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Digital Health Holiday Gift Guide
Are you a wellness enthusiast or do you know someone in your family who is? The holiday season is upon us, and are you wondering about digital health gifts? Then you are in the right place. Here is a comprehensive gift guide with some unique and some not so unique gifts to help you find Read more…
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How to build a predictive model, from a healthcare perspective?
Simply put, a predictive model in healthcare aims to learn the associations between the input data attributes and the target outcome so that the learned associations could be used to predict the actual outcome for a new patient. This post aims to educate you on how to develop a predictive model, with relevance to healthcare. Read more…
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Digital Health Academic Journals
Greetings! Are you interested in publishing articles in Digital Health journals? Are you interested in staying up to date with digital health content? The first question I had while writing this post was “What should be the title?” The healthcare world is populated with terminologies such as digital health, health tech, health IT, medtech, health Read more…
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TeleMental Health
The term “Mental Health” has always had a negative connotation associated with it, indicating that people with mental health issues are very different from other “healthy” people. In fact, every single person suffers from some type of “mental health” issue at some point in their lives. Even being angry and storming out on a given Read more…
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Tele-obstetrics
Telehealth is increasingly being used in obstetrics, especially in the following areas: virtual consultation remote monitoring of ultrasound in maternal-fetal medicine remote monitoring of conditions by endocrinologists prenatal and postnatal monitoring Benefits Studies have observed that remote monitoring and smartphone apps helped decrease the number of unwanted outpatient visits to manage diabetes and hypertension in Read more…
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Teledermatology – a quick overview and a list of key providers
Teledermatology is one of the most popular applications of telemedicine. In this field, skin images and associated clinical history are transferred to remote dermatologists through audio, visual, and data communication channels. Teledermatology facilitates the remote diagnosis of skin diseases by helping dermatologists interpret these skin images and clinical history. Teledermatology services are usually provided using the Read more…
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Telecardiology – a quick overview and a list of AI-integrated providers
Due to the complex nature of cardiological conditions, telecardiology is becoming a much used modality for obtaining specialist second opinion or for providing care to people in remote locations. In the simplest form of telecardiology, a 12-lead Electrocardiogram (ECG) is used in the transmitting center, such as a primary care provider’s office or a rural Read more…
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Teleradiology – A SWOT Analysis
Radiology is a field of medicine that uses medical imaging to diagnose, manage, and treat several types of diseases. With the advancements in communication systems, encrypted information transfer techniques, and image processing techniques, physicians and hospitals are embracing the concept of teleradiology. Teleradiology refers to the idea of transferring medical images from a primary system Read more…
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What are the challenges faced by AI-based digital health products?
There is a massive opportunity for predictive analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to transform healthcare. A quick PubMed search for ‘analytics in healthcare’ results in close to 22K articles. However, despite this amount of published research, there is a lack of a comparable amount of thoroughly validated AI-based digital health products and services in Read more…
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Key areas for innovation in the Femtech space
Female health is complex and is governed by several physical, emotional, and socioeconomic factors. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, the internet of medical things, wearables, social media, and virtual digital platforms have a significant role in helping us understand the underlying variables that cause differences between health outcomes in women and men. Below are THREE Read more…
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