WATERLOO REGION — Two local companies — one from the old economy, one from the new — announced a first-of-its-kind partnership to help critically ill people regain their health from the comfort of home. The mutual insurance company Equitable Life of Canada will provide Cloud DX Connected medical kits to […]
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Always Best Care Offers ‘Higher-Level Care’ with RPM Initiative
Looking to deliver a higher level of care in the home, Always Best Care Senior Services has begun leveraging remote patient monitoring (RPM). The initiative reflects how non-medical home care organizations are becoming more tech-savvy to keep clients healthy while winning new referral business. Read More
AI is our path to holistic mental health care
It’s time to reject reliance on the availability of human therapists and explore digitally driven, personalized care, so that each person receives exactly what they need when they need it, preserving our precious pool of trained human therapists for those that need them most. Read More
Ensuring artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for health benefit older people
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have the potential to improve older people’s health and well-being, but only if ageism is eliminated from their design, implementation, and use. A new policy brief, Ageism in artificial intelligence for health, released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) presents legal, non-legal and technical measures that […]
Baptist Health of Northeast Florida Launches Digital Platform from Gozio Health
Gozio Health announced today that Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida, has launched its industry-leading, customizable location-aware digital health platform. Patient and visitors of Baptist Health can now access the new Baptist Access app, powered by the Gozio platform, providing a seamless digital connection to improve access to care and patient experiences inside hospitals and […]
Group finds health care innovations are the path to addressing pandemic challenges
To address the challenges of bringing COVID-19 solutions into clinical practice quickly, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) convened an international COVID-19 forum. Read More
Alithya Implements Oracle Cloud ERP and HCM for NorthBay Healthcare
Alithya Group inc. has successfully implemented Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Human Capital Management (HCM) for NorthBay Healthcare to support its core financials and supply chain, core human resource management, employee and manager self-service, recruiting and onboarding, learning, performance management and payroll systems. Read More
Pierpont Establishes New Programs for the Health Care Industry
“As the population continues to age and the health care industry grows, so does the need for trained healthcare professionals,” Pierpont interim dean of the School of Health Sciences Amy Cunningham said. Pierpont has created two new programs in the healthcare arena, a Medical Billing and Coding Certificate of Applied […]
What’s next for digital mental health companies?
Digital mental health start-ups may be looking like big tech companies — consider the $5.1 billion in venture capital investment in 2021 — but is their economic value matched by their impact and clinical value? It’s an inconvenient question with a short answer: It’s too early to tell. Read More
Teach-back method improves interactions between physicians, patients with diabetes
Among patients with diabetes, the teach-back method was associated with better interactions with health care providers, more engagement in shared decision-making and a greater likelihood of receiving lifestyle advice, data show. This, in turn, was associated with reductions in diabetes-related complications. Read More
