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Virtual Incubator Announces Awardees for Remote Care Innovations
[Chapel Hill, NC, August 7, 2020] In May 2020, two Research Triangle-based organizations—the ASSIST Center (Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies) based at North [...]
DHIT Awarded Grant by NC Policy Collaboratory to Develop Community Confidence Tool for COVID-19 Reopening
[Chapel Hill, NC, July 29, 2020] As part of the 2020 COVID-19 Recovery Act, the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory has awarded the Digital Health Institute for Transformation [...]
Virtual Incubator Announces Awards for Great Ideas
Today, DHIT, ASSIST, and their partners are announcing awards that will be given to outstanding proposals submitted through its Virtual Incubator. There are a variety of awards, including: cash prize(s), consulting services, prototyping and testing services, entry into an accelerator program, and mentorship.
Pfizer Joins Virtual Incubator as a Program Champion
“As Pfizer scientists continue to collaborate across our industry in researching therapies and vaccination candidates for this pandemic, we also want to help support ways [...]
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 [...]
Digital health investment has changed, but hardly slowed, during COVID-19
Investors are no longer meeting new partners face to face, but primed funds and new demand for converging digital products still fuel new deals. By Dave Muoio [...]
Apple shares COVID screening data with CDC, digital health market to beat $350B by 2025 and more digital health news briefs
Also: A deep dive on Verily's Project Baseline; Intermountain Healthcare launches home-monitoring program. By Dave Muoio | June 09, 2020 | 03:30 pm | MobiHealthNews.com Apple COVID [...]
Siemens Healthineers, Geisinger Partner to Boost Digital Healthcare
The healthcare companies will drive digital healthcare, including AI-enabled applications, throughout Pennsylvania and communities that Geisinger serves. By Samantha McGrail | June 9, 2020 | hitinfrastructure.com Siemens Healthineers [...]
North Carolina Partners with OpenBeds to Provide Access to Critical Resource Tracker for COVID-19 Response
June 09, 2020 09:06 ET | Source: Appriss Health Washington, D.C. & Raleigh, NC, June 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OpenBeds, provider of a technology platform that identifies, unifies and tracks [...]
Siemens Healthineers, Geisinger Partner to Boost Digital Healthcare
The healthcare companies will drive digital healthcare, including AI-enabled applications, throughout Pennsylvania and communities that Geisinger serves. By Samantha McGrail | hitinfrastructure.com | June 9, 2020 Siemens Healthineers [...]
An inside look at GRAIL, the California healthcare firm bringing hundreds of jobs to RTP
by Jim Shamp, NCBiotech writer — June 3, 2020 | WRAL TechWire RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday that the innovative California-based healthcare [...]
How Digital Health Startups Can Succeed In 2020
By Sweta Patel | Forbes.com | June 2, 2020 This has been a challenging year for all of us so far. You might believe that as an [...]
Novant Health launches first emergency drone operation for pandemic response in the country
By Kristi O'Connor | May 27, 2020 at 5:22 PM EDT - Updated May 27 at 8:47 PM | WBTV.com CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Novant Health will [...]
COVID-19 Sparks New Opportunities for Digital Health Companies
By Frank Vinluan | May 26th, 2020 | xconomy.com Clinicians and regulators are rethinking how healthcare is provided amid precautions prompted by COVID-19. In-person physician visits don’t [...]
Digital health companies hiring as hospitals continue to furlough
Laura Dyrda | Friday, May 22nd, 2020 | Becker's Hospital Review Digital health companies and startups have been on a hiring spree during the pandemic as other [...]
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 [...]
How biopharma and medical device companies can avoid digital health regulatory pitfalls
Kal Patel, MD, CEO and co-founder of BrightInsight, highlighted the value of using a regulated Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure to host and manage digital health products [...]
S2E10 COVID Unites Us All: Progressing Toward Adoption (Continued)
By Olivia R. Weidner, DHIT Global Intern | August 10, 2020 On Friday, August 7th, [...]
S2E9 COVID Unites Us All: Progressing Toward Adoption
Amidst widespread fear and uncertainty, DHIT explores the role of digital health in the global response to COVID-19, gaining insight into the ways this crisis has catalyzed the usage and acceptance of telehealth, remote monitoring, and other digital health technologies.
S2E8 COVID Unites Us All: Big Data & Determinants of Health
Last Friday’s installment of the COVID Unites Us All series shifted from the recent focus on remote monitoring and biometrics to big data and the determinants of health. With insights from three distinguished guests, DHIT and the ASSIST Center explored the connections between remote monitoring, data usage, and social determinants of health in the current moment and beyond. The first panelist was Dr. Eric Eskioglu, Chief Medical Officer at Novant Health, who shared his experiences within this major health system. Brian Carter, Senior Vice President at Validic, discussed his company’s data processing platform and use cases for COVID-19. Finally, Dr. Gul Ege, Senior Director of Research and Development at the SAS Institute, emphasized the importance of parsing and refining data to optimize usage.
S2E7 COVID Unites Us All: Biochemical Sensing
By Olivia R. Weidner, DHIT Global Intern | June 30, 2020 On Friday, June 26th, [...]
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.