The number of patients affected by data breaches this year is on track to exceed last year’s total — healthcare organizations have already reported more than 330 breaches affecting 43 million people, which is…
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Effective digital communication with patients could make the NHS more efficient and deliver huge benefits for patients, so how much progress has been made? A major new report by Digital Health Intelligence in association…
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Researchers from the faculties of Engineering and IT at Monash University have come up with an AI algorithm that can judge another AI algorithm’s annotation or label in a medical scan, mimicking the process…
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The development of a single national platform for accessing health data in New Zealand is now underway as the contract to implement the project has been awarded to Accenture. In a statement, Te Whatu Ora – Health…
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While facing rising costs and workforce shortages, healthcare systems across Asia-Pacific have been exploring ways to make healthcare services more accessible by shifting to a data and digital-enabled distributed model of care delivery, a…
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More than 600 rural U.S. hospitals are at risk of closing due to their financial instability — that’s more than 30% of the country’s rural hospitals. For half of these 600 hospitals, the risk…
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Octave Bioscience, a company focused on delivering precision medicine for neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis, announced it closed a $30 million extension to its Series B round.Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ venture capital arm, Hikma Ventures, participated…
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Smart Hospitals Require Smart Investments in Smart Tech
David Graham, chief medical information officer at LifeBridge Health, says investment in smart hospital tech means that health IT leaders must think differently about budgets to allow…
UMass Memorial Health Sees Growing PotentialThe explosive growth of telehealth triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic created an opportunity for Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health to establish a virtual patient observation program, says David Smith,…
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Teladoc Health stock rose Tuesday after the virtual care company reported a 10% increase in revenue year-over-year to $652.4 million from $592.4 million in the prior year.For Teladoc Health’s Integrated Care segment, revenue increased…
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