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A National Study Utilizes Routine Health Data to Investigate Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases

Digital Health Global

The study, published in the Lancet Digital Health , highlights the importance of identifying and preventing transfusion-transmitted diseases to ensure the safety of blood transfusions. The researchers analyzed a nationwide transfusion database called SCANDAT-3S, encompassing data on 1.72 million transfusions between 1968 and 2017.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and. billion.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

This ambivalence will flavor how health citizens will adopt and adapt to the growing digitization of health care, and challenge the healthcare ecosystem’s assumption that patients and caregivers will universally, uniformly engage with medical tools and apps and technologies. 46% of U.S.

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Food as Medicine – Philips’ Take On An Apple A Day from the Rijksmuseum

Health Populi

Here’s my write-up of health, everywhere, at #SXSW2015 , including the Philips story. The serious public health data informing this campaign is that 85% of Europeans do not consume sufficient recommended quantities of fresh produce on a daily basis.

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Connected 'smart' communities will be a key part of 21st century healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a webinar this week exploring the advent of what it calls the "Smart Communities-Cities Movement." You can really envision the delivery of automated services – public health services, social services – anywhere to the person in the community.

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What the Latest Pew Consumer Data Means for #HIMSS18

Health Populi

At #HIMSS18, we will see the usual health IT suspects in the mix this year with newer entrants who are opening up health data to better flow and liquidity across data siloes. adults used in 2017, according to a survey Pew conducted last year. 46% of U.S.

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Healthcare data has become big tech’s last frontier for innovation, competition and disruption

Lloyd Price

The prospect of innovative new healthcare services assisted by data analytics legitimises big tech and its contributions to improving individual care, national health services and public health. The takeover of Deepmind by Google Health UK remains controversial on two accounts.