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
Mi Band
- Activity tracker fitness band with heart rate monitor.
SmartBand 2
- Activity tracker fitness band with heart rate monitor.
DNA Medicine Institute (DMI)
- Laboratory and biomedical technology service provider.
Endotronix
- Digital health medtech company.
Biovotion
- Wearable physiology monitoring company.
AliveCor
- App providing an immediate analysis to detect atrial fibrillation, bradycardia, tachycardia and normal rhythm.
Cerascreen
- Digital health and diagnostics company.
Owlstone Medical
- Company focused to development of non-invasive diagnostics for cancer and inflammatory diseases.
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
- Leading and coordinating the field of bioinformatics in Switzerland.
Microsoft Healthcare
- Digital health company providing personalized care for each individual.
Recent News
Video game that improves mindfulness
Medical Xpress - 27-Dec-2019
Team is aiming to change the cognitive, emotional processes of people by the video game
Read more...94% of people stop using mental health apps after 15 days
New Scientist - 06-Nov-2019
Apps that enable you to talk to someone experiencing similar issues are used the most
Read more...Mobile app rapidly alerts clinicians of acute kidney injury
BBC - 01-Aug-2019
Lab results to the right doctors at the right time can improve patient's outcome
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