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The Shift
A Journey of Discovery, Transformation, and Newfound Opportunities in North Carolina by Keith Duprey My family made a very intentional move to North Carolina a few years [...]
DHIT Brings 21st Century Digital Transformation Curriculum to UNC-Chapel Hill
In its 2018 report, The Digital Enterprise: Moving from experimentation to transformation, the World Economic Forum (WEF) projected that companies will spend $1.2 trillion this year on [...]
The Community HUG :: A World Without Health Inequities
Health inequities are a problem for us all — the burden of disparities in health adversely affects our nation's children, business efficiency and competitiveness, economic strength, standing [...]
DHIT and Tanjo Form a New Partnership
Drive the new HUG initiative in North Carolina. The Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT), a nonprofit education and research institute, and Tanjo Inc., an award-winning machine learning (ML) [...]
2nd Annual Digital Health Summit Brings Global Talent and Technology to Impact Local Communities
Chapel Hill, NC | November 22, 2019 More than 175 healthcare transformers, game-changers, and status-quo challengers convened in Durham last week to [...]
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 [...]
How do academic institutions create the healthcare workforce of the future, equipped with the technologies and tools that digital health has to offer? In this episode, listen to Todd Telemeco talk about some of the unmet healthcare needs in rural North Carolina, how the University of North Carolina at Pembroke is establishing a regional healthcare workforce to address them, and how digital health will transform educational programs.
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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FHIR: An Emerging Trend in Healthcare Data Sharing
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 [...]
Key emerging trends in digital health
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 [...]
One Medical Is Riding The COVID-19 Telemedicine Train
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 [...]
How stakeholders should push digital health services to fight COVID-19
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 [...]
US government officials using mobile ad location data to study coronavirus spread
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 [...]
Artificial Intelligence Discovers Unusual Associations in Medicine
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. [...]
Internet of Things vs. the virus: How NC’s tech community is fighting back
by Katherine Dupree, RIoT — March 25, 2020 | WRAL TechWire Editor’s note: RIoT, the internet of things users group based in Raleigh, on Friday hosted a webinar [...]
Sentiment Analysis – An Intuitive Way to Measure Your Business’s Impact
By Nicole Lama | DHIT Intern | March 25, 2020 There's a proverb that says: "Kind words are worth so much and cost so little.” In other [...]
Fitness goes digital during COVID-19 crisis
People turning to online workouts after global pandemic forces gym closures. By Tammy Lovell | MobiHealthNews | March 24, 2020 As efforts to slow down the spread [...]
Japanese Ministry, METI launches free remote health consultation service to address COVID-19 related concerns
By Dean Koh | March 24, 2020 | 02:00 AM | HealthcareItNews The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced on 11 March that it has [...]
AI algorithm IDs abnormal chest X-rays from COVID-19 patients
“Instant triage” capability from behold.ai could speed diagnosis of COVID-19 and help ensure resources are allocated properly. By Bill Siwicki | March 23, 2020 | 11:13 AM [...]
Volunteers use 3D-printing to support Italian COVID-19 effort
After the coronavirus outbreak in Italy left a hospital in Brescia with a shortage of necessary respiratory valves, a group of volunteers responded to their call for [...]
Healthcare Technology Companies Rally Together to Create Digital Coronavirus Screening Solution
PR Newswire | March 23, 2020 AKRON, Ohio, March 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneratorWorks, an innovative technology company with a suite of healthcare software and hardware products, has announced a [...]
What investors are saying about startups in the age of coronavirus
Digital health investors discuss the opportunity, responsibility and liability of investing in health tech during market volatility and a possible recession. By Laura Lovett | March 20, [...]
Feeling anxious about coronavirus? There’s an app for that.
Providers of mental health apps and chatbots told Recode that usage has gone up, but these services aren’t a replacement for live counseling with a human therapist. [...]
COVID-19 Impact: Digital Health
Video by Daniel Caridi | Mar 20, 2020 | 1 min read Business Insider Intelligence research analyst Zoë LaRock discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on digital health adoption in the US. She [...]