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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).

Digital Health News

NHS app offers at-home health checks for better healthcare access

NHS app offers at-home health checks for better healthcare access

UKAuthority - 04-Sep-2024

Modernized process for easy and personalized approach to take control of health

Synchron's breakthrough: paralyzed man uses brain to control Apple device

Synchron's breakthrough: paralyzed man uses brain to control Apple device

Silicon UK - 01-Aug-2024

ALS patient becomes first to use apple vision pro with BCI implant

NHS electronic patient record systems have caused significant patient harm, including deaths

NHS electronic patient record systems have caused significant patient harm, including deaths

BBC - 30-May-2024

Problems range from unsent medical letters to inaccessible vital information

At-home blood testing device approved for cancer patients in the UK

At-home blood testing device approved for cancer patients in the UK

BBC - 10-May-2024

Greater convenience for patients and could potentially reduce NHS costs

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Digital Health Resources

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Microsoft Healthcare

Digital health company providing personalized care for each individual

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

Fitbit

Comapny developing wearable technology devices.

Emil Kendziorra

Doctor. Entrepreneur. Revolutionized Medicine. Chairman Of The Board at EBF

Owlstone Medical

Company focused to development of non-invasive diagnostics for cancer and inflammatory diseases.

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