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Solve.Care adds India to its global telehealth network

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In March last year, the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued new guidelines for telemedicine practice which boosted the use of telehealth services in the country. Currently, the country has a doctor-to-patient ratio of 1:1000, which is below the World Health Organization’s recommended ratio.

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COVID-19 and the future of care delivery

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Discussion on the definitions for telehealth, telecare, telemedicine and other terms under the digital health and care umbrella is always required, and will be discussed in greater detail during the HIMSS & Health 2.0 However, these sessions usually begin with a hurdle to be overcome – that of terminology.

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

In the description of #7, Realizing the Promise of Virtual Health (in shorthand above, “Accelerating Digital Health”) Manatt includes this snippet/paragraph from the World Health Organization , spelling out digital health in a way that uncannily encompasses the team’s ten goals.

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Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports

Health Populi

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Medable Launches Decentralized Clinical Trials Partner Network

HIT Consultant

– Data partners: Medable partners with data partners (Datavant and others) to help sponsors integrate real-world health records, claims, diagnostic, and other data sources with their clinical trial data.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic has motivated health plans and employers to address greater consumer self-care in the Great Lockdown, along with strategizing for employees’ safe return-to-work. More recently, Withings has offered virtual health and telemedicine services, applications that have been fast-growing from the emerging pandemic in 2020.

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Digital Transformation Relies on Data Center Storage

Healthcare IT Today

From telemedicine and AI-enabled devices to integrations with EHRs, data is at the center of it all and needs to be accessible from an uptime, resiliency, and privacy perspective. New technologies such as telemedicine and AI-enabled medical devices require software, computing, and storage.