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The ideas, people, innovations and technologies that are shaping the future of healthcare.?
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Google will show the next available appointment with a health care provider directly on search, the company announced?today. The company is working with MinuteClinic at CVS and other unnamed appointment schedulers during the initial rollout, which will start in the coming weeks.?
Last month, global technology and e-commerce giant Amazon and telemedicine company Teladoc announced a landmark?new initiative: providing virtual care through Amazon Alexa devices. Undoubtedly, there will be many more similar initiatives in this ecosystem in the years to come.
The technology fitted into the Find and Treat service is intended to enable real-time remote diagnosis and referrals on board the mobile health unit. It includes?artificial intelligence?software, a tele-radiology network to allow remote reading of X-rays using the trials flat-pack satellites, 4G and 5G routers, roaming SIM cards and smart antenna systems, as well as a digital portable X-ray camera.
Mojo Vision?said it has created a new prototype of its?Mojo Lens?augmented reality contact lenses. This smart contact lens will bring “invisible computing” to life, the company believes. The initial target market is for people with low vision, as it will be a medically approved device that can help partially blind people see things better like road signs.
Healthcare-specific AI stacks and data pipelines also make sense given the stringent data privacy requirements in healthcare, reflected in regulations like HIPAA. And the world of healthcare is full of specialized language and jargon, making health-specific NLP models important.
Founded in 2016 by Prashant Warier and Pooja Rao, Qure.ai offers advanced technology that reads and interprets medical images like X-rays, CTs, and Ultrasounds in less than a minute, making equitable and high-quality healthcare a reality across the globe.
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The future of care delivery is fundamentally evolving to become patient-centric, virtual, ambulatory, in the home, value based and risk bearing, driven by data and analytics, transparent and interoperable, enabled by new medical technologies, funded by private investors, and integrated yet fragmented.
The start of the year saw the end of the road for IBM’s healthcare ambitions when Big Blue essentially sold off its Watson Health operation for reportedly more than $1bn. All eyes remain on what the big leaguers are doing in the medical space.?Like?Microsoft, for example, and its $19.7bn acquisition of?Nuance Communications.?
The impulse to blame anxiety and depression on technology isn’t surprising. But if our goal is to create a happier, healthier society, we benefit not from waving the banner of a fetishized past but from embracing technology and harnessing its therapeutic powers.
Australian health data firm, Beamtree, has landed its first NHS contracts with four hospital trusts in England; Milton Keynes University Hospitals, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW).?
Rachael Grimaldi, Chief Executive of CardMedic has captured the attention of the global technology and digital health communities for her healthcare communication app, CardMedic. The app makes clinical interactions accessible to as many people as possible, by providing digital flashcards to walk people with additional communication needs through their appointments and other interactions with their clinician.
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