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5G Ushered Huge Advances in Healthcare Technology. What will 6G Offer?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by John English, Director of Service Provider Marketing and Business Development at NETSCOUT Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, medical technology became essential for keeping healthcare running when other industries had to close.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

To illustrate this, note that consumer-subscribers of subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) grew by millions in 2021, with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and AppleTV all expanding their membership rosters. Another important trend that is an umbrella over more granular forecasts is the consumer’s embrace of services.

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

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The vast majority of doctors are using electronic health records, and four in ten have adopted telemedicine in their workflow. Personalized medicine and robotic surgery have been adopted by fewer than 1 in 5 doctors, with AI and virtual reality still nascent technologies in everyday practice.

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Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch

Health Populi

Streaming video fast-grew, with Disney+ hitting 50 million subscribers in five months (of course, it didn’t hurt that the program launched with Hamilton !). Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days. Remote learning pivoted 250 million students to move to online learning over 2 weeks, and.

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Are Robots Coming to Healthcare? Consumers Say Not-So-Fast

Health Populi

As the early adopters of retail clinics, telemedicine visits, and food subscriptions have shared their experiences with others, these services have reached tipping point-mainstream status in the health/care landscape. For more on Bixby and BotCare, check out this video from Samsung’s CES 2019 press conference.

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

Health Populi

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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“Talk to me, Teladoc”

Health Populi

will now be able to connect with a Teladoc care provider 24/7 from supported Echo devices for general medical needs. Teladoc on Alexa will initially launch via audio with video visits coming soon.” The telehealth encounter will be audio-only in this initial phase, and could evolve to include video-based encounters.