Connected Health

Many European countries are investing heavily in transformation, while organizations are accelerating their implementation strategy due to COVID-19, says Alexander Ryan, Healthcare Alliances and Net New Sales Manager, EMEA, at Hyland.

This week's top stories include Apple working with the VA to get iPads into the hands of veterans, the Apple Watch Series 6 measuring blood oxygen and the hurdles primary care physicians face implementing telemedicine.

Christopher Lee and Babak Movassaghi said artificial intelligence and augmented reality will soon occupy much larger roles in the digital healthcare landscape.  

Europe’s first GE Healthcare-powered Clinical Command Centre opened in 2019. GE Healthcare’s experience delivering Command Centres around the world tells them that providing caregivers with actionable real-time data is key to driving optimisation of healthcare.

In a keynote discussion today at the HIMSS & Heath 2.0 European Digital Event, healthcare leaders from Australia, India and the UK swapped tips and best practices.

The Bluetooth-enabled case has sensors that detect when users take their daily pill, triggering customized phone alerts.

The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute will fund a study designed to assess how COVID Watch, its text-based monitoring program, has improved care in hard-hit minority communities – and how it can be further improved.

Those pandemic-era technologies will reach the fabled Plateau of Productivity sooner than other emerging innovations approaching the peak of the curve, such as digital twins, data fabric and SASE network architecture, researchers say.

During a HIMSS20 Digital session, Trapollo CEO Mike Braham described some of the ways that remote care apps can support patient needs.

White House task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said the process of HHS bypassing the CDC was meant to be "solely an interim system," according to a WSJ report that HHS later denied.