Smartwatches Saving Lives Inside and Outside the Hospital
Due to increasing pressures on healthcare delivery, various approaches are being devised to restructure healthcare delivery. One such solution is home monitoring. We see this...
eHealth success lies at the intersection of technology, people, and organization
The current technological advancements have facilitated the development of a multitude of eHealth tools, offering users a wide array of options. However, only a few...
Virtual You: How close are we to creating a digital twin?
We are nearer to making ‘healthcasts’ to predict health, like we are forecasting the weather, according to Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield, authors of the...
Interconnected data will trigger a wave of shifts in healthcare
To build connected health care, we must first ensure high-speed internet and secure communication networks. Is the infrastructure ready for widely deployed real-time telemedicine, virtual...
Revolutionizing Patient Care at Moffitt Cancer Center with Smart Rooms
In a groundbreaking collaboration, pCare® is joining forces with Florida's renowned Moffitt Cancer Center to usher in a new era of patient care innovation. Their...
During the recent World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Heart Surgery held in Washington DC, cardiac specialists had the opportunity to live-stream a catheterization...
Deep Brain Stimulation Offers Hope for Stroke Patients’ Quality of Life Improvement
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), in combination with physiotherapy, holds promise for patients who have suffered a stroke. Previous research has already demonstrated the benefits of...
In 2023, there are still no robots in dental offices. Why?
3D imaging systems, virtual reality, and 3D implant printing – dentistry is believed to be one of the most advanced fields of medicine. Which breakthrough...
Medical education should see chatgpt as a chance, not a threat
Will ChatGPT disrupt or boost the education of future medical professionals? And how should medical universities rethink their role at a time when AI knows...
Measuring Blood Oxygen Levels with Smartphone Camera and AI
The smartphone – nearly everyone carries one when stepping out. This increasingly intelligent gadget is also being employed more frequently for health applications. With the...
Top 7 most promising technologies of 2023 healthcare is waiting for
The 11th edition of the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023 report by the World Economic Forum presents technologies that promise to impact our lives...
Research Reveals Brain Manifestations of Psychiatric Disorders
A novel study conducted jointly by Radboudumc and Monash University has demonstrated that individuals with psychiatric conditions such as depression, autism, and schizophrenia each exhibit...
Want to avoid the digital gap in healthcare? Let innovations grow organically!
The adoption of digital health technologies, including apps and wearables, has gained momentum that forces politicians to embrace them in the healthcare systems – according...
Elon Musk expects first human implantation of Neuralink later this year
Billionaire and entrepreneur Elon Musk expects his start-up Neuralink, specializing in brain chips, to begin its first clinical trial on humans later this year. He...
6 AI tools to help doctors and nurses: from ChatGPT to Google docs
Everybody is talking about generative AI. But which AI-driven solutions can healthcare professionals already use to make their work easier? Here are a few examples...
This week, the Dutch OLVG hospital in Amsterdam officially introduced artificial intelligence at its ICU. The doctors in the intensive care unit started using AI-driven...
When it’s time to replace the health IT system and how to do it
The IT system is the heart of a healthcare facility. When it generates errors, is user-unfriendly or lags behind the clinic's or hospital's development strategy,...
Maastricht home base for international ICT&health care innovation conference in 2024
In 2024, ICT&health, Netherlands largest healthcare innovation platform, will bring the international healthcare world to the Netherlands for a three-day conference. The conference will be...
Germany unveils a new strategy to “bring healthcare into the 21st century”
The German Federal Ministry of Health presented an ambitious "Digitization strategy for healthcare and nursing care. DIGITAL TOGETHER". It aims to introduce an electronic patient...
Technology does not yet sufficiently facilitate the care process
What I am seriously concerned about is that we do not yet have technology that allows healthcare professionals to provide state-of-the-art and confidential care.
Digital health trends 2023, according to artificial intelligence
We asked artificial intelligence (AI) what lies ahead in healthcare and health tech in 2023. How? By interviewing ChatGPT – the most sophisticated chatbot by...
Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) bridges medicine and IT in a healthcare organization. What does the expert do and why is it worth creating this...
How to capture the value of the metaverse before it’s too late
More than 50 definitions of the metaverse are circulating – no wonder the concept is often misinterpreted. Five experts met at the DayOne – Healthcare...
The roadmap to successful patient-driven e-health co-creation
Patients are usually engaged too late in the development process of digital health solutions, mostly assuming a sounding role in testing a ready-made prototype –...
Technology Helps Deliver Care In A Way That We Never Imagined
The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of telemedicine, but quite a few barriers still block benefits that patients could gain. How to change that? Our...
5 technologies to improve quality of care and patient outcomes
When smartly implemented, they may help doctors make complex clinical decisions, strengthen patient engagement, and automate processes in healthcare. Even though these are still applied...
Going back to the hippocratic oath in the era of med tech
Digital technologies are evolving rapidly. Keeping up with the transformation in healthcare is not only challenging but also raises questions about core competencies required from...
Healthcare Was Not Built In A Day. Decentralizing It Through Digitalization Will Take Time
The ‘big bang’ approach to transformation in healthcare often fails. So how should health care transformation be shaped to build crisis-resilient health systems? In our...
Is strategically critical healthcare moving toward data protectionism?
The war in Ukraine shows that also innovation is strongly influenced by the geopolitical situation. And that has profound implications for increasingly data-driven healthcare since...
A Framework For Moving From Ideas And Pilots To Adoption At Scale
Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) – a part of the Scottish Funding Council’s Innovation Centre Programme – developed a 5-stages innovation process model....
Findings From Covid-19 For Healthcare Stakeholders To Remember
COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented use of telemedicine and has triggered the implementation of novel solutions such as contact tracking apps and COVID-19 digital...
The 16 Most Exciting Health And Wellness Innovations Of 2021
Every year, TIME chooses inventions that make the world better, smarter and more fun. This year, on the list of 100 technological innovations, there are...
Health tech for silver population: Simplicity and benefits at the forefront
In cooperation with ECHAlliance, we interview top leaders in digital health. George Margelis, chair of the Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council, talks about why...
Will A New Biomarker Technology Help Detecting Mental Diseases?
COVID-19 has caused an enormous rise in the number of people experiencing mental health challenges, such as loneliness, anxiety and depression. Although effective therapies are...
70% Of Health CEOs Expect Hospitals To Evolve Into “Healthcare Hubs”
KPMG surveyed 200 health leaders from around the world on using digital health technologies, the impact of COVID-19 and new healthcare models. The results are...
How To Design Electronic Medical Records That Doctors Love
Doctors need reliable information to make an accurate diagnosis and plan the treatment. However, they don’t want to waste time manually typing data into a...
Technology introduces the ‘healthcare anywhere’ approach
Digital transformation leads to the transition of the diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and monitoring of chronic diseases – previously attributed to a doctor’s office or hospital...
Patients In A Rapidly Changing Healthcare Technology Environment
European Patients’ Forum (EPF) wants to increase patient involvement in the digitalization of healthcare. This is a leading theme of the virtual EPF Congress 2021...
Can Technology Still Save India’s Collapsing Healthcare System?
Low government spending on healthcare (1,28% of the country’s GDP), poor infrastructure, inequalities in access to medical services, high out-of-pocket expenditures, shortages of health professionals,...
Turning short-term acceleration into long-term sustainable growth
ICT&health met experts from the Robert Bosch Foundation (Germany) and the Health Foundation (UK) to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health...
The State Of Digital Transformation In Latin American Health Systems
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold in the Latin-American region, financial hardship leads to collapsing economies and social unrest. Yet, digital transformation is proving...
Patients Are Often “Included” To Improve Corporate Image
Many med-tech companies are convinced that the hi-tech solutions created by their engineers and wrapped up in patient-centricity slogans by marketers will quickly get beloved...
According to the World Happiness Report 2021, the top 3 happiest countries are Finland, Iceland, and Denmark. Besides, these are countries with high digital maturity....
About two-thirds of deaths globally could be potentially avoided and patients' quality of life could be improved by diagnosing diseases faster, monitoring patients better, and...
Europe Braces For The Game Of Data-Driven Economies
Europe is seeking its path of technological progress, focusing on democratic and ethical values. Will such idealistic visions suffice for the old continent to become...
The Power Of Big Tech Companies And How They Shape The World
Digital technologies are not just tools, but powerful weapons that enable economic growth, create new divides in society, cause wars, and threaten democracy. No one...
World After Lockdown: How We Got Used To Digital Technologies
The current situation makes us aware that investment in health care and science means investment in economic development. Or that, sometimes, meeting your doctor online...
The Ability Of Technology To Get Healthcare Repaired
Digital health, a long time associated only with technical innovations like EHR, wearables, or telemedicine, is now recognized as a tool supporting disease prevention, health...
‘Move in a direction which really makes the difference’
Innovation based on empathy, enabling people to achieve the best results as part of a team and turning good healthcare solutions into a commercial success....
Evidence Standards Framework For Digital Health Technologies
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) developed standards that ensure new technologies are clinically effective and offer economic value.
Aim High, Fail Fast. 9 Tips On How To Be Innovative In Healthcare
How to create a culture of innovation in a hospital which supports the implementation of new digital health solutions? Here are several practical tips on...
Active Cooperation To Improve Data Exchange Hospitals
Dutch Hospitals and ICT suppliers are actively working together to realize digital data exchange within and between hospitals on a technical level. The aim is...
These Are The Most Promising Digital Health Innovations At Medica 2018
Over 50 start-ups will join MEDICA 2018 – the leading international trade fair for the medical sector – to present disruptive digital technologies for patients...
George Crooks: Having An Electronic Health Record Is Not Enough
What are the conditions that make it more favourable for technology solutions to be successful in health and care? One question to Professor George Crooks,...