How Healthcare Technology Can (Believe it or Not) Humanize Medicine
Gadgetry that is time-saving (not to mention life-saving) can be expected to fill the breach.
The first metaverse experiments? Look to what’s already happening in medicine
The metaverse will be an extension of the virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality technology already in use today.
The Next Frontier For Healthcare: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, And The Metaverse
For many years, healthcare delivery entailed the physical interaction between a patient and physician as a means to receive a diagnosis, medical treatment, or operative care. This changed slightly with the advent of telehealth, which delivered the patient-physician relationship through digital means and the internet.
How Virtual Care Can Close Healthcare Disparities
Advances in virtual technology and changing patient preferences show promise for increasing care access and present an opportunity for budding healthcare entrepreneurs.
What Is Next for Telehealth?
As telehealth and digital platforms cement their role in the post-pandemic future, it’s imperative for the digital health ecosystem to find ways of enhancing support networks, marking the transition from Telehealth to Tele-wellbeing.
The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health
Seven health system IT executives explain how they’re strategizing to build on the post-pandemic potential of virtual care technologies and services.
The Virtual Care Paradigm: Going beyond telehealth for the future – and present – of care
Virtual reality (VR) is mostly seen as the domain of the gaming industry. The increasing penetration of connected devices in the healthcare sector, increased investment, and the growing need to reduce the healthcare cost are the major drivers of virtual reality in the healthcare market.
Telehealth app helps medical staff find specialists
A nurse in Guam struggling to stabilize a COVID-19 patient got help within minutes from a physician at the Brooke Army Medical Center in Houston and a nurse at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. Using telehealth, they identified the problem and walked the nurse through a procedure that likely saved the patient’s life.
Virtual Care Faces A New Era
The market dynamics for telehealth and virtual care continue to evolve, and virtual care ecosystem players must understand how consumers have experienced these changes to better position themselves and design their solutions.
Telehealth and the rise of contextual care
For the first time, clinicians have been able to get a “behind the scenes look” into their patient’s environment during telehealth visits