Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

YouTube to bring authoritative health content with new partnerships

YouTube has partnered with numerous healthcare organizations to bring credible health information content to its video-sharing platform.

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Kaiser Permanente partners with Accenture, Microsoft to improve cloud capabilities

Kaiser Permanente is scaling up its cloud capabilities through a new deal with Microsoft and Accenture.

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Consumers want a better way to pay for healthcare

To retain current patients, healthcare providers are rolling out new technologies like virtual care and digital payment processes. 

Americans much more wary than South Koreans about sharing whereabouts to help counter COVID

The researchers solicited 306 adults—188 in the U.S. and 118 in South Korea—for their views on contact tracing, quarantine monitoring and public mapping of sites recently visited by COVID-positive individuals.

Telemedicine gaining fans in dermatology

Fewer than 10% of dermatology patients who were seen virtually during the COVID pandemic said they would not use teledermatology again—and only 7% said they’d not recommend telehealth to a friend.

HHS goes live with online locator of COVID-countering therapeutic drugs

The agency has posted an interactive map showing the locations of drug distributors that have recently received shipments of two monoclonal antibody medications good for treating COVID-19.

Rapid go-live as first trust in Greater Manchester patient diagnostic imaging initiative deploys Sectra solution

The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first of eight NHS trusts in the UK to deploy the imaging IT solution.

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Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway pulling the plug on Haven

The company had planned to model digital healthcare transformation by innovating transparent and replicable ways to cover and serve its combined 1.5 million employees.