With so many companies discussing healthcare integration, you might feel the need to jump on board and establish a solution for your company. However, before implementing healthcare integration, you must understand the total cost of ownership (TCO) and the factors...
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High-Quality Data: The key to unlocking AI’s potential in healthcare
AI has permeated almost every aspect of our lives; smart driving cars, digital assistants, and connected homes have increased in popularity and come a long way from the early days. For example, when Apple launched Siri, the digital assistant became the source of many...
4 key steps to creating digital healthcare solutions that empower providers
Too many healthcare providers spend their time completing paperwork and maintaining paper-based processes. While this has been the traditional method of managing healthcare information, paper-based processes are time-consuming, inefficient, and error-prone. Healthcare...
4 reasons to integrate practice management systems with cloud services
Healthcare practices manage a lot of information daily. They schedule appointments, collect patient data from other organisations, collate information from insurance companies, and the list goes on. With so much to track and store, alongside keeping up with changes in...
What does the future hold for AI and digital health?
Digital health is an area with many start-ups exploring possibilities to bring patients and healthcare professionals closer together. Many of these solutions explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can improve healthcare, especially for those monitoring their health...
Why we need interoperable patient-generated health data now
Previously, MedTech largely sat in the hands of providers, and improvements primarily supported the work of healthcare professionals. Now, many of us wear MedTech devices on our wrists or fingers. The proliferation of devices like wearables means that we now have an...
Why MedTech providers must take healthcare data privacy seriously
Healthcare providers have begun moving their systems to digital, cloud-connected platforms. It is an exercise that benefits both healthcare providers and their patients. When providers have access to a patient’s health information via Electronic Health Records (EHRs),...
The corporate healthcare solutions that shaped 2021
The past year has further solidified the case for various kinds of healthcare solutions. Continued lockdowns across Australia have become the catalyst for new technologies and enhancements to existing technologies.Many of us have experienced these developments first...
How wearable devices in healthcare support practitioners and patients
Global spend on wearable devices is forecast to pass USD $81.5 billion in 2021, almost 20% higher than last year. As more people use wearable devices, the opportunity to use wearables in healthcare increases. Wearable fitness trackers and smartwatches help...
What is FHIR for interoperability in healthcare, and why is it important?
In the context of healthcare, interoperability is the ability of different information systems, devices and applications to access, exchange, integrate and cooperatively use data in a coordinated manner. Effective interoperability must work within and across...