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‘I Can’t Breathe’: Racism in Medical Technology

Bill Of Health

The racial justice uprisings and the COVID-19 pandemic have inspired advocates, scholars, and researchers to examine the assumptions about race that have embedded themselves into these tools — the medical technologies we use to measure if, and how, a person is breathing and absorbing oxygen.

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The True Value of Human-Centered Research Within Medical Technology

HIT Consultant

Whether it is a hard-to-follow set of instructions for a new medical device or a convoluted setup process, people are constantly forced to develop workarounds to compensate for poor design. Hollie Johnston, Principal and Human Sciences Capability Lead at PDD.

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A Concerning Gap in Cybersecurity for Medical Technology

Health Populi

Notwithstanding mass adoption of antivirus protection and firewalls among healthcare providers, there remains a security gap for biomedical technologies, according to a report from Zingbox. This concerning finding was confirmed in recent observations from Gartner, which wrote in a market trends report that, “generally, medical devices are not replaced for at least ten years, with many running old software that has not been updated or patched.”

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4C Medical Technologies Nabs $35M, Appoints New President and CEO

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – 4C Medical Technologies , a privately-held medical technology company focused on the development of minimally invasive therapies for structural heart disease raises $35.4M

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Digital Health Exec Hires: Transcarent Appoints CMO, Carium, Tegria, Swift Medical, GoCheckKids, Others

HIT Consultant

Chief Medical Officer at Transcarent Transcarent appoints Dr. Randy Hawkins as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and will report to Transcarent Chief Executive Officer, Glen Tullman. FACSM, as the organization’s new chief medical officer. Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.

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HeartSciences & Rutgers Partner to Develop AI-based ECG Algorithms

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Sengupta, MD, MBBS, FACC, Professor and the Chief of Division of Cardiology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, will serve as Rutgers’ Principal Investigator.

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Research Shows Power of Anumana AI-ECG Algorithms to Detect Heart Conditions

HIT Consultant

A portfolio company of nference and Mayo Clinic Platform, Anumana is a medical technology company dedicated to transforming the detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

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Praying For The Survival of the NHS Will Not Be Enough To Save It

HIT Consultant

About Ivor Campbell Ivor Campbell is the CEO of Snedden Campbell , a UK-based recruitment agency for the global medical technology industry. Health IT Opinion Breast Cancer cancer Coronavirus (COVID-19) medical technology model NHS telemedicine video

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology. While technology is embedded in this list, the headlines have more to do with social, mental, and behavioral health than pure-play technology and devices.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics.

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The Heart Health Continuum at #CES2023 – From Prevention and Monitoring to Healthy Eating and Sleep

Health Populi

“Despite breathtaking medical advancements since President Harry Truman declared war on heart disease 75 years ago, researchers have observed a disturbing trend that started in 2009: America’s death rate from heart-related conditions is climbing again,” the detailed essay explains.

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The Legacy of COVID-19 Is Shaping Consumers’ Purchases for Health-At-Home

Health Populi

GfK highlights the growing interest in wellbeing and device demand in The State of Consumer Technology and Durables 2002 insights from GfK. Core wearables include smart watches, which the recent market forecast from the Consumer Technology Association expected would increase in sales in 2022.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

In October 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, would give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

In health care, outdated operating systems present some of the greatest risks: 15% of medical devices and 32% of medical imaging tools run on outdated operating systems. In medical facilities, one-half of the cyber-attacks were on medical devices, the circle graph illustrates.

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Google Cloud Launches AI-Powered Medical Imaging Suite

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Google Cloud launches Medical Imaging Suite that addresses common pain points organizations face in developing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models. Google Cloud’s Medical Imaging Suite Key Features. Medical Imaging Suite Partners.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

Health Populi

Among these events are Amazon’s plan to acquire One Medical , Apple’s publication of the paper, Empowering People to Live a Healthier Day , and other news that, together with these line items, signal a shake-up of American health care as we know it. I’ve returned to the U.S.

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POGO Blood Glucose Monitoring Now Available in Kroger Health Pharmacies Nationwide

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Intuity Medical, Inc., a commercial-stage medical technology and digital health company focused on making life with diabetes easier, today announced that the POGO Automatic® Blood Glucose Monitoring System is now available at the more than 2,200 U.S.

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Hacking Health Care, Your Top Health-Tech Summer Read

Health Populi

“Tom Lawry reminds us that the health care industry can shift from glacial to warp speed when it needs to. Given the right tools, we can evolve from health systems to systems of health, baked with Responsible Intelligence to do good while embedded with respect, inclusion, and transparency.

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POGO Blood Glucose Monitoring Now Available in Kroger Health Pharmacies Nationwide

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Intuity Medical, Inc., a commercial-stage medical technology and digital health company focused on making life with diabetes easier, today announced that the POGO Automatic® Blood Glucose Monitoring System is now available at the more than 2,200 U.S.

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Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

Health Populi

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year.

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Eko Lands $2.7M NIH Grant to Train Pulmonary Hypertension AI

HIT Consultant

This machine learning algorithm has the potential to be a low cost, easily implementable, and sustainable medical technology that assists healthcare professionals in identifying more patients with pulmonary hypertension.”.

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GE Healthcare Launches First 5G Innovation Lab for Remote Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – GE Healthcare , a leading global medical technology, diagnostics, and digital solutions innovator, inaugurated its 5G Innovation Lab in Bengaluru, India, the first for GE Healthcare across the globe.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

we Americans can chant, when it comes to medical spending. for health care spending as a proportion of GDP are Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Canada, and France, all of which allocates between 10 and 12% of GDP to medical costs.

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Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Populi

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that Robert Ford, CEO and President of Abbott, will give a keynote speech at CES 2022, the world’s largest annual convention of the technology industry.

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Oncoustics Raises $5M for AI-Driven Point-of-Care Diagnostics

HIT Consultant

Pallasite Ventures , and Dr. Chen Fong, a renowned radiologist, entrepreneur/investor and inductee into the Order of Canada for his contributions to medical technology innovation and philanthropy.

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Biofourmis Secures $300M to Expand Virtual Care Offerings

HIT Consultant

His vast experience, which includes leading one of the world’s most successful medical technology companies, will be an incredible asset as we look to take our business to the next growth phase.”. Kuldeep Singh Rajput, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Biofourmis.

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How Healthcare Providers Are Adapting in the Era of Telehealth, and Why Radiology was Uniquely Suited to Go Hybrid

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Brian Fabrizio, Medical Information Displays Team Leader at LG Business Solutions USA. Changes in the medical environment are becoming more important to the general public than ever before, with telehealth as a growing–and most likely permanent–practice.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

Today, one-half of the categories speak to more “medical”/clinical areas that are disease specific, addressing women’s health, medication adherence, and healthcare administration workflows.

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CPQ: Optimizing MedTech Operations and Sales to Accelerate Cash Flow

HIT Consultant

The lead-to-cash process in most B-to-B organizations––particularly those operating in the medical device industry––is often complex and lengthy. In her role, she leads digital transformation efforts for some of the world’s largest specialty pharmaceutical and medical device companies.

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The Patient Safety Issue of Racial Disparities and the Opportunity for “Health Equity By Design”

Health Populi

In 2021, racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare are a top patient safety issue, according to ECRI’s annual list of major concerns facing healthcare consumers’ risks to adverse events that can harm them.

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Nuance Announces Strategic Collaborations at RNSA22

HIT Consultant

– Perspectum , a global medical technology company, will enter a strategic collaboration with Nuance to scale access to AI-enabled integrated digital care platforms to improve patient care for metabolic disease.

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

The pandemic has accelerated consumer trends already in motion early this year when the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) convened the annual CES 2020 in Las Vegas. The first line is the most dramatic shift, illustrating the use of telehealth or remote medical services used pre-pandemic by 10% of consumers. The post Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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The Coronavirus Pandemic Turbocharged Digital Health Investment in 2020

Health Populi

Four groups made up most of this investment cohort: health care providers, technology companies, biopharma/life science, and health care payers.

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How Will Consumers’ Declining Trust in Technology Impact Health Tech?

Health Populi

Americans’ trust in technology as “plummeted” in the past decade, according to the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer’s focused look on trust and technology. health citizens’ trust in digital health technology?

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Digital Health Gaps in the Pandemic Through the Eyes of Younger Physicians

Health Populi

Philips conducted 500 interviews with doctors in China, France, Germany, Singapore, and the United States to assess their views on technology and health care in the pandemic. Technology solutions meant for clinicians to use must be designed to be productive, efficient, and even enchanting.

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5 Trends Driving the Future Growth of Digital Health & MedTech

HIT Consultant

Digital Health may fall outside the bounds of established regulatory pathways for untested technologies, requiring new approaches from the sector. Health IT Most Popular Accenture digital health Home Care Life Sciences medical technology

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Our Homes as HealthQuarters – Finding Health and Well-Being at CES 2023

Health Populi

For over ten years, digital health technology has been a fast-growing area at the annual CES , the largest convention covering consumer electronics in the world.

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Health Populi

Stanford Medicine interviewed 523 physicians and 210 medical students and residents in September and October 2019 to assess clinicians’ perspectives on digital health topics for this study.

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Faster Pace for Corporate Investments and Behavioral Health in COVID-Driven Digital Health Era

Health Populi

Another company I’ve followed closely over the past few years was for Outset Medical, the connected dialysis system company, raising $125 mm. I’ve written about Outset Medical here in Health Populi : Home is the New and Future Medical Home for Dialysis.

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COVID-19 Has Accelerated Consumers’ Interest in Healthy Home Tech

Health Populi

” The vast majority of consumers are concerned about some aspect of their home’s health, like air or water quality, according to Healthy Home Technologies , a report published in October 2020 by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), convener of the annual CES. adults in late July 2020, gauging consumers’ interest in personal health and well-being and home technologies’ potential impacts on mental and physical health. One in two U.S.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Health Populi

Three physicians from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, part of Harvard Medical School, cite three pillars that underpin digital health inequity in America: Technology access barriers, Digital health literacy, and.