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AI in life science: faster cures for viral disease

Digital Leaders HealthTech

The potential effect of this viral disease on mortality and public health, as well as the lasting socioeconomic impact of the crisis, is unfathomable. To mitigate the wide-scale impact of this growing pandemic, our hopes are trained on a vaccine, prophylactic or curative, and the life sciences industry that can produce it.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

He also tweets his own comments on Twitter @EricTopol , which have become must-click insights into the COVID-19 pandemic from the inception of the public health crisis. Takeda is one of the organizations that has implemented Seqster’s solution, leveraging real-time data for research and patient services.

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NUS Medicine introducing holographic GI care training and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

GigXR's HoloScenarios: Gastrointestinal module on the Gig Immersive Learning Platform presents a holographic simulation of a clinical setting featuring patients, medical equipment, instructors, and learners.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr. 32% of medical imaging devices were running on unsupported operating systems, and.

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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

Health Populi

In the larger public and population health context, on the patient side, we can expect the burden of disease beyond COVID to increase due to postponed care and treatment backlogs. This has been found to be the case in the U.S., for example, for heart disease and cardiovascular complications as well as for cancers.

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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

Health Populi

The research was conducted among 335 respondents, which included 182 digital health companies polled between November 2020 and March 2021. Digital health companies represented 60% of the sample, the other 40% of which were consulting firms, subsidiaries of providers/payers/life science companies and tech corporations, and investors.

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Taking Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) From Data to Analysis and Action

Healthcare IT Today

Success Story #1: Moving Upstream to Identify Most Vulnerable Individuals to Prevent Homelessness There’s a common metaphor in public health about the need to move “upstream” to invest in preventive health, rather than wait for people to present at the “bottom of the river” with severe chronic illness.