Search Tag: digital health
Digital Health Transformation in Europe – Recommendations are on the Horizon
2021 12 Jul
DigitalHealthEurope’s work indicates the importance of the development and uptake of data-driven decision-support tools for better health and care delivery and policy-making. While European funding should further support and reinforce better collaboration in times of pandemics, plenty of non-communicable diseases will need to be supported by ‘digital’... Read more
Digital Anamnesis: Integrating Classic History Taking with Digital Health
2021 12 Jul
The “Digital Anamnesis” concept and the proposed model may have useful implications for medical education, in a medical practice and for conceptualisation of modern Electronic Health Records Key Points Medical history taking is a historically, and key part of clinical practice and provides a correct diagnosis 76% of the... Read more
Digital Healthcare Focus: European Hospitals on Fire (FHIR) EMH-onFHIR
2021 14 Jun
In this space I will explore monthly topics, from concepts to technologies, related to the necessary steps to build Digital Healthcare Systems. For this month, I have invited Mr Giorgio Cangioli to co-author a brief article on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), as hospitals and their interconnections are a critical asset and next... Read more
COVID-19 Sparked a Digital Health Boom – But Will it Last?
2021 01 Jun
Digital health has experienced a boom during the pandemic, with solutions such as AI and telemedicine being adopted with speed across Europe. However, as many instances of such adoption have been the result of temporary or emergency measures, there is a question mark over whether solutions will continue to be leveraged after the pandemic, or whether... Read more
Blockchain: A Revolution in Digital Health
2021 01 Jun
Blockchain is presented today as a mirage of solutions that for many specialists might seem limited. The future challenge will be to build trust in users in a system that will process personal patients’ data via the blockchain system. This may imply, in the end, the creation of a new personalised medicine business thanks to the information’s... Read more
One AI to Rule Them All?!
2021 26 Apr
Ethical consideration of Greatness and Limits of data-driven smart medicine “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded.”... Read more
Unprecedented Growth in Digital Health Investment
2021 12 Apr
2020 proved to be the record year for digital health venture investment, but not for long. Q1 2021 became the largest quarter of digital health-related funding ever, with investment reaching almost €6 billion. You might also like: A new report shows the growing adoption levels for certain categories of digital health tools and populations,... Read more
The Importance of Technology and Novel Solutions in Healthcare
2021 19 Mar
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the world by storm. In particular, the crisis has revealed different aspects of healthcare that need to change and improve. HealthManagement.org spoke to Sourabh Pagaria, Head of the Southern European business of Siemens Healthineers. He is also a thought leader on how Data, Artificial Intelligence and joint public-private... Read more
Pandemic and Digital Health: Growth, Gaps and Challenges
2021 05 Mar
A new report shows the growing adoption levels for certain categories of digital health tools and populations, and looks into the matters of patient data sharing, including the COVID-19 data. You might also like: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated growth in the use of telemedicine, but not in all populations. Learn more... Read more