Friday, September 20, 2024
US-based healthcare software provider Epic has shared an update on its work with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, highlighting how the hospital is “bridging the gap” by bringing remote monitoring to their paediatric patients. The update shares how the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has implemented a total of 11 remote management […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new support tool to help health systems in assessing and strengthening their telemedicine services, presenting a “comprehensive framework” addressing the “critical need” for accessible and effective telemedicine solutions. According to the accompanying guidance, the support tool “facilitates the creation of high-quality telemedicine […]
Virtual care is a concept that we have been following closely over on our UK site, but what has uptake been like elsewhere, and how is remote care being used by international health systems to tackle some of the challenges facing global healthcare? Here, we take a look into virtual […]
My Home Hospital, a South Australian service offering treatment for patients in Adelaide as well as the regions around Gawler, Mount Barker, and the Southern Fleurieu, has delivered care to 10,000 patients, with patients sharing that the service “made such a difference”. Delivered by Calvary and Amplar Health, the service […]
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 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 […]
The World Health Organisation has published results from a pilot project in Cambodia, trialling digitally-enabled community engagement approaches to HIV/AIDS. The organisation is now looking at ways to scale the project across additional sites in order to further strengthen community trust and confidence with digital health interventions. Running from 2020-2022, […]
NZ Telehealth has published ‘The Aotearoa New Zealand Remote Patient Monitoring Guide 2023’, intended as a guide for healthcare providers and suppliers looking to implement remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions and setting out general guidelines, current working models, an RPM checklist and lessons learned. On current working models in New […]
A programme update published by the Republic of Ghana’s Ministry of Health has highlighted progress in the country’s national e-health project. The project, which features the Lightwave Health Information Management System (LHIMS), is said to be “transforming healthcare across the country and placing Ghana at the forefront of healthcare in Africa”. […]
