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A Concerning Gap in Cybersecurity for Medical Technology

Health Populi

It’s important to note that 79% of consumers support the idea of medical devices and sensors that immediately transmit significant changes to peoples’ doctors, as the bar chart from Unisys’s consumer survey data illustrates. ” To deal with this growing challenge, this week the U.S.

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Harnessing light field technology for enhanced navigation and imaging

KevinMD

Imagine being able to cross a chasm between a digital world and a physical world in an operative environment.

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Accenture Invests in Virtonomy to Help Medical Technology Companies Use Digital Twin Technology to Accelerate Time to Market for Medical Devices

Healthcare IT Today

Accenture has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures , in Virtonomy , a provider of data-driven simulations that use existing patient data and digital twin technology to bring life-saving medical devices to market more quickly. This approach saves time and still meets regulatory and ethical demands.

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Health Populi

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. Note that the darkest green tone identifies the data for tracking via digital methods.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Medical technology firms gets personal with ‘Digital Twins’

Lloyd Price

The challenge for Siemens Healthineers and rivals such as Philips and GE Healthcare is to keep an edge over tech giants from Alphabet’s Google to Alibaba that hope to use big data to grab a slice of health care spending. The size of the global medical imaging analytics software market is also expected to jump to $4.3

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. First, consider: the lack of interoperability between health data, resulting in silos, has plagued our ability to “operate” (that “O” in “OS”) in a smooth fashion across the care continuum, from clinical trials and research to patients’ self-care driving optimal outcomes.