Category: digital health

What tech leaders consider before investing in digital health companies

Health systems have increased their presence in investing in digital health companies by creating venture funds to back promising digital health innovations, but for those startups to ink financial investments, they need to provide validation, scalabil…

‘Equity isn’t just a buzzword,’ digital health alliance leader says

A first-of-its-kind digital health coalition is coming together to address health disparities.

UVA Health’s app helps patients continue opioid recovery program

Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health’s app, which offers patients struggling with opioid addiction easy access to providers and other forms of support, kept most patients engaged in their treatment recovery programs. 

Researchers testing ‘smart pacifier’ to track, relay NICU baby stats

Researchers in the United States and South Korea are testing a prototype of a “smart pacifier” they hope will improve the care of babies in neonatal intensive care units.

3 health tech startups land $87.5M in the last week

Three digital health startups got a healthy round of funding over the last week:

Why the best ideas in digital health are still to come

Tom Andriola, vice chancellor of information technology and data and chief digital officer of University of California Irvine and UCI Health, is bullish on the future integration of technology in healthcare.

Hartford Healthcare app allows hospitals to access patient data before arrival via EMS

Hartford (Conn.) Healthcare and its networks have begun using an EMS communication app that allows EMTs to quickly upload patient information, symptoms, vital readings and severity of ailment and transmit it to the emergency room.

AI to treat irregular heartbeats being tested at Florida hospital

A Florida hospital is testing a new artificial intelligence-assisted technique for treating a drug-resistant heart condition.

Bias in medical AI can exacerbate disparities: Study

A new study looks at what it will take to reduce bias in healthcare artificial intelligence.

Community Health Systems’ launches AI-based maternal-fetal warning monitoring to improve obstetrics care

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health System’s affiliated hospitals that offer obstetrics services have deployed an AI-based maternal-fetal early warning system to advance patient safety in obstetric programs.