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Why voice recognition is the new competitive battleground in healthcare's digital transformation

Healthcare It News

Artificial Intelligence Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Patient Engagement Workflow As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

In some parts of the world, such as Australia and Norway, “in-person at-home acute care has gained signification traction and has been offered in most hospitals for over 15 years,” the authors note. The proliferation of such wearable sensors and remote patient monitoring technologies helps set the technology stage for HaH.

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Navigating the intersections of population health and precision medicine

Healthcare It News

While there are myriad definitions out there for both terms, the following provide a good starting point: Population health management refers to the process of improving clinical health outcomes of a defined group of individuals through improved care coordination and patient engagement supported by appropriate financial and care models.

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Healthcare's newest pivot: consumer identity as the cornerstone of digital health

Healthcare It News

There is concurrently a Darwinian culling of the herd of digital health point solutions underway, exacerbated by the current pull-back in VC funding that poses an existential threat to tech startups operating at sub-scale). We are now entering an era of multi-modal care that goes beyond substituting an in-person visit for a virtual visit.

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The great digital health reset – and how IT leaders should plan for what’s next

Healthcare It News

As multiple startups emerged with models to provide mental health services using a virtual care model, health systems have turned to these startups to extend their mental health services to their patients and employees. Indeed, that sense of optimism would pervade the startup ecosystem for the next year and a half.

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Is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms?

Healthcare It News

My friend and digital health entrepreneur Sherri Douville, whose post on LinkedIn went viral, summed it up like this: "If companies misunderstand evidence-based medicine, they have no business bringing technology into medicine at all (as opposed to consumer or administrative use)."

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RTLS & AI: Solving the Riddle of Healthcare Inefficiency

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare providers are increasingly turning to technology to help shoulder these burdens, but are fancy tech deployments really the cure or just another placebo? RTLS RTLS ( Real-time Location Systems ) are not new technologies, but they remain uncommon in most healthcare settings. revolution.