What is Digital Health, Technology, and Health Innovation? Digital health refers to the use of information and communications technologies in medicine and other health professions to manage illnesses and health risks and to promote wellness. Healthcare technology refers to the use of technologies developed for the purpose of improving any and all aspects of the healthcare system. Health innovation is to develop new or improved health policies, systems, products and technologies, and services and delivery methods that improve people’s health, with a special focus on the needs of vulnerable populations.
The COVID-19 pandemic was an accelerator of shifting consumer preferences and care-delivery innovation. See how, by embracing a digital mindset, health systems can transform their relationship with consumers.
Artificial intelligence models are being used to make labor and pregnancy deliveries safer for mothers and newborns, as A.I. continues to reshape the health care world.
Wheel, a startup that is behind the scenes powering the infrastructure behind virtual care, laid off 35 staff members, or about 17% of its workforce, on August 18.
Researchers at Northwestern University and John Hopkins University plan to study if an Apple Watch app can help prevent strokes.
Amazon Web Services tapped 10 startups as finalists to participate in its 2022 healthcare accelerator focused on health equity, it announced Wednesday.
Editas Medicine has confirmed that a cell therapy for sickle cell disease has successfully engrafted into the first patient dosed in a phase 1/2 trial, which means—for those of us without a science degree—the therapy has been accepted by the patient’s body and is starting to create new blood cells as planned.
Use of computational software in drug research is growing, and some big tech companies are angling for a piece of this market. Cadence Design Systems is entering the life sciences sector through the $500 million acquisition of OpenEye Scientific, a company that provides computational drug design software to the pharmaceutical industry.
Fold Health, a new startup, has launched programming for primary care in the form of digital health
Epic announces they will be joining the nationwide data sharing framework. Epic also announced its plans to join the Common Agreement, a government plan to create standard connectivity infrastructure in the US.
Telehealth stakeholders hold mixed views surrounding the future of Telehealth and the role of the federal government as the pandemic evolves. Some argue for greater state adoption while others push for reciprocal licensure agreements between states.
Temporary measures were implemented to make interstate telehealth easier during the heigh of the pandemic. If these measure go away, it will affect different states to varying degrees.
Medical education is evolving with several innovations born out of the pandemic, including telemedicine, virtual learning, remediation gaps and more.
