Does Prevention Justify Total Control? Data And Ethics During Health Emergencies
Lockdowns, contact tracing, obligatory testing, monitoring of people in quarantine, and COVID certificates – in...
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What’s at the stake in the european health data space?
As long as patient data remains in silos, healthcare continues to be fragmented and inefficient. During the European...
5 technologies to improve quality of care and patient outcomes
When smartly implemented, they may help doctors make complex clinical decisions, strengthen patient engagement, and...
Going back to the hippocratic oath in the era of med tech
Digital technologies are evolving rapidly. Keeping up with the transformation in healthcare is not only challenging but...
Primary care physicians need… 26.7 hours a day to do their work
A new study published in The Journal of General Internal Medicine shows how overworked primary care physicians are: if...
This is how apple is bringing health straight to your smartphone
Apple's latest report summarizes already developed healthcare-related solutions for customers. These include health...
What should doctors do with patient-generated health data?
Graphs illustrating the quality of sleep, mood trends or ECG recordings from several weeks – patients are bringing...
Digital health at a glance in 29 European countries
The Ministerial Delegation for Digital Health of the French Ministry of Solidarity and Health presented an overview of...
What disrupts or facilitates the deployment of digital health?
Electronic health records, telecare solutions, eHealth applications for patients – the number of digital health...
Wearables can motivate and mislead. Results of a 5-month test
As a healthy person, I wore for over 150 days a smartwatch that monitors my heart rate, blood oxygen saturation,...
How can you make better use of the data in the EHR?
Data that physicians enter into the electronic health records (EHRs) are used mainly to view the medical history of a...
We are embedding artificial intelligence across all r&d activities
Life sciences have recently experienced an unprecedented acceleration. We discussed new advances in AI, data science,...
What Can Clinics Do To Improve The Waiting Time Experience For Patients?
For some, even a 5-minute delay in a scheduled appointment triggers irritation, while others are ready to wait for up...
Healthcare Was Not Built In A Day. Decentralizing It Through Digitalization Will Take Time
The ‘big bang’ approach to transformation in healthcare often fails. So how should health care transformation be...
What Will Metaverse Offer Physicians And Patients In The Future?
The metaverse promises a radically new virtual experience, an immersion into a digitally created world. As a physician,...
What Exactly Does The EU Commission Do For Healthcare?
A conversation about the latest EU initiatives for health, European Health Data Space and strategies for resilient...
Healthcare is no longer just a place you visit. It’s a service that visits you
This year's EIT Health Summit 2022 in Stockholm shed more light on the healthcare innovations shaping the post-COVID...
Digital Therapies Can Help Patients If Only Health Systems Understand Their Value
Digital platforms developed with physician input with clinically proven benefits for patients are a whole new quality...
7 Reasons Why Healthcare Providers Should Opt For Cloud Services
A higher level of cybersecurity, improved coordination of care, and flexible scalability – the shift to cloud data...
Estonia’s roadmap to telehealth: identify needs, test and update
How can telehealth better meet the needs of patients? "Identify the needs, improve digital skills, access to the...
Creating added value for health customers with data analyses
What is common practice in other sectors is not yet standard in the health sector. Many processes still run on paper,...
Mobile Health Tools Will Not Scale If Other Adoption Factors Are Neglected
While some of the factors impacting patients’ adoption of mHealth tools may be hard to influence – e.g. intrinsic...
The European Health Data Space Proposal (Ehds) Explained
On the 3rd of May, the European Commission presented the EHDS proposal. What's inside, and why is EHDS such critical...
Data-based innovation in healthcare needs a systematic change approach
Maritta Perälä-Heape, Director of the Centre for Health and Technology at the University of Oulu (Finland),...