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Roundup: LKCMedicine launching more AI, digital health courses and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

LKCMedicine to introduce more AI, digital health courses Nanyang Technological University Singapore announced that more course content related to AI and digital health will be added to the refreshed curriculum of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

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As COVID-19 Rocks Markets, Digital Health Start-Ups Rake In Cash

Lloyd Price

While many industries plummeted in the first quarter of the year, digital health companies closed the first quarter of 2020 with unprecedented levels of funding. Private equity and venture capital financing of digital health start-ups reached an all-time high of just over $3 billion in Q1 2020.

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Dozens charged in sprawling $1.2B telehealth and genetics fraud crackdown

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The coordinated investigations primarily targeted the alleged payment of kickbacks and bribes by lab operators in exchange for the referral of patients by medical professionals working with allegedly fraudulent telemedicine and digital health companies. Polite, Jr. in a statement. " THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Considering Technology Adoption -- AARP’s 2008 Healthy@Home

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for your body! "); the Longevity Economy hadn’t been invented; Fitbit was a 2007 new clip-on tracker , and Facebook was still a campus toy.

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Why CTA’s Shepherding AI Is Important for Re-Imagining Healthcare

Health Populi

Some of the long list includes AT&T, AdvaMed, Amazon, and the ATA (formerly known as the American Telemedicine Association), Brookings, Doctor on Demand, Fitbit, Google, Humana, Mercedes, Microsoft, Philips, Validic and Verizon, among others. Yes, the connected car for health has been cooking for some time.

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Shaping the future of health technologies

Digital Leaders HealthTech

The best health tech powering our healthcare systems: 2010-2020. Digital health records. Patient information is the currency through which health systems process, exchange, and interpret information. Telemedicine . Most patient data was (and much still is) contained within written notes. Surgical robots.

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Fresenius Connected Health: Improving Patient Care Through New Technology

Lloyd Price

Compared with a group of patients participating in a conventional care regimen, those using the digital program lost more weight, improved lifestyle habits, and had fewer cardio-related ER visits and rehospitalizations.(11) New York: Springer, 2007.Pal, Electronic Health Reporter, n.d. Chronic disease management. Pal, Susmit.