Population Health

Amazon Web Services has increased the total funding of the AWS Health Equity Initiative to $60 million and added a new funding area that seeks to address social determinants of health and climate change factors.

Andy Ta, director of Data Analytics and AI and chief data officer of Synapxe, shares how the national health tech agency empowers public health facilities and the healthcare workforce to be confident using AI and other new technologies.

Making better use of social determinants of health information requires meaningful participation from diverse stakeholders, say the team members behind the Georgia Health Information Network's SDOH data exchange blueprint.

Ian Miller, program lead at the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), highlights how digital health offerings can improve access to physical and mental healthcare for children.  

More hospitals are coming into the fold in the coming months.

The local robotic surgery market is expected to boom as demands fly and options expand and become cheaper.

Also, New Zealand's Ministry of Health has come out with two new vaccination management tools.

"Finding out the patient is high-risk after they are diagnosed with cancer is too late," says Dr. Eric Brown, surgical oncologist and breast multidisciplinary team co-lead.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued a work plan for all IT and communications stakeholders to promote the development of digital technology for the elderly.

The expansion aims to connect the western and eastern islands at a distance of 3,500 kilometres.