By Andrea Park, Becker's Hospital Review | May 10, 2019 The World Health Organization has established a new Digital Health Department to advise the United Nations agency on and steer the development of technology initiatives in healthcare, WHO announced on May 10. The department will provide strategic advice to WHO [...]
By Richard Loomis, M.D., Fierce Healthcare | May 10, 2019 With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the healthcare industry is now exploring how this technology can be used to improve patient outcomes. AI and machine learning have been around for many years. In fact, they've been around for as long [...]
By Christina Farr & Eugene Kim, CNBC | May 10, 2019 KEY POINTS Amazon has built a team within Alexa to dive more deeply into the health-care space. Members include Missy Krasner, a former Box health executive, and veteran engineer Larry Ockene. The group wants to eventually provide services to [...]
By Sara Berg, American Medical Association | May 10, 2019 If a new digital health technology (DHT) tool were introduced that would make hypertension management easier, would you use it? While different digital health solutions have shown great promise in improving patient outcomes and disease management, adoption by patients and [...]
By Nathan Eddy, Healthcare IT News | May 9, 2019 New data suggests that artificial intelligence can identify patterns that indicate breast cancer development. A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT found a deep learning artificial intelligence platform had a high success rate in detecting breast [...]
By Jeff Bagasse, Healthcare Finance | May 9, 2019 Tapping into asynchronous, text-based communication could let providers cast a wider net and improve care quality. Telehealth is still the Wild West in a lot of ways. While the delivery model has the potential to extend provider outreach into remote communities [...]
