A number of pivotal announcements this year – including Neuralink’s first brain implant trial, and major funding rounds from companies such as Motif Neurotech with its miniaturized neurostimulator for depression – ignited a wave…
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What You Should Know: – Smart Communications, a technology company focused on helping businesses engage in more meaningful customer conversations, released the findings of its 2024 Global Benchmark Report on the State of Healthcare…
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University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has signed a one-year contract with telehealth company QuestPrehab to deliver digital ‘prehabilitation’ services to liver patients.
Prehabilitation (prehab) focuses on improving the general health and activity of patients before…
Not too long ago, AdventHealth had a high demand in its Central and East Florida divisions for advanced MRI services. The health system’s centralized MRI services at its Orlando campus, though effective, presented areas…
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Animal-to-human transplants – or xenotransplantation – is raising hopes among patients who can’t obtain healthy organs from other humans.
Surgeons in March performed the world’s first successful kidney transplant from a pig to a living…
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For the 145th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are debating the effectiveness of penalties on motivating desired behaviors in healthcare! To kick this episode off, we dive into whether or not…
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Keeping patient data secured is a full-time job—or more like the entire field of cybersecurity. 🔐Check out HIMSS members Kat McDavitt's and Jeremy Dahn's thoughts on keeping health systems hacker-free.Join thought leaders like Kat…
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Participants of the Digital Health Networks mentoring programme shared their experiences at a workshop on day one of Summer Schools 2024, and urged others to apply for the next cohort.
The programme was launched in…
We propose a method to estimate the household secondary attack rate (hSAR) of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom based on activity on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Conventional methods of…
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A misconfigured Crowdstrike Falcon update pushed to Windows early Friday morning has caused millions of computers to show the infamous the “blue screen of death,” and has disrupted care delivery at hospitals, health systems…
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