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What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

Health Populi

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. consumers and 277 Castle Connolly health care professionals.

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What can Europe to do bridge the digital health divide?

Healthcare It News

Policy-makers in the EU are promoting an array of digital health programs, such as the European Health Data Space unveiled earlier this month. Kristine Sørensen, a digital health literacy expert based in Denmark says digital health literacy varies across countries, regions — even within families.

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Roundup: The Royal Marsden NHS FT expands Hyland Healthcare suite, Clinical trial uses digital education platform to understand fatal genetic diseases in children, and more briefs

Healthcare It News

” Report says AI standards are essential to protect doctor-patient relationships. A Council of Europe report has called for clear ethical standards and guidance for the use of AI in health settings to protect the trust between doctors and patients and safeguard human rights.

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Real-World Data Startup Crescendo Health Launches with $3.2M

HIT Consultant

Crescendo partners with research sponsors like pharma/biopharma, medical device makers and contract research orgs to get informed consent from study participants, then collects all of their longitudinal data from their providers, payers, EHRs, pharmacy claims, and even previous clinical trials.

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Why Mainstream Precision Medicine Hinges on Healthcare HPC Storage

HIT Consultant

Adam Marko, Director of Life Science Solutions at Panasas. The healthcare industry is experiencing a data deluge, and it shows no sign of slowing down. Making this data accessible to doctors will not only save money and time, but also lives. Their findings will put even more critical data into doctors’ hands.

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What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

Healthcare It News

And second, so much of what influences health takes place outside of healthcare settings, where patients live, work and play. Today there's a huge push to integrate social determinants of health data into these larger datasets, but we remain in a situation where that data is either not collected or too general to be useful.

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HIMSS24 Roundup: M&A, Strategic Partnerships, Deployments, Product Launches, Funding, More

HIT Consultant

The integration enables doctors using Epic EHR to leverage Sunoh’s capabilities to streamline clinical documentation and improve patient care. Oracle Rolls Out Enhancements to Health Data Intelligence Platform Oracle announced enhancements to its healthcare data analysis platform, Oracle Health Data Intelligence.