo de investigación de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid junto al University College London de Reino Unido, ha llevado a cabo un estudio para analizar cómo afecta el dolor crónico...
Amazon strengthens its commitment to telemedicine and expands its Clinic service to all US states
Summary: Amazon has expanded its virtual healthcare service, Amazon Clinic, to cover all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Launched in November, the service allows customers to access clinicians and...
Teva UK launches first integrated digital inhaler system
Summary: Teva UK has introduced GoResp Digihaler, a novel inhaler system that enables adult patients with asthma and COPD to self-manage their condition effectively and share their data with...
Implantación del Servicio de Telerehabilitación en Atención Primaria
summary: El Hospital de Denia ha tenido éxito con su plataforma de telerehabilitación, ReHub, desde su lanzamiento en 2020. Ahora, han decidido ampliar su oferta para permitir que los profesionales...
ProstaGYM, el programa guiado por voz de Alexa que ayuda a pacientes con cáncer de próstata
Summary El programa ProstaGYM, impulsado por Bayer y guiado por la voz de Alexa, utiliza nuevas tecnologías para ayudar a los pacientes con cáncer de próstata a mejorar su calidad de vida y manejar...
Rewarding people for taking their meds
GoodRx, an online pharmacy and telehealth app, is trying to take it a step further by launching a digital “medicine cabinet.” The idea is to create a one-stop shop that allows people to check price...
Crean una plataforma para automatizar la medición de la calidad asistencial y la seguridad en las UCI
Un grupo de investigación del Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV) y el Hospital Joan XXIII de Tarragona ha desarrollado una plataforma llamada Pevamis (Proyecto de Evaluación de...
La Urgencia Digital de Quirónsalud en el Sermas alivia la presión en las Urgencias Hospitalarias
Los servicios de urgencias de los Hospitales de Quirónsalud, integrados en la red pública madrileña (Sermas), atendieron conjuntamente a cerca de 623,000 pacientes en 2022, lo que representa un...
MYSPHERA, la empresa española capaz de eliminar las listas de espera quirúrgicas
tras la crisis de la COVID-19, se cuantifica que existen más de un millón de personas en espera de una operación quirúrgica. Una presión asistencial insostenible para el modelo clásico hospitalario,...
Dawn Health and Novartis Launch Ekiva-MS DTx App for Multiple Sclerosis
Dawn Health has launched a patient companion App called Ekiva-MS, developed in collaboration with Novartis, to support people living with multiple sclerosis (PlwMS). The App aims to empower patients...
This tiny saliva sensor could track acidity, glucose, medication and more
The company Lura Health has developed a tiny, wireless oral sensor for saliva monitoring. The initial focus is on measuring saliva acidity to help prevent tooth decay, which is a widespread global...
The ROI of Artificial Intelligence in voice-based patient follow-up
In today's healthcare landscape, patient follow-up is a crucial aspect of providing comprehensive care. While various text-based solutions are available, they often fail to engage patients...
FDA Approves Game-Changing Digital Therapy to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
Better Therapeutics, a company specializing in software development for the treatment of cardiometabolic diseases, has received FDA authorization for its digital therapeutic, AspyreRx as a treatment...
Revolutionizing Glaucoma Treatment with Innovative Contact Lens Technology
Smartlens, an ophthalmology technology company, has successfully closed a Series A equity financing round to pursue regulatory clearance for its innovative offering miLens; an electronics-free soft...
Nueva tecnología CAR-T acelera y mejora el tratamiento del cáncer
Investigadores del Vall d'Hebron Instituto de Oncología han desarrollado una tecnología innovadora que acelera y mejora el procesamiento de células CAR-T, lo que podría reducir significativamente el...
AI-Powered Sensor Patch Revolutionizes Wound Care Monitoring for Faster Healing
Researchers from the National University of Singapore and A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering have developed an AI-powered sensor patch called PETAL (Paper-like Battery-free In...
Using biofeedback to modify immersive experiences in real-time
Healium, a company that offers virtual and augmented reality experiences based on biofeedback, has received $3.6 million in seed funding and partnered with Mayo Clinic for the development of mental...
Apple ventures into Hearing Aid Market with Advanced AirPods Features.
Apple is working on various changes and updates for its AirPods earbuds as part of its effort to expand its wearables business. AirPods have become a significant revenue generator for Apple,...
España implanta con éxito un chip que vigila la epilepsia
En España, el Hospital del Mar ha logrado perfeccionar el tratamiento de la epilepsia mediante un chip craneal que permite monitorizar las crisis epilépticas las 24 horas del día. Gracias a esta...
Patient Remote monitoring brings 30-day mortality rate to almost zero for heart bypass procedure
Atrium Health's Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute implemented a care experience platform to enhance the postoperative recovery process for cardiac patients. The platform, proposed by health IT...
Diseñan una herramienta para la valoración remota de pacientes de entornos rurales
Investigadores de la Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (UPV) y la Fundación Fisabio han desarrollado un prototipo de herramienta para la valoración médica remota de pacientes en entornos rurales....
Así es el proyecto `Carabela EPOC´ que quiere revolucionar el proceso asistencial
AstraZeneca lidera el innovador proyecto 'Carabela EPOC' para revolucionar el abordaje de la enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC) en España. En colaboración con destacadas sociedades...
Philips consigue reducir costes y mejorar resultados en el tratamiento del ictus
Royal Philips, líder mundial en tecnología sanitaria, ha desarrollado una innovación en el tratamiento del ictus que reduce los costes de atención y mejora los resultados clínicos de los pacientes....
In-Ear Wearable to Measure Blood Flow to the Head
STAT Health has unveiled a groundbreaking wearable device that measures blood flow to the head. This device can help understand symptoms like dizziness, brain fog, and fatigue that occur when...
Non-Permanent Tattoos: A Solution for Cancer Radiation Therapy
Michigan's Henry Ford Health has partnered with Ephemeral Tattoo, a maker of non-permanent ink, to test tattoos that are designed to disappear. The trial aims to assess the safety and effectiveness...
Care.ai partners with Samsung to provide Smart Care Teams with high-fidelity virtual care experiences
AI-powered care facility automation platform care.ai has partnered with multinational electronics company Samsung to integrate its Smart Care Facility Platform into Samsung displays for use in...
El 12 de Octubre coordina un proyecto de IA para el tratamiento de enfermedades hematológicas
El proyecto 'ALMA', gestionado por el Hospital 12 de Octubre en colaboración con otros centros de investigación y la empresa SpotLab, utiliza inteligencia artificial (IA) para mejorar el diagnóstico...
Zurich partners with DKV and Google to launch its first digital health insurance
Summary: Zurich joins forces with DKV and Google so that its first digital health insurance comes to light, with several specialized services. Customers who take out this policy may have their...
Better and T-Systems join forces for openEHR-based medication management platform in Catalonia
Catalonia's healthcare system is taking a major leap towards patient-centric care with the implementation of a vendor-neutral health data platform and medication management system. Spearheaded by...
AstraZeneca & Bellvitge Hospital Pilot Heart Failure Monitoring App
Summary: AstraZeneca and the Bellvitge University Hospital have announced their plans to launch a pilot program for the Cordio Medical HearO app, which aims to provide widespread access to...
Brain implants help paralysed man to walk again
Summary: An international team of scientists has successfully enabled Gert-Jan Oskam, a 40-year-old Dutch man who was paralyzed after suffering a spinal cord injury in a bicycle accident in 2011, to...
B. Braun y DyCare colaboran para mejorar la rehabilitación postoperatoria con tecnología digital
Summary: La compañía líder en tecnología médica, B. Braun, ha decidido asociarse con la empresa DyCare y utilizar su plataforma de rehabilitación digital, llamada ReHub, para complementar su oferta...
Madrid invierte 32,5 millones de euros en teleasistencia domiciliaria
Summary: Madrid ha dado un paso hacia la renovación tecnológica en la asistencia domiciliaria al invertir 32,5 millones de euros en la incorporación de herramientas tecnológicas para el servicio de...
Almirall, primera compañía en evaluar el bienestar del paciente en un estudio clínico en dermatología
Summary: Almirall se compromete a evaluar el impacto de las enfermedades de la piel en el bienestar de los pacientes y promover una atención sanitaria centrada en las personas y la participación de...
El Parc Taulí apuesta por la inteligencia artificial para gestionar las urgencias
Summary: El Hospital Parc Taulí de Sabadell ha dado un paso audaz en la mejora de la atención médica al implementar la Unidad Asistencial de Resolución Avanzada (ARA), respaldada por tecnología de...
Deep Hearing, la startup que redefine la experiencia auditiva a través de la innovación tecnológica
Deep Hearing es una startup deep-tech del sector health tech y wellness de Inteligencia Artificial centrada en la detección de sonidos ambientales. Su objetivo principal: mantener a las personas...
Cannabis HealthTech on high after share placing
Summary: Kanabo Group plc, a HealthTech company behind cannabis-based treatments, has raised more than £2.5 million in a share placing. Since its foundation in 2017 it has developed cannabis-derived...
Novel ultrasound uses microbubbles to open blood-brain barrier to treat glioblastoma in humans
Summary: A major impediment to treating the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma has been that the most potent chemotherapy can’t permeate the blood-brain barrier to reach the aggressive brain tumor....
Monitorización de pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca a través de la voz
Summary: El Proyecto Cordio es una iniciativa innovadora que utiliza tecnología de procesamiento del habla para monitorizar de manera continua a pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca. Consiste en una...
HumanITcare and Gebro Phama partner up to help patients with asthma
Summary: Laboratorios Gebro Pharma and startup HumanITcare have signed a collaboration agreement to launch a connected health solution for patients with asthma. The solution allows patients to...
AstraZeneca, Vall d’Hebron and Tucuvi launch the AZerca project for the follow-up of patients with heart failure
Summary: AstraZeneca, in collaboration with Vall d'Hebron and Tucuvi, have presented AZerca, a program that enables personalized monitoring of patients with congestive heart failure through...
Ingestible “electroceutical” capsule stimulates hunger-regulating hormone
Summary: MIT engineers have created a capsule that uses electrical signals to stimulate the stomach's endocrine cells to produce ghrelin, the hormone responsible for stimulating appetite. The...
Abbott launches diabetes team-up with Ypsomed, CamDiab to bring artificial pancreas system to Europe
Summary: "Abbott is announcing plans for a three-way collaboration to put forward an automated insulin delivery system in Europe by the end of this year, connected to its FreeStyle Libre 3 wearable...
Un nuevo robot puede imprimir biomateriales en 3D dentro del cuerpo humano
Summary: Investigadores de la Universidad de Nueva Gales del Sur han desarrollado un brazo robot blando y flexible que es capaz de imprimir en 3D biomateriales directamente en órganos humanos...
Vall d’Hebrón analiza el coste-eficacia de la IA en insuficiencia cardiaca
Summary: El Hospital Vall d'Hebron en Barcelona está utilizando la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) para un seguimiento personalizado de pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca. El estudio piloto, llamado...
HM Málaga incorpora una técnica innovadora para tratar el dolor cervical
El Hospital HM Internacional Santa Elena de Torremolinos ha introducido una técnica pionera en Andalucía para el tratamiento del dolor cervical causado por discopatía. Se trata de un enfoque de...
Telefónica Tech and 3M optimise hospital emergencies with AI
Summary: Telefónica Tech and 3M have launched a technological solution based on artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize the management and planning of hospital emergency department (HED) resources...
GE Healthcare acquires an innovative CT Navigation System for More Accurate Needle Placement
Summary: GE Healthcare has acquired IMACTIS, a small French med-tech company that designed an innovative navigation system to guide medical needles more precisely to their target inside the body....
Revolutionizing Senior Care with AI-Powered Wireless Monitoring System
Summary: Developers are increasingly innovating passive monitoring technology to help the elderly stay safe and healthy, as chronic illnesses among US adults continue to rise, and a growing...
Vall d’Hebron logra el primer trasplante pulmonar totalmente robotizado con una nueva vía de acceso
Summary: El Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron de Barcelona ha llevado a cabo el primer trasplante de pulmón con una técnica robótica y acceso menos invasivo. Esta técnica quirúrgica utiliza un...
New drug delivery tech could ensure you never forget your meds
Summary: Researchers at Rice University have developed a new drug delivery technology called PULSED, which stands for “Particles Uniformly Liquified and Sealed to Encapsulate Drugs”. The technology...
Patientory Launches Blockchain App Enabling Patients to Earn Money for Their Health Data
Summary: Patientory Inc. has launched two solutions: Patientory Consumer Decentralized Application. Patientory allows patients to monetize their medical data through its Patientory Consumer...
What Are Modern Data Platforms, and How Can They Boost Healthcare Agility?
Summary: "There’s certainly no shortage of data in today’s health systems, the problem is that up to 97 percent of that data goes unused, in large part because it remains in proprietary systems or...
FDA approves Neuromod’s Lenire, the first bimodal neuromodulation device for tinnitus treatment
Summary: "Lenire, a bimodal neuromodulation device designed to treat tinnitus, has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the first of its kind to receive approval. According to...
ConnectHealth: la empresa española que unifica, estandariza, certifica y conecta el dato de salud
Summary: Descubre más en esta entrevista con la CEO Marisa Gil sobre la compañía ConnectHealth, una solución innovadora para la gestión de datos de salud, que utiliza tecnologías como la...
DKV presenta “Cubo Voice”, el compañero virtual que integra la salud digital en el hogar
Summary: DKV ha presentado Cubo Voice, un altavoz inteligente que funciona como un orquestador doméstico para temas médicos y como dispositivo de conexión con cualquier televisión moderna....
VR Is Revolutionizing Therapy. Why Aren’t More People Using It?
Summary: "VR therapy has been studied since the 1990s. But as of 2023, we're still talking about its potential." "Despite the pandemic shining a spotlight on stress, anxiety and burnout, it feels...
Transforming veteran healthcare: How telehealth is changing the game
Summary: "The heroic individuals who serve in the armed forces make immeasurable sacrifices for our nation. But their fight for health does not end when they return home. Unfortunately, for many...
How virtual nursing can help solve many workforce shortage woes
Summary: "Hospitals across the nation are facing workforce challenges, and a nurse staffing shortage poses one of the biggest threats to care delivery." "More than 100,000 nurses exited the U.S....
3 Tech Trends That Will Outlast the Downturn
Summary: "Pundits are slinging a lot of doom and gloom these days, predicting that this will be a lean year for startups, marked by limited funding and a new obsession with profitability. They're...
Cosmos Health Acquires Telemedicine Platform ZipDoctor – M&A
Summary: "Cosmos Health Inc., a global healthcare group with proprietary lines of nutraceuticals and distributor of pharmaceuticals, branded generics, OTC medications and medical devices, announced...
The Role of Digital Health in Healthcare System Optimization and Efficiency
Summary: "The impact of digital health technologies on healthcare system efficiency is far-reaching. By enabling better access to data and insights, digital health technologies are helping...
Bionic Health raises $3M for its AI health clinic using GPT-4 and other ML models to design better preventative care
Summary: "The startup has raised $3 million in seed funding to create what it describes as an “AI health clinic”: people can get bloodwork and other diagnostics carried out and monitored, and then...
Digital Health: Opportunities and Challenges in India
Summary: "A broad, interdisciplinary notion called “digital health” or “digital healthcare” comprises ideas from the point where technology and healthcare meet. Software, technology, and services...
UnitedHealthcare Launches Rewards Program With Wearable Devices
Summary: "By simply completing a health survey or meeting step goals, some UnitedHealthcare members can now receive rewards of up to $1,000 per year. On Wednesday, the payer unveiled its new rewards...
Digital Health ID Card: How to Apply Online, Check Registration and Benefits
Summary: "How we do business and transact in India has been completely changed by digitization. Technology and digitization have touched every industry, including healthcare. To digitize the...
The Drive to Adopt Digital Therapeutics: Where do we Stand?
Summary: "The healthcare industry is continuing to evolve with technological innovations that can provide clinicians with a more holistic view of their patient’s health and which we ultimately...
Governments Should Adopt Startups Way of Thinking When Developing Services
Summary: "Ever tried to fill in your tax form or submit files to government offices? Some countries are highly digitized and made the leapfrog of digital transformation, like Sweden, Estonia, or...
The Market Demand for Data-Driven Tech Solutions in Healthcare
Summary: "The market demand for data-driven technology solutions in healthcare is on the rise. Today, one-third of the world’s data is generated by the healthcare industry. This data is often...
Could your Fitbit data be used to deny you health insurance?
Summary: "Wearing a fitness tracking device could earn you cash from your health insurance company. At first, this sounds lucrative for the people who participate, and good for the companies, who...
ATA2023: The ‘Job Is Not Done’ with Making Telehealth an Integral Part of Care Delivery
Summary: "As technology and medical processes advanced in the 1990s, modern telemedicine entered a new era, and with that, the American Telemedicine Association emerged as a leading voice...
9 Digital Health Leaders talking about Artificial Intelligence
Summary: "The healthcare industry is going through a lot of changes. Artificial intelligence is one of the most important ones." "Artificial intelligence can be used in many different ways, but it’s...
Del hospital digital a un ‘chatbot’: el sector asegurador hace equilibrios entre lo manido y lo innovador
Summary: "El sector de los seguros ha sido considerado, junto con la banca, uno de los grandes caladeros de innovación. No en vano, se trata de un segmento muy crítico, regulado e históricamente...
How Wearable Technology Impacts Healthcare
Summary: "We’re all familiar with wearable devices today, whether we use them or not. From fitness trackers to smartwatches and beyond, there are all sorts of products and brands operating in this...
Stuck in translation: Stakeholder perspectives on impediments to responsible digital health
Summary: "Spurred by recent advances in machine learning and electronic hardware, digital health promises to profoundly transform medicine. At the same time, however, it raises conspicuous ethical...
Madrid invertirá 39 millones de euros en teleasistencia digital
Summary: "La adjudicación de estos equipos digitales se dará en tres fases. La primera inversión asciende a 13 millones de euros y el Gobierno autonómico tiene previsto que la implantación de los...
How can the metaverse improve public health?
Summary: "The metaverse is a technological revolution in the field of virtual reality, with potential benefits to public health research. A new article proposes several new ways in which the...
How New Technologies Are Transforming The Way We Do Business: A Look At Digital Health, Robotics, and More
Summary: SHARE TWEET SHARE EMAIL"In the digital age, businesses must constantly be changing to keep up with the rapid development of new technologies. This article takes a look at how digital...
UnitedHealthcare Launches Rewards Program With Wearable Devices
Summary: "By simply completing a health survey or meeting step goals, some UnitedHealthcare members can now receive rewards of up to $1,000 per year. On Wednesday, the payer unveiled its new rewards...
Baptist Memorial Health Care to expand inpatient monitoring with AI
Summary: "The collaboration utilizes LookDeep's Clinical Action Platform, built on modern SOC2 Type II audited software, to provide Baptist Memorial's nurses, therapists, doctors and others with a...
The Rise of Digital Native Startups in the Healthcare Industry
Summary: "In the past, startups emerged in a linear process. First, ideas were generated from within large established companies, and then later spun off into startup companies. Today, digital...
How Electronic Data Capture is Transforming the MedTech Industry
Summary: "Though MedTech is already among the fastest-evolving markets in the world, it doesn’t mean it couldn’t still benefit from a spark of innovation." "Electronic data capture (EDC) solutions...
DiMe releases resources aimed at diversity in digital clinical trials
Summary: "The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) and a suite of digital health and pharma players partnered to launch a toolkit aimed at improving diversity, equity and inclusion in clinical trials."...
EU cybersecurity measures on medtech – what you need to know
Summary: "Increasing digitisation and greater interconnection have seen a rising number of malicious cyber activities around the world. To respond to these increasing threats, the European...
Digital Health Innovation: The True, Quantifiable Impact On The Industry and Patients
Summary: "Patients, health systems and CROs are embracing digital health, as indicated by the number of digital health apps, digital diagnostics, digital biomarkers, digital therapeutics and devices...
Revolutionizing Healthcare: A Comprehensive Guide to Telemedicine and Digital Health Integration
Summary: "Telemedicine refers to the use of telecommunication and information technologies to provide healthcare services remotely. Digital health refers to the use of technology to improve health...
Artificial intelligence in medical devices
Summary: "With all of the changes seen in the medical devices industry over the last couple of years, many have begun to wonder what 2023 holds for the industry. The Covid-19 pandemic significantly...
Unlocking the Future of Health—and Care—with AI
Summary: "Unlocking the future of healthcare with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic amongst tech and medical professionals alike. Leaps and bounds have been made since the term was first...
Researchers examine impact of gamification on the effectiveness of digital health interventions
Summary: "An adequate amount of sleep and physical activity helps alleviate several health conditions, such as obesity, depression, and cardiovascular disease. However, the recommended amount of...
Singapore General Hospital shifts to gamified VR nurse training
Summary: "The Singapore General Hospital has started training its nurses in IV cannulation using VR technology." "A team of SGH nurses, together with Serious Games Asia and sensor solutions...
The Impact Of Digital Health Technologies On The Future Of Medical Specialties In One Infographic
Summary: "Will digital assistants prescribe medication, will smart algorithms diagnose patients with malignant lesions based on CT scans while robot surgeons do the dirty work in the OR 20 years...
5 Things Every Smart Operating Room Should Prioritize – Surgery
Summary: "The healthcare industry is in the middle of deep digital transformation across every aspect of the patient journey. Technology has always been important in healthcare, but COVID-19 has...
Three barriers that can slow AI’s potential in pharma
Summary: "As we enter the new year, the latest developments in artificial intelligence hold the promise to transform almost every aspect of drug R&D. Our ability to access large datasets, rapid...
Co-creation in a digital health living lab: A case study
Summary: "Co-creation in healthcare, especially in developing digital health solutions, has been widely identified as a fundamental principle for person-centered technologies that could accelerate...
Digital future: How is data transforming healthcare in Europe?
Summary: "The Covid-19 pandemic saw spectacular advances in vaccine technology, but it also highlighted the huge importance of digital healthcare. Exchanging and having access to clinical...
Huma CEO says UK risks falling behind on digital health
Summary: "The CEO of Huma Health, Dan Vahdat, has warned that the NHS risks falling behind countries including US, Germany and France on adoption of digital health unless it aligns funding." "Vahdat...
Is AI-Assisted Lung Cancer Diagnosis Right For Your Hospital?
Summary: "Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, with approximately 1.8 million people dying from this disease each year. Most patients are diagnosed after symptoms have...
La telemedicina, la eterna promesa que choca con la falta de preparación y la reticencia de los propios pacientes
Summary: "La digitalización en el ámbito de la salud se ha convertido en una de las tendencias tecnológicas más relevantes de los últimos años, en parte por el impulso que ha ganado a partir de la...
AI’s Biggest Promise: The Democratization Of Precision Medicine
Summary: "While AI is making its mark across numerous industries, one of its most significant single impacts will be the democratization of precision (or personalized) medicine. AI will make it...
Big Techies: Healthcare Is Waiting With Open Arms
Summary: "Facing rising costs and widespread economic uncertainty, big tech companies continue laying off their skilled workforce in droves. From Meta to Twitter, Amazon to Stripe, and AirBnB to...
Advancing digital transformation in healthcare
Summary: "Digital transformation in healthcare is well underway, driven by innovative systems and applications that give healthcare providers unparalleled access to sources of data. Patient care is...
Addressing modern challenges in digital health with sensors
Summary: "Digital technology is becoming increasingly important in modern healthcare. As society becomes faced with an abundance of new healthcare challenges, such as a rise in the number of chronic...
How Remote Patient Monitoring Devices can Improve Overall Health
Summary: "Health monitoring devices today can provide data about your sleep patterns, diet, and physical activity in real time. These remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices can also be used to...
Shortening Hospital Discharges: Technical and Workflow Solutions
Summary: "An earlier article, “Why Hospital Discharges Take So Long—And What We Can Do To Shorten Them,” explored the complexities of discharging and how hospitals are re-evaluating their workflows...
After a big telehealth buy, Horizon Health Alliance now serves 70% of patients virtually
Summary: "The provider of mental health and substance use disorder care is now fully equipped, and boasts high patient satisfaction." "Horizon Health Alliance, based in Buffalo, New York, was...
The Potential and Application of Digital Health in Uganda.
Summary: "Digital health has revolutionized the healthcare industry in Uganda, providing a more efficient and cost-effective way of delivering healthcare services. With the growing adoption of...
Madrid invierte 1,9 millones de euros en una nueva plataforma unificada de datos sanitarios
Summary: "La actividad dotará de plataforma operativa al primer nodo de la red de hospitales, de Atención Primaria y de Emergencias de la Comunidad de Madrid, que será el Hospital Universitario 12...
How digital transformation is enabling health equity
Summary: "We continue to live in a world where our race, geography, income, and positioning in the social strata decide our access to healthcare. Even though economic or social hurdles can be taken...
Why is Digital Healthcare Essential?
Summary: "For us humans, our health comes before anything else. And neglecting digital technology in the healthcare sector can have drastic consequences on our physical and mental well-being....
Mercy Virtual Care Center: A deep dive into a virtual hospital
Summary: "Health system Mercy's groundbreaking facility makes robust use of telehealth and remote patient monitoring – and has the results to prove the model's success." "With nearly a decade of...
2023: The Year to Focus on Creating a Better Patient Experience
Summary: "The past three years have necessitated quick thinking and a willingness to adapt to change across every industry. But recent economic and geopolitical turmoil has sown fear and disruption,...
Big Data analytics and artificial intelligence in mental health
Summary: "The mental health and well-being of the WHO European Region has been hit hard by several large-scale public health emergencies over the past few years, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the...
Sonde Health Secures $19.25M for Voice-Based Health Monitoring
Summary: "Sonde Health, a Boston, MA-based health technology company committed to bringing accessible health monitoring to everyone raises $19.25 million in a Series B investment round led by...
Social Determinants of Digital Health Adoption: Pilot Cross-sectional Survey
Summary: "Interest in and funding for digital health interventions have rapidly grown in recent years. Despite the increasing familiarity with mobile health from regulatory bodies, providers, and...
Komodo Health lays off 9% of its workforce
Summary: "Health data startup Komodo Health has laid off 9% of its staff as part of a larger restructuring of its business." "The COVID-19 pandemic created opportunities for the analytics company,...
AI for medtech commercial growth: Five missteps to avoid
Summary: "The medtech industry is at a critical juncture. Digital solutions put in place during the lockdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic have evolved into clear customer engagement...
Driving data driven healthcare: Data is at the centre of medtech’s future
Summary: "The global spend on IoT applications in healthcare is forecast to grow to $260.75 billion by 2027, at a CAGR of 19.8%. Supporting the wellbeing of 8 billion people worldwide creates a...
Health Tech Innovation: How to Advance Data Security To Support Healthcare Accessibility
Summary: "As with most industries, healthcare should consider adopting a zero-trust approach. This security measure can help decrease an organization's attack surface, create accurate response...
Four ways Biogen is tackling digital innovation in neurological disease
Summary: "Digital transformation in pharma is not a singular endeavour. It can mean everything from patient-facing disease management apps and wearables to background AI dramatically altering drug...
Health Hero: Web3 Health Platform for Employers and Payers
Summary: "Health Hero is a web3 health engagement company that delivers free healthcare and healthy food to users for staying healthy. While tapping into an emerging $1 trillion+ web3 healthcare...
The Future of Healthcare & How We Get There
Summary: "What kinds of possibilities exist in the future for healthcare? How can medical devices reach across different fields of medicine and provide a holistic patient experience in collaboration...
Special Report: Interoperability
Summary: "The conversation on interoperability has shifted. It is no longer discussed as a technology problem, but rather as a complex change that depends upon relationships and culture. Jennifer...
The Four Drivers of Success in the Patient-Oriented Digital Health Solutions Market
Summary: "Patient-oriented digital health solution providers seem to have finally found the drivers of success for their digital offerings designed around the various needs of patients. A...
Global digital health course launched for healthcare professionals
Summary: "The Certified Digital Health Professional (CDHP) Course will be a year-long, completely online course specifically designed for healthcare and management professionals. Digital Health...
Digital Health Paradox: International Policy Perspectives to Address Increased Health Inequalities for People Living With Disabilities
Summary: "The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the uptake of digital health worldwide and highlighted many benefits of these innovations. However, it also stressed the magnitude of inequalities...
Asia’s healthcare future revolves around patient-centric ecosystems
Summary: "The increasing use of digital healthcare will soon be driven through evolving consumer-centric digital ecosystems. But what does an emerging ecosystem within and across Asia look like?"...
The Future of AI and Digital Health
Summary: "In a sense, Artificial Intelligence and digital health were made for each other. Digital health looks for digital solutions to promote the health of the body and the mind; AI attempts to...
The Digital Future Of Pathology
Summary: "Pathology is the motor that drives healthcare to understand diseases. Digital technologies could push the field into becoming more efficient and more scalable. They could transform the job...
Why MedTech Needs to Catch Up In The Race To Go Digital
Summary: "Digital health is everywhere. It’s transforming healthcare for patients and providers with everything from telemedicine to continuous real-world data and AI-enhanced imaging analysis....
Baywater Healthcare treats over 7,000 patients with virtual ward service
Summary: "Baywater Healthcare has treated more than 7,300 patients with respiratory infections with its virtual wards service, helping to free up hospital bed capacity." "The company runs its...
New IT Report Finds Healthcare C-Suite Stressed Out by a Lack of Interoperability
Summary: "A survey of CHIME executives by digital health company symplr, unveiled during the HLTH conference, indicates executives have adopted new technology at a fast pace, but those new tools and...
The new era of mHealth
Summary: "Just like other buzzwords mHealth has a different meaning for different people. There is no one definition of mHealth that is accepted universally. mHealth is an abbreviation for mobile...
Marcos Guerra (Pëtri): “España obtiene un cinco raspado en digitalización sanitaria”
Summary: "El socio director de la consultora de salud cree que el problema de la digitalización en el sector está relacionado con la poca evidencia que tiene el profesional del servicio que puede...
Confronting the Impact of Digital Health Now & In the Future
Summary: "Healthcare systems globally are facing “unprecedented pressure and disruption” as traditional systems begin to yield to patient expectations of “anywhere, everywhere” healthcare delivery...
The Future of Digital Health and Healthcare IT in a Post-Covid World
Summary: "Implementing and pursuing innovation in digital health and healthcare IT should be a priority for all U.S. healthcare providers and payers — especially as the lessons and response to the...
Extension of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 model for predicting mHealth acceptance using diabetes as an example: a cross-sectional validation study
Summary: "Mobile health applications are instrumental in the self-management of chronic diseases like diabetes. Technology acceptance models such as Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of...
Keeping Telehealth in Great (Security) Shape
Summary: "COVID-19 turned telehealth into a household term, transforming the services that healthcare providers can offer patients. Thanks to advancements in connectivity, global experts in rare...
A Digital Platform to Support HIV Case Management for Youth and Young Adults: Mixed Methods Feasibility Study
Summary: "Advances in medical treatments in recent years have contributed to an overall decline in HIV-related opportunistic infections and deaths in youth; however, mortality and morbidity rates in...
New digital platform in India uses social media to track down vector-borne diseases
Summary: "It will support the Indian government's prevention and control of dengue, malaria, and chikungunya." "SARTHI takes publicly available information across digital channels such as online...
4 must-haves for doctors to stick with telehealth
Summary: “Never before has there been a greater need to be able to leverage digital solutions and technologies to help really meet the need of helping to ensure that the patient-physician...
HEE launches VR app for nurses to experience prison healthcare settings
Summary: "Health Education England (HEE) has joined forces with NHS England’s National Health and Justice team to develop a virtual reality (VR) app allowing nurses to experience what a role working...
Virtual Care Is Transforming The Future Of Healthcare
Summary: "Good healthcare is essential for quality of life. From wellness, fitness, and diet, to routine checkups, to emergent or chronic medical conditions, access to medical professionals and...
Thinking digital health tech
Summary: "As we all know, our healthcare industry is in the midst of a digital transformation. As healthcare consumers (patients), we believe all of us are thinking “it’s about time!” It’s great to...
Is This the Age of the Digital Health Economy?
Summary: "The global pandemic has pushed the healthcare sector to digitally transform and adapt to a new normal. Traditional healthcare providers are now adopting the digital model to offer better...
Machine learning: An essential tool in the shift to risk-based quality management
Summary: "Risk-based quality management is a data monitoring approach that accelerates the drug development pathway without compromising on safety – and one that is enhanced by the use of...
Telehealth Sites Put Addiction Patient Data at Risk
Summary: "WHILE MOBILE HEALTH options have been celebrated by doctors and advocates as a way to expand treatment for substance use disorders, there has been persistent concern over how private the...
How Healthcare Systems Can Stay on Top of Supply Chain Management
Summary: "Cleveland Clinic’s senior director of technology for supply chain and support services heads a team that’s responsible for everything from the procure-to-pay process to supply chain...
Editorial: Digital health adoption: Looking beyond the role of technology
Summary: "Accelerating the adoption of proven digital health technologies and advancing their embedding into routine care operations has the potential to revolutionize human health by boosting...
Google Cloud to power virtual care delivery at Manipal Hospitals
Summary: "Manipal Hospitals has tapped Google Cloud to improve its virtual and remote care capabilities while leveraging AI to enhance patient experience." "The partnership involves the deployment...
3 Questions Healthcare IT Leaders Should Ask Before Implementing AI in Their Operations
Summary: "According to research from Kaufman Hall, 2022 has been the worst financial year for hospitals since the pandemic, with national operating margins at -0.98% through July, marking the...
3 Lessons From Israel’s World-leading Clinical Data-sharing System
Summary: "Israel has a powerful tech ecosystem combined with practical government support. The nation's leaders don’t tell entrepreneurs what to do — but they do provide clarity around the...
Rural NY health system working with Silicon Valley to expand access, digital transformation
Summary: "Bassett Healthcare Network's collaboration with Andreessen Horowitz is meant to open up a suite of digital healthcare tools to enhance medical services in an eight-county region in upstate...
How Metaverse Is Reinventing Healthtech & Its Future
Summary: "Despite being in its early stages, the metaverse is constantly developing. The technology, which combines Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and...
Why Digital Health Collaborations Are the Future of Medtech
Summary: "Executives from Huma, Abbott, Smith & Nephew and AliveCor share how they are using real world evidence collection to support remote patient monitoring, maximize patient engagement and...
Can blockchain solve health care’s security problems? The financial industry offers a valuable case study
Summary: "Not long ago, blockchain technology captured the imagination — and the wallets — of financial services firms that sought a “first-mover” advantage by integrating it into their outdated...
The King’s Fund interoperability report highlights relationships and technology
Summary: "A recent report by The King’s Fund has highlighted the importance of strong relationships and functioning technology for interoperability to progress in an integrated care system (ICS)...
The intersection of remote patient monitoring and AI
Summary: "Robin Farmanfarmaian is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur working in technology and artificial intelligence. She has been involved with more than 20 early-stage biotech and healthcare...
These 8 Countries Could Put Together The World’s Most Advanced Healthcare System
Summary: "If we are looking for the one thing common in the healthcare systems in various countries, is that no one ever was truly satisfied with their own. The level of satisfaction/dissatisfaction...
Machine Learning in Digital Patient Billing Services
Summary: "Machine learning may sound like science fiction, but it’s simply software that can analyze data and adjust accordingly without additional input from human operators. By adding machine...
How To Turn Telehealth Into a Comprehensive Digital Patient Experience
Summary: "For years, patients had only a few channels in which they could interact with their healthcare providers. They saw their care team in-person during check-ups, interfaced with support and...
5 insights into how physicians view, use digital health tools
Summary: "The AMA surveyed 1,300 physicians this year and compared their answers with answers given to the questions in 2016 and 2019. This latest research marks the first time the questions were...
Alexandra Hospital leverages cloud-based service to help patients avoid preventable chronic disease
Summary: "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...
How Wearable Cognitive Assistance Tools Could Reshape Care Delivery
Summary: "A clinical paper published last October described how surgeons in Spain tested Microsoft HoloLens mixed-reality (MR) headsets and MR applications during the removal of a kidney tumor."...
The role of the clinician-data-scientist in health care
Summary: "The clinician-data-scientist combines in-depth clinical knowledge with skills in data science. These health care professionals are well prepared to identify the challenges in health care...
El Clínic desarrolla una mascarilla individualizada para la ventilación no invasiva neonatal impresa con tecnología 3D
Summary: Un equipo de investigación del Hospital Clínic ha revolucionado el cuidado neonatal con una innovadora solución: mascarillas individualizadas para ventilación no-invasiva impresas en 3D....
Pandemic Led to Surge in Remote Patient Monitoring
Summary: "Devices that remotely transmit people's weight, blood pressure, and glucose levels to physicians exploded in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, as people were socially isolating,...
Artificial Intelligence in the Intensive Care Unit
Summary: "The past century has witnessed a massive increase in our ability to perform complex calculations. The development of the transistor in the 1950s, followed by the silicone integrated...
Interoperability: The Enabler Of Digital Health Penetration In India
Summary: "India has seen rapid technological growth, and smart phone ownership & internet penetration has helped in accelerating and expanding the digital healthcare space. Healthcare data...
8 DIGITAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS POISED TO TRANSFORM CARE
Summary: "The pandemic pushed our healthcare system to the brink. It cast a spotlight on pressing challenges facing healthcare systems – access, efficiency, effectiveness, and equity. Since 2020,...
Taking Stock of Healthcare Supply Chain Management
Summary: "Over the past two years, shortages and logistical issues have plagued the healthcare supply chain. With critical equipment and medical devices in short supply, providers and governments...
AmerisourceBergen launches tech to help docs dispense digital therapeutics to patients
Summary: "The platform, which seamlessly integrates with electronic medical record (EMR) systems, enables physicians to easily access and order prescription and non-prescription DTx through their...
What does human behavior teach us about frictionless healthcare?
Summary: "Want more patients to get a flu shot? Progress starts with understanding how people behave." "Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found they could boost flu vaccine...
Australia launches digital cancer hub for children, families
Summary: "The Australian government has launched a digital cancer hub to support young cancer patients and their families." "The Cancer Hub was developed in partnership with three of the...
Patient Engagement Enabling Better Care Accessibility through Digital Innovation
Summary: "The goal in today’s day and age is to keep ourselves healthy, and clinical care delivery or hospital care services help us achieve these goals to an extent with the help of cutting-edge...
Meet the startups using AI to help doctors fight burnout
Summary: "Even before COVID-19, 40% of physicians said they felt burned out. But the pandemic was a tipping point. Working in jerry-rigged PPE in overcrowded, understaffed ICUs, more than 3,600 U.S....
Trust in AI among healthcare staff and patients ‘will improve with regulation’
Summary: "The ‘AI in Healthcare – Transforming the UK’s Health System’ report, from law firm DAC Beachcroft, presents the legal challenges being faced by the use of AI in healthcare delivery." "With...
Dialysis machine inspired by juice dispenser wins UK engineering prize
Summary: "A home dialysis machine inspired by technology used in fruit juice dispensers has won the UK’s most prestigious engineering prize." "The device, made by Quanta, is currently used by about...
Study: Decentralized and remote tech increases interest in clinical trial participation
Summary: ""In this cross-sectional study of patients with and survivors of cancer, most respondents expressed a strong willingness to participate in cancer clinical trials. However, willingness to...
Health2Sync, Sanofi partner to digitise insulin management in Japan
Summary: "A recent study by the Japan Diabetes Clinical Data Management Study Group found that the mean HbA1c level tends to increase among people living with diabetes mellitus. It also noted that...
Inaccessible Telehealth Apps Don’t Just Exclude – They’re A Matter Of Life And Death
Summary: "The Covid-19 pandemic reshaped the healthcare landscape in a myriad of ways – mainstreaming multiple elements that were previously non-existent or on the periphery." "Face masks and...
AI Adoption in Healthcare Requires Better Approaches to Patient Data
Summary: "Building great AI models in healthcare and life sciences requires lots of data that is diverse, well-labeled, and spans across different patient types." "However, as AI gains traction,...
How Medical Devices Work Cohesively with mHealth Apps
Summary: "Remote patient monitoring tools help providers transition from episodic modes of care to continuous care, which supports preventive care initiatives and improves patient engagement....
Improving rural care and health equity with telemedicine
Summary: "Healthcare IT News talks with a telehealth expert on the benefits and challenges of virtual care for rural patients." "Virtual care has great potential to improve rural health and health...
How remote patient monitoring improves care, saves money for chronic care
Summary: "It is estimated that 50% of the U.S. population has a chronic disease, and caring for them is consuming 86% of healthcare costs." "Many organizations still rely on traditional chronic care...
Singapore’s National Neuroscience Institute partners Kyalio to develop VR modules for neurosurgery training
Summary: "Singapore's National Neuroscience Institute has partnered with VR medical content platform Kyalio to develop neurosurgery training modules." "As part of their research collaboration...
Startups must warm up to provider workflows to create effective tech, healthcare CIO says
Summary: "Startups should co-develop products with healthcare providers and figure out how to plant themselves into hospitals and clinics’ operating models. This will allow them to create effective...
New Enhanced Oncology Model will test the delivery of patient-centered care
Summary: "The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has designed a new model aimed at improving cancer care for Medicare patients through enhanced services such as patient navigation, care...
NHS mental health workers turn to VR to tackle inequality on wards
Summary: "As NHS mental health services face record-breaking levels of demand, researchers from Maudsley Learning at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) are building cutting-edge...
ALO SMART HEALTHCARE ASSISTANT MONITORS THE STAFF’S HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Summary: "Healthcare in some parts of the world is falling, but it doesn’t mean we should lose hope because plenty of solutions can be implemented. Doctors, nurses, medical researchers, and...
BrightInsight Launches Digital Disease Management Solution for Biopharma
Summary: "This configurable suite of digital applications includes a Patient App, Analytics Dashboards and Healthcare Provider Interfaces. The Disease Management Solution, built on the compliant...
SMART HOSPITAL TECHNOLOGY ADVANCING THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR
Summary: "Due to the unimaginable and revolutionizing potential of artificial intelligence in healthcare and how the field of medical AI is buzzing, many companies have taken it upon themselves to...
Usar robots en las cirugías reduce las listas de espera de los hospitales
Summary: "Hace tiempo que los cirujanos cuentan con robots para ayudarles en la mesa de operaciones. Estos sistemas llevan cámaras e instrumental quirúrgico en sus brazos robóticos y permiten a los...
Tech Innovation Framework for primary care launched by NHS Digital
Summary: "The Tech Innovation Framework aims to give GPs and commissioners access to a wider range of technology, enabling them to deliver better care. It will be a blueprint for introducing the...
Aesop Technology launches CDI tool to help avoid patient record errors
Summary: "California-based medical AI startup Aesop Technology, which has an R&D office in Taiwan, has recently unveiled its latest clinical documentation improvement tool that helps coders spot...
Report: Rising patient acuity will force hospitals to rethink care delivery models
Summary: "A rise in patient acuity over the next decade will create an even greater strain on hospitals’ resources, according to a report released Tuesday by Vizient and its subsidiary Sg2. Acuity...
How BEAMS is improving response times in hospitals
Summary: "This can lead to patient's failing to get the prescribed amount of medication, deterioration of the patient's health, serious injury, or even death involving coroners and substantial...
When it comes to digital health, access is the bare minimum—patients need high-quality healthcare experiences
Summary: "The U.S. is not known for its healthcare accessibility. But even among patients who do have access in a traditional sense—with good health insurance and an abundance of doctors in their...
The healthcare industry has a problem with personalization: How voice AI can help
Summary: "There’s nothing more personal than one’s health and wellbeing. While receiving care, patients often face extreme challenges. They rightfully expect personalization, but despite the...
Telehealth’s Newest Frontier: Emergency Medicine
Summary: "Telehealth has been a prominent buzzword for the last few years. With the emergence of Covid-19 and a newfound respect for remote healthcare services, telehealth/telemedicine have been a...
Why decentralization & digitization could be the key to unlock the future of addiction care
Summary: "Addiction care providers are developing digital tools to help decentralize their programs from medical treatment centers. These efforts are designed to mitigate the multitude of access...
Healthcare Organizations Rely on Cloud-Driven Care
Summary: "Cloud adoption isn’t new in healthcare. In recent years, spurred by the pandemic, healthcare systems turned to cloud capabilities to push the delivery of care to their communities." "When...
The Next Step For Electronic Health Records: AI Enhancement
Summary: "Greater efficiency has always been the intent behind the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), the use of which has ramped up considerably over the last two decades. While...
The role of AI and machine learning in revolutionizing clinical research
Summary: "Advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP) have become a cornerstone of successful modern clinical trials,...
How Algorithms Could Improve Primary Care
Summary: "Automated clinical algorithms promise to transform primary care. Clinical algorithms specify the steps of a clinical process, leading from inputs such as a patient’s diagnosis to outputs...
Nurse staffing is digital health’s newest frontier
Summary: "Amid a shortage of nurses, health systems are increasingly turning to digital health to fill gaps in scheduling." "“Nurse staffing is more of a challenge now than it’s ever been,” said...
AliveCor launches heart health management program and more digital health briefs
Summary: "Personal ECG maker AliveCor launched its own heart health management and coaching program for employers, health plans and health systems dubbed KardiaComplete." "The program will include...
Samsung Medical Center introduces smart mobile questionnaire system
Summary: "Samsung Medical Center has started using an advanced intelligent mobile questionnaire system as part of its broader shift to a mobile-based hospital outpatient department process." Article...
Welcome To The Virtual Ward!
Summary: "The expression ‘virtual ward’ is trending. But is it just the expression we hear about more often, or is there a real trend? And by the way: what is a virtual ward? And what is it good...
Osaka Saiseikai Izuo Hospital uses smart glasses for remote communication and medical support
Summary: "The Vuzix smart glasses enables the hospital to operate efficiently by limiting the number of staff having to work in the pathogen-contaminated areas of the infectious disease ward." "The...
Healthcare Platforms Integrate More Devices, Data as Sector Rushes to Modernize
Summary: "Healthcare is leaning further into platform models as device and app proliferation and new technologies upgrade a system long in need of digital transformation." "In one of several recent...
CIOs dish on AI and automation strategies that work
Summary: "AstraZeneca apuesta por Barcelona. A través de su filial Alexion, la farmacéutica está creando un nuevo hub de desarrollo There are still challenges to manage and maturity to build, but...
Apollo Hospitals launches immersive mixed reality programme
Summary: "The Apollo ProHealthDeepX shows how a patient's risk factors for heart disease affect their heart through an immersive mixed reality experience using the Microsoft HoloLens 2. It generates...
Combining virtual care and personal touch to help the underserved
Summary: "Tech-enabled vendors and services on the market have expanded with rapid acceleration since the pandemic. Telemedicine, though, cannot directly provide services to address social...
Cancer alliance implements AI tool to help match patients with clinical trials
Summary: "The NHS Somerset, Wiltshire, Avon and Gloucester (SWAG) Cancer Alliance has partnered up with Inspirata for a project which will see artificial intelligence (AI) being used to help match...
How to design an omnichannel AI ecosystem for optimum customer engagement
Summary: "Here are three tips for designing an omnichannel AI ecosystem that maximizes investments while remaining nimble in today’s dynamic and competitive market.""By taking an ecosystem approach,...
AI For Health And Hope: How Machine Learning Is Being Used In Hospitals
"Luckily, hospitals are beginning to use machine learning solutions to streamline the waiting room process. That’s not all. The healthcare industry is introducing AI to combat many issues in the...
ResApp’s diagnostic app coming to Health Teams’ aged care telehealth platform
Summary: "ASX-listed ResApp Health has inked a two-year deal with Health Teams, a digital aged care platform, to launch its mobile diagnostic app on the latter's telehealth platform." "ResAppDx is...
Online NHS platform launched to tackle elective surgery backlog
Summary: "The NHS is to launch an online platform to provide targeted information for patients waiting for elective surgeries to give them extra support and to ensure transparency." "The aim of My...
Butterfly Network & Ambra Health Partner to Enhance Ultrasound Data Integration
Summary: "Butterfly Network, Inc. (NYSE: BFLY), a digital health company transforming care with handheld, whole-body ultrasound, and Ambra Health, an Intelerad Company,...
How ‘Care at Home’ ecosystems can reshape the way health systems envision patient care
Summary: "A strategy around services in the home could enable health systems’ success in delivering patient-centered care." "To meet that demand, healthcare systems are reenvisioning how Care at...
LG TVs now have a built-in health platform
Summary: "All 2021 and 2022 LG smart TVs will be equipped with a health education and telehealth app from the senior-focused health platform Independa, the company announced today. The platform will...
What’s the hospital of the future? A prize-winning designer has some ideas
Summary: "Nick Culley, director of ExR, gives an advance look at his HIMSS22 session, where he will offer his vision of how hospitals should function with leading-edge technology.t." "Minimizing...
SBRI Healthcare awards £1million to support net zero NHS
"The Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare has awarded £1million to ten medical technology and digital innovations which have been designed to support the delivery of a net zero NHS."...
Here’s How Virtual Nursing is Revolutionizing Healthcare
Summary: "Virtual nursing helps health professionals maintain patient care through high-definition technology by monitoring patients and accessing their medical records." "We are at the threshold of...
Here’s a step-by-step approach to tackling digital transformation in healthcare
Summary: "Like the climbing route Tommy Caldwell pioneered on El Capitan in Yosemite, no template exists for transforming the digital health experience. This is new ground for the industry, and...
How Digital Transformation Can Improve Hospitals’ Operational Decisions
Summary: "The use of digital technologies in clinical decision-making has received the most attention. But they also have the potential to help hospitals make better decisions in many areas of...
Supporting the greater use of data sharing across healthcare
Summary: "In a piece for Digital Health, Andrew Davies, digital health lead at the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI), explores why there is a need for greater data sharing across...
Digital Connected Care: Workflows by the Clinician, for the Clinician
Summary: "The growth of digital health products for wellness, fitness and disease management continues. According to a new report by the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, there are now more...
Study finds artificial intelligence accurately detects fractures on x-rays, alert human readers
Summary: "Emergency room and urgent care clinics are typically busy and patients often have to wait many hours before they can be seen, evaluated and receive treatment. Waiting for x-rays to be...
A new operating model for pharma: How the pandemic has influenced priorities
Summary: "The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted pharma companies to rethink their organizational strategies. A survey of executives suggests where value might lie." "In the pharmaceutical industry, as...
Welsh councils turn to digital in bid to improve telecare service offering
Summary: "Over two-thirds of councils in Wales are switching from analogue to digital technology to enhance their telecare service offering, a report has revealed." "The report, by digital...
New Google search features make it easier to find the right doctor
Summary: "As part of efforts to expand the health information it provides, today Google announced a new feature in search that will allow doctors to list which languages they can speak at their...
Hospital at home: How healthcare orgs can set programs up for success
Summary: "Experts say home-based advanced care initiatives should consider patients holistically and recognize virtual care as a distinct modality requiring its own strategic investments." "Although...
Accelerating outcomes amid healthcare’s digital transformation
Summary: "Opportunity is building for healthcare organizations to leverage digital tools, technology and analytics to find new innovations and drive breakthrough improvements in their business and...
5 rules for improving the patient experience, according to Harvard Business Review
Summary: "Spurred by increased competition and rising consumer expectations, health care providers now more than ever must prioritize the patient experience—especially online, John Glaser, executive...
BiP Solutions helps suppliers increase their share of over £36bn in promised UK healthcare spend
Summary: "Some of these calculations are rooted in racist assumptions. Others emerged out of an effort to improve predictions across racial groups. The challenge of defining “normal” versus...
The current state of AI in healthcare – 6 important trends for 2022
Summary: "Artificial intelligence and machine learning are empowering healthcare systems, clinics, hospitals to fast track their research efforts. Besides, AI is also playing a significant role in...
VR helps parents visualise child’s surgery
Summary: "Six-month-old Archie was born with a condition where the growth lines in his skull had fused too early. His parents needed to make a difficult decision - opt for the risks of surgery, or...
HCA’s Cohesive Nursing Agenda to Improve the Nurse Experience
Summary: "In the following interview with Sammie Mosier, Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive, HCA Healthcare, we dive into HCA’s Cohesive Nursing Agenda aimed at improving the nurse...
Council Post: Interoperability Is Key To Care Coordination
Summary: "Care coordination requires interoperability among the electronic health records (EHRs) of primary care practices, specialists, hospitals, labs and payers. As we continue moving toward...
Clanwilliam to introduce AI-powered dictation software for healthcare
Summary: "Healthcare technology company Clanwilliam Group is rolling out the use of AI-powered voice-recognition and dictation software to healthcare practitioners in Ireland as part of a wider...
The Role of Edge Computing and 5G in Healthcare
Summary: "The role of technology in healthcare has changed the way we approach diagnosis, patient care and treatment. Patients now have access to the best diagnostic tools, advanced treatment...
Digital health tools can be useful post-surgery, but more high-quality research is needed
Summary: "A systematic review published this past week in npj Digital Medicine examined the use of mobile and wearable digital health interventions to monitor patients after surgery." Article...
Data Requirements Make Healthtech an Interesting Puzzle for Developers
Summary: "Desai said being a developer in healthtech means wearing a lot of different hats and taking on diverse responsibilities. That’s because existing technical infrastructure is often outdated,...
Mind the gap: Digital health without infrastructure isn’t working
Summary: "Patients trust professionals and their digital choices, as they do for other forms of care. Yet, healthcare professionals are not recommending products at the levels and volumes needed to...
Doblar la ropa o hacer la cama: lo que ya son capaces de hacer estos robots asistenciales españoles
Summary: "Los prototipos creados por el equipo de Carme Torras (CSIC-UPC) han aprendido a manipular prendas. Esperan que lleguen pronto a los usuarios." Article written by M.Sardà. 08|11|2021...
Preventing Ransomware Attacks via Mobile Health Apps
Summary: "Ransomware attacks on the healthcare industry skyrocketed in 2020, having almost doubled compared to 2019. These attacks can take down IT systems, prevent patients from accessing their...
Philips says more than 1,000 medical devices types can connect to its information platform
Summary: "Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced the release of new device drivers that enable its Philips Capsule Medical Device Information Platform (MDIP) to integrate with more...
La receta electrónica va al alza: sus usuarios se incrementan un 14,3% en septiembre
Summary: "El uso de la receta electrónica gana peso. La cifra de ciudadanos que han utilizado este servicio interoperable del Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS) se ha incrementado un 14,3% en...
Cognitant Group: 3D avatar-led health education increases patient reported understanding
Summary: "Cognitant applies use of visual, immersive and interactive formats to deliver engaging, personalised information that changes patient behaviour and outcomes. A case study which...
Contributed: Top 8 healthcare uses for 3D printing
Summary: "New technology developments have enabled healthcare advances in 3D printing with an estimated $6.08 billion by 2027 in terms of software, hardware, services and materials." Article written...
Amazon announces Alexa program for hospitals and senior care
Summary: "Amazon has two new programs that integrate Alexa into hospitals and senior living communities, the company announced today." Article written by Nicole Wetsman. Photo by Alex Castro/The...
Before AI can reshape healthcare, it needs to help shorten the waiting list
Summary: "5.6 million people in the UK are currently on hospital waiting lists. Digitisation is helping: remote appointments, for example, soared in popularity during the pandemic and can cut down...
How is the adoption of Remote Patient Monitoring in Healthcare?
Summary: "Remote patient monitoring received a needed push from the pandemic crisis, which has accelerated its adoption. As a component of digital health, remote monitoring enables the recording of...
Google rolls out mobile app version of Care Studio
Summary: "Google Care Studio has unveiled a new mobile version of its clinician-facing search tool that helps organize patients' medical records. The company pitches this new modality as a way for...
Role of Data Analytics in Healthcare 2021
Summary: "The power of data analytics cannot be underestimated in the healthcare sector as it has revolutionized the way hospitals operate by enhancing the patient care process,...
Healthcare of the Future: A Cryptography Game-Changer for Biomedical Research at Scale
Summary: "Predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory medicine, known as P4, is the healthcare of the future." Article written by EPFL. 11|10|2021...
NowRx turns to equity crowdfunding to raise $73M for expansion, tech investment
Summary: "The online pharmacy aims to raise $73 million series C funding through SeedInvest, an equity crowdfunding platform." Article written by Heather Landi. Photo by NowRx. 11|10|2021...
Too many tasks, too little time: Robotic process automation can help
Summary: "Staff members universally have too many tasks to do in a limited amount of time because they are caught up in processes that comprise a host of wasteful, monotonous, manual activities....
Telehealth usage surges, but satisfaction declines
Summary: "The pandemic drove many patients and physicians to adopt telehealth as a safe and convenient way to access care at a time when many physical offices were closed and patients were afraid to...
4 Benefits of Clinical Decision Support EHR Software in Emergency Departments
Summary: "To reduce the number of medical risks and improve patient safety, clinical team members in the ED make use of healthcare technology tools such as Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software,...
Is Hospital at Home the Future of Healthcare?
Summary: "To successfully build a new, virtually driven care model, clinicians need tools that provide them with access to meaningful patient insights and trends." Article written by Nathan Eddy...
Kaiser Permanente researchers push the envelope with AI and NLP
Summary: "NLP is a branch of AI where a complex set of rules is developed to read unstructured, free-text reports, and to then create a structured, systematic and organized database." Article...
The Healthcare Revolution At Home
Summary: "In November, the federal government announced it would start reimbursing home- hospital services for 60 different conditions at the same rates as in-hospital services. Like many trends in...
How Healthcare Organizations Can Safeguard IT Assets in the Modern Digital Age
Summary: "While healthcare organizations are experiencing undeniable benefits from the digital transformation, there are challenges to be aware of as the landscape evolves." Article written by Ed...
Communication and Collaboration Tools Transform Clinician Workflows
Summary: "CC&C platforms benefit healthcare organizations by creating process improvements for clinician workflows and improving communication, which both lead to more timely care and quicker...
AI Startup Navina Leverages The Amazon Cloud To Improve Patient Care
Summary: "Navina is not only data-centric, patient data-centric, it is first and foremost, physician-centric. Addressing the specific “pain points” and business needs of the intended customers is...
Interoperability Requires More Than Just the Latest Tech | Healthcare IT Today
Summary: "Ever since medical data has been stored electronically, healthcare has struggled to share it. Frustratingly, we have the technology to overcome this challenge, yet we remain in a siloed...
Many top health systems still behind on digital patient access, report finds
Summary: "Though the pandemic has accelerated health organizations’ digital initiatives, the race to keep up with patient preferences continues to be challenging for many top-ranked hospitals, a...
How Active Learning, a Form of Machine Learning, Helps Dramatically Reduce Systematic Review…
Summary: "Active learning isn’t a product that works at that efficiency level out of the box, however. While every classification algorithm differs at least slightly, there’s also a typical set of...
How Alternova is democratising digital health development
Summary: "Alternova in partnership with Stanford Biodesign is offering an open source framework, CardinalKit, that “democratises” the development of digital health solutions and applications."...
Engagement, Interoperability, and the Future of the Healthcare Tech Stack
Summary: "For all of the advanced clinical technology hospitals across the country leverage to stay on the bleeding edge of innovative patient care, healthcare, as an industry, has been extremely...
Top 14 Use Cases of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare
Summary: "NLP or Natural Language Processing in healthcare presents some unique and stimulating opportunities. It provides a glide through the vast proportion of new data and leverages it for...
BHH Startups – IOMED Accelerating Clinical Research
Summary: "During the Mobile World Congress 2021, Barcelona Health Hub was present at 4YFN, the startup business platform with Javier de Oca of IOMED." "I am here to talk about data and artificial...
Google Cloud launches healthcare interoperability solution
Summary: "We built Healthcare Data Engine to make it easier for healthcare and life sciences organisations to bring together their data silos to innovate and improve health outcomes." Article...
How can healthcare data liberate patients? Only if they know what they’re looking at
Summary: "The intention is right — access to information is the essential first step towards empowering consumers to control their healthcare journey. However, there’s a second step — comprehension...
Contributed: How technology will combat medical error and reduce physician burnout
Summary: "To provide optimal healthcare, providers must have ready access to information in a format that can be easily processed and applied to imperfect medical situations. Here are some of...
How Security Training Can Combat the Threat of Ransomware
Summary: "Many vulnerabilities are created through human error or end users’ lack of security awareness or education. End users are the last line of defense. Great security tools and methods can be...
Benefits of Online Patient Scheduling for a Medical Practice
Summary: "By automating your scheduling process you can streamline the daily tasks of your medical practice and keep patients happier and satisfied with a fulfilling patient experience." Article...
Breaking the Misconceptions About an EHR System
Summary: "In the upcoming segment of this article, we will discuss the myths that surround EHR and the healthcare environments. Let’s demystify them. " Article written by Archna Oberoi. 27|07|2021...
3 Main Challenges with Interoperability in healthcare 2021
Summary: "Big healthcare systems leverage Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Softwaresolutions, Patient Portals, and insurance forms for efficient workflow management. However, most of...
Mid-America Transplant and MediGO Partner to Improve Organ Transportation and Save More Lives – MediGO
Summary: "The MediGO platform uses a proprietary and innovative algorithm to predict and provide an accurate ETA. MediGO provides full visibility of the trip to stakeholders across the transplant...
Telehealth Workbook – American College of Cardiology
Summary: "This workbook offers guidance for conducting a telehealth visit for pre, during and post-visit. It includes specific recommendations on the management of heart failure (HF),...
Cognizant BrandVoice: How Healthcare Providers Are Embracing A Digital Future
Summary: "The Cognizant Center for the Future of Work (CFoW), working with Oxford Economics, recently surveyed 4,000 C-level executives globally, including 235 senior healthcare providers to...
Steps Toward Health Data Standards for Wearables
Summary: "Applications for the CAD software extend far beyond medicine and throughout the burgeoning field of synthetic biology, which involves redesigning organisms to give them new abilities."...
Sant Joan de Déu estrena un centro de control de última generación para regular el flujo de pacientes
Summary: "El Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona es el primer hospital de España que dispone de un centro de control donde un equipo de profesionales accede y evalúa en tiempo real un gran volumen...
Cognizant BrandVoice: How Healthcare Providers Are Embracing A Digital Future
Summary: "Care providers are deploying artificial intelligence (AI), automation, the Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics with plans to improve outcomes and create efficiencies. This means...
Surgeon and researcher innovate with mixed reality and AI for safer surgeries
Summary: "A University of Oklahoma researcher and a surgeon at OU Health, based in Oklahoma City, had a vision of using AI to visualize superimposed and anatomically aligned 3D CT scan data during...
How IoMT Benefits Healthcare Organizations for Improving Patient Care
Summary: "Before the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), doctors had limited options for interacting with patients. Physical visits, text, and telephonic communication were the only means by...
‘Apps on prescription’ – could new payment models unlock the benefits of digital tools for the NHS?
Summary: "To take a fairly typical example, someone using a selection of the most popular apps and digital tools to eat healthily, manage their weight, keep active, stop smoking, help managing their...
Ciudadanos, conocimiento y tecnología: tres claves para la digitalización sanitaria
Summary: "Avanzar hacia la digitalización supone incorporar al funcionamiento del sistema sanitario algunos conceptos cada vez más presentes a nuestro alrededor como la Inteligencia Artificial, el...
NHS Confederation Conference: How digitisation can support existing care provision and the future of GP services
Summary: "In an exclusive piece for Digital Health, Visiba Care’s UK manager, Tina Marshall, reflects on last month’s NHS Confederation conference and how digitisation can support existing care...
19Labs, Doctory Bring Next Generation Telehealth Kiosks To The Middle East
Summary: "19Labs and Doctory have entered into a partnership that will bring GALE eClinics to Gulf countries and the Middle East. GALE eClinics are next generation point-of-care platforms that...
What Makes an Exceptionally ‘Smart’ Hospital?
Summary: "Providing a positive patient experience is not something that hospitals can take for granted. They must emphasize compassionate care as much as advanced technology." "What makes a smart...
Commercializing Digital Health: Trading On A Dynamic Data Marketplace
Summary: "Healthcare is a service business in which patients enlist the help of clinical experts to prevent and treat disease. Following the concept of evidence-based medicine research knowledge,...
How AI in Healthcare Communications Benefits Clinical Care Workflows and Patient Experience and Engagement
Summary: "The importance of information and communications technology in healthcare has been brought to the foreground by the pandemic. Video-call consultations between patients and doctors are now...
Creating a new path to precision care through digital transformation
Summary: "Philips is working to help manage patients’ healthcare journeys in a way that achieves the quadruple aim: delivering the best care, while improving workstreams and creating efficiencies...
Assistant ‘robots’ showcased among innovative social care solutions
Summary: "Robots designed to help carers lift people without the need for extra assistance are among the innovations showcased in an initiative to support local authorities using technology to...
Apple wants to own the interface between you and your doctor
Summary: "This week Apple revealed a mix of health features that at first glance seem a bit all over the place. It added a new way to measure mobility health and announced that iOS 15, due this...
To make new tech implementations work, patient consultant says to focus on the person
Summary: "When it comes to implementing new tech, don't be fooled by the shiny objects, said Stacy Hurt, a patient consultant. The most important part of tech is making it work for the patients, and...
What If Doctors Are Always Watching, but Never There?
Summary: "EVERY DOCTOR IS trailed by ghosts. One of my youngest was a 7-year-old boy I’ll call Oliver. He had an upset stomach, and his mother booked an early morning appointment with their family...
Why physicians reject health tech
Summary: "Medicine has been one of the slowest industries to adopt technology. For the last decade, physicians across the United States and in all specialties and settings have been bombarded with...
Apple adds feature to share health data with doctors, loved ones
Summary: "Apple is adding a feature that would allow people to share their health data with trusted contacts, such as their doctor or a family member. For example, they could share heart rate data...
Medical & Healthcare Apps for Businesses
Summary: "From providing medical services to streamlining insurance applications, many businesses nowadays have a vested interest in improving their field with the help of healthcare apps....
Empowering physicians by putting them back in the driver’s seat through virtual care
Summary: "Autonomy, mastery, and purpose. That’s what motivates people, according to Daniel Pink in his book Drive. Great physicians are no different. Regardless of where they are applied, autonomy,...
Building robots to expand access to cell therapies
Summary: "Over the last two years, Multiply Labs has helped pharmaceutical companies produce biologic drugs with its robotic manufacturing platform. The robots can work around the clock, precisely...
MedicalDirector launches cybersecurity solution for healthcare systems
Summary: "The solution has six components which include a plug-in intrusion detection device and 24/7 monitoring." Article written by Adam Ang 08|06|2021 Source:Mobi Health...
Driving digital transformation for medical tech companies
Summary: "Platform as a service allows the health-care industry to access, develop, and run applications on a single platform, reducing the use of resources needed to drive transformation." Article...
3D printing technology could help ease hospital pressures – study
Summary: "A study into the costs versus benefits of introducing 3D printing technology into hospitals has shown that not only can such innovations aid complicated surgeries, but they can also be a...
Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorithms for hospital chain
Summary: "Google has made a deal for access to patient records from HCA, which which operates 181 hospitals and more than 2,000 healthcare sites in 21 states, so the tech company can develop...
How remote patient monitoring transformed pediatric care at UVA Children’s Hospital
Summary: "The pandemic led to an explosion in the use of remote models of care, from telehealth to remote patient monitoring and more. Many providers have adopted these modalities for the first time...
GPs warn over plans to share patient data with third parties in England
Summary: "Doctors have warned that plans to pool medical records on to a database and share them with third parties could erode the relationship between them and patients. The warning came as the...
¿Cómo será el hospital del futuro?
Summary: "La pregunta de cómo será el hospital del futuro es una constante entre los profesionales sanitarios. “Se hablaba hace cincuenta años, hace diez y se habla ahora. Y esta pregunta se plantea...
Using Artificial Intelligence in Evolving Patient Engagement Programs
Summary: "Through the use of AI, interventions can target patients as individuals to assess the greatest impact method for each patient. Additionally, such a personalized approach allows for...
Improving healthcare by better managing unstructured content
Summary: "Healthcare managers who are looking to adopt a platform to manage all types of unstructured content should look to a supplier that provides these as vendor agnostic solutions with a...
Nursing leaders share strategies for reducing documentation burden
Summary: "Nurses Month may be coming to an end, but fighting burnout is a year-round challenge – including addressing the challenge of seamless EHR use." Article written by Kat Jercich 24|05|2021...
The Impact of Technology in Nursing: Easing Day-to-Day Duties
Summary: "Solutions such as robotics and data analytics are making nurses’ jobs more efficient, allowing them to spend more time with patients." Article written by Jordan Scott 12|05|2021...
Osler Technology launches ‘Netflix-styled’ healthcare education app
Summary: "Osler Technology, an Australian developer of online healthcare portfolios and learning applications, has unveiled a new education platform for healthcare professionals." Article written...
Digital Health – Planning for the Virtual Campus
Summary: "In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, the healthcare sector has experienced remarkable and revolutionary care transformation. Change didn’t proceed in small gradual steps – it occurred...
‘It’s a Connected World’: How To Face the Data Firehose from Digital Devices
Summary: "With a projected 50 billion medical devices expected to be in use over the next decade, managing data flow will be a primary concern for healthcare organizations as they confront data...
Digital can help unclog your elective care back-log
Summary: "New digital solutions that support asynchronous communication between clinicians could transform elective care and aid in tackling the expanding waiting lists" Article written by HSJ...
Turning the national illness service into the national health service
Summary: "The journey a patient takes is in theory a simple, step-by-step process. It begins when a patient feels unwell. They go to their GP, the GP requests some tests, and the results may trigger...
Ambulance crews in England to use iPads to assess accident and stroke victims
Summary: "Ambulance crews will start using iPads to send photographs of accident and stroke victims to specialist hospital doctors so that they can make rapid diagnoses and save some patients a trip...
How a proactive approach can help healthcare organisations mitigate cyber-attacks
Summary: "Keith Glancey, systems engineering manager at Infoblox, explains how being proactive and ramping up approaches to cybersecurity, is the best approach." Article written by Keith Glancey...
What Would The Ideal Hospital Look Like?
Summary: "If your imagination could run wild, how would you envision the future of hospitals? Hi-tech big machines, physicians analysing data obtained from patients’ devices, LED screens greeting...
THE RISE OF THE DATA-DRIVEN PHYSICIAN | DIGITAL HEALTH TOOLS
Summary: "Digital health tools that facilitate innovative methods and modalities to improve care, enable lifestyle change, and create efficiencies are progressing quickly. And as patients (a patient...
Is Telehealth More Stressful for Nurses Than In-Person Care?
Summary: "Telehealth is often touted as a method for improving workloads and reducing stress on healthcare providers. But a recent study is questioning whether those services actually put more...
Pandemic-driven telehealth proves popular at safety net health system
Summary: "As state and federal authorities decide whether to continue reimbursing for telehealth services that were suddenly adopted last spring in response to the coronavirus pandemic, a new study...
Telehealth can increase nurse workloads, study shows
Summary: "The use of in-home monitoring for Type 2 diabetes and hypertension patients led to twice as many activities completed by nurses." Article written by Kat Jercich 03|05|2021...
NHS Trust implements voice recognition tech in digital transformation strategy
Summary: "Nuance Communications has announced that Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Nuance Dragon Medical One speech recognition technology as part of its Apollo program, a...
Deploying an Agile Method in Digital Medical Device Design
Summary: "A patient-centric approach to designing digital medical devices delivers clinical impact and drives value by empowering the patient to participate in their own care, according to Jennifer...
Alexa can now tell you where to find a COVID-19 vaccine
Summary: "Amazon’s Alexa-enabled devices can now help direct customers to COVID-19 vaccination sites, the company announced today. Users can ask, “Alexa, where can I get a COVID vaccine?” and hear a...
Renewable energy use in Australian public hospitals
Summary: "Australian public hospitals’ energy choices are at odds with ‘first do no harm’." "The healthcare sector faces many of the consequences of climate change, but is lagging behind in tackling...
Technology Strategies Helping Healthcare Leaders Get Through The COVID Crisis
Summary: "When the pandemic hit, healthcare organizations were thrown into reaction mode, with many long-term projects being shelved indefinitely. However, health leaders were able to take some...
5 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS WITH VR
Summary: "In just the past few years, VR technology has improved dramatically. These virtual experiences no longer require complex computer systems or massive budgets. In the following examples,...
How Virtual Reality Is Making Healthcare More Accessible
Summary: "As more people move away from cities to live in more rural areas, driven away by the pandemic or looking to simplify their day-to-day routines, access to healthcare is becoming more...
How Predictive Modeling in Healthcare Boosts Patient Care
Summary: "Predictive modeling offers the potential for healthcare organizations to improve service delivery and patient outcomes — but what’s required for effective deployment?" Article written...
The next wave of healthcare innovation: The evolution of ecosystems
Summary: "Author’s Note: This paper was originally completed for publishing in early 2020 prior to the major outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. We believe that the COVID-19...
How digital ethics drive the e-healthcare systems: the challenges, risks, and benefits of using cloud platforms
Summary: "In the healthcare sector, businesses must abide by the HIPAA (US), HDS (FR) and others regional guidelines set by federal compliance regulations and protect the privacy of patient records;...
Creating robust digital health infrastructures in APAC
Summary: "In today’s ever-changing technological environment, healthcare organizations are expected to constantly advance their technological capabilities to improve their clinical processes further...
New partnership to develop AI platforms for faster diagnosis and treatment
Summary: "Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms which can provide faster diagnosis and treatments for clinicians are to be developed as part of a new partnership." Article written by Hannah Crouch...
New Omada care program cuts down on PCP visits by making its own adjustments to patient meds
Summary: "Omada's new Physician-Guided Care Program is looking to help patients cut down on frequent trips to the doctor with its virtual cardiometabolic clinic, which provides telemedicine...
A Better Measuring Stick: Algorithmic Approach to Pain Diagnosis Could Eliminate Racial Bias
Summary: "Among the many mysteries in medical science, it is known that minority and low-income patients experience greater pain than other parts of the population. This is true regardless of the...
Smart hospitals: Built to heal
Summary: "Did you know that nurses spend an average of 72 minutes per shift searching for equipment? In an eight-hour shift, that's more than 10 percent of their time. In addition, the average...
Google is exploring a health record tool for patients
Summary: "After 13 years, Google is coming back for patient health records. The tech giant has launched an early user feedback program aimed at exploring how patients might want to see, organize,...
Blockchain + the healthcare industry: How to get started
Summary: "Many of us in the technology field are reflecting on how we can help build a stronger, more resilient future for healthcare. As the industry focuses on digital transformation, there is a...
TytoCare & GIVA Care Partner to Bring Telehealth to Ukraine
Summary: "TytoCare has partnered with GIVA Care Group, a leading healthcare distribution company, to bring its all-in-one remote examination solution to the Ukrainian healthcare industry." Article...
The Future Of Healthcare Is Coming Home: Three Major Trends To Leverage For Startups
Summary: "What goes around, comes around. It was routine in the 1950’s for doctors to make house calls and deliver a high level of service to their patients. Well, here we are in 2021, and we might...
Eye wellness app developer Plano partners with myopia education platform
Summary: "The partnership aims to produce new educational content for eye care professionals." "Plano, a Singapore-based eye wellness app developer, has teamed up with US-based myopia education...
Virtual «urgent care» may lead to higher rates of downstream follow-up care
Summary: "Even before the pandemic made telehealth a hot topic, people with minor urgent health needs had started to turn to companies that offer on-demand video chats with physicians that they...
3 Ways to Humanize the Virtual Health Care Experience
Summary: "For telehealth to remain a significant force in health care after the pandemic subsides, digital tools will have to take human emotions into account in the ways they support patients and...
The Future Of Healthcare Design – Outside The Point Of Care
Summary: "When talking about the future of healthcare, we also have to talk about the future designs of the institutions providing medical services. However, with digital health technologies that...
Intelligent automation: The secret to combating health inequities
Summary: "Automation expands the capacity of care teams, allowing providers to accomplish more with less. As a result, automation can offer an unbiased and personalized mechanism to reach patients...
Yale New Haven Health Deploys Virtual Clinic for Pediatric Patients with Diabetes
Summary: "After taking part in proving the clinical benefit of using AI-based decision support tools, as was recently published in Nature Medicine, Yale New Haven Health System and DreaMed...
Innovative Rehab Machine Saves Knees with VR Game User Interface
Summary: Cotras Co. Ltd, a collaboration between three Korean institutions, has developed the Mobilise medical device for rehabilitating patients with degenerative knee arthritis. The device has...
Transforming healthcare with AI: The impact on the workforce and organizations
Summary: "Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform how healthcare is delivered. A joint report with the European Union’s EIT Health explores how it can support improvements in...
HM Hospitales y Microsoft alcanzan un acuerdo para la explotación del dato en el sector sanitario
Summary: "El Grupo HM Hospitales ha alcanzado hoy un acuerdo de colaboración con Microsoft Ibérica "que tiene como principal objetivo servir de marco de trabajo para un fin común, avanzar en la...
People in wealthy, urban areas saw the biggest increase in telehealth use
Summary: "While telehealth use soared last year, the biggest increases were among adults living in metropolitan areas with low poverty levels, according to research published in the American Journal...
Enabling virtual healthcare with artificial intelligence
Summary: "Telehealth and virtual consults are changing how medical care is delivered. Artificial intelligence is integral to improving these experiences for both the doctor and the patient" Article...
Trustworthy AI has the ability to transform healthcare
Summary: "Experts at CES 2021 discuss how to overcome the barrier to trust in something that is hard to understand and visualize." "By this point in time, artificial intelligence and machine...
Microsoft Mesh: A New “Holoportation” & Mixed Reality Platform That May Disrupt Healthcare
Summary: "Mixed Reality, Holoportation, Holographics— terms once only used by sci-fi enthusiasts referring to a futuristic utopia, are now becoming reality. Microsoft Mesh, the company’s new “Mixed...
Contributed: Unlocking value in health data: Truveta’s data monetization strategy carries big risks and responsibilities
Summary: "Attorneys from Epstein Becker Green talk the liabilities and ethics of the new plan." "In today’s world, data is power. Healthcare providers have massive amounts of rich health data at...
Unique partnering model helps Cloud-based X-ray service grow in Indonesia
Summary: "Melbourne-based Zed Technologies shows how Australian digital health ideas can accelerate overseas growth. With a cloud-based service, the company has partnered with an Indonesian med-tech...
Aged-care reform puts technology on the table
Summary: "After a two-year investigation, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has made 148 recommendations to overhaul Australia’s aged-care system. Summarising the...
How to make Your Healthcare Practices Data-Driven in Today’s Times?
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...
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...
How IoT Can Improve Data Access for Remote Patient Monitoring Solutions
Summary: "Here’s something far fewer people know: 20 percent of these surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital within just 30 days of initial discharge. Readmission not only frustrates...
Una aplicación pionera para tonificar la musculatura de las vías respiratorias superiores
Summary: La apnea del sueño es un trastorno que afecta a una parte significativa de la población adulta, siendo el ronquido un síntoma comúnmente asociado. Este padecimiento no solo interrumpe el...
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...