The Latest on Digital Health, Technology and AI
Kevin McDonnell
Chairman / CEO Coach & Advisor / Author of "Build, Panic, Adapt, Repeat" (out July 25) - Helping ambitious CEOs accelerate growth and successfully scale themselves, their teams and their business.
In my work as a coach, advisor and consultant to ambitious and change making technology and healthcare companies, I come across important stories. Every week, I share my round-up of the most important digital health, tech and AI stories. I hope you enjoy them! If you haven't already, follow me to receive more articles like this one.
AI Can Now Detect Depression From Your Voice, And It’s Twice As Accurate As Human Practitioners (Forbes) - Thanks to recent breakthroughs in AI, providers can now detect depression just by listening to someone speak a few sentences.
How the Evolution of Networking Infrastructure Supports Smart Hospitals (HealthTech) - Digitisation strategies that many healthcare organisations have adopted offer actionable, meaningful insights to clinical and business outcomes. But one of the healthcare industry’s biggest concerns is keeping patient data private and secure.
Three Important Lessons To Improve Digital Health Delivery (Forbes) - This article discusses three key opportunities for improvement and additional innovation now that so many more providers and patients are engaging with digital health.
Campaigners challenge NHS England’s latest plan to share patient data (Pharmaphorum) - A new move by NHS England to move the records of 55 million patients into a database that will be accessible by third-party companies is under fire by privacy campaigners, who claim it could be unlawful.
Pandemic Shines Spotlight On Big Data And AI In Life Sciences And Healthcare (Forbes) - For healthcare and life sciences companies, Covid-19 and this new sense of urgency and information demand is shining a spotlight on data in ways that had not been previously encountered.
The time is ripe for digital passports in healthcare (Biometric Update.com) - The nation has quickly embraced technology-driven strategies to keep people safe while improving efficiencies. What could a digital patient passport do?
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