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Digital health in Africa: hype or hope?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Digital health in Africa is a rapidly growing field, with the potential to improve access to healthcare and quality of care across the continent. Cost: Digital health technologies can be expensive, which can make them inaccessible to low-income populations.

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mHealth Insights live from #HIMSS18

mHealth Insight

Fortunately I’ve managed to convince/beg the brilliant Dr Chris Bickford MD to step into my conference-floor-pounding-shoes and provide some opinions and live updates from the world’s biggest Health IT Conference and Exhibition being held in Las Vegas. Outline current innovative uses of mHealth data.

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What Do Tomorrow’s Doctors REALLY Think of mHealth Technology?

mHealth Insight

Nathan Ratner, a third-year medical student at the University of Minnesota and third-place finisher in last year’s Elsevier Hackathon in Finland, talks to Eric Wicklund at mHealth Intelligence, about the promise of mobile health technology. mHealth Insight. I use it through an app on my phone.

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Five Things Digital Health Companies Need to do to Achieve Success

The Digital Health Corner

The objective of my blog, which began in 2011, was and remains educating the reader (clinicians, healthcare IT community, patients and caregivers, and other healthcare stakeholders about digital health technology and how it is relevant to the changing healthcare environment. There are multiple reasons for this.

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Why CES 2022 Will Be Keynoted by a Health Care Executive

Health Populi

As Ford is quoted in the CES 2022 press release, “CES is the ideal stage to spotlight how technology is allowing people to take control of their health. Health is at the center of our ability to live a full life, and the acceleration of health technology has the potential to improve more lives in more places than ever before.

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What are the implications of Babyl Rwanda's closure for the future of Digital Health in Rwanda?

Lloyd Price

Digital Health Success in Rwanda Rwanda is a pioneer in the use of digital health technologies to improve healthcare access and delivery. Mobile health (mHealth): A number of mHealth apps have been developed and implemented in Rwanda.

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Four tech and aging blog posts from September 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Also in September, Medicare changes were introduced encouraging technology use by health providers, particularly telehealth services -- perhaps boosting the use of telehealth technology (for example remote visitations) which has seen a rise of consumer interest in recent polling , though not well-adopted yet by the majority of physicians.

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