This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Bill Gates once said, “The two areas that are changing … are information technology and medical technology. Already, advances in electronic health technologies have saved many lives, with the number of heart attack fatalities reduced by over 50%, according […]. Illegal copying is prohibited. MORE

asked by François de Brantes, Executive Director of the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute. health care industry wonks (including me) have used the “d” word in conversation, presentation, and prognostication. Just this week, JAMA features a Viewpoint column titled, How Disruptive Innovation by Business and Technology Firms Could Improve Population Health. Googling the words “disruption” and “healthcare” today yielded 33.8 MORE

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? Reasons for the apparent failure of technology in medicine. Here’s why medical technology may sometimes look like a fail: Design. Technology is not static. MORE

Health data insecurity is the new normal. I explain th e current state of cybersecurity and health data insecurity in a new HIMSS blog linked here. You’ll see updates on the topic from Ponemon Institute, UPMC’s report on connected healthcare, and Merlin International, weaving the story of American health care’s cyber-deficits. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Concerns about cybersecurity in healthcare have reached the U.S. MORE

During this year’s MedCityInvest Digital Health conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had the chance to sit down one-on-one with Marcus Schabacker M.D, ECRI Institute is an independent nonprofit organization authority on the medical practices and products that provide the safest, most cost-effective care, not only in the U.S. In terms of technology evaluations, we have the only independent technology evaluation laboratory in the U.S. MORE

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine. The vast majority of doctors are using electronic health records, and four in ten have adopted telemedicine in their workflow. MORE

Instead, digital health startups should try need-driven innovation. A decade ago, a wave of companies promised to transform people’s health by allowing them to track data about their eating, sleep, exercise, and other habits. Zeo is just one of many digital health startups whose early promise failed to materialize into lasting impact. Consider iRhythm Technologies and its wearable cardiac rhythm monitor, the Zio Patch, a concept that originated at Stanford Biodesign. MORE

ANDHealth ANDHealth is a not-for-profit company that was established in 2017 by a consortium of industry partners.The goal of ANDHealth is to develop a more effective ecosystem to support Australian digital health companies as they navigate the commercialisation pathway to institutional investment and international market entry. DIGITAL HEALTH: CREATING A NEW GROWTH INDUSTRY FOR AUSTRALIAREPORT The rapid changes driven by the Fourth Industrial Revolution(Industry 4.0)1 MORE

Ron Popeil couldn’t incorporate this many features into a contraption – yes, she slices and dices healthcare and technology, places bets on the best of them, and she deploys a whole lot more tools in her Mary Poppins-rich toolbox. This week, she announced that she was putting on her “big boots,” under the umbrella of Manatt Health. Lisa’s eyes see business plans for health/care innovations that are often pre-minimum viable product stage. MORE

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Technology dominates the frontier of healthcare. Due to the growing elderly population, a lot of recently developed medical technology is meant to improve the lives of seniors. MORE

One universal experience health systems around the globe have witnessed in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic has been the dramatic pivot to telehealth and virtual care platforms. MORE