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Digital Healthcare Transformation: Improving Patient Experience and Outcomes

Digital Health Global

By examining vast amounts of patient data, healthcare professionals can recognize risk factors, predict outcomes, and develop personalized treatment plans. Furthermore, digital health tools such as wearable devices and mobile health apps enable patients to take a more active role in their health and wellness.

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Cybersecurity frameworks in APAC don’t support remote care: report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It shall identify and classify the data collected and develop customised risk management strategies for each type of health data. "For example, [medical devices for remote care] connected to a network are at higher risk of data leakage compared to medical devices that are not connected to a network.

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What exactly is HealthTech? What is the difference between Digital Health and HealthTech?

Lloyd Price

Examples include pacemakers, insulin pumps, and surgical robots. Wearable devices: These are devices that are worn on the body and can track health data such as heart rate, sleep, and activity levels. Digital health: This refers to the use of technology to deliver healthcare services remotely.

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Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow

Health Populi

Negative perspectives are also shared by consumers when it comes to data privacy and how organizations handle personal information, in and beyond healthcare. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Consumers getting more “angsty” about privacy, and this extends to health data.

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As Workers’ Healthcare Costs Increase, Employers Look to Telehealth and Wearable Tech to Manage Cost & Health Risks

Health Populi

Two approaches quantified in this year’s KFF survey are the use of lower-cost settings, such as retail clinics and telehealth, as well as workers generating health data shared via mobile apps and wearable technology. Adoption of wearable tech and mobile health apps in companies’ wellness programs is expanding.

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HealthTech EMEA Predictions 2024: Europe, Middle East and Africa

Lloyd Price

Here are some specific examples of HealthTech trends that we may see in Europe in 2024: The rise of mental health platforms: Mental health platforms provide users with access to a variety of resources, such as online therapy, self-help tools, and peer support communities.

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Healthcare Data Ownership: Turning Patients into Proactive Consumers

Mobile Health Matters

The healthcare data explosion has prompted thorny debates over data ownership and access. Obviously, patients have a vested interest in having access to their own personal health history, but the data holds value for other stakeholders as well. The inability to easily access and control their own data is foreign to them.