Category: digital health

Strategy, not just opportunity, dominating digital health buying

Digital health providers must change their strategies to provide a broader set of services that produce better health outcomes, in order to stay in the healthcare market, CNBC reported Feb. 10.

Despite being the talk of the town, the ‘metaverse’ won’t enter digital health anytime soon

When Facebook rebranded itself to Meta, reorienting its goals for the future, the technology sector took notice. However, despite the metaverse — an interactive digital environment — making for popular headlines, healthcare won’t see its effects for a …

5 best videoconferencing platforms for healthcare, ranked by KLAS

Doximity has the top videoconferencing platform for healthcare providers, according to KLAS Research’s 2022 “Best in KLAS” rankings, released Feb. 8.

Temple University Hospital equips ICU beds with new patient monitoring technology

Philadelphia-based Temple University Hospital is using Masimo’s Centroid, a wireless patient position, orientation, activity and respiration rate sensor, in 100 beds across its ICU units.

White House roundtables to look at who’s benefiting from digital health technology

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy launched a roundtable series to examine pandemic-driven innovations.

Labcorp launches digital health platform: 3 details

Labcorp on Feb. 4 launched digital health platform Labcorp OnDemand. 

Meet the CIOs of US News’ top 10 hospitals

The role of chief information officer became vital during the pandemic as hospital officials looked to them to provide their prowess of data knowledge to treat an influx of patients. Below are brief biographies of the CIOs at the hospitals that took th…

9 questions large systems should ask about digital health tools

There are nine key questions large health systems should be asking about their deployment of digital health tools, according to a paper published Jan. 27 in NPJ Digital Medicine.

MedStar Health rolls out new digital front door: 5 things to know

Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health launched a new patient experience platform Feb. 3. Here are five things to know:

Overrated tech: 5 tools execs think hospitals should skip

Healthcare’s digital transformation has brought an abundance of technology for hospitals to adopt, but they need to be discerning in the tools they chose to deploy. Becker’s talked to executives from three health systems to learn more about overhyped t…