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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 [...]
Why I Take Better Care Of My Car Than My Health
By Justin Kunkel | 2018 DHIT Summit Blog Post My mechanic sends me handwritten postcards. When my car is due for service, [...]
Noise and the Healthcare Product Improvement Matrix (Q&A with DHIT Chairman, Don Turner)
By Tom Friedman, Becker's Hospital Review | June 19, 2018 “I get told dozens of times a day what problems I have and [...]
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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NIH Research Centers Will Advance Precision Medicine for Alzheimer’s
By Jessica Kent, Health IT Analytics | October 3, 2019 The National Institutes on Aging (NIA), part of NIH, have launched two [...]
6 Health System Barriers to Digital Health Transformation
By Kayla Matthews, HIT Consultant | October 3, 2019 – When CIOs were asked about “significant” barriers to their Digital Health efforts, the [...]
CB Insights Releases Digital Health 150 List of ‘Most Promising’ Private Startups
By Dave Muoio, MobiHealth News | October 2, 2019 Machine intelligence and big data analyst firm CB Insights has put together a [...]
Survey: Providers Need to Make Seniors Comfortable With Telehealth
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | October 2, 2019 While telehealth may be poised to help seniors improve their health and wellness, [...]
New Report Says Partnerships Key to Future Success for Medtech Firms
By Joel Berg, MedCity News | October 2, 2019 Partnerships with consumer-tech firms could help medtech companies innovate and stay relevant as [...]
Google Cloud Partners with Meditech to Offer EHR through Public Cloud
By Fred Donovan, HIT Infrastructure | October 2, 2019 Google Cloud is partnering with Meditech to offer its electronic health record (EHR) [...]
URGENT/11: FDA Issues Alert For Cyber Vulnerability That Threatens Medical Devices, Networks
By Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News | October 2, 2019 If exploited by a remote attacker, the set of vulnerabilities could pose [...]
FDA OK of mHealth Wearable Puts Pain Management in the Spotlight
By Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence | September 30, 2019 The FDA has given the green light to an mHealth wearable developed by [...]
Best Buy, Amazon and Walmart Leading Retail’s Race into Home-Based Care
By Bailey Bryant, Home Healthcare IT News | September 29, 2019 The race to move health care into the home is on, [...]
Connected ‘Smart’ Communities Will be a Key Part of 21st Century Healthcare
By Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News | September 27, 2019 During National Health IT Week, three experts put the focus on how [...]
Amazon Care May be to Healthcare what Amazon Prime is to Shopping
By David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times | September 27, 2019 When Amazon joined Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase last year in establishing [...]
FDA Delivers Regulatory Guidance on AI Software and Clinical Decision-making Aids
By Conor Hale, Fierce Biotech | September 26, 2019 A package of new guidance documents from the FDA describes what and how [...]
6 Components of a Next-gen Patient Experience
By Laura Seargeant Richardson, Med City News | September 26, 2019 These six components of customer experience serve as the foundation and [...]
Could Pharma, Digital Therapeutics Partnerships be a $1B Opportunity?
By Alaric Dearment, Med City News | September 26, 2019 A panel discussion at the DTx East conference in Boston discussed whether [...]
FDA Clarifies 21st Century Cures Act Digital Health Regulations
By Andrea Park, Becker's Hospital Review | September 26, 2019 The FDA released two new guidances on Sept. 26 further outlining its [...]
NIH Donates $29.5M to Advance Genomics, Precision Medicine
By Jessica Kent, Health IT Analytics | September 25, 2019 September 25, 2019 - The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of [...]