Digital Health

DrFirst Chief Communications Officer Irene Froehlich discusses the changing world of digital health and offers advice on starting a career in health tech.

The new service lets patients take a digital eye exam and get their prescription renewed by an eye doctor. 

Because digital has the ability to personalize care to a degree that can't be matched in the analog space, digital tools are changing the chronic care landscape, says Dr. Richard Milani, chief clinical transformation officer of Ochsner Health System.

Panelists at the World Health Summit discuss lessons learned from international collaborations during the pandemic. 

Verato CEO Mark LaRow says momentum is building around finding more effective means of patient identity and matching, and his company's referential matching technology can help.

The Savonix Mobile app is available in Japan through the company’s partnerships with Fujitsu Connected Technologies Limited and Mitani Sangyo companies.Co, Ltd.  

Also, six councils improve employability and Covid support for learning disabilities.

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Dr. Afzal Chaudhry, director of digital and CMIO at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundations Trust in the UK, says the workforce is embracing technology to improve patient outcomes in areas such as barcode medicine and sepsis.

The Virtual Technique Guides software "supports thousands of medical procedures" across 27 surgical specialties and subspecialties, and allows participants to collaborate on training regardless of their physical location.