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11 New Breakthrough Medical Technology Examples

Etactics

The Advanced Medical Technology Association reports that the United States is the largest medical device market in the world, attributing to over 40% of the MedTech market. Medical technology, or MedTech, proves to change and improve rapidly year by year. Table of Contents What is Medical Technology?

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How Digital Health and Cryptocurrency are Transforming Modern Therapies

HIT Consultant

Cryptocurrency’s Role in Funding Health Innovations As gaming integrates cryptocurrency, the potential for funding health technologies increases. This could help to finance telemedicine services or mental health apps, making essential health services accessible to a broader audience, including those in economically challenged areas.

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

Health Populi

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

What’s unclear is how public policy and regulation can/will meet this moment. We can expect connected fitness, gaming, voice, and autos will all connect to our health care in the growing Internet of Healthy Things. The supply and demand side for this is clear to forecast in my scenario planning these days.

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

When a new technology or product starts to get used in a market, it follows a diffusion curve whose slope depends on the pace of adoption in that market.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

The heart has been a digital health focus at CES for several years as sensors got added to wristworn activity trackers and mobile apps married to medical technologies that were once only available for use in a doctor’s office or outpatient clinic. Heart health at home. The deal has not yet been approved by the U.S.