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I see no legitimate rationale for delaying the digital transformation in healthcare

How to introduce innovation and AI in healthcare organizations if there is no business model for prevention and quality – Our interview with Professor Ran...

Ai can – not could – fix an ailing healthcare system. Here is how

Thousands of AI algorithms are being used in medicine, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already approved over 500 of them, most...

Mindset: the last barrier to advances driven by data sharing

"Innovation can be disruptive and create chaos before making things better," said Nele Labi, Vice-chancellor for Innovation at the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs. Is...

Dutch OLVG hospital starts using AI in the ICU

This week, the Dutch OLVG hospital in Amsterdam officially introduced artificial intelligence at its ICU. The doctors in the intensive care unit started using AI-driven...

When it’s time to replace the health IT system and how to do it

The IT system is the heart of a healthcare facility. When it generates errors, is user-unfriendly or lags behind the clinic's or hospital's development strategy,...

Doctors as data curators: care depends on information flow

Doctors combine the knowledge gained from the patient during appointments with data from other points of care to make evidence-based decisions in line with the...

Data in healthcare: can we trust something we don’t know?

Data is key to shaping evidence-based health policies, providing citizens with tools and medicines that contribute to their well-being and accelerating research. However, we still...

Technology Helps Deliver Care In A Way That We Never Imagined

The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of telemedicine, but quite a few barriers still block benefits that patients could gain. How to change that? Our...

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 patient. We suggest how to...

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 to several hours without any...

A Bias Called The “Availability Heuristic” Can Determine The Level Of Innovation In A Healthcare Facility

While some hospitals are openly experimenting with new technologies, becoming "early adopters" and "innovators," others end up as "laggards." So, where does the initial negative...

11 tips from CEO’s how to manage a healthcare facility

Healthcare facility managers face difficult decisions between economic stability, patients’ well-being, and available resources. When responsibility for the financial situation overlaps with medical processes and...

How to create a culture of innovation in a healthcare organization at no high costs

What can hospitals and clinics do to boost the benefits of the IT infrastructure? Is there a way to convince nurses and doctors to co-shape...

70% Of Health CEOs Expect Hospitals To Evolve Into “Healthcare Hubs”

KPMG surveyed 200 health leaders from around the world on using digital health technologies, the impact of COVID-19 and new healthcare models. The results are...

Technology introduces the ‘healthcare anywhere’ approach

Digital transformation leads to the transition of the diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and monitoring of chronic diseases – previously attributed to a doctor’s office or hospital...

After A Year And A Half Boom In Digital Health, Troubles Return

Since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, the use of telehealth or mobile health apps is growing at an unprecedented rate. 2021 is going to be a...

Digitally-Enabled Primary Care: A Case For Evolution, Not Revolution

How can we strengthen primary care by introducing digital health solutions and what have we learned from the pandemic? We asked this question to Claudia Pagliari,...

Physicians In The Lead Of Med-Tech Innovation Design

Technology is essential for healthcare—nobody doubts it any more. We have also learned that innovation consists of more than buying a device or software program....

We Can’t Afford To Continue Delivering Care In The Analogue Way

“If the digital-first approach enables people to access high-quality healthcare services, we should go for it,” says Andy Fischer (Zwitserland), President of the International Society...

7 Rules That Distinguish Top Digital Health Leaders  

To guide a hospital through a digital transformation, the managers should pay attention to several key competencies. While most of them can be learned, they...

Travelling During The Pandemic: Europe Plans Digital Certificates

To facilitate safe and free movement inside the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission (EC) is working on a Digital Green Certificate (DGC)....

White Paper: Rethinking Digital Therapeutics’ Strategies

The great momentum being generated by Digital Therapeutics (DTx) in North America and Europe is second to no other digital health segment today. Indeed, the...

How To Make A Career Shift And Become A Digital Doctor

Evidence-based healthcare has profoundly transformed the way the medical community delivers care to populations. Despite the tremendous progress, there are still some common and serious...

Understanding The Transformation

In discussions on the digital transformation of healthcare, the emphasis is usually put on digitization. The context of transformation is neglected. In reality, it is...

Why it is time to look beyond flattening the curve – and start getting ahead of it

‘Flatten the curve’ graphs have become a familiar sight, making it clear to what extent proactive intervention slows the spread of the disease and eases...

Data & Strategy: Taiwan’s Successful Response To Covid-19

All models suggested that Taiwan would have to face the coronavirus pandemic just after China did. However, that was not the case. At the beginning...

Women In Digital Health: From Community To Sustainable Tech Industry

According to a study conducted by Swiss Healthcare Startups, only 29% of digital health startup founders are female. Sunjoy Mathieu, the Founder & Co-lead "Women...

Digital Health’s New Mission Is To Ensure Healthcare For All

The digitalization of healthcare must go far beyond the fascination with new technologies and instead become a core strategy for strengthening health systems around the...

‘Move in a direction which really makes the difference’

Innovation based on empathy, enabling people to achieve the best results as part of a team and turning good healthcare solutions into a commercial success....

Healthcare Providers: The Route to Digital Transformation Success

Integrated Care: Adoption, Case Studies, Barriers And Guidelines

New study “Health system performance assessment – integrated care assessment” validates a framework for the performance assessment of integrated care implementation that could be used...

Women Drive Digital Transformation In Healthcare

How can women exploit the digital transformation and which female capabilities will be demanded in the future? What can women do, to best benefit from...

Read These 3 Books To Get Ready For The Future Of Healthcare

Disruptive technologies in healthcare are advancing very quickly. If you want to explore what digital health is about and how medicine is changing, don’t miss...

Digital Health Literacy – Key Factor For The Democratization Of Health

The digitalization of healthcare brings brand new opportunities for patients. Experts talk about the democratization of healthcare, better access to health services, strengthening prevention and...

Report: What Exactly Does Smart Health Care Look Like?

“2018 Global health care outlook” reviews the current state of the global health care sector, explores trends and issues impacting health care and patients. It...

Who Published The First Classification Of Digital Health Interventions

The diverse communities working in digital health – including government stakeholders, technologists, clinicians, implementers, network operators, researchers, donors – have lacked a mutually understandable language...

Together We Are Shaping Smarter Healthcare

Technologies and innovations are transforming healthcare with an enormous speed. We often hear and read, that digital health innovations are disrupting medicine, reforming the conservative...

Digital coaching increases health, medical adherence RA patients

Digital coaching can increase health and medicine adherence for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, while at the same time reducing symptoms such as flares. That was...
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