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UNC Physician Leader Considers How Care Delivery is Evolving
August 29, 2022 On a cool, refreshing August evening (we almost forgot what a breeze felt like!), we hosted [...]
DHIT Establishes Health Innovation District Across North Carolina
Launching in 2023 Initiative will unite Health Innovation Districts across the state to share learnings and best practices for population health improvement [...]
Health Transformation Leader at CipherHealth Highlights How Increased Patient Engagement Can Drive Better Health Outcomes
July 31, 2022 It was another blistering summer day and another Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT) Happy Hour [...]
NC Senators Highlight Role That Digital Health Can Play in Reducing Health Inequities
NC Senators Highlight Role That Digital Health Can Play in Reducing Health Inequities On a sweltering June 15th afternoon, the Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT) team were joined by health transformers from across the digital health ecosystem at Raleigh Founded, a networking hub fostering an inclusive community of entrepreneurs, to snack, drink craft beer, and engage in stimulating conversations surrounding the burgeoning health inequities that plague the NC health system and the United States at large. The evening was sponsored by Duke University's Master of Management in Clinical Informatics (MMCi) program and discussions were driven by Senator Sydney Batch, a triple tarheel and Wake County representative who has worked as a family law attorney, child welfare advocate, and social worker for over a decade, and Senator Paul Lowe, a revered 20+ year clergyman representing Forsyth County who has served as the chairman of the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus (NCLBC), adjunct professor at Shaw University Divinity School, and as a leader of the General Baptist Convention of North Carolina.
Novant Health CMO on the Power of AI in Healthcare
May 31, 2022 “Now is the time to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare” declared Dr. Erik Eskioğlu, [...]
Digital Transformation Leader at Blue Cross NC Highlights 8 Innovation Imperatives for Healthcare Disruption
Wow, it feels good to be back! On May 11th, 2022, we at the Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT) relaunched our Digital Health Happy Hour events for the first time since February 2020 just in time for our 5-year anniversary. Sponsored by digital health growth agency Bluedoor Group and headlined by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina’s Innovation Garage, DHIT hosted a thought-provoking networking event to reactivate our latent, in-person digital health community.
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, [...]