Digital Health

Panelists at the World Health Summit discuss lessons learned from international collaborations during the pandemic. 

Verato CEO Mark LaRow says momentum is building around finding more effective means of patient identity and matching, and his company's referential matching technology can help.

The Savonix Mobile app is available in Japan through the company’s partnerships with Fujitsu Connected Technologies Limited and Mitani Sangyo companies.Co, Ltd.  

Also, six councils improve employability and Covid support for learning disabilities.

Also: Google reportedly coming to terms with European Commission on Fitbit deal; Eko and 3M's digital stethoscope.

Dr. Afzal Chaudhry, director of digital and CMIO at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundations Trust in the UK, says the workforce is embracing technology to improve patient outcomes in areas such as barcode medicine and sepsis.

The Virtual Technique Guides software "supports thousands of medical procedures" across 27 surgical specialties and subspecialties, and allows participants to collaborate on training regardless of their physical location.

Also: Zipari adds two to its leadership team; HealthJoy appoints CMO; DispatchHealth brings on two new hires; and more.   

Gavin Matthews, UK business development director at SkinVision, discusses the use of smartphones to detect skin conditions.

It works to more easily connect patients to trials, decrease administrative tasks, improve trial resiliency and enhance studies through the use of data and technology.