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Patient concerns in healthcare digitalisation: Rising inequalities

Healthcare It News

Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, individual healthcare providers offer their own patient portals. This means if a person visits multiple facilities, they must use different portals to access their health data.

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Why There’s Renewed Interest In The Cloud for Healthcare

HIT Consultant

From the development of the EMR to the growth of telehealth, the digital environment for healthcare has evolved tremendously over the last few years. Though healthcare organizations have historically been slower to adopt cloud, we’re now seeing renewed interest. But first – why has healthcare lagged other industries in cloud adoption?

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr. What’s unclear is how public policy and regulation can/will meet this moment.

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How Digital Health and Cryptocurrency are Transforming Modern Therapies

HIT Consultant

The collaboration between digital health and online gaming is unexpectedly proving to be impactful. Digital health platforms, enhancing accessibility and customization of healthcare treatments, are at the forefront of this change. Financial rewards in games could be directed toward supporting digital health tools.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. The second chart focuses in on telemedicine adoption by channel, comparing six years of Rock Health’s consumer research. adults polled. adults polled. In 2020, the top tech companies with whom U.S.

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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Health Populi

“ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans. Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade.

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A tale of two tech titans hoping to help healthcare

Health Blawg

Its initial offering is limited to a handful of health care systems, and the data collected and placed in the palms of our hands is PHR data, not full EHR data, as some outlets had reported, but the rollout has certainly engaged the commentariat in a deep dive into the pros and cons of Apple’s latest move in the healthcare sphere.