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$15M Singapore-London partnership to help stem APAC's growing healthcare cybersecurity woes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The four-year grant will support research which is believed to have applications in a broad range of medical devices, including continuous glucose monitors, smart electronic skin patches, and activity monitors. THE LARGER CONTEXT More and more medical devices are getting hooked up to hospital and home networks and the Internet.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

The pandemic has accelerated the use of digital health across its many segments: telehealth, mHealth, software platforms, behavioral health, digital therapeutics, among them. With fast growth in the public health crisis comes evolving and growing risks that, in the midst of the pandemic hurricane, have gone unattended.

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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

Health Populi

I’d called WiFi a social determinant of health in a Huffington Post column I wrote back in 2016 , recognizing the emerging virtual health opportunity and potential for furthering the digital divide without bolstering broadband “everywhere.” ” Assuring health equity in a post-pandemic world.