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5 Reasons Medical Technology Appears to Fail

33 Charts - Digital Health

In medicine there’s an endemic mindset that if medical technology doesn’t work it will never work. The EHR, of course, is the poster child for technology’s failure in health care. But is the idea of a digital space for a patient’s medical information really a failed concept? Probably not.

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

Health Populi

The proliferation of such wearable sensors and remote patient monitoring technologies helps set the technology stage for HaH. But a key limiting factor of these many sensors generating data has been inadequate backend algorithms that address signal noise and limited EHR integration, the authors observe.

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Woebot Health Wins MedTech Breakthrough’s Mental Health Innovation Award

Digital Health Global

The honor recognizes the Woebot Health Platform, which is built on a foundation of clinically proven techniques and infused with artificial intelligence (AI). This year’s program attracted thousands of nominations from over 18 different countries throughout the world.

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Senseonics Partners with Rimidi to Develop Innovative Diabetes Solution

Digital Health Global

Rimidi’s platform aligns with Medicare’s reimbursable remote patient monitoring telehealth programs while seamlessly integrating within existing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, supporting quality improvement initiatives, driving workflow optimization, increasing patient engagement and providing clinical decision support.

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Woebot Health Named “Best Overall Mental Health Solution” in 2023 MedTech Breakthrough Awards Program

Digital Health Global

Woebot Health develops fully automated, evidence-based behavioral health tools that help people work through challenging thoughts, feelings and behaviors. This year’s program attracted more than 4,000 nominations from over 17 different countries throughout the world.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

The IoB ecosystem includes the technologies that are part of the health care Internet of Things, as well as EHRs, robotic surgery systems, and smart ventilators which also generate data about peoples’ health and wellness. Back to the Ordr report, noting the rise of also the Internet of Stranger Things, abounding.