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World Economic Forum 2024: What were the key Healthcare Technology talking points?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: The World Economic Forum 2024 in Davos saw several crucial healthcare technology talking points, with a strong focus on harnessing innovation to address global health challenges and build a more resilient healthcare system. It has: Developed frameworks and tools: To measure and address health inequities.

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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. Three in four consumers in America say technology is important to managing their health.

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Prudential and Babylon Join Forces to Pioneer AI-Powered Digital Health Services in Asia

Lloyd Price

Prudential Corporation Asia today announced it has entered into an exclusive partnership agreement with UK-based healthcare technology and services company Babylon Health. Prudential is a leading provider of medical insurance in Asia, with over five million health customers and premium income exceeding £800 million in 2017.

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Fit-tech: Bridging the Gap between Fitness and Healthcare

Digital Health Today

An undeniable consequence of the IoT revolution is that consumers have no shortage of resources or access to medical and health-driven information. Furthermore, fit-tech has already crossed the threshold as a utilized tool within healthcare and disease prevention. A Connected Future.

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Apple, Amazon, Google & Healthcare

Advanced Medical Reviews

Apple and Amazon both made their trek into healthcare in late 2017. Electronic health record (EHR) management, while almost universally adopted in the last decade due to regulatory and consumer demands, is a top concern for healthcare CIOs.

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How Millennials are Reshaping the Entire Healthcare Sector

Advanced Medical Reviews

As of August 2017, 21 states granted nurse practitioners full prescriptive authority to diagnose, treat and prescribe medicines for patients, free of physician oversight. Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat have become important resources in the search for healthcare guidance.

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