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FHIR vs. HL7 Version 2: What to Know for Healthcare Interoperability
What should health interoperability look like in less than a decade? Earlier this year, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, crowdsourced visions for the future of interoperability in healthcare.. More than 700 submissions have been compiled and summarized online at Health …
The Latest Trends in Wearable Technology for Healthcare
An Overview of the Wearable Market in Healthcare. MarketsandMarkets suggests that the global market for wearable healthcare devices will approach $70 billion by 2028, with annual growth in the market exceeding 11 percent per year. Devices fall into two broad categories. One is medical-grade wearables such as blood pressure, glucose and heart monitors.
How AR & VR in Healthcare Enhances Medical Training
Healthcare professionals are finding new ways to educate and train students and learners without a cadaver or live patient. The use of Augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and even extended reality (XR) in medicine prepares nurses as well as physicians and surgeons for real-life practice and procedures.. Research firm Research and Markets projects that the AR and VR …
4 Technologies Transforming the Field of Dentistry
Aug 4, 2021 · Everyone benefits from regular dental checkups, but as noted by the American Dental Association (ADA), more than 20 percent of patients haven’t seen a dentist in the past few years. Fifty-nine percent say they can’t afford regular visits, while 22 percent point to fear of dental care and 19 percent highlight issues with finding a convenient location or time.
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How Wi-Fi Upgrades Support Hospitals’ Smart Room Initiatives. As the number of smart room technological innovations in healthcare continues to grow, network upgrades become more important than ever.
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In a rapidly evolving technology landscape, today’s healthcare leaders face a constant barrage of questions and choices. With so much at stake, making informed decisions is critical.
How Electronic Health Records Can Improve Patient Care
Such an exchange would be impossible without a network that can handle the added bandwidth, Myers notes. Although there are upfront costs associated with the EHR system itself, a substantial portion of any rollout budget should be dedicated to the network and to making sure infrastructure can support a system efficiently and effectively.
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From information security to telehealth and more, technology has never been more critical to ensuring quality healthcare. Staying relevant means keeping pace in a technology landscape that evolves more rapidly than ever.
AI in Healthcare, Where It's Going in 2023: ML, NLP & More
Artificial intelligence holds great promise to help medical professionals gain key insights and improve health outcomes. However, AI adoption in healthcare has been sluggish, according to a March 9 Brookings Institution report. Despite the slow uptake of AI in healthcare, health insurer Optum revealed in a December 2021 survey that 85 percent of healthcare executives have an …