How it Works and How We're Using It Apr 6, 2020 | Alicia Hetrick | crosscom.com FHIR (pronounced “fire”), or “Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources,” is a standard for healthcare data exchange that is quickly gaining relevance in the healthcare industry. Through use of this clearly defined structure for sharing digital healthcare information, organizations such as [...]
Lucy Parsons is PME’s reporter | April 6, 2020 | PMLive.com Improving healthcare for patients and helping doctors be more efficient Digital health is an innovative, ever-changing area in healthcare. With the potential to ease the demand on overstretched healthcare systems across the world, while simultaneously offering patients the opportunity to control their own disease management, digital health [...]
By Peter Cohan, Contributor | Apr 5, 2020, 10:30am EDT The world’s healthcare system is straining to meet the surge in demand. Because the health risks of patients and doctors being in the same room is so high, non-urgent medical care is on the back burner. Telemedicine — in which patients and doctors connect via [...]
German-based Ralf Jahns, MD at Research2Guidance, explains the role of different stakeholders in fighting COVID-19. By Ralf-Gordon Jahns | April 01, 2020 | mobihealthnews.com The coronavirus is spreading around the world exponentially. Governments, healthcare providers, and businesses are introducing drastic measures to slow down the spreading of the virus. There is a strong belief among [...]
The CDC could use the info to track compliance with stay-at-home orders By Kim Lyons Mar 29, 2020, 8:57am EDT | TheVerge.com Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge US government officials are using cellphone location data from the mobile ad industry —not data from the carriers themselves— to track Americans’ movements during the coronavirus outbreak, the Wall [...]
The Medical Futurist | 8 min | 26 March 2020 Artificial intelligence does wonders in healthcare. The technology helped issue the first COVID-19 warning before the WHO and CDC did so. It can slash the phenomenon of alarm fatigue. IBM’s Watson Health leverages the power of A.I. to bring drugs to the market faster. And it does so while cutting costs [...]
