By Jessica Kent, Health IT Analytics | June 4, 2019 Sanket Shah, clinical assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discusses how communication and data sharing can help providers collect social determinants data. By now, it seems that every player in the healthcare industry recognizes the impact social [...]
By Laura Lovett, MobiHealth News | June 4, 2019 During a Google Cloud and Rock Health event, representatives from provider and payer organization discussed the next steps toward creating sustainable business models for healthcare startups. Digital health is still in many ways the new kid on the block within the [...]
By Rob Wright, Life Science Leader | May 31, 2019 $1.7 billion. That was the entire digital therapeutics market in 2017. While that’s a little more than most people have in the bank, it’s still a fairly small number for most Big Pharmas. But that market is projected to grow [...]
By Kaveh Waddell, Axios | May 30, 2019 Facing increasingly overworked doctors and labyrinthine insurance systems, hospitals are searching for a lifeline in AI systems that promises to ease hard diagnoses and treatment decisions. Reality check: The data underpinning the very first systems is often spotty, volatile and completely lacking [...]
The Medical Futurist | May 30, 2019 Algorithms, datasets, machine learning, deep learning, cognitive computing, big data, and artificial intelligence: IT expressions that took over the language of 21st-century healthcare with surprising force. If medical professionals want to get ahead of the curve, they rather get familiarized with the basics [...]
By Tina Reed, Fierce Healthcare | May 30, 2019 Physicians treating patients with acute pain should focus on using a multimodal approach that includes medications, nerve blocks, physical therapy and other modalities, according to a federal task force's final report on acute and chronic pain management best practices (PDF) released Thursday. At [...]
