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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 [...]
Creation of a Talent and Technology Highway between North Carolina and Québec, Canada
Chapel Hill, NC | September 16, 2019 Chapel Hill, NC - On the heels of securing a collaboration with the North Carolina [...]
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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A Guide to Patient-Centered Consent
From Goinvo.com by Sharon Lee, GoInvo and Jen Patel, GoInvo We spoke to leading experts in the field and borrowed best practices on the management of patient health [...]
5 Ways Medical Virtual Reality Is Already Changing Healthcare
The Medical Futurist | 7 min | 29 January 2020 | TheMedicalFuturist.com Virtual Reality started its fascinating take-over of healthcare for the greatest pleasure of patients and doctors alike. [...]
The pursuit of a 10X better value-based care enablement: Tactics for entrepreneurs to accelerate transition from FFS to FFV
By Ian Chiang | February 07, 2020 | MobiHealthNews Flare Capital Partners Principal Ian Chiang offers practical suggestions for innovators finding themselves in the midst of a [...]
Wearable wrist device tracks metabolites via sweat
4th February 2020 10:36 am | TheEngineer.uk Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a wearable device that uses metabolites from sweat to track physical performance. Worn [...]
Blue Cross and Blue Shield NC adds mental health tech services
By Diana Manos | January 29, 2020, 2:08 p.m. EST | HealthDataManagement.com Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is adding the mental health technology services of [...]
The Dutch way: What the Netherlands can teach us about digitisation
By Leontina Postelnicu | January 27, 2020 | HealthCareITNews Chief pharmacy informatics officer Pieter Helmons will be talking about St Jansdal's approach at a HIMSS event in [...]
Digital Health Market is Forecasted to Witness the Fastest Growth in Asia-Pacific, at a CAGR of 26.6%
01-27-2020 09:27 AM CET | Health & Medicine | Press release from: P&S Intelligence The key reasons behind the advance of the digital health market are the [...]
10 ways health care AI could transform primary care
By Timothy M. Smith | Senior News Writer | American Medical Association | JANUARY 27, 2020 Augmented intelligence (AI) promises to be a transformational force in health [...]
Google Has Three New Digital Health Experiments
Posted on January 21, 2020 by Mehedi Hassan | Thurott.com Google launched an interesting new project last year called Digital Health Experiments. The project included interesting Digital Health apps that are meant [...]
Digital health, digital therapeutics, digital medicines – what’s in a name?
By ELISE REUTER | MedCityNews | Jan 21, 2020 at 6:45 PM Digital health companies faced bad news going into 2020, from job cuts to dissolving pharma partnerships. [...]
Stanford Medicine: Physicians, medical students are interested in digital health, data-driven care
By Dave Muoio | January 16, 2020 | MobiHealthNews More often than not, survey respondents said that patient data collected using apps, wearables or other consumer-friendly sources [...]
Digital Healthcare Growth Drivers In 2020
By Greg Licholai | Forbes.com | Jan 14, 2020, 09:44am It has been an extraordinary time for digital medicine and the new year will bring continued growth. [...]
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 [...]
Banner Health Deploys Buoy Health AI-Powered Digital Triage Tool
Buoy Health, Inc. | Jan 07, 2020, 08:00 ET BOSTON, Jan. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Buoy Health (Buoy), the AI-powered platform for consumers that provides real-time personalized clinical support, today announced Banner [...]
Katie Couric and Maria Menounos Joined Rally Health on a Panel at the CES Digital Health Summit
Couric and Menounos also stopped by Rally’s CES booth to check out the interactive experiences Business Wire.com | January 7, 2020 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Journalists Katie Couric and [...]
Opinion: AI, privacy and APIs will mold digital health in 2020
By Anish Sebastian | January 03, 2020 | mobihealthnews.com Babyscripts CEO Anish Sebastian outlines major tech-driven trends to keep an eye on for the new year. Last [...]