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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.

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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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Digital Health Technologies for Alzheimer’s Disease

The Digital Health Corner

Public health policy might very well change as a result of such outcome studies. As a disclaimer I am not associated with any technology or organization mentioned in this post.

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Opioid Drug Addiction: How Digital Health Technologies Can Help

The Digital Health Corner

After a hiatus I am returning to my beloved Digital Health Corner. In a previous post I discussed important public health issues that digital technology can address. I appreciate all my loyal followers and have attempted to bridge my absence with posts in other social media. Among them is drug addiction.

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American Medical Association launches a Healthcare Interoperability & Innovation Challenge with Google

mHealth Insight

” This is an incredible turn around as the AMA CEO has been pointing fingers at mHealth and making claims it’s little more than modern day snake oil. Physicians have entrusted the AMA to advance the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health on behalf of patients for more than 170 years.

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AstraZeneca launches Evinova, a health-tech business to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector, the delivery of clinical trials and better health outcomes

Digital Health Global

Digital health The application of digital health technologies is seen as a solution to reduce healthcare costs, while also helping to improve patient experience and outcomes​. Implementation of digital health technology in clinical trials: the 6R framework. Accessed November 2023. Precedence Research​. Schwartz, A.L,

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What Are Digital Health Services & Technologies?

Waracle

Digital health services and technologies comprise a wide range of categories including personalised medicine, telehealth, telemedicine, wearables, health information technology and mobile health (mHealth). Digital Health: Going Beyond Web & Mobile.