Category: digital health

In Morrow, Ga., when an older individual fell outside, his Apple Watch detected the fall and called authorities, potentially saving the man’s life, KTVZ reported Jan. 28.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is deploying Rx.Health’s EHR-integrated unified messaging platform throughout the health system.

Elon Musk’s company Neuralink is searching for a clinical trial director to lead the testing of its artificial intelligence-powered chip’s implantation into human brains.

Google partnered with the University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute to create an artificial intelligence-powered method that accelerates genome sequencing data analysis for faster disease detection.

Healthcare organizations must prioritize performance and sustainability when integrating digital health tools as a strategy to answer healthcare’s most pressing questions, Dori Cross, PhD, wrote in a Jan. 14 article in The American Journal of Managed C…

Health systems are progressively creating venture funds for digital health innovation, as it allows them to find solutions for improving quality of care, lowering healthcare costs, managing healthcare burnout and optimizing revenue, eMarketer reported …

From 2019-21, the top six metropolitan areas for health technology investments were the Bay Area, New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Diego and Austin, Texas, according to Silicon Valley Bank’s Healthcare Investments and Exits report.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has become an organizing member of Graphite Health, a nonprofit healthcare company that focuses on interoperability challenges to improve cost and patient outcomes in digital health.

With the rise of digital health applications, physicians can use health information technology to keep patients safe, Yasir Khan, MD, senior physician executive of Cerner Middle East and Africa, wrote in Cerner’s blog Jan. 13.

Across 729 deals, digital health startups in 2021 raised $29.1 billion, Rock Health reported Jan. 10 in its year-end funding report.