Monday, September 16, 2024
The European Council has announced that an agreement had been reached between the Council’s presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators on the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, with the draft regulation aiming to ensure the safety of AI systems brought to the European market, as well as to “stimulate investment and […]
The World Bank has published a report titled ‘Digital-in-Health: Unlocking the Value for Everyone’, which looks at the progress and promise of digital technologies in health around the world, including country readiness measured through maturity metrics from the Global Digital Health Monitor (GDHM), and presents eleven determinants of digital-in-health success. […]
We had the opportunity to speak with Aislinn Gannon, general manager for digital health at Ireland’s Health Service Executive, on her experience with digital health programmes, and her perspectives on the future of tech in health. An introduction We started out by asking Aislinn to tell us a little bit […]
Here, we take a deep dive into the status of digital health in Canada, covering progress in areas such as electronic health records, emerging technologies, and digital health priorities. In a message during digital health week, Mark Holland, Canadian Minister of Health and Ya’ara Saks, Associate Minister of Health and […]
An article from the United States published in November in the Journal of Medical Systems has highlighted three key areas for AI to decrease administrative burden and empower physicians and patients. The article’s authors focus on three key areas in which AI presents an “unprecedented opportunity to reduce cost, improve […]
At the Web Summit in Lisbon, we had chance to speak to James Martin, CEO and founder of ezClinic. ezClinic is a Chicago-based medical technology company with a mission to become a key resource for patient safety and risk management through use of AI and preventative monitoring assistance. Through an […]
A study published in BMC Health Services Research has highlighted “important considerations for strengthening virtual primary healthcare approaches to meet the needs of Indigenous peoples worldwide”. Authors highlight four themes: barriers of virtual primary healthcare, indigenous-centred approaches, virtual indigenous relationality, and collaborative approaches to ensuring holistic virtual care. Using a […]
Scientists from Mayo Clinic, USA, have been utilising reanalysing of negative whole-exome/genome data (RENEW) to diagnose rare genetic disorders. RENEW tracks the discovery of “disease-causing genetic variants” across the globe, with findings being uploaded to the system on a three-monthly basis. These findings can then be compared to the clinic’s […]
Researchers from the University of Arizona have developed a wearable device said to be capable of transmitting health data “2,400 times the distance of Wi-Fi without significant network infrastructure”. The need for network infrastructure can make wearable devices “inaccessible to rural and under-resourced communities”, but with this new device, health […]
We’ve taken a look at the German Federal Ministry of Health’s ‘Digital Together’ digitalisation strategy for health and care, outlining its aims, “strategic fields of action”, transformation approach and regulatory framework. The strategy outlines “core components” as follows: To read the strategy in full, please click here. Also on strategy, […]
