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ASSIST Center and DHIT Create Virtual Incubator to Advance Remote Care
Overnight, the world has gone virtual. COVID-19 has created a worldwide crisis that has shaken our communities to the core. Beyond the dangers of the [...]
REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
DHIT to Offer Subsidized Digital Transformation Support to Eligible Healthcare Providers Timeline Applications open April 20th, 2020 Purpose DHIT is a 501(c)(3) non-profit academic and research [...]
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) [...]
Health-tech company, Well, to create 400 jobs in Chapel Hill
by Abbey Slattery — May 18, 2020 | WRAL Techwire Imagine: instead of the traditional healthcare model — scheduling appointments, spending hours in waiting rooms and receiving [...]
When the pandemic is in the past, will digital health have gained much ground?
Dave Pearson | May 18, 2020 | Ai in Healthcare The global COVID-19 crisis presents the field of digital health with an opening to help attune healthcare as [...]
Digital Health Startup Everlywell Gets FDA Green Light For COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit
Mary Ann Azevedo | May 18, 2020 | Crunchbase News When Julia Cheek founded Austin-based Everlywell in 2015, it was with the goal of putting an end to the traditional lab experience [...]
Welltok adds four new digital programs, Atrium Health adopts Butterfly’s handheld ultrasound and more digital health deals
By Dave Muoio | May 14, 2020 | MobiHealthNews Consumer health company Welltok announced today that it will be including remote condition management programs from four new digital health [...]
From now on, every company must become a digital health company
BY BRIAN SOLIS | 7 MINUTE READ | FastCompany.com | May 11, 2020 No matter how much time you’ve spent thinking through the future of work, it’s [...]
INSIGHT: Advice for Digital Health Developers During Covid-19
May 5, 2020, 4:01 AM | news.bllomberglaw.com The coronavirus pandemic is creating partnering opportunities between health-care providers and digital health developers, but Moses & Singer attorneys say [...]
Covid-19 Exposes Digital Divide in Healthcare
As telemedicine takes hold, those without technological access may be left behind. By Amarica Rafanelli | MAY 5, 2020 6:12 AM | DirectRelief.org With people hunkering down due [...]
Healthcare Needs New Skills To Build On Its COVID Inspired Digital Transformation
By Adi Gaskell | Contributor | May 5, 2020,08:40am EDT | Forbes.com One of the more fascinating aspects of the coronavirus pandemic has been the speed of [...]
Lockdown sparks global yoga craze, digital health survey shows
May 4, 2020 | pharmaphorum.com Digital health firm Withings has used its technology to produce a read-out of how COVID-19 lockdowns have affected the health of its users, showing a [...]
Global collaboration on digital health efforts now can promote interoperability in the future
Dr. Don Rucker, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, discusses his work with the Global Digital Health Partnership initative. [...]
‘Using data to support the entire COVID-19 response ecosystem’
Iotics is aiming to provide real-time care bed availability across the UK. By Sara Mageit | April 20, 2020 12:38 PM | HealthcareITNews In its aims to [...]
Global Digital Health VC funding breaks record in Q1 2020 with $3.6 B
20 April 2020 | News | BioSpectrumIndia.com Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global communications and research firm, released its report on funding and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for [...]
Coronavirus: Necessity is the mother of digital healthcare acceleration
Approximately 580 digital health companies are operating across Israel today, raising a record $662 million in 69 deals in 2019. By EYTAN HALON | APRIL 19, 2020 13:21 [...]
Amid Covid-19 Crisis, Israel to Establish Digital Health Tech Innovation Lab
APRIL 19, 2020 9:34 AM | by CTech Staff | algemeiner.com The Israel Innovation Authority is spearheading the formation of a new tech innovation lab to promote [...]
Digital health companies optimistic on COVID-19’s long-term business impact
Many are anticipating greater adoption of digital health services and more favorable regulatory and reimbursement environments, according to a recent poll sampling 513 digital health and adjacent [...]
Wake Forest Baptist study aims to provide real-time COVID-19 tracking
By Richard Craver Lee Newspapers | Apr 15, 2020 | Greensboro.com State Republican legislative leaders say they are working to make sure North Carolinians are randomly tested [...]
S2E4 COVID Unites Us All :: Technologies for Remote Care
By Olivia R. Weidner, DHIT Global Intern | May 18, 2020 On Friday, May 15th, [...]
S2E3 COVID Unites Us All: Research to Impact
By Olivia R. Weidner, DHIT Global Intern | May 5, 2020 On Friday, May 1st, [...]
S2E2 COVID-19 Unites Us All :: Helpful Insights from Health Leaders
By Olivia R. Weidner, DHIT Global Intern | April 21, 2020 On Friday April 17th, [...]
COVID Unites Us All: Helpful Insights from International Digital Health Leaders
COVID Unites Us All: Helpful Insights from International Digital Health Leaders by Olivia R. Weidner, [...]
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.