Digital Health
As well as medical advances, our healthcare is also getting better due to improvements in the digital world. From computerisation of medical records to apps that remind you to take medications, health and social care can be improved by simply delivering it better than ever before.
Interoperability is an important buzzwork in health IT - this means the ability of different computer systems to talk to each other, so that your doctor can see exactly what you've been diagnosed and prescribed with in the past, whether they treated you in their clinic or somewhere else entirely. Unfortunately, even now, sometimes this is not an automatic process even within the same hospital.
Digital health also opens up opportunities for remote healthcare, whether that be a telepresence robot visiting patients in a hospital, or remote diagnostics so that people don't even have to leave their home, this can be a significant time and cost saving for everyone involved.
Read more about: Personal Health Record (PHR).
Resources
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Basil Leaf Technologies
Company developing interactive, consumer-level products that empower individuals to monitor and improve their personal health
Canary Speech
Speech and language company specialized in the area of identifying disease and human condition through speech
AliveCor
App providing an immediate analysis to detect atrial fibrillation, bradycardia, tachycardia and normal rhythm
Greg Fahy
World expert in organ cryopreservation, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-founder at Intervene Immune
Owlstone Medical
Company focused to development of non-invasive diagnostics for cancer and inflammatory diseases.
Gentag
Gentag is to help disposable wireless sensor technologies ubiquitous, affordable and accessible to everyone worldwide
athenahealth
Developer of cloud-based practice management, point-of-care mobile applications and electronic health record (EHR) systems
Recent News
NHS still reliant on paper records, despite progress towards electronic systems
The BMJ - 13-Sep-2023
75% of trusts still use paper, hindering patient safety and efficiency
Read more...NHS rolls out new digital health check across England in spring
The Guardian - 28-Jun-2023
To prevent major diseases while making patients’ lives easier & reducing pressure on GP services
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New Atlas - 20-Oct-2022
The study computes predictive models for risk stratification via population analysis for results
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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) - 20-May-2022
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Read more...Humanity Inc app launches initially in UK - determines your rate of ageing
TechCrunch - 04-Aug-2021
Produces personalised tips by comparing phone/wearables data with UK Biobank
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