This week marks the first-ever Digital Health Week in Canada, taking place from November 10 to 14, 2014 led by a unique collaboration of 18 organizations to recognize how digital health is transforming care and helping to improve delivery of care across the country.
Canada's Digital Health Strategy
According to Infoway, Canada's digital health infrastructure has three fundamental components:
1. Point of Care Systems - Compatible systems that your health care providers use to send,
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Intermountain & Healthbox to Launch New Healthcare Innovation Model
Intermountain Healthcare and Healthbox have announced the launch of their unique healthcare innovation and venture model that harnesses internal creativity and external disruption. While the physical structure for this endeavor is being developed in Salt Lake City adjacent to the system’s flagship medical center, the Innovation at Intermountain initiative is already stimulating collaboration between inventors, entrepreneurs and healthcare industry experts alike to improve quality and service
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Hospital Uses Google Glass to Accelerate Stroke Treatments
On Monday, Dr. James Grotta, director of Stroke Research at Memorial Hermann's Texas Medical Center hospital began using Google Glass to communicate vital medical information with hospital staff while responding to 911 calls involving possible stroke victims, Houston Chronicle first reports. Using Google Glass will allow medical responders to work hands-free to quickly expedite patient stroke diagnosis and treatment.
"We can start treatment right away at those sites and save a lot
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UK Medical School Launches First Google Glass Curriculum
Earlier this year,Virtual Medics – a group of consultant surgeons at Barts Health NHS Trust and medical students at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) utilized Google Glass in surgery to remove cancerous tissue from the liver and bowel of a 78 year-old man. The procedure was the UK's first global live-streamed surgical teaching session and was watched live via computer or mobile phone, by 13,000 surgical students, healthcare professionals and members of the public from around the world in
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15 Influential ePatients and Patient Advocates to Follow
Whether its public speaking, blogging, or tweeting, these empowered ePatient and patient advocates are changing the way we think about our role in healthcare.
If you’ve read our in-depth analysis on the Rise of the ePatient Movement, then you already know we have given careful consideration to “the what” propelling patient empowerment, but what about “the who?”After all, it’s patients who have used mobile technologies and social media outlets to tell their stories—who use apps and Internet
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Digital Health’s 4 Dirty Little Secrets Revealed
Digital health is hot. Consider the evidence.
StartUp Health recently reported that investors poured $5 billion into the digital health sector during the first three quarters of this year, double what was invested during 2013. (This is small change compared to what was invested in other industries, but it is a promising trend.)
Companies like Google Apple, Walgreens, CVS and Microsoft are seeking to shake up health with new digital innovations and initiatives.
And, hardly a day
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Rock Health: How Predictive Analytics Impacts Patient Care
As data sources and technology advance, algorithms will be able to deliver better, personalized care. Though personalized medicine has yet to deliver on the promise of its powers, its precursor, predictive analytics, has proven effective in many industries and is now focused on transforming healthcare. Dozens of new digital health products have hit the market and $1.9B has flowed into the space since 2011—but what does it take for an algorithm to accurately and reliably impact care?
Rock
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5 Steps to Building Successful Digital Health Solutions
Dr. Saif Abed describes five key steps to building digital health solutions.
At times it might seem like the relationship between healthcare and technology is so broad that it’s beyond definition. Certainly, that’s a challenge for many of the different supporters of IT in healthcare as they have to contend with all the different tags and titles whether it’s digital health, mHealth or the more traditional health IT.
The thing is it doesn’t really matter. Whatever your flavor of technology in
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Could Ebola Survivors Blood Help Infected Patients?
Researchers are testing to find out if Ebola survivors blood could help infected patients to fight off the disease for patients in West Africa.
An international research consortium led by the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (ITM) will assess whether treatment with antibodies in the blood of Ebola survivors could help infected patients to fight off the disease. If proven effective, this straightforward intervention could be scaled up in the short term and provide an urgently needed
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TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Takes Digital Health Startups Seriously
Written by Ben Heubl, edited by Susan Williams
This year’s TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Conference in London presented the audience with more digital health innovation than ever before. Mike Butcher, Editor At Large at TechCrunch Europe expressed excitement at the increased tech startups emerging from Europe. The conference had a massive health angle, and as always, TechCrunch hackathons stimulated fantastic creativity towards building digital health solutions. Without further ado, behold these
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