NHSE publishes guidance on digitising documentation for nurses
DigitalHealth
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
With the continued push for digitisation in the NHS, new guidance for digital documentation by nurses has been published by NHS England.
Fraser Health to Leverage Generative AI for Clinical Documentation in MEDITECH Expanse EHR
Digital Health Global
DECEMBER 7, 2023
.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Fraser Health Authority (Surrey, B.C.), a large regional health authority, will be one of the first health systems globally to deploy generative AI to assist with clinical documentation in MEDITECH’s Expanse EHR, using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and large language models (LLMs).
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CMS's 2019 proposal makes broad strides in telehealth, interoperability, documentation
Mobi Health News
JULY 12, 2018
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its new proposed Physician Fee Schedule and Qualified Payment Program updates for 2019, and the announcement includes some big strides forward in promoting digital health technology, including widened telemedicine coverage, an overhaul of documentation requirements, and a new focus on interoperability. (..)
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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research
Health Populi
MARCH 10, 2020
Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Some, but not necessarily a majority, of consumers see benefits in using digital health — primary for wellness and prevention, and to get a better understanding of personal health.
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DexCare scoops up $50M and other digital health fundings
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 13, 2022
Also: AI-enabled documentation tool DeepScribe raises $30 million, cancer risk stratification platform PreciseDx scores $10.75 million and care navigation startup HeyRenee brought in $4.4
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Digital health passport CommonPass begins testing to help travel and trade resume
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 7, 2020
CommonPass allows travelers to document their COVID-19 status electronically and present it when they board a plane or cross a border.
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How Digital Health Companies Attract Software Engineers: Goals
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Anmol Madan, co-founder and CEO of RadiantGraph , says that tech experts might need to accept a pay cut to work for a small digital health company. Because health care lags in automation, patients find interactions with their doctor harder, longer, and filled with more barriers compared to banking, retail, and other services.”
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How Digital Health Can Transform Cardiology
Xealth
JUNE 14, 2023
Paige Stocks, Director, Partnerships Digital health and DTx solutions pave the way for better patient experiences and outcomes. One of the areas where I consistently hear complaints about underutilization of digital health tools is for cardiology. One out of four cardiologists reports having mental health conditions.
FDA and Digital Health Regulation
Health Blawg
DECEMBER 26, 2017
The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.
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eSignatures and Digital Documents Matter Even More in a Post-COVID World
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 21, 2021
According to a recent study, COVID-19 has raised the expectations of patients when it comes to digital health. More patients than ever are willing to switch healthcare providers over a poor digital experience. Embracing Digital The pandemic has shown patients […].
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Biofourmis announces major agreements with top pharmaceutical companies
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Biofourmis , a global digital health and clinical trial solutions leader, announces four key partnerships with top pharmaceutical firms. These agreements reflect Biofourmis’ industry leadership and its role in driving innovative clinical research practices.
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Welldoc Announces CE Mark Certification
Digital Health Global
MARCH 12, 2024
Certification unlocks advancement of Welldoc’s digital health solutions in Europe, powering expanded access to cardiometabolic-focused digital health COLUMBIA, Md.–(BUSINESS This significant achievement allows Welldoc to apply the CE mark to their medical device software.
Beyond Awareness: Understanding the Magnitude of Point Solution Fatigue in Healthcare
E-CareManagement
MAY 20, 2024
A February 2024 report by Galen Growth and Finn Partners documented that there are over 14,000 digital health ventures worldwide. The unique contribution of this post will be to document the magnitude of the challenge and to explain how we got here.
Avoiding the Hidden Costs of Digital Health
Xealth
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
To add another layer to this dilemma, health systems have been forced to reduce budgets to offset losses incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic—and investments in innovation can often take a backseat to day-to-day operations. Hidden costs of digital health. Embedding digital health tools directly within a workflow is essential.
FDA and Digital Health Regulation
Health Blawg
DECEMBER 26, 2017
The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.
FDA and Digital Health Regulation
Health Blawg
DECEMBER 26, 2017
The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.
FDA and Digital Health Regulation
Health Blawg
DECEMBER 26, 2017
The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.
FDA and Digital Health Regulation
Health Blawg
DECEMBER 26, 2017
The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.
Nursing execs dish on the digital health tools they've found most useful during the pandemic
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 12, 2021
Still, it's not all bad news: Nursing executives from hospitals around the country told Healthcare IT News that they've come to rely on a large range of digital health tools during the COVID-19 pandemic. And, they say, they'll continue to use some of that software in a post-pandemic world.
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Finding the future of interoperability with Redox: Part 3 – How Carequality can solve disconnected data for digital health
Redox
MAY 6, 2024
The caveats: Any new clinical documentation must go into the member healthcare organization’s system for querying by other network participants. As the clinician at the virtual urgent care clinic conducts the visit, she will document her notes and any other details in her existing EHR, which is already connected to Carequality.
Amazon Web Services Unveils AWS HealthScribe
Digital Health Global
AUGUST 9, 2023
This HIPAA-eligible service is set to empower healthcare software providers by leveraging speech recognition and generative AI to revolutionize clinical documentation, enabling clinicians to save time on these tasks and enhance patient care. These notes encompass essential details, allowing clinicians to finalize documentation with ease.
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Welltok adds four new digital programs, Atrium Health adopts Butterfly's handheld ultrasound and more digital health deals
Mobi Health News
MAY 14, 2020
Also: Intel, UPenn and others employ AI for brain tumor identification; DrChrono integrates EHRsynergy's documentation tool.
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AI Will Help Bridge Gaps in Canadian Healthcare
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The OntarioMD Digital Health Conference, a gathering of the digital health community in the province of Ontario in Canada, returned in-person for the first time since the pandemic. The conference was well attended and featured notable Canadian healthcare author + journalist Andre Picard as the opening keynote.
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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. The post A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security.
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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford
Health Populi
MARCH 2, 2021
But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.
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Abridge Names Chief Clinical Officer: Dr. Tina Shah, Former Senior Advisor, Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and Practicing Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician
Digital Health Global
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Dr. Shah will lead Abridge strategy and clinical insights PITTSBURGH–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Abridge , the leader in generative AI for clinical documentation, announced today that healthcare workforce expert Dr. Tina Shah will join its leadership team as Chief Clinical Officer. federal health policy.
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Augmedix Takes Hit As Ambient AI Heats Up
Digital Health Wire
MAY 20, 2024
During the investor call, Augmedix said that 42 companies currently offer GenAI medical documentation solutions, leading to a ton of noise and just as many pilots. The post Augmedix Takes Hit As Ambient AI Heats Up appeared first on Digital Health Wire.
Swift Medical Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of New CCO and CIO
Digital Health Global
AUGUST 22, 2023
Sharma is a seasoned global business leader and change agent with deep experience driving successful go-to-market strategies for corporate and startup technology-led business across the digital health ecosystem. He also formerly served as the Information Technology Health System Director at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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88 Five Reasons why the FDA got it Right with Digital Health
The Digital Health Corner
AUGUST 7, 2017
The FDA recently announced its Digital Health Innovation Action Plan. Digital health differs significantly from drugs and traditional medical devices around which the FDA has developed its structure and policies over decades. The Action Plan builds on and improves previous digital health guidances.
The global initiative MAIDA revolutionizes medical imaging data sharing for AI advancements
Digital Health Global
JANUARY 8, 2024
In a recent publication in The Lancet Digital Health , researchers Agustina Saenz, Emma Chen, Henrik Marklund, and Pranav Rajpurkar introduce the Medical AI Data for All ( MAIDA ) initiative, aiming to revolutionize the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging.
What are the challenges faced by AI-based digital health products?
Digital Health Hub
MAY 24, 2022
However, despite this amount of published research, there is a lack of a comparable amount of thoroughly validated AI-based digital health products and services in the real world! For medical apps, it is essential to frame ethically responsible user agreements that could be quite similar to informed consent documents.
Cardio Diagnostics Holdings, Inc. Enters Into a Nationwide Telehealth Agreement with Navierre
Digital Health Global
APRIL 4, 2024
” The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital health solutions, with the CDC reporting that 36% of adults used telehealth services in 2021. The partnership also underscores Cardio Diagnostics’ commitment to health equity and access. According to McKinsey , up to $250 billion of U.S.
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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Susannah Fox has collected over twenty years of notes recording patients’ and caregivers’ experiences which, collectively, document the growing phenomenon of peer-to-peer healthcare she observed early in her career working on the Internet and health. or Health 2.0”
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1 in 3 Primary Care Physicians Have Already Tried AI Scribe Tools, Outlook Is Cautiously Optimistic, Finds Elation Health Survey
Digital Health Global
DECEMBER 13, 2023
The company serves 30,000 clinicians caring for more than 12 million Americans, including thousands of small independent practices and large prominent digital health innovators. Elation supports the mission of primary care by providing technology solutions that ease burden and allow physicians to focus on caring for their patients.
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88 Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology
The Digital Health Corner
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.
Telehealth Linked to Physician EHR Burden
Digital Health Wire
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
They found that telehealth use correlated to more time spent in the EHR both during and outside of patient scheduled hours (PSHs), although the extra work was mostly related to documenting visits rather than messaging patients. The post Telehealth Linked to Physician EHR Burden appeared first on Digital Health Wire.
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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health
The Digital Health Corner
JUNE 14, 2017
Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes.
AMA issues 12-step 'playbook' for digital health implementation
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 17, 2018
A new "living document" unveiled by the American Medical Association on Wednesday provides physicians with step-by-step considerations for integrating new digital tools, including remote monitoring technology.
Check out the Future Health Report: Expert Opinion on “Digital Therapeutics to enhance the care pathways for depression across the national health service: expert proposals for Italy”
Digital Health Global
MARCH 28, 2023
The document describes five expert proposals and a possible clinical-organizational process for the integration of Digital Therapeutics across depression care pathways in the Italian national health service, formulated by a multistakeholder panel coordinated by Alberta M.C.
“The Point Solution Paradox” in Healthcare’s Adoption of AI
E-CareManagement
JANUARY 15, 2024
Investment and Innovation has Been Dynamic, But Adoption Lags The digital health landscape has been dynamic. A 2023 report by FINN Partners and Galen Growth documented that there are over 9,000 digital health ventures worldwide.
AristaMD Acquires Referral Management Solution, Preferral, to Increase Patient Access to Specialty Care
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
AristaMD, a leading digital health company that provides eConsult solutions to connect primary care providers (PCPs) with timely, documented specialist insights, announces the acquisition of Preferral, a platform for referral management, analytics and document routing.
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Swift Medical Announces New Financing Round to Further Enhance Its AI-Based Wound Care Technology
Digital Health Global
JANUARY 25, 2024
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Swift Medical, a digital health technology company serving wound care providers, is pleased to announce the successful closing of an $US8M round of financing co-led by current investors BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund and funds managed by Virgo Investment Group.
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Pandemic preparedness is a national security issue, say experts at HIMSS21
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 10, 2021
LAS VEGAS – One year ago this week, a group of digital health experts formulated the Riyadh Declaration on Digital Health, which outlined priorities and recommendations for the global health community in response to COVID-19 and other future pandemics. HIMSS21 Coverage.
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