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Quebec Shows North Carolina the Way to Build a Next Generation Digital Health Ecosystem
By Michael Levy, President, DHIT | April 13, 2019 Last week, as I traveled to Montreal and the Province of Quebec for [...]
Announcing New Course Collaboration between The Graduate School & DHIT Institute
Press Release - The Graduate School at UNC, Chapel Hill | April 3, 2019 The Graduate School at the University of North [...]
Digital Health Legislative Update: What to Expect in the 2019 NC Legislative Session
By Tony Solari, Solari Government Solutions | January 31, 2019 The first meeting of the North Carolina General Assembly took place on [...]
Inaugural DHIT Summit Ignites Consumer-driven Digital Health Roadmap to Impact
DHIT Press Release | November 2018 Durham, NC – More than 160 healthcare leaders, providers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and investors gathered at the [...]
NCBiotech and DHIT Partner to Advance Digital Health in North Carolina and Beyond
NC Biotechnology Center, DHIT Press Release | October 31, 2018 RALEIGH – A new partnership between life science and information technology will help [...]
Preview: Durham Conference Focuses on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
By Shannon Cuthrell, WRAL Techwire | November 12, 2018 DURHAM – Marking its growing presence in the Triangle and efforts to expand across [...]
Michael Levy, President and Co-founder of DHIT, shares time with Dr. Michael Ruhlen, VP of the Division of Medical Education at Atrium Health & Director of the Charlotte Area Health Education Center. Through his vast experience in immersive technology, Mike sees a future where virtual and augmented reality will be game changers — even in the treatment of obesity.
Michael Levy, President and Co-founder of Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT), talks one-on-one with Anika Gardenhire to unearth what drives her and the appeal of her personal motto, “the ripple effect.” We’ll discover how Anika’s career path evolved from a registered nurse into her current role as Assistant Vice President for Digital Transformation at Intermountain Healthcare. Anika reveals her vision for the future of healthcare, and we’ll see that it is based on understanding the profound power of a caring nurse reaching out and simply holding a patient’s hand.
On the surface, Yonnie Butler had it all: an impressive resume of positions in leadership and accomplishments from some of the most elite universities in the country. He saw a future with similar opportunities just waiting at his doorstep. But Yonnie took a surprisingly different route and headed to his rural hometown instead. Michael Levy, President and Co-founder of Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT), sits down with Yonnie Butler, Executive Director for Alamance Community College’s Biotechnology Center of Excellence to discover the “why” behind his shifting path and uncovers some surprising – and truly impressive – achievements and initiatives that just might change the future of higher education in healthcare.
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NC DHHS’s New Target for Innovation: Cloud Computing
By Brian Cooper | November 8, 2019 Digital transformation can be seen all over the world across many industries and in the [...]
MyDoc and BaoViet partner to expand digital healthcare access in Vietnam
The digitally integrated clinic service will be rolled out in phases, with locally licensed doctors from clinical partner DHA clinic group and a major multi-chain pharmacy. By Dean [...]
Viewpoint: Where do primary care providers fit into the ‘digital health arms race’?
By Andrea Park | Becker Hospital Review.com | November 4, 2019 As consumer companies such as Amazon and Walgreens move into healthcare and more traditional healthcare organizations [...]
Why Google is buying Fitbit
We spoke to investors and analysts to figure out why Google is buying Fitbit, a company that hasn't made much of a dent in the healthcare world. [...]
What Can Quantum Computing Do To Healthcare?
The Medical Futurist | 11 min | 31 October 2019 A leap from bits to qubits: this two-letter change could mean entirely new horizons for healthcare. Quantum computing might [...]
DigitalHealth – Special Report: Mental Health
DigitalHealth.net | October 30, 2019 Patient-facing software is being increasingly used to support the quick identification of someone who’s experiencing a downturn in their mental health. Claire [...]
DHIT Announces Terazo as the 2019 DHIT Summit Happy Hour Sponsor
[Durham, NC, October 29, 2019] DHIT (Digital Health Institute for Transformation) is pleased to announce that Durham-based Terazo will be the 2019 DHIT Summit Happy Hour [...]
12 Innovations That Will Change Health Care and Medicine in the 2020s
BY TIME STAFF | OCTOBER 25, 2019 Pocket-size ultrasound devices that cost 50 times less than the machines in hospitals (and connect to your phone). Virtual reality that [...]
Google, Microsoft lead tech giants in digital health investment: report
By Andrea Park | Becker's Health IT and CIO Report | October 29, 2019 Of the top 10 large technology companies pouring millions into digital health startups, [...]
Facebook unveils its first foray into personal digital healthcare tools
Jonathan Shieber@jshieber | Techcrunch.com | 11:13 pm EDT • October 28, 2019 Nearly a year and a half after the Cambridge Analytica scandal reportedly scuttled Facebook’s fledgling attempts to enter the [...]
Digital health insights, consulting company Avia scores $22M
By Laura Lovett | mobihealthnews | October 28, 2019 First Trust Capital Partners led the round with participation from Sumitomo Corporation of Americas and Ziegler. Last week Avia, [...]
WHO expert panel on digital health meets for first time
Plan launched on accelerating use of digital technologies to meet global public health needs 25 October 2019 |News release |Geneva WHO is convening global experts to help [...]
Digital transformation: Why companies need a sense of urgency
by Karen Roby | TechRepublic | October 23, 2019, 11:16 AM PST TechRepublic's Karen Roby talks with futurist Brian Solis about some of the changes shaping digital transformation, such as [...]
Generational Differences in Digital Health Adoption
By Tracey Walker | managedhealthcareerexecutive.com | October 23, 2019 American consumers are moving toward making mobile health applications a part of their regular routines to take care [...]
Amazon acquires start-up Health Navigator, its first health-related purchase since PillPack
By Christina Farr | PUBLISHED WED, OCT 23 20195:30 PM EDT KEY POINTS Amazon has acquired Health Navigator, a start-up founded by emergency medicine doctor David Thompson, [...]
5 ways Millennials and Gen Z are revolutionizing the healthcare industry
Research by Accenture reveal the extent to which millennials and Gen Z feel dissatisfied with the current healthcare industry in the United States and how that can [...]