Does your healthcare practice or organisation leverage interoperability? Interoperability brings together processes, databases, devices and software systems so they can communicate with each other. As new models of care continue emerging and evolving, healthcare...
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The core benefits of healthcare interoperability
Healthcare settings frequently leverage a variety of systems integrated into their operations. Organisations need their health information systems to work together in harmony so they can provide better care for individuals and communities. This is where healthcare...
The case for cloud services in healthcare
Most hospitals today rely on outdated software systems that had to be patched repeatedly through the years as medical technology and devices progressively evolved. These unsteady and unreliable foundations can lead to frequent inefficiencies and errors. When...
5 questions to ask when investing in healthcare technology
You need a clear understanding of how to leverage new healthcare technology before adopting it in your practice. A MedTech device may have cutting-edge features that fits your patients’ needs, but you will struggle to reap the benefits if the end-to-end technology...
Conversational AI in MedTech
Conversational applications are a type of software that automates dialogue via chat or text-to-speech. Many people engage with conversational AI daily, sometimes without even realising it. This technology already simplifies several tasks in the office. For example,...
Personal Healthcare Reimagined
Technology has existed in healthcare since the early days. From the invention of ECG to the evolution of pacemakers, the focus has remained on life-saving medical equipment. In the 1960s and 70s, further advances in digital electronics led to creating high-end...
The innovations taking Electronic Health Records to new heights
Paper medical charts used to contain records of all relevant medical events for a patient. This usually included demographics, growth landmarks, illnesses, medications, and treatments. The charts were frequently written in unstructured free text by physicians, nurses,...
Why cloud healthcare APIs are gaining traction
Collecting healthcare data can be a challenge for hospitals and organisations. Multiple ecosystems need to integrate information from internal and external sources that leverage different industry-standard formats. In 2019, a survey that looked at the challenges of...
How flexible medical sensors are revolutionising surgery
Rigid instruments can be used for some types of minimally invasive surgery, and robot systems tend to use rigid instruments. A good deal of ingenuity has been applied to allow these rigid instruments to reach different parts of the body through appropriate natural or...
5 Medical Device Startups powering the future of Health Tech
Healthcare startups are experimenting with technology and processes, generating new ideas and solving age old problems.