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Singaporean health chiefs embrace digital health to tackle staff shortage: report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FINDINGS The country's Ministry of Health earlier projected a need for as much as 24,000 additional allied health professionals and support care staff to meet the demands of their nation's ageing population by 2030. The lab aims to facilitate multi-institutional, cross-border collaborations in digital health.

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Healthy Together Acquires Kinsa Health to Build AI Illness Forecasting & Expand into New Markets

Healthcare IT Today

The acquisition advances Healthy Together’s mission to improve collective health and make government and enterprises more efficient. Kinsa’s innovative approach to early warning and predictive analytics complements Healthy Together’s commitment to leverage technology for the greater good.

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HHS watchdog reiterates importance of preventing telemedicine fraud

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"OIG is conducting significant oversight work assessing telehealth services during the public health emergency. She pointed to recent rulemaking in which the OIG recognized the promise that digital health technologies, including telemedicine, have for improving care coordination and health outcomes.

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Top health tech hazards for 2022: cyberattacks, supply chain shortfalls and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The nonprofit safety group ECRI Institute published the latest version of its annual health technology hazards report this week, pointing to cybersecurity attacks, supply chain shortfalls and damaged infusion pumps as three of the biggest dangers. "This list will help healthcare facilities do that." ON THE RECORD.

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Color Announces $167 million in Series D Financing

Healthcare IT Today

Color, a health technology company committed to advancing public health, today announced a $167 million Series D financing round. Color will use the funding to expand its work building public health technology and infrastructure for governments, employers, and other institutions that serve large populations.

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Weekly Roundup – August 5, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Translating Healthcare Documents in an Instant. Read more… Environmental Health Surveillance Enhances Public Health.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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