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5 Reasons Medical Technology Appears to Fail

33 Charts - Digital Health

In medicine there’s an endemic mindset that if medical technology doesn’t work it will never work. The EHR, of course, is the poster child for technology’s failure in health care. But is the idea of a digital space for a patient’s medical information really a failed concept? And do patients really not want in?

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Saving More Lives with Smart Electronic Health Technologies

Electronic Health Reporter

Bill Gates once said, “The two areas that are changing … are information technology and medical technology. Already, advances in electronic health technologies have saved many lives, with the number of heart attack fatalities reduced by over 50%, according […].

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Health-Tech at the Holidays: 2024 Consumer Health-Tech Trends Under the Tree

Health Populi

adults plans to purchase at least one health and wellness digital health technology product to gift during the winter 2024 holiday season, according to the 2024 Consumer Technology Holiday Purchase Patterns study served up by CTA, the Consumer Technology Association — aka the annual host of CES.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

Among the top 10 AI-informed tasks to which people would be open are shopping and purchase recommendations, fitness or nutritional advice, and cooking meals — all life-flows that can feed into a healthy lifestyle or medically-tailored support at home.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

As Ford is quoted in the CES 2022 press release, “CES is the ideal stage to spotlight how technology is allowing people to take control of their health. Health is at the center of our ability to live a full life, and the acceleration of health technology has the potential to improve more lives in more places than ever before.

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Compared with other nations’ health citizens, Americans tend to be more bullish on using at-home tests and apps to track health, as gauged in the survey report, A consumer-centered future of health from Deloitte Insights.

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Growing Investments in Digital Health Are Driven by Consumer Demand, Clinical Outcomes, and Cost-Savings

Health Populi

The marketing for purchasing digital health technologies is expecting to grow, driven by increased consumer demands for tech-based solutions, improved outcomes enabled through the innovations, and cost savings derived from deploying the technologies.