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Beyond The Four, Don’t Count Out the ”W’s” for Healthcare Innovation: Walgreens and Walmart

Health Populi

**While Amazon and Google get lots of positive PR and media attention as major healthcare industry disruptors, don’t forget about the two big “W’s,” Walgreens and Walmart, in the healthcare innovator mix. The complications of healthcare are, today, the opportunities to develop innovations and novel on-ramps for health care.

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Extended reality holds 'incredible potential' for remote care applications

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Reneker, assistant dean of scholarly innovation at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, has been researching virtual reality as a way to enhance sports performance and prevent sports injury since 2018. She says XR offers healthcare providers the chance to explore solutions beyond two-dimensional technologies.

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Health IT implementation best practices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

by November 01, 2018. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are set to transform healthcare. We at HIMSS Media in November will delve into the ways AI and machine learning have already taken root in healthcare, we’ll interview experts about what’s coming next and examine the promise and threats of AI.

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Employers Healthcare Kiosks: Creating Onsite Digital Health Centers

19 Labs

In 2018, Digital Health is valued at more than $28 billion. There are amazing healthcare innovations being built, but how do we put them all together? A secure experience in which patients real time health data is well guarded and delivered to health care providers instantly in a protected, confidential manner.

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Employers Healthcare Kiosks: Creating Onsite Digital Health Centers

19 Labs

In 2018, Digital Health is valued at more than $28 billion. There are amazing healthcare innovations being built, but how do we put them all together? A secure experience in which patients real time health data is well guarded and delivered to health care providers instantly in a protected, confidential manner.

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Voice, health, wellbeing -- notes from January 2020 report

Aging in Place Technology Watch

From a sheer quantity standpoint, the plethora of devices from Amazon (claiming sales of 100 million gadgets at the end of 2018, plus a dozen new ones introduced for the 2019 holiday sales period) captures the stampede nature of the market. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , healthcare.

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Europe’s Unique Telemedicine Potential

GlobalMed

Telehealth adoption has been uneven in the European market. A study by research2guidance noted, “there are countries like UK and Switzerland that support telehealth solutions and others like Belgium that don’t.” It’s an exciting time to be a healthcare innovator in Europe. Telemedicine’s Expanding European Presence.