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What Covid-19 has taught us about digital adoption in primary care

Health Care Leader News

There have always been strong arguments for using digital solutions to enhance patient care, but it has taken a pandemic to break through some of the biggest barriers to change. A drive for digitisation has been present in the NHS for well over a decade, with primary care often leading the way. J Med Internet Res.

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HealthQuest Capital Closes $675M for Fund IV to Invest in Transformational Healthcare Companies

HIT Consultant

HealthQuest invests across healthcare subsectors, and believes healthcare innovation occurs at the convergent points between medical technologies, diagnostics/tools, digital health and innovative services. To date, HealthQuest Capital has raised more than $1.6

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

HIT Consultant

Previously, Litten held various leadership positions in transformational, value-based healthcare companies, including Tabula Rasa HealthCare (clinical pharmacy), StationMD (emergency telehealth), Pearl Health (risk-based primary care), PathForward (medical oncology), and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.

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Respira Launches AI Wearable for Lung Function for COPD, COVID, Asthma

HIT Consultant

Respira Labs , a Mountain View, CA-based medical technology company specializing in respiratory care, today announces a new wearable that continuously and easily assesses lung function, without requiring patients to blow into anything. Air trapping is a central and early symptom of respiratory decline. Sylvee Accuracy.

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ChatGPT summary of Congressional Testimony on “Innovation and Patient Access”

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Josh Makower, a physician-inventor, entrepreneur, and professor at Stanford University, testifies about the challenges faced by medical technology innovators in accessing timely reimbursement for their breakthrough medical technologies. Kesselheim MD, JD, MPH Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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Do-It-Yourself Innovation Comes to Health at Home – Telehealth, Fjord 2021 Trends and #CES2021

Health Populi

.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primary care, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.

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“Your care, your way:” Learning from the Philips Future Health Index 2023

Health Populi

Similarly, younger consumers — namely Millennials, Gen Z and Gen X members — are more likely to seek primary care and services in new and novel formats beyond the traditional medical home.