Patient-generated health data (PGHD) from apps and wearables hold significant potential for enhancing personalised care and medical research. Healthcare professionals (HCPs) are key to its successful adoption, as their attitudes can either support or…
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About 90% of healthcare organizations are insecurely connected to the internet and running systems vulnerable to exploitation by ransomware gangs, according to research released this week by cybersecurity firm Clarorty.
The report examined data from…
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Although promising, the clinical impact of video conferencing between primary and secondary care specialists lacks trial evidence. We conducted a two-arm RCT (clinicaltrials.gov: NCT05268081) to evaluate whether four video conferences over 12 months between…
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The electrical properties of the skin can reflect changes in its structure and physiological state, and bioimpedance analysis has been widely used to distinguish specific components of the human body, such as water, fat,…
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President Donald Trump’s administration recently cancelled billions of dollars in funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), causing widespread concern among researchers and tech developers in the healthcare world.
These cuts are currently paused…
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Colleen Porwoll, Client Outcomes Engineer, ABOUT Healthcare
Care coordination in hospitals is fundamentally tied to resource availability. A patient cannot be admitted if there are no beds available, leading to diversions or prolonged wait times….
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It looks like I’m one of the users who have been selected to test the beta version of the new Amazon Health AI digital assistant.
According to news articles, the tool is designed to field…
No matter their purpose, many healthcare technology vendors follow a familiar playbook: Create a protected ecosystem for your solutions, make it hard for customers to use or integrate with products from competitors, then encourage…
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Chris Day (right), NHSE clinical lead for cyber operations, at Rewired25 (Credit: Thelma Agnew)
NHS England’s clinical lead for cyber operations has called on NHS organisations to accept the inevitability of cyber attacks and…
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The Critical Link Between RBD and Neurodegenerative Disease
REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) affects over one million Americans, causing abnormal movements, twitching, and dream enactment episodes during sleep. What makes this condition particularly significant is…
