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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.
ConsenSys Health and DHIT Announce Alliance to Create Health Utility Grids (HUGs) to Transform Community Health
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | December 9, 2021 | New York, NY Today, ConsenSys Health, a company creating decentralized patient-centric healthcare networks, and the [...]
Key emerging trends in digital health
Lucy Parsons is PME’s reporter | April 6, 2020 | PMLive.com Improving healthcare for patients and helping doctors be more efficient Digital health is an innovative, ever-changing area in [...]
One Medical Is Riding The COVID-19 Telemedicine Train
By Peter Cohan, Contributor | Apr 5, 2020, 10:30am EDT The world’s healthcare system is straining to meet the surge in demand. Because the health risks of [...]
How stakeholders should push digital health services to fight COVID-19
German-based Ralf Jahns, MD at Research2Guidance, explains the role of different stakeholders in fighting COVID-19. By Ralf-Gordon Jahns | April 01, 2020 | mobihealthnews.com The coronavirus is [...]
US government officials using mobile ad location data to study coronavirus spread
The CDC could use the info to track compliance with stay-at-home orders By Kim Lyons Mar 29, 2020, 8:57am EDT | TheVerge.com Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge [...]
Artificial Intelligence Discovers Unusual Associations in Medicine
The Medical Futurist | 8 min | 26 March 2020 Artificial intelligence does wonders in healthcare. The technology helped issue the first COVID-19 warning before the WHO and CDC did so. [...]
Internet of Things vs. the virus: How NC’s tech community is fighting back
by Katherine Dupree, RIoT — March 25, 2020 | WRAL TechWire Editor’s note: RIoT, the internet of things users group based in Raleigh, on Friday hosted a webinar [...]
Sentiment Analysis – An Intuitive Way to Measure Your Business’s Impact
By Nicole Lama | DHIT Intern | March 25, 2020 There's a proverb that says: "Kind words are worth so much and cost so little.” In other [...]
Fitness goes digital during COVID-19 crisis
People turning to online workouts after global pandemic forces gym closures. By Tammy Lovell | MobiHealthNews | March 24, 2020 As efforts to slow down the spread [...]
Japanese Ministry, METI launches free remote health consultation service to address COVID-19 related concerns
By Dean Koh | March 24, 2020 | 02:00 AM | HealthcareItNews The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced on 11 March that it has [...]
AI algorithm IDs abnormal chest X-rays from COVID-19 patients
“Instant triage” capability from behold.ai could speed diagnosis of COVID-19 and help ensure resources are allocated properly. By Bill Siwicki | March 23, 2020 | 11:13 AM [...]
Volunteers use 3D-printing to support Italian COVID-19 effort
After the coronavirus outbreak in Italy left a hospital in Brescia with a shortage of necessary respiratory valves, a group of volunteers responded to their call for [...]
Healthcare Technology Companies Rally Together to Create Digital Coronavirus Screening Solution
PR Newswire | March 23, 2020 AKRON, Ohio, March 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneratorWorks, an innovative technology company with a suite of healthcare software and hardware products, has announced a [...]
What investors are saying about startups in the age of coronavirus
Digital health investors discuss the opportunity, responsibility and liability of investing in health tech during market volatility and a possible recession. By Laura Lovett | March 20, [...]
Feeling anxious about coronavirus? There’s an app for that.
Providers of mental health apps and chatbots told Recode that usage has gone up, but these services aren’t a replacement for live counseling with a human therapist. [...]
COVID-19 Impact: Digital Health
Video by Daniel Caridi | Mar 20, 2020 | 1 min read Business Insider Intelligence research analyst Zoë LaRock discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on digital health adoption in the US. She [...]
How digital health can help reduce anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic
Online mental health support is increasingly important as communities face lockdown and social distancing measures. By Tammy Lovell | March 18, 2020 | MobiHealthNwews As cases of [...]
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, [...]