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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 [...]
DHIT Welcomes CrossComm as an Ecosystem Partner
Bringing Innovative Software Development and Technologies to Transform Healthcare [Durham, NC, June 28, 2019] DHIT (Digital Health Institute for Transformation) is pleased to announce that Durham-based [...]
DHIT Legislative Update – June 2019
DHIT Legislative Update | June 2019 Legislative Happy Hour Calls for More Disruption in Healthcare Wednesday, June 19th brought together digital health stakeholders [...]
#nextgenmindset :: Discover First!
by Michael Levy, DHIT | April 21, 2019 Why is digital health transformation failing? More to the point, why is digital transformation, [...]
Quebec Shows North Carolina the Way to Build a Next Generation Digital Health Ecosystem
By Michael Levy, President, DHIT | April 13, 2019 Last week, as I traveled to Montreal and the Province of Quebec for [...]
Announcing New Course Collaboration between The Graduate School & DHIT Institute
Press Release - The Graduate School at UNC, Chapel Hill | April 3, 2019 The Graduate School at the University of North [...]
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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How Mobile Apps Can Assist Cancer Care and Research
Supporting Patients, Providers and Researchers Feb 26, 2020Phillipe CharlesTechnology | CrossComm Digital Health is revolutionizing traditional medicine by leveraging digital technologies to increase the efficiency of care [...]
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 [...]
Addressing Social Determinants: Scaling Up Partnerships With Community-Based Organization Networks
By Lance Robertson and Bruce Chernof | FEBRUARY 24, 2020 | HealthAffairs.org As health care payment models become more value-based, health care systems are increasingly interested in [...]
AMA: 7 Physician Digital Health Adoption Trends Driving Digital Transformation
by Fred Pennic 02/06/2020 | HITConsultant.com – New AMA survey reveals physicians’ motivations and requirements for adopting digital health adoption and attitudinal shifts from 2016 to 2019. – Adoption [...]
Digital healthcare is booming — but who will come out on top?
Despite billions of dollars worth of capital flowing into digital healthcare startups, many are vulnerable to imminent collapse. By Tibi Puiu February 24, 2020 | ZMEScience.com In [...]
These companies are investing billions so robots can perform surgery without a doctor in the room
By EMILY BARY | REPORTER | MarketWatch.com | Feb 22, 2020 9:35 a.m. ET Robotic surgery has long been part of American operating rooms, driven primarily by [...]
Grant from the U.S. Dept. of Labor to Support AI Apprenticeships
February 18, 2020 | Mick Kulikowski | NC State University A new four-year, $6 million project led by North Carolina State University and funded by the U.S. [...]
Fast-growing digital health firm ups funding to $7M with new investments
By Nathan Rubbelke – Reporter, St. Louis Business Journal | Feb 18, 2020, 1:20pm EST St. Louis-based digital health startup CareSignal said Tuesday it has raised funding from four investors, [...]
Artificial Intelligence Could Solve Alarm Fatigue in Hospitals
The Medical Futurist | 7 min | 13 February 2020 Have you heard of the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf? It goes something like this: once [...]
Considering Digital Health Solutions to Reduce Benefits Spend
Reported by REBECCA MOORE | plansponsor.com | February 11, 2020 Employers see a business case for investing more in health and well-being, but overall cost savings is [...]
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 [...]