Category: digital health

CVS debuts digital system to ease buying of COVID-19 tests

CVS on Feb. 15 launched a digital service to make finding, ordering and picking up at-home COVID-19 test kits easier for its customers.

Hartford HealthCare exec joins virtual physical therapy startup as CMO

Virtual musculoskeletal care platform Sword Health on Feb. 10 welcomed Vijay Yanamadala, MD, as its CMO.

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.