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Tech-enabled healthcare: What exactly is it? Funding, IPO's and Future Trends

Lloyd Price

A surgeon can use AI-assisted surgery to improve the accuracy and precision of their work. A pharmaceutical company can use AI to develop new drugs and treatments more quickly and efficiently. Tech-enabled healthcare IPOs are also raising public awareness of the sector and attracting new investors.

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

In order to advance healthcare, improve efficiency and care coordination, and make it easier for health information to be shared between different covered entities, electronic health records needed to be adopted. Before the introduction of the HITECH Act, only 10 percent of hospitals had adopted EHRs.