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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? And do patients really not want in?

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Saving More Lives with Smart Electronic Health Technologies

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 […].

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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.

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Philips to Expand Its Cardiac Diagnostics and Monitoring Portfolio With the Acquisition of Cardiologs

Healthcare IT Today

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Cardiologs, a France-based medical technology company focused on transforming cardiac diagnostics using artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology.

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Strengths, Opportunities, Constraints and Barriers to the Commercialisation of Evidence Based Digital Health Technologies in Australia

Lloyd Price

The organisation’s vision is to leverage Australia’s existing strengths in health and medical research, medical technology and healthcare delivery into the creation of a world-leading, national, integrated ecosystem for the development, commercialisation and implementation of evidence-based digital health technologies in Australia.

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Roundup: LKCMedicine launching more AI, digital health courses and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" More tech-enabled learning tools will also be deployed at the medical school, including VR for teaching the cardiorespiratory system and e-simulators for drug prescription and using EMR. He succeeded Caroline Clarke, who has served the company for the past 15 years.

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

Health Populi

With the urgent need to identify more efficient and lower-cost health care delivery models, we look to growing evidence for digital health technologies that support the Hospital at Home (HaH) model, considered in a new review article published in late February in npj Digital Medicine, The hospital at home in the USA: current status and future prospects. (..)

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