Connected Health

Amazon Web Services has increased the total funding of the AWS Health Equity Initiative to $60 million and added a new funding area that seeks to address social determinants of health and climate change factors.

The FDA-cleared tool can help at-risk provider organizations reduce costs while improving patient outcomes through earlier lifestyle and treatment interventions, its inventors say.

More hospitals are coming into the fold in the coming months.

ARPA-H is launching a program to deliver acute care in rural settings via a multipurpose delivery platform "that is as convenient as telehealth."

Also, Konkuk University Hospital is joining the latest R&D initiative in South Korea to further enhance Alzheimer's diagnosis through AI.

A newly established research centre is building a chronic disease management system to enable access to comprehensive patient data.

Microsoft, Google, the Santa Clara County Independent Physician Association, UCSF Health, Mayo Clinic and the American Heart Association are partnering with the company to put clinically managed artificial intelligence providers in patient homes.

A telehealth expert offers a look at the year ahead, where he also sees more growth in virtual chronic care management and employer-based care.

Done right, more widespread adoption of remote patient monitoring will offer breakthrough innovations where healthcare delivery can be improved, clinician workloads can be right-sized and better patient outcomes can be achieved, an expert says.

It is doubling down on data access to enable personalised care and connected health over the next decade.