Wednesday, May 17, 2023
The medical science and healthcare landscape is changing rapidly. In some cases, fundamental shifts in status quo, available technology, and emerging needs are requiring wholesale adjustments to how the medical field operates. Biostatistics is an example of an emergent practice area that wouldn’t have existed in its current form even ten years ago but is
[ Read More ]If there is one thing we’ve discovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s the need for research to better public health in a time of crisis. Through public health officials, we have learned about social distancing, masking, and disease prevention. With the adoption of new health policies and greater research to combat the spread of the
[ Read More ]Our society is swiftly moving towards digitalization. Photos, documents, thoughts, banks — our identities are transformed into coded data. Consequently, the digitalization tendency is taking over one of the most vital industries — healthcare. Unfortunately, the healthcare industry is not keeping pace with a change yet. Despite the necessity for digitalization, the medical industry is
[ Read More ]Gartner defines “data scientist citizens” as people who work on predictive analytics, but whose primary job function is outside of statistics and analytics. Clearsense Chief Marketing Officer Pamela Fowler says, “We are entering a new era of citizen data scientists in healthcare. This change is coming quickly with the continuing growth of big data and scarcity
[ Read More ]Data is an important element in today’s world. Data could be generated through social media, web browsing, and tons of mobile applications that are being used across the world. Many businesses today collect data about their customers and website users to gain more insights about them. This data helps them understand their audience and improve
[ Read More ]What’s the key to attracting and retaining patients in your medical practice? Is it a clean and safe facility, highly-skilled support staff with good bedside manner, state-of-the-art equipment, comprehensive treatments, or affordable rates? Honestly, the answer is all of the above. Yet, there are one imperative factor healthcare professionals can’t overlook – data management. Medical
[ Read More ]Over the last decade or so, electronic health records (EHR) have been helping to streamline medical record-keeping and coordinate patient care. EHR has been instrumental in allowing hospitals to reduce errors, leverage big data for patients’ benefit, and provide a more comprehensive picture of a patient’s health. There are so many benefits to collecting digital
[ Read More ]Healthcare delivery in the future will look a lot different than today – and one major reason behind that is the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the pandemic has claimed more than 890,000 lives around the globe, it has also demonstrated how virtual technology and data integrations are powerful allies of healthcare in these modern times. The
[ Read More ]Text messaging has given birth to multiple instant messaging apps since its invention in 1992. It made communication easy and efficient more so now that other forms of media and files can also be sent and received via these apps. These instant messaging apps use cloud computing services—a digital conversion method which enable data, programs,
[ Read More ]Wearables and consumer digital health appear to be reaching the next echelon. New technology offers the promise that we will one day understand the relationships between the various metrics that are being collected by today’s various apps and devices. The limited utility of simply tracking activity, food intake, stress levels, and/or heart rate variability might
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