The digital health space refers to the integration of technology and health care services to improve the overall quality of health care delivery. It encompasses a wide range of innovative and emerging technologies such as wearables, telehealth, artificial intelligence, mobile health, and electronic health records (EHRs). The digital health space offers numerous benefits such as improved patient outcomes, increased access to health care, reduced costs, and improved communication and collaboration between patients and health care providers. For example, patients can now monitor their vital signs such as blood pressure and glucose levels from home using wearable devices and share the data with their doctors in real-time. Telehealth technology allows patients to consult with their health care providers remotely without having to travel to the hospital, making health care more accessible, particularly in remote or rural areas. Artificial intelligence can be used to analyze vast amounts of patient data to identify patterns, predict outcomes, and provide personalized treatment recommendations. Overall, the digital health space is rapidly evolving, and the integration of technology in health
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I will be pausing for several weeks to prepare for 'Occupy Health". which will take place on October 23, 2016 11 AM-4PM local time. Digital Health Space will resume publication in November shortly after the Presidential Elections
The future of health care reform is really that of innovation and health information technology. These changes will impact your health care more than politics, elections, or congress.
It is dynamic, and scales exponentially.
The largest barriers to innovation remain to be organizational structures already in existence. 1. Government 2. Licensing boards 3. Specialty societies. These organizations serve themselves rather than it's constituency/
Where is your hospital, medical center, clinic or provider ?
Ultimately patient needs and providee direction will create a new health information paradigm.
We are still in the earliest phase of the catalytic changes. Some or most of the preceding changes may become obolete and discarded as health care evolves in the next decade(s).
Stanford Medicine X and Symplur announce an Everyone Included™ social media research challenge
Why ask questions about health care social media?
Social media use in health care and medicine has transformed how stakeholders discuss problems and innovate solutions. Who benefits from social media engagement in medicine? To what extent does it help form communities of practice, help patients feel less isolated, and unite caregivers and researchers in the common goal to improve health and cure disease? How might social media be used for medical education? What risks to patient privacy and health care might social media use impose? Who, if any, are being left out of these conversations? These are just a few important questions social media analytics might help elucidate.
Larry Chu "We have patients getting involved in research!" Dr. Chu is an anesthesiologist at Stanford University Medical Center and the head of Stanford Medicine X.
Social media use in health care and medicine has transformed how stakeholders discuss problems and innovate solutions. Who benefits from social media engagement in medicine? To what extent does it help form communities of practice, help patients feel less isolated, and unite caregivers and researchers in the common goal to improve health and cure disease? What risks to patient privacy and health care might social media use impose? Who, if any, are being left out of these conversations? These are just a few important questions social media analytics might help elucidate.
Stanford Medicine X and Symplur are pleased to announce a joint initiative designed to spark scholarly research activity on health care social media. The Stanford Medicine X | Symplur Everyone Included™ Research Challenge asks all health care stakeholders to form partnerships and address one of the questions below:
How is social media transforming health care in 2016?
How is social media being used to innovate medical education
How can social media be used to create greater understanding between online health care communities? What can be learnt if they held joint TweetChats?
Some of the earlier discussions which have been recorded:
Joe Lavelle of IntrepidNOW interviews Gary M. Levin M.D. from Digital Health Space
OUR GUEST Dr. Gary Levin, Clinical Adviser of HealPros, joined the show to talk to us about Health IT’s hottest Topics including Interoperability, Telemedicine, Big Data and Predictive Analytics and much more!
JOE LAVELLE is a Healthcare Management and Technology Consultant with a record of successfully meeting the business and technology challenges of diverse organizations including health plans, health delivery networks, and health care companies for 25 years. Joe worked his way up through Cap Gemini and Andersen Consulting to the partner/VP level of at First Consulting Group, Technology Solutions Group and Santa Rosa Consulting. After running his own company, Results First Consulting, for 12 years Joe Co-Founded intrepidNow with Todd Schnick to create incredible content to dramatically improve the sales and marketing efforts of their clients.
