At least 70% of health-care providers still exchange medical information by fax, according to federal officials, and some providers, such as nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities, rely heavily on the outdated technology.
The state of the digital Covid vaccine card — the bar code that we store on our phones and present to businesses and venues as proof of inoculation — is chaotic.
Apple has announced that Johnson & Johnson's current CEO, Alex Gorsky, will join its board of directors. Gorsky's move to Apple's leadership team (he’ll step down from his role at J&J in January) comes at a time when the company is focusing even more on health and how it can make data more accessible to users and their doctors.
China's Huawei Technologies Co. is gearing up to provide smart services and 5G technology to industries such as healthcare for new revenue streams that might offset the damage to its smartphone business from U.S. sanctions.
While telemedicine maintains its growth trajectory, technology and treatment are merging into solutions based around connected voice and AI, creating a new generation of voice-powered diagnostics tools and virtual patient assistants.
Hospitals in the future will look far more tech-enabled and consumer-focused — when patients are actually even getting care in a hospital building itself.