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The Internet of Health Things Forecast $117B in 2020
The Internet of Health Things has become a catchphrase for everything from self-driving cars to tiny sensors we swallow like pills. Regardless of the hype, the next wave of innovation will clearly leverage connectivity and the Internet deeply and in ways never before possible. From a practical standpoint, this means millions of new “Internet of […]
Addition of Endpoints Impedes Healthcare Cybersecurity
Scott Wallask, Editorial Director, SearchHealthIT When i think of healthcare information security for endpoints in hospitals, my mind usually wanders to my own technological setup at home. I’ve got a work laptop, personal laptop, TV streaming stick, smartphone and DVD player all connected to my wireless network. Sometimes visitors hook their phones into the wireless […]
Health tech devices that are changing healthcare and wellness for the better
Health technology has been advancing in leaps and bounds over the last two to three decades. Buoyed by the same technological era that brought us the Smartphone, healthcare gadgets are quickly becoming important personal devices. As health technology gets better, we are seeing new health devices with more advanced features, far more accurate sensors and […]
Machine Learning & AI Market from $600M to $6B in 2021
Frost & Sullivan Report. Changes in healthcare delivery methods, timelines and payment options are requiring the adoption of innovative tools to manage patient information and make decisions. The need for data mining and decision-making has put artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled solutions at the forefront of the healthcare revolution. AI facilitates greater accessibility, relevancy and actionability of […]
Healthcare Big Data Venture Investments Grow Q1
Venture capitalists poured more than $1 billion into the healthcare IT sector during the first quarter of 2016 as investors look to target data analytics and telemedicine for growth. The first three months also saw several large big data acquisitions as key players like IBM’s Watson Health unit continued their buying sprees. Market researcher Mercom […]
The Eight Levels of the Analytics Adoption Model
By Dale Sanders Level 8 – Personalized Medicine & Prescriptive Analytics Contracting for & managing health Personalized Medicine & Prescriptive Analytics: Analytic motive expands to wellness management, physical and behavioral functional health, and mass customization of care. Analytics expands to include NLP of text, prescriptive analytics, and interventional decision support. Prescriptive analytics are available at […]
Why Doctors Should Be On Social Media
To stay updated, interact with patients and become recognizable, some of the benefits of social media “I no longer have to sift through piles of journals to pull out articles of interest – social media delivers the relevant content to me,” states Doctor Deanna Attai (@DrAttai), breast cancer expert surgeon at UCLA Health and President […]
Investment Trends 2016
Digital health startups attracted $5.8B in funding in 2015, and deal activity to the space jumped 20%. With 2016 underway, we used the CB Insights database to highlight some of the trends that will shape this hot industry in the coming months. (Digital health includes companies that use software or data to improve efficiency and […]
