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The global pandemic has sharpened the awareness that people’s health and wellbeing are paramount. However, it is not only about employees’ health, but also their motivation, effectiveness, and trust in the workplace. With numerous COVID-19 lockdowns lifted, organisations are looking into different measures to protect their staff. Given the number of offices and other places […]
A leading national health insurance company in the United Arab Emirates has joined forces with Microsoft to release a bilingual “health bot”, it has emerged. The newly-released Daman Health Bot is an AI-powered tool designed to help users conduct a self-assessment on COVID-19 symptoms, directing them towards the appropriate level of care or action required. […]
With the explosion of social media networks in the past decade, gamification has become a powerful tool used to drive user engagement. When looking at healthcare apps, children have significantly benefitted from the fun and speedy elements injected into educational apps and games that might have previously lacked the immediacy and engagement needed. In the meantime, researchers […]
Rebecca Love is an experienced nurse and entrepreneur that works in healthcare innovation. She is a strong advocate of the importance of nursing for the advancement of healthcare and was the first Director of Nurse Innovation & Entrepreneurship in the US at the Northeastern School of Nursing – the founding initiative in the country designed to empower […]
A team of engineers working with physicians at the University of California San Diego announced the launch of the eCOVID application, which tracks patient status remotely. WHY IT MATTERS The remote patient-monitoring app, which is being tested by patients in a clinical trial at UC San Diego Health, is used in combination with a wearable […]
The New York-based Mount Sinai Health System has launched the Institute for Health Equity Research, which will be dedicated to studying healthcare disparities and testing solutions for improvement initiatives. In a separate statement, Mount Sinai also announced the opening of its new Center for Post-COVID Care to provide post-multidisciplinary care and psychosocial resources for patients […]
Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery, helping hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – while also often gaining efficiencies, improving patient and provider satisfaction and saving costs. But as 2020 unfolds, with the COVID-19 pandemic severely testing health system capacity, telehealth is stepping up. […]
Epic Systems will debut at HIMSS20 in March its ambient voice technology voice assistant called “Hey, Epic!” Epic will be in Booths 2159 and 2179. “Just like you use your smart speaker at home to play your favorite song, clinicians soon will be able to say ‘Hey Epic’ to quickly get the information they need […]
One area in the patient experience that needs improving is price transparency before patients schedule healthcare services. In fact, the Trump Administration has even mandated that hospitals make this happen by posting the prices for “shoppable” healthcare services online. Some healthcare provider organizations, such as University Health Care System in Augusta, Georgia, are several steps […]
Telemedicine has been gaining a lot of steam in recent years. And it has become an increasingly important component of healthcare delivery. As a result, provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders have had their hands full finding and implementing new telemedicine technologies to help their organizations best reach as many patients as possible […]