Monday, September 16, 2024
Here, we take a look at the Royal Government of Cambodia’s “Cambodia Digital Government Policy for 2022-2035”, to see what insights it offers into digital health and health priorities for the years ahead. The policy documents state that “successful digital transformation is the main foundation for the Royal Government to […]
A study published in Frontiers in Medicine has explored the opportunities and challenges for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) doctors relating to AI, finding evidence that AI-empowered collaborations between Western medicine and TCM “can strengthen holistic care”, but that “maintaining the humanistic spirit of TCM while embracing AI requires upholding professional […]
The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia has published its ‘Blueprint of Digital Health Transformation Strategy 2024’, providing an overview for stakeholders and key players within the health industry on “the road map for Indonesia’s digital health transformation”. The strategy begins by setting the scene for digital transformation […]
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that it has finalised its Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) rule, which focuses on advancing patient access, interoperability and standards. The final rule covers four main points: algorithm transparency; enhanced […]
Guyana’s Ministry of Health has announced that it is currently evaluating 16 bids from organisations interested in designing, supplying, and installing a new electronic health record (EHR). This follows the Ministry’s publication of a request for proposals in September of 2023 for the EHR project, which will be funded by […]
Researchers from UCLA and UC Irvine have created a database containing more than 83,000 surgical outcomes from EHR data and “high-fidelity physiological waveform data” which “fills a gap in publicly accessible databases that researchers can use to train and test AI algorithms”. The data, collected over a period of seven […]
We’ve taken a look at the “Digital Health Blueprint 2023-2033” from The Department of Health and Aged Care in Australia, which sets out a ten-year roadmap for digital health technologies and presents “a more personalised and connected health and wellbeing experience for all Australians”. Alongside the blueprint is an action […]
Join us as we take an in-depth look at some of the progress, priorities and available research on digital health in South Africa. Priorities and progress for digital transformation in South Africa From the National Digital Health Strategy for South Africa, which runs until this year, priorities for digital health […]
Amazon has announced the launch of its new Health Condition Programs for chronic conditions, enabling customers to “discover and enrol in the digital health benefits available through their employer or insurance plan for conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure”. By partnering with companies from the digital health domain, Amazon […]
A journal published last month in The Lancet Regional Health Europe explores “the discriminatory performances of an AI-based risk model in European screening settings”, with a nested case-control study finding that the AI risk model “showed generalizable discriminatory performances across European populations and, predicted ∼30% of clinically relevant stage 2 […]
