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Smile Digital Health Closes $30 Million in Series B Funding to Progress Innovation as World-Leading Health Data Fabric

Healthcare IT Today

The increasing need for interoperability in healthcare has driven significant growth and demand for the company’s data fabric platform and continued innovation in this area. “Our vision for better global health becomes more achievable when we focus on the inherent value of finding innovative ways to efficiently share and use data.

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AMA offers further guidance for telehealth rollouts

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The 128-page update to AMA's Digital Health Implementation Playbook Series comes as telehealth adoption is increasing by leaps amid the coronavirus pandemic. THE LARGER TREND. As the coronavirus crisis has unfolded across the U.S.,

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

These policy recommendations are rooted in a tragedy: the murder of Jo Cox, the Labour MP who was murdered in 2016. And here is an important essay, quite timely to revisit from 2016, from The New Yorker on Jo Cox, the Brexit Vote, and the Politics of Murder. Jo had campaigned about loneliness, and had worked with Oxfam for many years.

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The Heart of Health at CES 2020 – Evidence & Innovation Bridge Consumers and Doctors

Health Populi

In Valencell’s recent survey of consumer wearable preferences , 55% of people said they’d like to monitor blood pressure, up from 46% in 2016 as shown in this bar chart from the study. One in two people would like to monitor stress and heart health, and 33% would like to monitor blood glucose levels.

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Apple provides powerful insights into new areas of health

Digital Health Global

New mental health features allow users to log their momentary emotions and daily moods, see valuable insights, and easily access assessments and resources. All of these new features — and existing health features — are grounded in science and built with privacy at the core. They can review and manage permissions at any time.

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How Will IoT and AI Transform the Patient-Doctor Relationship?

Healthcare IT Today

In fact, 30% of physicians are using remote monitoring devices in 2022, up from 12% in 2016 and nearly double from 2019. These devices are indispensable when it comes to the continuous gathering of reliable health data. The device will likely also do a personalized analysis of collected health data without the need of a doctor.

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Particle Health’s Latest White Paper Offers the Industry’s Most Comprehensive Health Information Network (HIN) Data Exchange Performance Metrics to Date

Digital Health Global

The CommonWell Health Alliance has access to 29,000 sites and 153 million individuals; Carequality has access to 55,000 sites and 300,000,000 document exchanges per month; and eHealth Exchange has access to 75,000 sites and 120 million individuals.