A new report from Accenture highlights five major trends in digital health, and one may surprise you. The report, Digital Health Technology Vision 2017, looks at how innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IOT), mobility, blockchain and the cloud are all ...
Alt-currency in healthcare: Gold rush or fool’s gold?
The rise of alt-currencies in 2017 Bitcoin and other digital currencies have been exploding in 2017. On June 11th, Bitcoin crossed the $3,000 mark for the first time in history, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI), before dropping 10 percent the following ...
Why it could be prime time for Amazon to enter the pharmacy market
Would you like your medicine waiting for you at your door when you arrive home from surgery? Amazon may not only be delivering your goods and groceries, but also prescription medicines. Amazon is starting to make more concerted moves towards the multibillion dollar pharmacy ...
Data liquidity: Interoperability is the future of healthcare
Why interoperability is the future of healthcare "The common thread to satisfying consumers and enabling advanced data analytics and seamless care coordination is interoperability. Interoperability is the ability of devices and systems to exchange and use electronic ...
Data show prescribing patterns linked to $78B opiate problem
23K opiate pills per person Drug wholesalers shipped 9 million pain pills over two years to a single West Virginia pharmacy in a town of 392 people. It is unfathomable how that data could have gone unchecked. “The distributors knew what was going on. They just didn’t care,” Sam ...
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