By Jennifer Bresnick, Health IT Analytics | March 4, 2019 Healthcare stakeholders are broadly on board with artificial intelligence, but the industry will have to overcome its data aggregation challenges in order to succeed. It hasn’t taken very long for artificial intelligence to become the most popular topic of conversation [...]
By Richard Godwin, The Guardian | March 2, 2019 Socks that record heart rate and cots that mimic the womb might promise parents peace of mind – but is the data given to tech firms a fair exchange? You don’t need to spend much time in the presence of a [...]
By Nadir Izrael, Forbes | March 1, 2019 There will be an estimated 14.2 billion connected devices in use this year, and roughly 161 million devices will be cropping up in hospitals, clinics and medical offices by 2020. While security issues with any connected device are concerning, they are particularly troubling [...]
By Meg Bryant, Healthcare DIVE | February 28, 2918 Dive Brief: Evidence suggests health IT-supported clinical pathways can improve patient outcomes, but more and better studies are needed to demonstrate the true effect, a review in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds. The U.K. researchers reviewed 44 studies [...]
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | February 27, 2019 While direct-to-consumer telehealth is still going strong, health plans and businesses are starting to look for connected care platforms that can address all of an employee's healthcare needs - including primary care. Health plans are moving past telehealth platforms that simply [...]
The Medical Futurist | February 27, 2019 Blood, saliva, urine, sweat or even ear wax can carry valuable information about an individual’s medical state. Until now, even simpler tests on such bodily fluids had to be carried out at medical facilities, but with the recent uptick in the development of [...]
