Digital Health Weekly - LinkedIn Edition

Dear Friends,

Welcome to this week's Digital Health Weekly with a synopsis and list of curated articles that I found interesting!

Check out my?#DigitalHealthWeekly?for all?#DigitalHealth?and?#Health?related articles by visiting?digitalhealthnews.ca

I am so excited to share with you the articles I have picked. We are going to #Canada, #UnitedState, and #Ireland:

• Cherif Habib talks about why he doesn't want to compete with #Canada's #healthcare system
• #AgeTech is going to get a boost in #Canada thanks to new support
• Martin Curley talks about the #systemic issues that are getting in the way of #PatientCare through #DigitalTransformation
• UCM Digital Health and MVP Health Care have started to give MVP members access to #EmergencyRoom services at home!
• Watch this video interview of Dr. Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA who is the #ChiefMedicalOfficer (CMO) with Salesforce

Lets go!

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Zen.

This week's key articles from The Digital Health Weekly:

Dialogue co-founder Cherif Habib on virtual care and why he doesn’t want to compete with Canada’s health care system

"Dialogue is far from the only virtual health-care provider in Canada these days. Private companies like Maple connect users with doctors or counsellors for a fee, while not-for-profit organizations like the Ontario Telemedicine Network set up virtual visits to provincial providers. But Dialogue doesn’t work directly with patients.

Instead of competing with the Canadian health care system for patients and doctors, Habib says Dialogue tries to complement it."

National initiative will help Canadian companies get AgeTech solutions into the hands of older adults, caregivers and health care providers

" MEDTEQ+ and AGE-WELL NCE Inc. are?officially?unveiling?envisAGE,? a Canadian?initiative?whose?mission?is?to?catalyze?Canada's?AgeTech?ecosystem by supporting innovators to grow and scale their enterprises and deliver technology solutions that help older Canadians maintain a better quality of life, longer.

The?federal government?announced?in?December 2022?that?it is?investing $47?million?through its Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) to support the envisAGE network, co-led by MEDTEQ+ and AGE-WELL"

Digitization of health service is being impeded by ‘bad actors’, former department head says

"The Health Service Executive (HSE) has “no vision” for the digitisation of the health service and efforts to change this are being impeded by “bad actors”, according to its recently-departed head of digital transformation.

Prof Martin Curley,?who resigned last week after four years, said his efforts to introduce new technology solutions were repeatedly blocked by senior administrators."

UCM Digital Health Launches At-Home Emergency Care Program With MVP Health Care

"UCM Digital Health (UCM) and MVP Health Care (MVP) have announced a new program that will give MVP members access to emergency room-level care in the home.

The program is dubbed Treatment in Place.

“This partnership was really based on the exact concept of keeping people out of the ER, out of the hospital and out of even the urgent cares and pulling them into our platform,” UCM Digital Health CEO Keith Algozzine told Home Health Care News. “If we do that, we’ll actually be able to deliver on that triple aim: the right care, right place, right time.”

Transforming digital health care requires more than tech

"So much of the digital transformation to date has largely been related to electronic health records, and that was really done to physicians," said Geeta Nayyar, MD, chief medical officer and senior vice president at Salesforce. "Digital transformation now has to be done with physicians and with nurses and with allied health professionals."

Dr. Nayyar talks about this health professional involvement and why it matters in a?recent episode?of “AMA Update.”