Voice applications in healthcare are used in telemedicine, for remote patient monitoring, clinical trials, and more. Bill Rogers, CEO of Orbita - a leading provider of conversational AI for healthcare - explains the current state of voice assistants in healthcare. Orbita helps healthcare organizations tap the power of voice assistants, chatbots, and other conversational AI technologies to engage patients, improve care, and reduce costs.
Read MoreIf you asked a diabetologist 10 years ago about therapies available for individuals with diabetes, the reply would be considerably shorter compared to today, says prof. Dr. Tadej Battelino, Head of Department of Pediatric endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the UMC - University Children’s Hospital Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Read MoreThe idea that AI will replace radiologists comes from the fact that today’s AI models models are very good at pattern recognition. The interesting thing in radiology are the NLP models mining radiology reports,says Woojin Kim, Chief Medical Information Officer at Nuance, former Chief of Radiography Modality, Director of Center for Translational Imaging Informatics, Associate Director of Imaging Informatics, and Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Read MoreAny time you read about efficiency in healthcare, you're also indirectly reading about how the lives of patients and people with chronic conditions are improving.
Read MoreAsia is the second-largest digital health ecosystem in the world. 2018 ended with a record-breaking US 6.8B invested. According to IBC Asia, the digital health market is expected to reach $379 billion by 2024. How are digital health markets developing in India, China, Singapore and Korea?
Read MoreSlovenia is a country of 2 million people, with a universal healthcare system, and quite a few success stories about digitization to share. One digitally unrelated thing patients in Slovenia can be grateful for is access to drugs.
Read MoreHow to design new technological solutions that patients will use? Claire Kamoun believes no solution will ever fit everyone. In order to be used, a solution needs to be flexible from the start of development and constantly refined.
Read MoreThe paradox in healthcare, says Moka Lantum, is that where the need is greatest, the paying power is lowest. Hear more from him and the digital health market in Africa in Faces of digital health podcast.
Read MoreG4A, formerly known as Grants4Apps is probably the most famous digital health accelerator running inside a Pharma conglomerate. At the moment, the program known as G4A is present in some form or another in 35 countries.
Read MoreEfforts are increasingly quantified with sensors, wearables, or even biohacking — interventions to influence body biology. The new hope for advancements in longevity is seen in artificial intelligence, which is becoming increasingly powerful.
Read MoreEstonia has only 1,3 million people, but is famous worldwide for its digital governance. If you want, you can become an Estonian electronic resident and run your business from Estonia, regardless of your actual country of residence. Healthcare wise, 95% of healthcare data is in digital form, some of it supported with blockchain technology.
Read MoreThis short recording offers a snippet of thoughts about digital healith in China, Japan, Germany, Dubai, Israel, Japan, and Bolivia.
Read MoreClinicalTrials.gov currently lists 302,091 clinical studies in the US. It is impossible for patients and their doctors to be aware of all clinical trials an individual might be eligible for. The data issues surrounding clinical trials don’t end there: how can we rely on results of trials when studies with negative results often go unpublished? Various companies are creating platforms and solutions to address these issues.
Read MoreAnyone who wishes to learn about blockchain in general or specifically in healthcare can get overwhelmed by the number of results offered by a Google search. Awareness of the difficulty of finding credible, helpful and nuanced information around blockchain, was among the triggers for the book Blockchain in Healthcare Innovations that Empower Patients, Connect Professionals and Improve Care.
Read MoreRafael Grossmann is a Surgeon, Educator, Healthcare Futurist, known in the digital health community as the VR surgeon. Originally from Venezuela, Rafael has been practicing medicine in the US for more than 15 years.
Read MoreHacking health encourages collaboration of different stakeholders in healthcare and inclusion of professionals such as designers, programmers and technical specialists in early stages of problem-solving.
As a non-profit organisation, Hacking Health is supported by volunteers in each active city, where they catalize collaboration between universities, tech hubs, patients and medical organisations.
Read MoreHIMSS has more than 100.000 members around the globe and is often seen as the global healthcare IT community care-taker. Every year, the global conference in the US attracts more than 40.000 people, says Wolf.
Read MoreNext generations of doctors, who are supposed to embrace and use new digital health inventions, are trained in an outdated model with little room for creative engagement.
Read MoreDuring the planning of implementation requirements for the Perth Children’s Hospital, which took several years, Chris Johnson made sure to include in planning representatives of all the groups in the hospital, who would be affected most in the end — pharmacists, doctors and nurses.
In the end, around 40 people reviewed the implementation requirements and took part in meetings, where IT vendors were demoing their solutions.
Read MoreMany European countries have various successful national eHealth implementation stories, with patients having access to their discharge letters, ePrescriptions, and some form of a personal health record. The success can partially be connected to the fact that the smaller the country, the easier it is to achieve connectivity.
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