3 Benefits of Healthcare Applications
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s no surprise that the use of healthcare applications has skyrocketed over the past few years. In fact, there are now over 350,000 mobile healthcare applications on the market today, with around 200 new mHealth apps being built every single day. That’s a lot of apps! So, what […]
How Remote Work is Disrupting Innovation
Over the past year, the novel coronavirus has caused a massive disruption in how we work. Through some research produced by Statista, prior to the coronavirus pandemic, 17% of organizations supported a fully remote-style work environment and following the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020 that number shot up to 44%! Of course, we’ve seen this […]
The 5 Best Medical Apps for Healthcare Providers
For the past year, being a healthcare provider has been extremely emotionally, mentally, and physically taxing. The daily life of a doctor involves not only taking care of patients, but managing office staff, staying current with medical news and innovations, and keeping an eye on the bottom line. With tens of thousands of mHealth mobile […]
Will Lax COVID-19 Telemedicine Rules Lead to Fraud?
The pandemic has changed many industries, but the field most affected by the coronavirus has been healthcare and medicine. As hospitals scrambled to accommodate the high numbers of emergency room and intensive care unit visits, telehealth grew extremely quickly to complement physical contact with hospitals and doctors. In fact, telemedicine grew so rapidly that The […]
5 Health Tech Trends Accelerated by COVID-19
The COVID-19 crisis is accelerating technological innovation across a multitude of fields, and healthcare is no exception. Because we are working against the clock for a solution to this pandemic, it’s the right time to start experimenting with new methods and expand the capabilities of emerging technologies. Experienced business leaders agree: per a recent Accenture […]
Telehealth: An Essential Tool in the Fight Against the Coronavirus
Yesterday in Geneva, the World Health Organization officially declared the coronavirus contagion to be a pandemic. This designation means that the sickness is spreading in numerous countries simultaneously. It’s also a grave acknowledgment that current measures to contain the malady’s spread are not succeeding. As medical organizations mount more efforts to combat the transmission of […]
How a New Wearable Can Track Your Health Via Vibrations
These days, if you mention “wearables”, most people will automatically think of Fitbit and Apple Watch. And while these smartwatches track your sleep, heart rate, calories burned, and prompt you to increase your hourly movement, they’re actually monitoring very basic bodily functions. Wearables encompass so much more than smartwatches, and a team of researchers at […]
The Benefits & Challenges of 5G in Healthcare
5G is coming soon to your mobile carrier, office, and home. This fifth generation of mobile technology will improve connectivity, coverage, and responsiveness of wireless connections. 5G will reduce the 20 milliseconds of latency time usually experienced with 4G by 95% to only 1 millisecond. On top of this, Verizon has measured speeds of 1 […]
AI in Healthcare: The Opportunities & Challenges Ahead — Part 2
The world of healthcare is highly specialized; providers must acquire specific knowledge and expertise in a subset of medicine to excel in their chosen specialty. In contrast, the world of artificial intelligence (AI) development often takes a more holistic approach. Although AI can be focused on one area, it can find patterns and abnormalities from […]
Someone Is Trying to Hack American Nuclear Power Plants
The general public has tended to be blissfully unaware of global cybersecurity issues, but two recent high profile cyberattacks (and perhaps the Russian hacking of the 2016 election) may have changed that. Back in mid-May, the WannaCry ransomware attack exposed vulnerabilities in networks running on the out-of-date Microsoft XP operating system. Last week, less than […]