Monday, September 16, 2024
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 […]
Whilst at Web Summit, we met up with John Klepper, co-founder and CEO of PIPRA (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk Assessment), a Zurich-based medtech company that has developed its first product; an AI-based surgical tool to assess a patients’ risk of suffering from postoperative delirium. Hi John! Thanks for meeting us. Can […]
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 […]
Here, we take a look at the Austrian Federal Government’s AI strategy, Artificial Intelligence Mission Austria 2030 (AIM AT 2030), which is “the result of an extensive stakeholder process in which more than 160 experts from different disciplines were involved”, to consider its provisions for the use of AI in […]
The Fogarty International Center has issued a call for mobile health interventions and tools for low and middle income countries (LMICs). The program covers “exploratory and developmental research to study the development, validation, feasibility, and effectiveness of innovative mobile health (mHealth) interventions or tools” for LMICs that utilise new or […]
