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.

The healthcare industry is using artificial intelligence to elevate patient care and alleviate administrative burdens on a wide scale, with 79% of healthcare organizations reporting that they have adopted AI technology in some capacity, according to a study commissioned by Microsoft.. It’s important to remember that the idea of a sentient and self-aware AI capable of offering healthcare on ...

Reid Health Finds Efficiencies with IT Service Management. With nurse-to-patient ratios increasing at Richmond, Ind.-based Reid Health, the IT department wants to ease providers’ workflows so they can focus on working at the top of their licenses, says CIO Muhammad Siddiqui.. Nurses need to get medication to patients on time and check vitals regularly, among many other critical activities.

Northwell Health and Nuvance Health. These two nonprofit healthcare organizations announced in February that they plan to form a new integrated regional health system to care for patients in New York and Connecticut. The new organization will include approximately 14,500 providers and more than 1,000 care sites.

Electronic medical record and electronic health record adoption is on the rise — 93 percent of American hospitals now use EHRs, up from just 73 percent 10 years ago. Legislation is similarly evolving to meet increased digital demand: New regulations likely to take effect in 2022 will allow patients to download their EHRs onto digital devices, …

As the world navigates a future driven by artificial intelligence, healthcare organizations are seeking to quickly and methodically embed the technology through workflows, increasing efficiency, productivity and safety, and potentially leading to greater employee engagement and improved patient satisfaction.. The healthcare industry is at …

3D printing has emerged as a transformative technology in healthcare in recent years. The number of U.S. hospitals with centralized 3D printing facilities for point-of-care manufacturing has exploded, from just three in 2010 to 113 in 2019.. With 3D printers now capable of making objects measured in microns, or millionths of a meter, the technology has led to …

Healthcare organizations — tasked with protecting patient information, ensuring regulatory compliance and maintaining seamless access to vital systems — require comprehensive access management strategies.. To achieve this, modern healthcare IT solutions such as identity and access management (IAM), multifactor authentication (MFA) and privileged access management (PAM) can be combined to ...

Natural language processing and ambient listening aren’t necessarily new to healthcare, but the technology is quickly evolving to move beyond dictation. Leading products now leverage artificial intelligence to make use of the data generated from the transcript of a clinical visit to generate insights, automate processes that otherwise require manual data entry and make the practice of ...

Just as the right conference room technology can support effective meetings, the wrong tools can hinder collaboration — and many conference rooms were equipped prior to the massive shift to hybrid work that started in 2020. While most healthcare roles are currently in-person only, support staff such as IT and even executive leadership may require hybrid collaboration.