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712 items found for "digital-health-hype-cycle"

  • Blood pressure monitoring may one day be easy as taking a video selfie

    Ambient light penetrates the skin's outer layer allowing digital optical sensors in smartphones to visualize non-invasive method to monitor blood pressures conveniently -- perhaps anytime and anywhere -- for health

  • Could 18 million GP appointments be seen by Pharmacists?

    NHS Digital—which publishes the figures—says it has no data on how many patients had a self-treatable NHS England and Public Health England have launched a campaign which encourages patients to seek advice NHS Digital—which publishes the figures—told us it didn’t have any figures on whether or not an A&E attendance Research done by experts at the University of Kent, for NHS England and the Department of Health, found Source : https://fullfact.org/health/18-million-gp-appointments-pharmacists/

  • Robotic Process Automation: Transformation in the NHS back office

    In his speech at the Health and Care Innovation Expo in Manchester earlier this year, the health secretary Jeremy Hunt outlined the digital standards he expects to see in place for all NHS patients by the end But away from the more headline grabbing digital initiatives that will undoubtedly benefit frontline https://www.sbs.nhs.uk NHS Shared Business Services is a unique joint venture between the Department of Health

  • Why Connected Technology is the Future of Dutch Healthcare

    On the face of things, the Dutch health system does a lot right. It holds the top spot in the latest Euro Health Consumer Index and spends more on health as a share of on evaluating new health technologies. This is known as digital phenotyping and will help device manufacturers and health providers to learn tiny smart devices for health monitoring, must – and will – be a big part of any solution.

  • Should NHS Doctors charge for patient appointments?

    If the motion is passed, GPs will lobby the Department of Health to introduce the charges. People could take their health more seriously – The end of free primary care could mean the beginning Charges could slow down health tourism – Figures released by the Department of Health last year reveal that health tourists cost the NHS between £60m – £80m every year. While GP appointment fees will not eradicate health tourism, the appointment fees should significantly

  • Project Nightingale : Google's four pillars for their secret patient data partnership

    Nightingale Project Nightingale is a data sharing project financed by Google and Ascension, a Catholic health related facilities, in 21 states, with tens of millions of patient records available for processing health Ascension is one of the largest health-care systems in the United States with comprehensive and specific health care information of millions who are part of its system. patient data with third parties without notification if it is for purposes that “help it carry out its health

  • Understand Outcomes to Care About Patients

    The International Consortium of Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM)[1] define ‘outcomes’ as "the results Digital Outcomes Measurement Digital systems for collecting PROMs that wrap seamlessly around clinical Some private providers, such as Spire Healthcare, are already investing in these digital approaches to In June 2017, evidence of the survival benefit of digital PROMs measurement for patients with advanced Tim Williams on Twitter https://twitter.com/t1mwilliams A list of suppliers of digital outcomes tools

  • The rise of Counselling Apps - could they ever replace Face-to-Face therapy?

    It’s no surprise that with NHS therapy waiting lists of up to two years, more of us are turning to digital These apps are still fairly new in the world of mental health treatment, and they’re pretty controversial will soon be able to prescribe medications to its users – it could become the sole source of mental health For years, people have looked online for mental health information and support, whether that was because a lot of ways, as he/she can pick up on verbal, non-verbal, and other cues that are just lost when digital

  • Why is Consumer Healthcare an attractive market for Startups?

    increasingly bearing a higher percentage of this cost of care, particularly as people shift to high deductible health If a product is maintaining, improving, or monitoring, your health, you likely will use it frequently Targeting specific types of people is now possible with social media marketing. Many of these products only serve a certain type of consumer who may be reachable at scale through digital The bar on quality is significantly higher when people’s health is at stake, as it should be.

  • Microsoft’s Strategy for Finding What’s Next in Healthcare AI

    “So, the whole digitization of health records is fundamentally running on Microsoft products.” are excerpts from an interview with Lee last week, in which he discusses a new partnership to design “digitalDigital hospitals of the future”: The growing health system attached to the University of Pittsburgh Lee says Microsoft’s health bot is HIPAA compliant, and partners are building applications such as a “I’d love to expose all the health data to all of our researchers here at Microsoft,” he says.

  • Telemedicine for Coronavirus care: what are the limitations and how are hospitals adapting?

    contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health Telehealth is bridging the gap between people, physicians and health systems, enabling everyone, especially “We know COVID-19 can be very harmful and even fatal for people with compromised health, and by using However, there is one glaring disconnect that must resolve, said John Nosta, president of NostaLab, a digital health think tank.

  • Five ways the GDPR will affect the Healthcare industry over the coming years

    The health sector by its very nature collects masses of personal data to deliver services to patients The GDPR will affect almost all industries, but in health the new regulations give every patient more Digital data is of course affected, but this change also affects paper records. James Kilmister, Product Director Health & Care at Civica “It is a legal requirement for all healthcare Index data, 57% of patients own or use a connected care device to monitor various health indicators,

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