Parents of the digital age have long struggled with the question: “When is the right time for my kiddo to have their first phone?” Sure, being connected to your kids is important, but navigating issues from social media to extended screen time makes the decision all the more difficult. Despite their concerns,...
Are you an IT leader feeling stuck in your digital transformation goals? You are not alone. One of the most challenging questions in digital transformation is how to go from vision to execution. You may not be as far behind as you think. You simply need to adopt a better...
The Covid-19 pandemic put a never-seen-before spotlight on telehealth. Remote healthcare services stepped into a sudden reduction of in-person care created by fears and restrictions caused by the virus. While the most intense days of the pandemic are fading into the past, remote healthcare isn't going anywhere. Much like remote...
From online shopping and telehealth services to remote working and virtual workout sessions, digital offerings are rapidly growing to meet market demands. Consumers rely on digital platforms for various daily activities, and there’s no better time than now to start a digital business. But with the vast opportunities also comes...
It is a typically cold day in February and the peak of the flu season. Let alone the never-ending pandemic that seems to have been haunting this world forever. And it got me thinking - can technology help battle all these nasty diseases and improve patient outcomes? And most importantly,...
Adopting any new technology in the healthcare world is often a slow process. The reason - strict governance around data protection, compliance, and the long-drawn processes around testing new healthcare options. This is, of course, to ensure that there is no compromise to patient safety in any manner. While IoT...
In healthcare, patient health records, order entries, and physician notes aren't the only data sources. In reality, millions of people have already used take-home kits to upload their genetic information to commercial databases. Wearable technologies have also opened up new channels for consumer health data. However, adding to the sea...
The world is shrinking into a crystal ball of technology. Everything is bound by the web of the internet, our homes, schools, workplace, or a restaurant where we love to eat every weekend. We see new smart tools and intelligent automation technologies nearly every other day – all thanks to...
Much of today’s mainstream conversations around connectivity focus on 5G. Whether for homes, cities, vehicles, retail or health and wellness, the fifth generation of connectivity promises to unleash unlimited potential for the tens of billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices currently in use, as well as those waiting to...
In today's digital world, where all spheres of life happen online and are in open view, perfectionism breaks new ground: While encouraging authenticity and diversity, some individuals still experience a terrifying fear of imperfection. Known as atelophobia, it paralyzes them from actions, kills digital productivity, or (what's even worse) makes them talk...
The number of connected medical devices – the ones communicating with other systems via the Internet – is growing steadily. These smart things gather and transmit a mountain of healthcare data. Even such small gadgets as fitness trackers and smartwatches can provide quite a bit of health-related metrics, including heart...
The healthcare sector has never experienced such a great surge in demand for widespread clinical diagnosis and patient care as we have in the last year and a half. The globally dispersed pandemic of Covid-19 sent the healthcare industry to the verge of its saturation point until it was saved...
For the last 5 years, big tech companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Google have talked about the term “digital transformation.” The idea being, moving old systems into the digital and virtual world. At the large company level, those changes were accelerated with the events of 2020. “We have crammed...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us got a glimpse of the potential future of telehealth. Telehealth, or telemedicine, is the ongoing delivery and execution of any health- or medicine-related services in a remote setting, using telecommunications and digital communication channels. That’s kind of a vague definition, but it includes...
Before the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), doctors had limited options for interacting with patients. Physical visits, text, and telephonic communication were the only means by which patients could explain their problems to doctors. There was no system for continuous monitoring of the patient’s condition and made real-time...
If there were any lingering doubts about the importance of digitization across the business sector, the pandemic has slapped and silenced them. The virus has also disrupted people’s normal lives; it has drastically changed the way we eat, shop, transport, and communicate. As consumer’s needs and preferences keep evolving due...
The healthcare industry is constantly transforming, and imaging informatics has a lot to do with the way doctors and patients receive information, secure their systems, and, ultimately, perform. Imaging informatics has improved timeliness, accuracy, and saving time and money, making it readily available at their fingertips. What is Imaging Informatics?...
Since the start of the global pandemic, many column inches have been devoted to the inevitable rise in home-working. No business could have foreseen a situation in which the majority of their workforce would have to work from home for months on end. Even before many companies were forced to...
For years the healthcare industry has had to deal with continual data breaches, increasing hospital costs, and inefficient practices. These problems can prove extremely expensive and highlight a need for greater efficiency and innovation in the healthcare industry. Is BlockChain the New Buzzword in Healthcare? Healthcare is one area where...
Two of the most futuristic technologies that the world is leveraging today are AI and Robotics. Implementing these two technologies can lead to innovations in several industry verticals, including the healthcare industry. AI Robotics are Transforming the Health Care Industry AI and Robotics are already working in several healthcare establishments....
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