Digital Health

The National Institutes of Health awarded a five-year, $21.7 million grant to University at Buffalo (N.Y.) for healthcare innovation and new treatments research, according to a Feb. 10 news release.

Uber Health is not just helping patients get to their medical appointments, but is also helping hospitals manage their parking infrastructure, according to Politico's Feb. 10 eHealth newsletter.

At the end of January, Providence announced its participation in an $18 million funding round for Twistle, a startup developing patient education and communication software for healthcare providers.

In the months after being discharged from the hospital, patients assigned to send health data to researchers using a smartphone app were more likely to do so than those tasked with transmitting data through a wearable device, a new study…

Modern and simple — it's both the foundation behind Allina Health's new wayfinding initiative as well as its basis for communicating with consumers.

When prompted to connect users with addiction treatments or treatment referral services, automated voice assistants from Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung were largely unhelpful, a recent study found.

In areas of the U.S. where affordable, comprehensive reproductive healthcare is difficult to find, many confused and anxious patients turn to the internet for answers — and physicians are providing them.

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health announced on Feb. 4 that it has been deploying conversational artificial intelligence to improve patient engagement for several months, with "significant" results, according to Chief Digital Officer Neil Gomes.

When asked to imagine a future in which patients rely on digital tools that keep them at the center of their own healthcare, almost 50 percent of the American workers surveyed in a recent Mercer report found the vision "appealing."

In the United States, healthcare expenditures far outpace the rest of the industrialized world, without an improvement in outcomes that matter. Moreover, within the United States, there is wide variation in the performance of providers in caring for complex patients.